Wednesday morning, here is where we are: 52 GOP Senate seats, 242 house seats and 24 Republican governors. It is likely there will be many excuses made by the left and their minions but the simple fact was that their strategy failed. Huffington Post had this to say:

Call it a thumping. Call it a shellacking. However you want to describe the 2014 midterm elections, the point remains the same. Democrats took it on the chin Tuesday night, losing the Senate, getting crushed in winnable governors’ races, solidifying their minority status in the House for years to come, and stemming the party’s ability to continue putting its stamp on the judiciary.

Despite fear mongering ads claiming a war on women and old people, the Republicans WON. Despite the best efforts of the democrats, voters simply did not vote straight ticket. From the National Review:

What didn’t work? The president’s and Democrats’ strategy to run against Congress. Clearly Congress is less popular than the White House: Only 20 percent in exit polls approved of the job that Congress was doing, and 78 percent disapproved.

But those who disapproved of Congress voted Republican 51–47, while those who approved of Congress voted Democratic 54–45. The Democrats, in other words, got saddled with the bad job people thought Congress was doing, in addition to the president’s poor performances.

The emergence of immigration and foreign policy as top issues also helped form the Tsunami. Economic issues were the top issue for almost half the voters (45 percent of the electorate). Those voters split evenly between Republicans and Democrats, 49–49. Next was health care, at 25 percent of voters, who favored the Democrats 60–38. Following that was immigration, at 14 percent, voters who went Republican 73–25. Finally, 13 percent cited foreign policy as their top issue, and they preferred Republicans 55–43.

The Tsunami of events and Democratic failure have washed the Republicans into office. Now they have to clean up the mess.

The GOP has 2 years to get this done well. Many more senate seats are up in 2016 and if there is a hope of changes being made and truly representing We the People, there is a lot of work to do. The fable of Hercules and the Augean Stables comes to mind.  I am happy to see this but hope that there will be a concerted effort to block Obama and the judicial appointments and Chicago machine influenced shenanigans.

Lastly to the GOP please just please please please retire Romney Christie and Jeb Bush, this is a new day and a new world. We want to have a stable economy, we want to have security at home and abroad and we want to be treated like adults. That is not too much to ask.