Fuck! AP calling it for Brown. Coakley called Brown and Conceded

[laughingliberal]

Rachel just reported. Damn it!

[MadMaddie]

1. Fuck! Unbelievable!

Rahm and the DLC ignored this race they got fat,happy and lazyand did nothing. They have to go.

Unbelievable!

[ONE PUNCH]

4. How in the fuck can liberal Mass, vote in a fucking Republican??

Jesus fucking UNBELIEVEABLE!!! After 8 years of Bush and a mostly Republican congress, running this country into the ground, assholes still flock to the polls to vote Republican???? they did it in Jersey last November, now in Liberal Mass...

I've lost all hope for this fucking stupid country...

[ONE PUNCH]

5. How in the fuck can liberal Mass, vote in a fucking Republican??

Jesus fucking UNBELIEVEABLE!!! After 8 years of Bush and a mostly Republican congress, running this country into the ground, assholes still flock to the polls to vote Republican???? they did it in Jersey last November, now in Liberal Mass...

I've lost all hope for this fucking stupid country...

[WillyT]

2. Yep... One For The History Books...

Question is... what lessons will be drawn?

:shrug:

[Vogon_Glory]

6. The Lesson: Don't Be Complacent

The lesson is don't be complacent. From my distant and ill-informed Texas vantage point, it looks like Ms. Coakley and Massachusetts Democrats assumed that the special election was in the bag, and that Ms. Coakley would succeed the late Senator Kennedy with only token effort. She ran a poorly-run campaign until less than a week ago and paid for it by losing.

The effort to turn America away from where the reactionaries want to take her is a long-haul, long-term effort. The Republicans are still out there, still organized, and still fighting. They will remain dangerous for years to come, and to assume that they'll stay weak and harmless is the same sort of stupid as turning your back and ignoring a hungry, crouching tiger.

To me, it looks like Democratic "Fat, dumb, and happy" claimed another candidacy.

The American people will pay the price for that sort of complacent attitude.

[ONE PUNCH]

3. THAT MEANS UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE IS DEAD IN THE WATER

[Vogon_Glory]

8. This time

Universal health care is probably dead in the water this time.

If, on the other hand, Democrats use the opportunity to hang the Republicans' opposition to health care reform around their necks like two-day-old road-kill, they can use it as a club to beat Republicans in upcoming elections.

FDR did not accomplish the New Deal during his first two years in office. President Obama and good-hearted Democrats won't put an end to the Reagan era in two years, either.

[ONE PUNCH]

9. Reagan ERA died a long time ago..

I thought the Reagan era died when Clinton blasted that senile old fart, Bush sr way way back in 92...

[Vogon_Glory]

10. Reagan Era Ended in November 2008

The Reagan era ended in November, 2008. Movement conservatism continued to flourish, tanking Democratic control of Congress in 1994, then installing Dubya in 2001.We've seen the same right-wing faces, the same right-wing tactics, the same right-wing rhetoric, and the same right wing memes in operation from 1980 until very recently.

I'd say that Martha Coakley did as much to lose this special election as Scott Brown did to win it.

Here's hoping that Massachusetts voters catch a severe case of buyer's remorse and that the symptoms are in full flare in the November 2012 elections.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. OMG I can't believe it :^(