It's a window into an extremely bizarre world.

It seems as if we have re-entered the bizarre world in which every piece of news must be interpreted as being bad for equity investors.

The bizarre world of cards [is] a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments [are] meted out immediately.

The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.

Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like.

This campaign was special because we always kept the challenger mentality we had from the start. We managed to keep the against-all-odds, can-do spirit that kept us going when no one thought we could win.