"When Pelosi says to Republicans 'take back your party', she means get it away from the conservatives and come back. Please be RINOs, please be progressives, please be liberals with us. After all, it shouldn't matter which side wins elections, because the party that she and her friends like and envisage is identical to theirs."

"My dear liberal friends, losing an election doesn't mean you have to like it. Now I'm going to lecture you - just as Obama did to us - that elections have consequences."