Village Voice: "Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate"

[progressoid]

Great headline... :)

Scott Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate

By Roy Edroso in Featured, PoliticsWednesday, Jan. 20 2010 @ 8:03AM

​The election of Republican Scott Brown to replace the deceased Ted Kennedy in the Senate from Massachusetts yesterday destroys the Democrats' 60-vote supermajority, widely presumed to be needed for passage of a health care bill, or so it would seem from headlines ("House Dems largely reject idea of passing Senate health care bill"), from Republicans who cheered "41!" at Brown's victory as if it were some kind of milestone, and from conservative Democrats like Evan Bayh, who portrays the election as a "wake-up call," indicating that Democrats should propose a weaker health care bill that will not piss off insurance lobbyists and other powerful Republican constituencies.

New York congressman and former mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner said before the election that "I think you can make a pretty good argument that health care might be dead" if Brown were to win; after Brown's victory, Weiner has come out with, "We shouldn't show the arrogance of not getting the message here," "I don't think it would be the worst thing to take a step back," and other gutless whinges.

Conservatives are delirious. "Waterboarding wins," exults National Review's Marc Thiessen, noting that Brown "spoke out forcefully in favor of enhanced interrogation." Michael Graham calls it a "once-in-a-generation, never-saw-it-coming, dance-in-the-streets victory for democracy." Brown is expected to be seated quickly, and Republicans to move as quickly to pass legislation with their 41-vote majority.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/01/scott_brown_win.php

[Zoeisright]

1. What a great headline and story.

And unfortunately, too true.

[Bitwit1234]

2. That's the part I love 41 vote majority because

the democrats have acted like, since the day Obama won, that the republicans did have the majority.

[joeybee12]

3. Better than the 40-60 majority they already had...n/t

[Tom Rinaldo]

4. Wow. They outdid The Onion. Brilliant n/t

[CreekDog]

5. They outdid the onion with a non-fiction story

:crazy:

[progressoid]

13. That seems to happen a lot.;

The Onion being out-Onioned.

Crazy world.

[ddeclue]

6. Actually they already had a 55-45 majority. 40 Republicans+15 Blue Dogs = 55 Republicans.

Now it's 56 Republicans to 44 Democrats.

[cascadiance]

10. That I think is the subtle subtext to this headline...

We have some Republicans (or corporatists) claiming to be Democrats that need to be thrown out of office come primary season and in future elections...

The difference between DINOS and RINOS to their parties?

- RINO "centrists" vote against their party's base on social issues in states where these matter that corporate interests don't care about, but vote with the GOP base on votes that matter to and favor corporate America.

- DINO "centrists" vote with their party's base on social issues in states where those matter that corporatists don't care about, but vote against the Democratic party base on important votes that matter to and favor corporate America.

That is why "centrists" like Specter can switch parties easily, because they really don't switch anything. They still are part of the corporatist party majority!

The real populists are those that vote local on social issues and other issues that corporate special interests don't care about, but who aren't afraid to challenge corporate special interests on issues where the corporate interests are working against the people's interests.

[Egnever]

7. When it comes to stopping legislation thats exactly what they got.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. DUzy!

:toast:

[nichomachus]

9. And that says it all

"Waterboarding wins," exults National Review's Marc Thiesse

Massachusetts voters are all torturers now. What a great feeling that must be.

[Vinnie From Indy]

11. Amen!

Our Dem leaders simply do not have the stones. They will pass every GOP wet dream bill now and call it progress. Thanks for nothing!

[ljm2002]

12. Best. Headline. Ever.

That's they way to zing 'em! Ha ha ha!

[progressoid]

14. Holy crap

32 people liked this. My life is complete.