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.
