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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) claimed Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” that voters were rejecting the “rapidly deteriorating Republican brand” while discussing two special elections in Florida that the Republicans won and one race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court that the Democrats won. Host Lawrence O’Donnell said, “Let’s begin as we wait for a victory speech in Wisconsin with your reaction to what you’re seeing in those special elections in Florida for two House seats.” Jeffries said, “It was an incredible over performance by the two Democratic candidates into two ruby red districts.”

After the Republican avalanche of a victory in last month's elections, there was still more good news for the Grand Old Brand New Party courtesy of Nancy Pelosi. It seems she's eked out a narrow victory over a Democratic insurgency against her stultified leadership of the party in the House, a leadership that has been rusting for the past 14 years. If everything isn't coming up roses for the GOP, at least there are tulips covering the horizon the way daffodils do Wye Mountain every spring. And all Nancy Pelosi could say about her aforementioned "leadership" was the same thing...

The Times weighs in on the Democrats' palace intrigue, but it's obvious that both sides in the Pelosi debate still don't understand what happened on Nov. 2.   Rep. Nancy Pelosi has already announced that she’s running to be House minority leader in spite of last week’s defeats. The Democrats’ house blog, the New York Times, is out with a piece today begging Pelosi not to run for a return as leader. The editorial reads as if it were written in Fringe’s alternate universe: Nancy Pelosi has been an extremely effective speaker of the House for four years, shepherding hundreds...