Until last night’s election, Karl Rove could take it as complement to be called Bush’s brain. American voters no longer seem to believe that the brain of the commander-in-chief is large enough to steer the nation in the right directions. Republican politicians entering the 2008 races will now reevaluate whether Rove’s brain is large enough to compete for his services. It will be curious to see whether Bush will embrace bipartisan politics as he was forced to do when he was first govenor of Texas with a democratic legislature.  Or will his presidency simply implode.

Quotes at the Wire:
Here are some amusing things clipped from the last moments of the 2006 race:
“We got a lot of I told you so moments right now because polls are tightening and people are thinking about issues” Tony Snow to Rush Limbaugh Monday about coming Republican successes.
‘I feel like I’m in ninth grade going in for a chemistry test I knew I didn’t study for. I’m going to fail, and there’s nothing I can do about it.’”