Thoughts on the MA election
As much as I wanted to keep quiet, I can’t.
At first, I thought I’d freak out, but then a few things occurred to me. First off, Scott Brown’s got three years. He’s a friggin’ wingnut teabagger, something, to his credit, he kept pretty well hidden during this campaign. When he actually starts opening his mouth, other than the angry white guy demographic, he’s not going to be too thrilling.
Second, as to this “Dems losing their supermajority” stuff. It’s not like they’ve been able to accomplish shit with 60 votes, so what the hell’s the difference? Bush got just about everything he wanted, even with a minority, fer chrissake.
What’s scary is that Dems will continue not to learn from this, completely misreading this as “we need to be more conservative” instead of “we need to actually take off the gloves, grow some sack and accomplish something good”.
I think there’s a silver lining in those teabaggers who now smell blood in the water. As I said, Brown, due to both Coakley sitting around with her thumb up her ass, and the relatively brief nature of the campaign, (not to mention him being dismissive or denying the teabaggery), was able to conceal how batshit insane he really is. In next year’s elections, they’ll be of the more normal variety, which gives people a better chance to look at the records of who they might be voting for.
The Dems are gonna get their asses kicked, regardless. In my almost 39 years of life, I can’t think of a bigger example of such deep, prolonged incompetence demonstrated by an organization.
And so the outrage fatigue continues. Peter Daou has an excellent bit on all of this at HuffPo that you should take a look at, too.
January 21st, 2010 at 1:15 pm
There is a “Sky Fairy” in Mass. after all………………………..
January 21st, 2010 at 3:43 pm
Mr. Drysdale and Mr. Cheney been tellin’ me that the Democratic Party is so done fucked-up that ya can beat ‘em up with a Tea Bag.
Mr. Cheney sehs he an’ Uncle Jed gonna BUY the Democratic Party, an’ then sells it ta Nigeria.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Well, pydsseus, if there is indeed a Sky Fairy, he’s either doing the book of Job thing and seeing how much punishment the MA citizens can take, or he’s just fucking with them, as he stands almost no chance of winning the next election once they figure out he’s a batshit insane teabagger.
January 23rd, 2010 at 2:40 am
“It’s not like they’ve been able to accomplish shit with 60 votes, so what the hell’s the difference?”
Exactly. Since Senator Franken finally got into office just this past July, the Dems have only passed an extension to unemployment benefits & an extension to a homebuyer tax credit, and they put Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court. It’s not like they’ve been actually using their “supermajority” status for much of anything.
“The Dems are gonna get their asses kicked, regardless.”
I disagree. While the Dems will almost certainly lose seats in Congress later this year…a lot of things will be going Obama’s way by the end of the year as well. The teabaggers & their allies in the “Club for Growth” have mostly proved in the long run that they successfully elect more Dems to office.
January 25th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Newsflash: Brown’s no conservative. He just sucked as much money from the teabag crowd as he could and promised them he’d vote against the CURRENT hc bill. He likes mandated insurance. No need to get your knickers in a twist about this guy.