Pelosi surrounded herself with elected women in a moment that was food for my tired political soul. A true girl power moment! But someone always has to find a way to rain on my women ruling the world parade, and this time it was Luke Russert.  For some reason, Russert asked Pelosi -- in her 21st century moment of... There are always hurt feelings after big elections.  People on both sides are invested in their views and candidates, especially in our world of 24/7 media that whips us all into a frenzy so that we can hardly see straight when it's all over. But no one likes a sore loser. And some high profile conservative operatives are acting like petulant toddlers now that President Obama has been elected to a second term in office. Political operative Grover "pledge your allegiance to me or I will crush you" Norquist has announced that the reason Barack Obama was re-elected was because... I'm too distracted to write anything coherent or pithy, but so many thoughts are running around in my head about the outcome of today's election, so I thought I'd share: 1. My parents live in Pennsylvania -- one of  the states that tried to ram through mandatory photo ID laws for voting. A judge put that on hold, but said poll workers were permitted to ask for ID for first time voters, but couldn't require it (which begs the question, why ask in the first place?)  My retired parents were asked