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GETTY IMAGES President Obama is seen reflected in a teleprompter screen.

EDITORIAL: Obama: Send more teleprompters

President Obama continues to live in a state of denial regarding the message of the midterm elections. He stubbornly clings to the belief that his policies had nothing to do with the historic "shellacking" the voters gave his party and instead blames the red tide on his lack of communications skills. What a change from the 2008 campaign, when Mr. Obama was being heralded as the great orator of the 21st century. Apparently, the 2010 election was lost because Mr. Obama didn't have enough teleprompters.

November 5, 2010
Illustration: Obamacare and the states by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times.

EDITORIAL: Pull the plug on Obamacare

Obamacare quickly emerged as the first major issue of the congressional transition. The president says tweak it. We say scrap it.

November 4, 2010
ASSOCIATED PRESS Election worker Laurnel Hoffman (upper right) helps voters to use the voting machines at an early voting polling place Saturday in Las Vegas.

EDITORIAL: A blow to judicial tyranny

This week's elections weren't just about the economy. Concerned about judicial tyranny, Iowans booted all three of the state Supreme Court justices who appeared on Tuesday's ballot - the first high court justices to be defeated since 1962, when Iowans created a system of voting on whether or not judges should be retained.

November 4, 2010
President Obama listens to a question during a news conference Wednesday in the East Room of the White House. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Memo to Obama: Don’t lawyer up

One of the most important lessons of political history is that the cover-up is usually worse than the crime. President Obama ought to take note of this as he heads into the next two years of divided government and before he finds his administration mired in unnecessary legal battles.

November 4, 2010
Sen.-elect Rand Paul. R-Ky., and his wife Kelley arrive at his victory celebration in Bowling Green, Ky., Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)

EDITORIAL: The GOP’s Fab Five

The world's most exclusive country club, the U.S. Senate, is in for a shock come January. Five Republicans handed their membership cards Tuesday have promised to shake up the chamber famous for its accommodation - otherwise known as caving to liberal ideas. Because individual senators have a greater ability to shape national policy than individual members of the House of Representatives, sending a handful of fiscal conservatives to the upper chamber will make it difficult for President Obama and congressional Democrats to get away with spending as usual.

November 3, 2010
A bicyclist and jogger pass a group of zombies posing for pictures on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. The stunt was part of a campaign in 26 cities worldwide promoting the Halloween premiere of the AMC television series "The Walking Dead." (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s zombie agenda

A much subdued President Obama admitted yesterday that he took a "shellacking" in the midterm elections. Despite that meek concession, he doesn't appear to have gotten the order voters sent: Cease and desist. The Obama agenda has become a zombie, dead but continuing to walk among us.

November 3, 2010
President Barack Obama gestures as he moves off stage at the conclusion of his news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

EDITORIAL: An oblivious president

President Obama still doesn't get it. He continues to think the American electorate is merely impatient with the economy rather than scared by his policies, that the economy must be managed by government rather than freed from bureaucratic shackles. He's wrong on all counts.

November 3, 2010
A woman waits to get into the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building in San Francisco, in this Sept. 22, 2003 file photo. A sharply divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, threw out a lawsuit that challenged Boeing Co.'s role flying terrorism suspects to secret prisons and raised questions about the government's ability to quash lawsuits when state secrets are involved. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

EDITORIAL: A vote against judicial radicalism

Yesterday's election will help put the brakes on the Democrats' leftist social experimentation. Resistance was already underway in the courts. In two key cases regarding homosexuality, the pendulum is swinging back in a traditional direction.

November 2, 2010
President Obama makes a final get-out-the-vote push for Democratic candidates in Ohio on Sunday. He is scheduled to give a news conference early Wednesday afternoon. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: A vote against Democrats

Republicans celebrating yesterday's ballot-box drubbing of Democrats should not be lulled into thinking their virtues carried the day. The election was first and foremost a referendum on the policies of President Obama and congressional Democrats. That verdict was clear: The American people want change.

November 2, 2010
ASSOCIATED PRESS House speaker Nancy Pelosi answers questions during her visit to Portland, Ore. Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010.. The California Democrat toured the home of Heather and Pete Ficht - one of 500 homes in a pilot program called Clean Energy Works Portland that aims to improve energy efficiency.

EDITORIAL: A vote against the left-wing agenda

Conventional wisdom suggests the 2010 midterm election was a referendum on the economy. That's not all it was. The public's distaste of Democrat-controlled government is much more profound.

November 2, 2010
The pending merger of electronic voting machine companies has triggered concerns that voter fraud will increase if one company has too much control. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Beware of epidemic voter fraud

Double-check that your ballot reads correctly before leaving the polling booth. Insist on your rights and on fair election procedures if polling officials try to bully you. Report suspicious activity to authorities before leaving the polls. Vote fraud is a legitimate and serious threat, and voters should be on guard to stop it.

November 1, 2010
People in the crowd hold up homemade signs at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010. The "sanity" rally, blending laughs and political activism, drew thousands to the National Mall Saturday, with comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert casting themselves as the unlikely maestros of moderation and civility in polarized times. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

EDITORIAL: Keeping fear of the left alive

There's a time and a place for everything, and Saturday's lampooning of the great American tradition of gathering on the Mall for a transcendent cause was neither. The pep rally led by left-wing cheerleaders Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert proved once again that liberals don't understand that the American majority has rejected the big-government philosophy.

November 1, 2010
Former President Bill Clinton, right, holds onto Allegheny County Executive and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato as he addresses a campaign rally for Onorato during a stop in McKeesport, Pa. Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

EDITORIAL: The Democrats’ self-mutilation

Congressional Democrats are poised to lose the largest governing majority in a generation. The House certainly will return to Republican control after only four years, and the Democrats' 60-seat Senate supermajority effectively will be reduced to a tie.

November 1, 2010
BLOOMBERG NEWS Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, declined to sign a letter to congressional leaders expressing support for health care reform, calling the potential expansion of Medicaid “the mother of all unfunded mandates.”

EDITORIAL: Obamacare R.I.P.

Nov. 2 is the nation's referendum on Obamacare. No other issue has so polarized the public and shed light on the policy failings of the left. The midterm elections represent the last, best hope for millions of Americans who don't want to see the health care law's most onerous provisions ever take effect.

October 29, 2010
Maryland gubernatorial candidates, Republican former Gov. Robert Ehrlich, left, shakes hands with Democratic incumbent Gov. Martin O'Malley right, after a debate in Baltimore, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)

EDITORIAL: Ehrlich for Maryland governor

Maryland is on a path to become the Shakedown State. The current administration stands for tax increases, big spending and speed cameras on every street corner. Tomorrow, voters should insist on returning to a path of limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty. They can do that with a vote for Bob Ehrlich, the former Republican governor seeking to replace Gov. Martin O'Malley, a Democrat.

October 29, 2010
Rep. Frank Wolf (Getty Images)

EDITORIAL: Elect patriots in Northern Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia is one of America's original and most important laboratories of democracy. Its motto, Sic Semper Tyrannis - "Thus always to tyrants" - offers a poignant rallying cry for national elections this year as contemporary patriots try to thrust off the yoke of oppressive government to make our country more free. With the crippling burden of trillions in debt, the socialist government takeover of health care and new taxes on the way to pay for it all, the American people are threatened by government tyranny now more than ever. Virginia has statesmen standing ready to defend our liberty.

October 29, 2010
ASSOCIATED PRESS Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor favors a system in which judges are first appointed and then kept by “retention” elections. FILE - In this April 6, 2010 file photo, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor delivers the 2010 Sidney Shainwald Public Interest Lecture at the New York Law School in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

EDITORIAL: Justice shouldn’t be political

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has violated the Code of Conduct for United States judges. She should resign from her position as a roving judge on "senior status." If she doesn't resign, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. - at whose sole discretion she serves as a "pinch hitter" on lower federal courts - should no longer designate her for such duties.

October 28, 2010
** FILE ** In this Nov. 26, 2008, file photo, Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is seen in Orakzai tribal region of Pakistan. The Pakistani army says it is investigating reports that Mehsud has died from injuries sustained in a U.S. drone missile strike. Pakistani army spokesman Gen. Athar Abbas says the army is using its agents in Pakistan's northwest where the death is reported to have occurred to try to confirm or deny the reports. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mehsud, File)

EDITORIAL: The return of the snipers

Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud said earlier this year that terrorists should begin to target American cities. Several recent incidents indicate that our enemies are getting the message.

October 28, 2010
President Barack Obama is pictured during a commercial break as he talks with host Jon Stewart as he takes part in a taping of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: Obama, the dude in chief

Of all the possible ways to refer to our uptight president, "dude" is not the first one that springs to mind. Comedian Jon Stewart changed all that Wednesday night, and President Obama was not amused.

October 28, 2010
Fannie Mae's Washington headquarters (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Democratic house party

A play about homelessness entitled "The Good Neighbor" debuts today in Northeast Washington, courtesy of the generous support of Fannie Mae - and, by extension, the U.S. taxpayer. Given the mortgage giant's prominent role in spreading misery and homelessness throughout the country, it's hard to think of a less appropriate corporate benefactor.

October 27, 2010