A TIDY TOOL for frying bacon. But not all commenters are impressed.

DON SURBER:

Barack Obama helped elect 255 Democrats to the House in 2008. This year, he helped elect 240 Republicans to the House.

Now that’s bipartisanship.

Heh.

PATRICK RUFFINI: The natural majority.

NORTH CAROLINA RECOUNT: Support Renee Elmers. Bob “who are you” Etheridge is demanding a recount.

J.P. FREIRE: “Armed with subpoena power, members of the House Republicans are expected to urge President Obama not to shred any documents.”

TARGETING LIMBAUGH:

As Obama and his aides began relentlessly pushing exactly the far-left agenda that Limbaugh so publicly predicted would fail, they decided to bring the hardball of Chicago politics into play: they would intimidate their opponents by making an example of America’s number one conservative talk radio star. .

Which is exactly the point where the path to the conservative victory of 2010 began.

“If you strike me down, I shall only become more powerful than you can imagine.”

STANDING UP TO ANTISEMITISM: Jews speak out against American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee decision to honor Helen Thomas.

MARCIA MORRISSEY: What Does God Really Look Like?

ALTHOUSE IS NOW #1 IN THE LAW PROF BLOG TRAFFIC RANKINGS. I’m off the list now — I had to take my Sitemeter down last summer because it was interfering with the ad codes and messing up page loads. I hated to do that, but nobody could seem to find a fix.

MARK TAPSCOTT: They Aren’t Laughing At The Tea Party Now.

UPDATE: More:

Although a few Tea Party stars such as Christine O’Donnell and Sharron Angle lost, the movement itself proved broadly appealing: Exit polls showed that four in 10 voters considered themselves supporters of the Tea Party, and, according to NBC, 113 of the 129 candidates for the House of Representatives who associated themselves with it won.

The Tea Party is a fringe movement no more. But will it be a lasting one?

Given that Tea Partiers seem to have found their participation fun, I think so. People usually keep doing what they find to be fun.

BUSINESS INSIDER: Organized Labor Got Hammered In The Midterms.

SHOCKER: Media Matters Not Handling Crushing Defeat Too Well.

ANN ALTHOUSE: What’s with the GOP’s “utter lack of triumphalism”?

ELECTION TROUBLE: You think ’10 was tough? Check out ’12. “For the first time in two cycles, Democrats will have more seats up for grabs than the Republicans, and the party could see its shrunken majority erased altogether.”

THE HILL: Pelosi Prays:

In her first public interview since Tuesday’s elections returned the House majority to Republicans, the California Democrat told ABC News she’s still mulling her future in Washington.

“I’ll have a conversation with my caucus, I’ll have a conversation with my family, and pray over it, and decide how to go forward.”

Pray over it? They told me if I voted for John McCain we’d see political decisions made by top leaders on the basis of “Christianist” ritual. And they were right!

COFFEE PARTY CANDIDATE got dozens of votes!

ED DRISCOLL: How the Gray Lady Became Margaret Dumont.

OBAMA: Hey, sorry I didn’t try to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell back when I had a majority in the House.

Harry Reid: Hey, sorry I didn’t try to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell back when we had more votes in the Senate.

JAMES TARANTO: Hope And Change!

Plus, the line of the day: “Her lesser half is named Martell; she uses her father’s surname so as to make a statement against patriarchy.”

CHANGE: Arizona Bans Affirmative Action.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Nanoshells surprise scientists by destroying cancer stem cells. Faster, please.

SOME SKEPTICISM on “quantitative easing.”

REASON TV: Post-election press conference with Jim Mora, head coach of the Democrats.

ERIC SCHEIE: How many legs are under the Tea Party stool?

UPDATE: David Kirkham emails:

I don’t know about 3 legs. The Utah Tea Party doesn’t talk about that. Our stool only has one big stake driven deep into the bedrock.

Quit spending all the money!

I like that one.

ANOTHER UPDATE: From the comments to Eric Scheie’s post, a warning to libertarians:

I was a three term Republican Precinct Chairman from George W’s first run for Governor until I retired from active politics due to my health. I say this because I have a certain amount of experience in working politics.

During those three terms I noticed who did what. The Country Club Republicans put up most of the money and provided meeting places. Important.

The religeous right provided a lot of work. It was they that walked precincts and they that worked phone banks. Very important.

The libertarians talked. The libertarians also complained. They were always too busy taking and complaining to do any work.

Perhaps things are different now, I don’t know. I have been retired for twelve years. Yet from what I have read, it’s still the same, the RR folks working, the CC folks contributing and the libertarians talking about how the other two groups are RUINING EVERYTHING!!!!!111!!!

I would like to say that this has changed for I have a pretty big “leave me alone” streak when it comes to politics. I got involved through my work with a shooting club, the 2A is my big issue. Yet I see no trace of a change. The libertarian wing will suck the hind tit until y’all stop talking and start working.

I know that Eric was out going door-to-door, though.

MARK HEMINGWAY: You Know Who Was A Big Loser In This Election? George Soros.