SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:46 P.M. ET: 

YIKES – From London's Daily Mail:  "Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu is trailing her Republican challenger by a giant 16-point margin in a runoff for one of Louisiana's two U.S. Senate seats, according to poll results obtained by MailOnline.  The survey, commissioned by GOP Rep. Bill Cassidy's campaign, was leaked to media in order to fire a shot over the senator's bow and send a signal to energy lobbyists that her ship is taking on water.  It suggests that Democrats' worst fears have been realized even though Landrieu edged Casssidy by 1 percentage point on Election Day."   The vote on election day counted Landrieu, Cassidy, and several other candidates on the right.  In the runoff only the top two are listed, which means Cassidy is free of competition on the conservative flank.  It was expected that he'd forge ahead.

LIZ IS THE NEW DARLING – From The Politico:  "Elizabeth Warren insists she has no interest in running for president in 2016, but the rich liberals to whom she spoke Thursday afternoon seemed unwilling to take ‘no’ for an answer.  The Massachusetts senator got a rock stars’ welcome during a closed-door speech to major donors, one of whom interrupted her by yelling 'Run, Liz, Run!'  Warren drew multiple standing ovations during her talk, held in a banquet room at Washington’s Mandarin Oriental hotel during the annual winter meeting of the Democracy Alliance, a club of major liberal donors.  Throughout the day, donors repeatedly broached the question of whether Warren would run to Paul Egerman, a Democracy Alliance board member who was the national finance chairman of her Senate race and introduced Warren for her speech Thursday. He patiently but firmly told each that she would not seek the Democratic presidential nomination."  That's this week's line.  If Hillary decides to be a full-time grandma, watch out for Liz.  She makes Lenin look like a conservative icon.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK – From PJ Media:  "Congress coming back into session after the long campaign break means quick legislative action — against the Washington Redskins.  D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) introduced on Wednesday a bill to amend section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code to 'prohibit tax-exempt status for professional sports leagues that promote or allow a member club or franchise connected to that league to benefit from the Washington football team name, a derogatory term that has officially been found offensive.'  It’s companion legislation to a bill filed in the upper chamber by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.).  The lawmakers are encouraged by Federal Communication Commission consideration of a petition to ban the use of 'Redskins' on the air."  Banning the term will bring Iran to its knees, employ millions of Americans, and end forever the threat of global warming.  It will also send a signal to our allies that America is back as a serious, mature superpower.  Not.

WHINING – From CNN:  "Nancy Pelosi doesn't understand why House Speaker John Boehner and newly-elected Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have been on the cover of Time magazine in light of their electoral victories, but she has not.  'I was never on Time magazine cover even though I was first women to be (Speaker),' Rep. Pelosi, D-California, said. 'Isn't that a curiosity? That the Republicans win, Boehner's on Time magazine. Mitch McConnell wins, he's on the cover of Time magazine. Isn't there a pattern here?'...Other females have appeared on the cover of Time Magazine around 2008 when Pelosi was historically elected as the first female Speaker of the House. In 2007, the magazine put then-Senator Hillary Clinton on its November issue cover and in February of that year, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also graced the front of the publication. Other notable politicians also received the prime cover position, including George W. Bush in 2007, and then-Senator Barack Obama, who was on the cover just before the 2006 election under the headline: 'The Next President?'"   There's a time to get off the stage, and Nancy is past-time.

November 13, 2014