Did Anyone Learn Anything? asks Brian Beutler. rhetorically.

All the pundits (and there are a LOT of them) who think the GOP is going to do anything different or act differently since Obama won last night are fooling themselves. All anyone needs to do to confirm this is to take a look at the actual GOP who actually ran and won (and there a LOT of them, too) this time around. They ran on opposing Obama, Obamacare, anti-Christ Obama, European socialist Obama, abortion-loving Obama, tax and spend Obama, anti-religion Obama, scary black man Obama, and all the other imaginary Obama-shaped demons of their nightmare fantasies (collect the whole set!). Those people, all the GOP House members who won, all the GOP Senators who won, both incumbent and incoming: those people are going to be in office. They still think he's trying to destroy America. So who seriously expects any of them to say "Oh, Obama won? The America-hating, socialist, abortionist Kenyan who I spent six months demonizing? Well that changes everything! I take it all back. Let's play nice. Who wants to raise taxes!" ? Well, OK. Apparently some people think that. But it's dead wrong.

Did anyone learn anything? Well of course not. There was nothing to learn. The next two years, at least, will be the same as the last two years, because it's pretty much the same bunch of people, with pretty much the same amount of power, dealing with pretty much the same issues.