Five days before the election.Rachel Maddow had a commentary on the prospects for compromise between Republicans and Democrats.

I did not post it then because it made me too angry to think straight.  I got angry not because she was wrong, but because she was right.  I got angry not because she had divined the hidden meaning in what Republican politicians were saying, but because she put together a montage of the obvious.  She made it even more painful by adding to the montage the words of various Democrats that showed how deep into denial they were.

I have seen a few headlines about what she is saying today, but that may be even more painful to watch.

Thinking about these items and comparing them to what Obama had to say in his press conference shows that the denial did not end election night.

The question now should be what will it take for the Democratic politicians to wake up?

I have relented and started looking at her comments tonight.