Most of the returns are in. A little bit of good, a little bit of bad.

Texas House. I’m not totally hip to Paul Workman, but in theory he’s going to be better than Valinda Bolton. We’ll see how he pans out.

Texas Senate. No question that Jeff Wentworth was going to win it, and generally I’m pleased with that.

And Gov. Good Hair continues to hold office. I’m not surprised Rick Perry won. I did get to watch Bill White’s concession speech, and I found it to be a good one… no real jabs or other bitter-loser b.s. that you often hear. Gained a little respect for the guy after listening to that speech. Am I happy about Perry winning? Well, I’m more happy that Bill White didn’t win. Perry isn’t horrible, but he’s certainly pissed me off a fair deal. And now all his hooting and hollering about things like Texas sovereignty, how well Texas is run, showing those schmoes in Washington how it’s done and keeping them out of Texas business… well, let’s see how well your actions keep up.

And the rest of the Texas state level offices, generally OK with things. It looks like the Texas House gained a lot of Republican seats. We’ll see how that plays into redistricting. I’m also curious what Alice Tripp thinks about how things panned out.

On the national level…

So the Republicans have the US House and MIGHT get the US Senate (as of this writing, 3 races are undecided). Even if the Republicans don’t have Senate majority, there’s no more super-majority.

Ran Paul winning…. I wonder how that will pan out. Will he be like his father and generally vote “no” on everything?

Plus, we won’t have to look at Nancy Pelosi’s face all the time. I consider that a win. 🙂

I am sad that Dr. Donna Campbell didn’t win. But what I was happy about was seeing that Lloyd Doggett didn’t win by much (tally I see says 53% to 45%). Doggett’s past wins were all by 60-something percent wins, so this win is far less decisive. Lloyd are you listening? No, of course you’re not… you’ve already demonstrated you won’t listen to the people you’re supposed to be representing. You keep acting this way and you are going to be gone…especially with redistricting coming up. I’d love to see if Dr. Campbell would run again in 2012.

Governors won a lot of seats as well.

My feeling isn’t so much that people wanted Republicans as people wanted not-Obama. Yesterday’s election results I think were a message to say that we don’t like what’s going on in Washington. People thought the “Tea Party” movement was something to marginalize, but it seems to have been quite the force in yesterday’s results. I’m sure today there will be much talk about “reaching across the aisle” and talks of “compromise” and “bi-partisan solutions” and other such b.s..  I’m sure Democrats will say “OK, you Republicans now have majority… let’s see what you can do” and that’s fair. I loved listening to some Republicans saying last night how they want to return to 2008 spending levels. Uh…. you know, overspending way too fucking much is still overspending way too fucking much. So you know, it’s just going to be business as usual for the most part… *sigh*

I will say, the current setup is going to make the next 2 years rather interesting. And the fun all starts this morning.

My popcorn bowl is pretty deep.