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

[CreekDog]

"The lesson, as always, is that when Democrats win, they lose, and when they lose, they are obliterated."

By Roy Edroso in Featured, Politics
Wednesday, 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.

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

[DrToast]

1. Dear Scott Brown, you only got 52% of the vote. You need at least 60% before your vote counts. Sorry

[CreekDog]

2. Brown isn't the one that needs to hear that...Democrats in congress need to hear it

:wtf:

[nsd]

5. Heh. Good one. (nt)

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. When Dems had the 60 vote supermajority they didn't do anything with it!

[BP2]

4. +1