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Republican upsets Coakley in the Democratic-leaning state – Washington Post
In tonight’s late edition of the Washington Post we find that the Republican candidate, Scott Brown, for the late Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat has won the election. The Democrats held that seat for 47 years.
The Democrats filibuster-proof Senate is now gone. The Republicans have 41 seats and they can successfully filibuster any bill that they wish. The edge is gone.
The Democratic Party momentum seems to be stopped now when the gubernatorial elections that recently went to the GOP in both Virginia and New Jersey are taken into account. The story is entitled Republican upsets Coakley in the Democratic-leaning state and we all need to take stock of the hard right turn that our country is apparently starting (once again) to steer.
Progressives in this country have a lot of work to do if this is an indication of more creeping neo-Reaganization of our country’s politics and foreign policy.
I hate to say it, but we Democrats deserve this.
When the Democratic Party had won as big as it did in the last election cycle, it refused to govern like Democrats would want. It was too busy trying to stay in the middle of the road, to be a party for all men and women, to be all things to all men. Politics just does not work that way.
You stake out a position and you push for it. To be frank, we Democrats dicked around too much with trying to be Republican Lite. Well, this is the outcome.
Well fellow Democrats, let me say that our leadership wanted to act like Republicans, eh? Well, we see that mistake now, don’t we? Given a choice between a Republican Lite and a real Republican, the people will choose a real Republican every time.
It is time to govern like Democrats. Word to the wise.
CWO3 Tom Barnes, USCG (Ret.)
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Dem’s have been acting like Republicans? Oh, my…one hates to consider what you lot intend to inflict on our republic should you act more tone-deaf to what the American people want – and don’t want.
The health care bill is not about medical care, but control and information and profit.
Cap and trade seems purposeful designed to end profit for businesses while setting up another Enron scheme.
We coddle Iran and North Korea, threatening a dire scolding if they nuke anybody, while insulting, abandoning and demeaning Britian, Poland, Australia, and all of South America (save Chavez and Orterga.)
And you recommend MORE of this?
LOL !!!
Well we certainly disagree on a host of issues, as you can well suspect.
Yes, we need more populist government and not more fragmentation of American society. We need to act as one in our own economic interests. We need to set a common goal, regardless of party and achieve it. We have not done that since the 1930s. It is time.
whatever is going on in Washington now, It’s not about good government, it’s about Power. And IF the American people could for just see it for what it is, then could we use it for good? Answer? No way.
it is too bad that the politicians do not do as much for veterans as they do for themselves-i have to eat and drink domestic champagne and caviar, as well as smoke dominican cigars-my ferrari is last years model-the shame of it all-i am embarassed to be seen at the yacht club on my 80ft.dinghy-maybe more zoloft would help?
Actually the Democrats have held the seat since 1952
John Kennedy 1952-1960
Ben Smith (JFK’s Harvard roommate, placeholder as Ted Kennedy was not old enough to run)1960-1962
Ted Kennedy 1962-2009
Paul Kirk 2009-2010
Conservatives are already saying the lesson of the election is that voters don’t want health care reform, so elected leaders should abandon their progressive principles and stop trying to solve our big problems.
Nonsense. The state of Massachusetts *already* enacted health care reform, and workers say they like it4 — so that can’t be the reason. If last night’s election was a referendum on anything, it was about the weak-kneed, apologetic way some in Congress have negotiated away core principles over the past year. Ted Kennedy didn’t do that. He was so loud and strong on Democratic values that liberals and conservatives alike called him the “liberal lion,” and voters elected him again and again.
The truth be told, angry voters in Massachusetts showed their anger by refusing to vote for either a Republican or Democrat.
Both the Obama administration and Democratic party are in trouble.
In fact, the Republican winner in Massachusetts said it well when he said Independents have spoken and that this victory did not belong to either the Democratic or Republican Party. If mainstream media only knew what he was saying, because we know that Democratic and Republican political strategists know.
It is clear from the elections in Massachusetts and Virginia, from the drop in Obama’s approval rating, and from the rise of neo-conservative opposition groups which you ScotsRonin obviously belong to.
The real lesson is in the reality of what an angry voter really is ScotsRonin and it ain’t in no domestic right-wing terrorist yelling, bullying, and carrying automatic weapons to a teaparty Bro.
It is NOW more than ever a time when progressive forces, not necessarily part of the Democratic Party, in this country to mobilize to prevent a right-wing fascist-Zionist backlash that will take this country further to the right and back to the 19th century.
It is the progressives (or liberals as you call us just like the Nazis hated Jews) who are angry, disappointed and demoralized. Just look at me.
In 2008, I was one of millions united for hope and change. In Massachusetts so went hope and so went change, but ScotsRonin the process of losing hope and change began from the moment that Obama and the democratic party FAILED to clean house not only within the party but within the government. Obama kept Lord only knows how many hold overs from the Bush legacy in office.
It is now way past time to clean house at the Pentagon, and in the Congress. That is if it is not already too late to do that.
As 2010 dawns, change looks to me like more of the same.
Instead of health care, those who want it, and that is not us Veterans and Military families we’ve got socialized medicine for what it is worth. Instead of PEACE, we got more war. Instead of health care reform, Democrats and liberals let an industry win that requires Americans to buy health insurance without any real cost controls.
On the environment, one of Obama’s top priorities, Obama came back from Copenhagen with yet another non-binding resolution and more clean coal, to boot.
Instead of helping struggling homeowners and small businesses during the financial crisis, as you Republicans twisted to your advantage and rightfully so, bank executives were rewarded, and we have yet to see reform. Wall Street firms ended 2009 with record bonus and profits while unemployment remains in double digits. That should make you really happy ScotRonin as you blame the Democrats, but would the Republicans have done any better with ties closer than most liberals? Nope!
To the Democrats and Obama administration voters in Massachusetts said, “WE are losing hope. This is not the change we believed in. The change we believed in puts people and our planet before industry, it promotes PEACE, international law and human rights instead of militarism and more GITMO.”
How dare you ScotsRonin ask if Tom Barnes recommends MORE of this? What Tom and others recommend is for the Democrats to stop being more like YOU guys. As Obama and the right-of-center Democrats in that party (Lieberman comes to mind) are asking Congress to approve the largest Pentagon budget in U.S. history, plus another $33 billion to pay for Obama’s Afghan surge, that you guys ScotsRonin are going to find something wrong with no matter what happens (as long as you are able to not shift to blaming our troops for any failures in Afghanistan or anywhere else).
The prophetic words of Dr. Martin Luther King sound a clarion call: A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Obama, and you Democrats out there, we real Independents not tied to gun nuts and right-wing militia movements need renewed leadership, we need you to show us–not in words but in deeds–that you can stand up to corporate interests that are blocking us from real health care, environmental and financial reform. We need you to show us-not in words but in deeds-that you will stand up for the Constitution, for due process, for the rule of law. We need you to show us-not in words but in deeds-that you lead this country out of endless war to a nation that lives in Peace with its neighbors. Not the saber rattling and bullying of ScotsRonin and his kind.
In the meantime, WE pledge to keep pushing your administration and Congress, and mobilizing others-not for partisan politics of the Republican or Democratic cookie cutter but for policies of social and environmental uplift.
May 2010 be a year of renewed commitment and movement toward the change we so desperately need and what you Democrats promised or the Republicans are guaranteed to take over Congress in November 2010, and we will be heading for the WWIII that ScotsRonin seeks.
Robert L. Hanafin
Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired
Please hold off on WWII until
after my wife and I die.
Then have at it!!!
Republican upsets Coakley in the Democratic-leaning state – Washington Post
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