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Some comments about the Massachusetts Senate election…

• Massachusetts already has mandatory health care. For the most part people there dont want to reverse it… so why should they have serious care about the National health care legislation? The only thing they’re really missing in the State plans is real price controls. Of course, at this point I’m not sure if I’d support the health insurance legislation without knowing which bill or compromise they end up going with.
• Martha Coakley was either evil or stupid. Look up her history as an Attorney General. Look at how she responded to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force light boards. Look at her name in the news for the last 20 years and how most of the stories do not make her look good. I was confused over how she kept winning Attorney General elections, and I’m confused about how she beat out people with good records in the primary, but I am not confused at all about why she lost the final election.
• The Republican that was voted in (Scott Brown) may not be the worst thing to happen to the Democrats. Democrats have members of their own party that are more conservative/neoconservative than this guy is. Hell, looking at his position I feel the guy is actually more independent than Lieberman. Although he has a lot of stances I dont like, compared to Coakley I probably would have voted for this guy too. For the record, Scott Brown did vote for the Massachusetts health care bill despite being against the proposed Senate bill.
• The ‘independents’ seem to be defined by the media as people that vote on issues rather than by party affiliation alone. We are constantly reminded that independents helped elect Obama on a message of Change. Guess what? Independents elected Scott Brown on a message of change too (but probably not a health care change). People that vote on issues know that the letter next to a person’s name doesn’t mean that a person is automatically smart or evil. After all, Martha Coakley was evil and a Democrat.
• Before the election Democrats had 59 members in Senate. Now they have 59 members in Senate. Of those 59, they have at least 4 members that wont vote for a goddamn thing anyway, so this election did no more to kill health care/insurance bills than they were already doing to themselves. Even if there were 60 Democrats there is no way all 60 will ever agree on a single damn thing.
• Maybe its time for the pussyfooted majority party to start forcing the minority party to actually follow through on their filibuster threats. Make them stand for four days. Make them appear on national news reading books out loud or singing old fight songs. Make them explain why they’re blocking a vote on something. Hell, make them hold themselves accountable.
• If biting the entire thing off at once doesn’t work, start going at it piecemeal. People can understand simple things like “This bill makes it so insurance companies cant cancel you if you get sick” but they cant understand “Here is 1000 pages of stuff thats even harder to read than the Patriot act was”. They can understand things like “Doctors should have to have posted prices just like Mechanics do” but cant understand the difference between a death panel and legitimate end of life counseling.

I could go one for hours, and I’ve already left the realm of the Senate Election. I will now resume my regularly scheduled diet of porn and sarcasm.