Boehner now has the toughest job in Washington

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It would be easy to cast President Obama and the Democrats as the big losers after Tuesday's election results. But there's a flip side to what happened on Election Day: Presumptive House Speaker John Boehner now has the toughest job in Washington.
That's because the epic wave of voter discontent enabling the GOP to regain majority control of the House and make serious inroads in the Senate wasn't an endorsement of Republican policies. Rather, Tuesday's votes were largely a referendum against Washington and the politics of the status quo. While the GOP benefited from widespread disillusion, voters remain just as unhappy with Republicans as they are with Democrats, telling exit-poll interviewers that they view both parties with almost equal disgust.

[Photos: Emotional Boehner addresses supporters]

Many Republicans acknowledged the electorate's dour outlook in their victory speeches Tuesday night. "We make a great mistake if we believe tonight these results are somehow an embrace of the Republican Party," Marco Rubio, a tea party favorite who won Florida's closely watched Senate race, said Tuesday night. "What they are is a second chance -- a second chance for Republicans to be what they said were going to be not so long ago."
In Washington, Boehner took the stage at a House GOP watch party where the mood was notably less celebratory than it's been during election-night festivities in years past. "This is not a time for celebration," Boehner somberly warned. "This is a time to roll up our sleeves and go to work." He called the election results "a repudiation of Washington, a repudiation of big government and a repudiation of politicians who refuse to listen to the people."


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