Democrats will go conservative is my guess

[quinnox]

Be prepared for a conservative Dem administration, it will be just a tad better than the Bush administration.

Nothing good will get passed, but maybe not too much harm done either.



I'm sick to my stomach, I can't even think about this anymore. God this sucks.

[FLAprogressive]

1. Be prepared for a conservative Dem admin? We're already seeing it.

[beardown]

27. Beat me to it.

Although I was going with "more conservative".

[Forkboy]

2. I prepared for that when I voted for Clinton.

[TheIdiot]

14. Hillary never looked better... nt

[Forkboy]

18. Meh.

[DJ13]

3. Then they WILL lose

Obama and the party didnt run in 2008 on a platform of "just like the GOP", they promised change FROM the GOP.

Thats what the voters were expecting, thats why MA just repudiated the party.

[TheIdiot]

15. You couldn't be more wrong...

if our "leaders" take that attitude, then it really IS over.

[DJ13]

Fine, become a faux GOP party

See where that gets you.

[Mojambo]

4. Tim Kaine and Rahm Emanuel in charge. They've been conservative for a while. n/t

[arthritisR_US]

5. then organize and form a viable third party. n/t

[Nite Owl]

6. They are already way off to the

right. If they don't see that, and they probably won't, there isn't much chance for 2012.
People need to 'spend more time with their familes' starting with Rahm.

[lurky]

7. That's all they know how to do. Too bad it never works...

It doesn't matter what the problem is, the solution is always to veer even farther to the right.

[DebbieCDC]

8. My guess too -- they'll be even more to the right than they are now

Exactly the WRONG lesson to take from Mass.

But Dems are stupid that way.

[greatscott15]

9. Yep, blewdawgs heading for the hills

we are toast

[TheIdiot]

12. Or just maybe they'll reach across the aisle...

and put together something bi-partisan that will actually fix what's wrong with the system without taxing us into the poorhouse.

[obliviously]

10. There will be a fight between the pragmatists and the progressives

[iceman66]

11. They might as well all just switch to being Republicans.

If you can't beat them, join them, right?

Our leadership seems to think so.

[TheIdiot]

13. They are ALREADY beaten...

we just have to stop beating OURSELVES!

[Blaukraut]

16. They *should* go more populist. That was the message sent

by Brown. Of course he didn't meant it, but what's important is that he managed to fool voters into thinking that he cared about the little guy. Something the Dems seem to have forgotten. This isn't a left vs center vs conservative fight. It's much simpler than that. Don't let the teabaggers co-opt the populist message that should, by all rights, belong to the Dems.

[ibegurpard]

19. yup

spot on

[ibegurpard]

17. Then they'll lose more

[flyarm]

20. if they do..it will be a bloodbath in Nov! eom

[treestar]

21. Their hands are tied now

Repukes march in lockstep. This locks up the Senate. Only budget bills can pass.

Progressives who think the repukes are no danger are insane.

[Forkboy]

22. If repukes are so dangerous why try bipartionship with them for the last year?

Centrists who think you can play with people so clearly dangerous are insane.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

23. Buck up. The "60 vote supermajority" was an illusion. And IMO the MA special

election means EVEN LESS than the VA and NJ gubernatorial wins for the Rs two months age.

Faux News blasted plenty of propaganda on those two events also, bu, like the MA Senate race, local factors, not national factors, were at play. Three unpopular Democrats went down to defeat. And the MA Senate race was a special election with limited campaigning and limited turnout.

[Odin2005]

24. God help us all.

[Blasphemer]

25. Of course they will. And then repeat the same cycle all over again in 12 years.. nt

[bridgit]

26. Dem leadership is apathetic, they will find it easier to stop pretending they are Progressive

[Lorien]

28. Raise holy hell and demand that they listen to their BASE

or November will be no different than tonight.