A nugget for thought:

In his press conference this morning, John Boehner, soon to be Speaker of the House, repeatedly referred to the GOP’s focus on “what the people want", “what the people expect", “what the people demand", etc., i.e. focusing on the will of the electorate.

Mitch McConnell made a similar point when he said that one key message of the election to Democrats should be that choosing their president over their constituents was a bad strategy.

Then, in a near-perfect contrast, Barack Obama, during his press conference, talked about how he and congressional Republicans would have to sit down and talk about “our priorities."  As always, and even when speaking as if sincerely chastened, Barack Obama is all about Barack Obama and his far-left vision for transforming the nation.  He’s completely missed the point that the people don’t want him to focus on his priorities, but rather on ours – and they’re very different.

He will make small (but very public) efforts to “get something done” on some relatively less controversial issue, perhaps a free-trade treaty, but his goals are still all around “green energy” and redistributing the wealth.  It was almost amusing to hear Obama say that the primary message of the election was a message to Republicans.  Sure, you can spin this any way you want, but it seems to me that the key message of the election nationwide (despite the mistakes of the GOP here in Colorado) was indeed to Democrats: We hate what you’ve done.  And, secondarily to Republicans: Get in there and stop any more damage, and roll back what you can.