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Congratulations to the Tea Party for staying true to their anti-government principles by not getting elected to public office!

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) May 22, 2014

The Washington Post has a rundown on last night’s primary results. The title says it all: “The tea party isn’t just losing; it’s losing badly.”

Even the conservative Washington Times didn’t mince words with its headline: “Tea party on life support after brutal primary beatdown.”

Meanwhile, a CBS News poll out today indicates that support for the Tea Party has reached a new low.

All of this is good for establishment Republicans, and helps Republicans in their quest to retake the senate. Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell behaved like a douche last night, giving a bizarre victory speech in which he promised that he will break the will of President Obama.

McConnell is very unpopular in the state, so his only strategy is to try to drag [Democratic candidate Alison] Grimes down by tying her to President Obama. The problem for Mitch is that President Obama is more popular in the state than he is. Hearing Mitch McConnell talk about how much he cares about regular people was especially nauseating when this the same man who laughed about throwing millions off of unemployment benefits.

Mitch McConnell promised to repeal and replace Obamacare. He promised a war on bureaucrats, and he dusted off talking points that probably worked in decades past. Sen. McConnell is a floundering candidate, and his victory speech did nothing to make anyone think that he deserves another six years in the Senate.

That will be a fascinating campaign. Grimes faces an uphill battle in red Kentucky, but you never know.