[Skybird]

The atmosphere has been poisened like I cannot remember it ever has been the case during my adult lifetime since I started to observe politics. Plenty of hate, sheer hate, from the tea party - no way to call some of the campaign stunts any different than that.

That is no good mixture to expect compromise. I think both parties will try to be very and the tea party will try to be extremely destructive, for the sake of destruction done to the political oppon... - no, the political enemy.

I wonder if even Bush was so polariisng to the US society. I think not.

However, the Dems were sort of lucky. I expected them to lose the senate, too. Senate is no more filibusterproof, too (60 of 100 are needed to prevent it, or am I mistaken?)

O'Donell failed to win. Good for the Reps in two years. They really need to start sorting her likes out. But I think, more relaistic is to expect that the Reps will start to rip themselves apart between tea-party and non-tea party. The first will try to take over control in the Rep party.

What it all means? A further degeneration of political culture, where the cause to claim power will justify EVERY means. Would one have thought that that could even be imagined: a further degeneration? It seems the hole is bottomless, so is the fall into it endless.