hahaha, we're all screwed

Welp, Massachusetts had their special senate election today for Kennedy's old seat, and as to be expected, the Democrats in a very liberal state did what they do best, snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Yes the GOP candidate Brown won, as of now by a 53/47 margin it seems. Dems just lost their 60 votes.

Oh man I can't wait for November.

Also for awesome irony, it was democrats who changed the law in Mass that a senate replacement had to be voted on within a few months when Romney was governor, awesome.

 

Ugh, that is really very disappointing to hear.

 

This begins the return of the Republican Party to dominance.

The Democrats got one year to run the show, and have nothing to show for it.

 

It is quite difficult to accomplish a lot in only a year =(

 

Well this is what dems are best at.

And what lesson will dems actually take away from this and learn, move more to the social right. *face palm*

Obama is about 7 minutes away from becoming the next Jimmy Carter

 

...especially when you inherit the biggest economic mess in American history.

American voters are fucking morons. They are always in love with whatever party isn't in power.

How much longer before we're all required by law to be Christian fundamentalists?

 

I don't think the majority of them are morons. I think they are just apathetic and and misinformed.

 

Good things, that is.

It's easy to say... pass the patriot act, or start multipule wars on false pretenses in a year.

 

Look at the bright side: change actually happened in MA.

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It's not armageddon yet though, I mean Coakley(the dem) from what I hear ran a terrible campaign and is very unlikeable as a person, I mean this is Mass, Scott Brown(the rep) is probably more to the left then Bob Nelson

 

Just a thought for you...

This may be a blessing in disguise for the dems...

if they went all the way to the next election with a majority across the board, there is nothing they could hide from, it would all 100% be laid at their feet.

Now, they have a way to pass the buck which is what the politicians do best.

It could give them enough cover to let obama be re-elected. I said right from the start that his first term wasn't going to see a lot of the changes people were hoping from. First and foremost he is a politician, and will keep an eye on the next election and will try his best to not ruffle every feather in the nest.

If he makes it in for a second term, he has no reason to hold back and people will get to see what he is really about, good or bad....

 

Well, at least with the republicans in majority, some things might actually get done.

 

Didn't independents elect Brown? What does that indicate?

 

obama is the milli to carter's vanilli

 

that when independants went to cast their vote, they selected brown.

either that or......CONSPIRACY!!! lol

 

Deliberately misinformed.

 

Same shut, different asshole.

Silly republicrats..

 

I think you have a point there. I wasn't in the mood to see anything positive in this development last night, but this morning feels a little better.

I'm listening to Scott Brown right now on the Today show, and he seems quite liberal for a Republican. I should have known that Massachusetts would not elect a hard-core right winger. They haven't completely lost their minds.

 

" David Paleologos, director of Suffolk University’s Police Research Center, whose recent poll foreshadowed a Brown win, said independent voters who were fired up over the lingering recession and faltering economy, the loss of jobs and the cost of government mandated health care drove the election.

Those issues, he said, “were the lead ammunition that independents used to rebel against the establishment.”

State independents lead Scott Brown’s charge - BostonHerald.com


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Were democrats listening to the independents? That's been the criticism I've heard. Now we'll see if the republicans will be listening to them. I think it's more that independents are disagreeing with the "solutions" that Obama and the dems are applying to those issues above. People want the economy fix and health care insurance expanded but they disagree with the way Obama is doing it.

 

Frankly the whole notion of republican versus democrat is an overblown distraction from the fact that both parties are represented in a criminal organization that has helped the corporate class rob the middle class blind- and it is still going on... additionally they are proposing to further rob us through the guise of national health care. Granted, health care does need reform but if you think the government will run it in a cost effective manner then you are fooling yourself. Before the government can qualify itself to reform any part of the economy it must first reform itself... outside the framework of this so-called "two-party system".