Conservatives Revel in Dems’ Disaster

Long-suffering Republicans celebrated an Election Night that saw the GOP take back the Senate with seats to spare, wrest governors’ mansions from Democratic incumbents and increase their House lead. They saw Joni Ernst become the first woman to be elected to the Senate from Iowa, and even witnessed the victory of the first African American ever popularly elected to the Senate from anywhere in the South in Tim Scott of South Carolina, who had been appointed to the position. Above all for diehard Republicans, it amounted to a chance to at least attempt to implement conservative policies, or dare President Obama to veto them.