In 2006, when President George W. Bush lost six seats in the Senate and 30 in the House, he called it a "thumpin'." In 2010 President Obama lost six Senate seats and 63 in the House and called it a "shellacking." This time Obama is trying to chalk it up to two-thirds of the electorate not voting. He should have learned by now the voters are fed up with political spin.

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The Lifeline program handed out more than 13 million free cellphones and wireless service plans across the country in the first six months of this year. The "Obamaphones" cost taxpayers $2 billion. The CBS4 TV station in Denver turned up alarming cases of fraud and abuse of the program in an undercover investigation.

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the first black senator elected in the South since the Reconstruction era, has a blunt message for race-baiting Democrats: "The voters said 'No.' They rejected this." Scott was appointed to replace Sen. Jim Demint, who resigned, and was re-elected for a full term Nov. 4.