Implications two and three should be pondered by those claiming the US faces too years of gridlock and an uncooperative GOP.
2. Along these lines: I haven't had a chance to do the math, but I bet the Democratic caucus now has a higher percentage of antiwar members than before--and President Obama had already lost a majority of his party in the House on the war. So if Obama intends to stay the course in Afghanistan, as I think he does, he'll do so with GOP support in Congress.
3. Speaking of Afghanistan: Russ Feingold, now freed of his Senate responsibilities, is liberated to consider a Gene McCarthy-like run against the president in the 2012 primaries on an end-the-war platform--pre-empting Howard Dean, who is undoubtedly also considering such an effort.
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