"Every time a Democrat loses a moonbat from hell gets its wings burned off."
Posted on 01/16/2010 11:43:02 AM PST by Steelfish
Topic A: What Happens If Democrats Lose In Massachusetts?
January 17
The Post asked political experts to explain the prospects for Democrats if Martha Coakley is defeated in Tuesday's special Senate election in Massachusetts. Below are contributions from Norman J. Ornstein, Dan Schnur, Mary Beth Cahill, Ed Rogers, Robert J. Blendon and Martin Frost.
NORMAN J. ORNSTEIN
Resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
A Scott Brown victory would send shock waves through Democratic Party circles, the Senate and the White House -- and not just because of the improbability of a Republican win in deep-blue Massachusetts. The real impact would be more immediate, jeopardizing passage of a health-reform plan carefully and painstakingly stitched together to win exactly 60 Democratic votes in the Senate, and not yet ready for its prime-time vote to move to final enactment.
Democrats have three options. One is to speed up delicate negotiations between House and Senate Democrats in order to bring up the bill before Brown gets sworn in. Even with their current sense of urgency, that is dicey at best. The bill will need to be scored by the Congressional Budget Office, meaning at minimum several days. Then a vote on final passage could be delayed for yet more days, using a variety of parliamentary tactics, in the Senate. Democrats control the Senate, so they can delay the swearing-in of Brown, but to do so for weeks would be uncomfortable and probably would not play well politically.
The second option would be to go back to Maine Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, the only two Republicans who might consider supporting a bill. Snowe's refusal to vote for the Senate bill in December was in part based on substance, but in part a protest of the Democrats' decision to get to 60 votes
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This may tell us something about likely turnout on Tuesday...
If they lose the democrat party will start moving to the center.
Great post!
Nets will have to be erected around MSNBC and other news headquarters to catch Liberal Jumpers.
Do they even remember how to pretend to do that?
Perhaps there will be mass self homicide.
Nanny Pelosi will proclaim "We Won!!"
Gibbs will dismiss its significance, saying everyone knows RATSachusetts is a right-wing state.
She must know that a majority of the country is rooting for a Brown win in order to stop Obamacare. Would she really want to be the person who takes the candy away from the baby after a Brown win? Does she want to be the Grinch who steals Christmas from Republicans?
She would never be forgiven if she's the one who drives a stake through the heart of the effort to stop Obamacare.
-PJ
Essentially, all of these pundits are predicting a clear Coakley victory. They think a Brown victory is a pipe-dream despite reputable polls to the contrary.
"Every time a Democrat loses a moonbat from hell gets its wings burned off."
*chuckle*
I just got up to Martha Coakley's campaign HQ to help her win Tuesday's crucial special election. I have to tell you -- this isn't like anything Massachusetts has ever seen.
It's happening right after the holidays, so a lot of people haven't even heard about it. Meanwhile, the same guys behind the Swift Boat ads are taking over the airwaves to distort Martha's record, and the same far-right tea-party crowd that's attacking President Obama is funding her opponent.
The stakes in this race are incredibly high. If we don't hold this seat, a right-wing Republican will hold Sen. Ted Kennedy's old seat until at least 2012 -- and we'll lose a crucial vote in the Senate for health reform and the agenda we fought so hard for last year.
That's why we're going all out in Massachusetts with a massive effort to lock up a Democratic victory. But we can only afford to keep this battle up against the far right through Election Day if folks like you chip in.
Please donate $5 or more to help us make Martha Coakley the next senator from Massachusetts.
Democratic ads are highlighting the key differences between Martha, a long-time public servant and one of the nation's best attorneys general, and her extreme Republican opponent who would walk in lockstep with Mitch McConnell and national GOP power brokers.
And our organizers are engaging volunteers by the thousands to make sure Obama voters make it back to the polls.
But we need your help to keep it going. Please donate $5 or more to the Democratic Party to support our work, including our efforts to elect Martha Coakley:
Let's win this,
Hari
Hari Sevugan
Press Secretary
Democratic National Committee
Could be 51-0 if Obama deigns to hold an election in 2012.
ML/NJ
No one seems to have considered what would happen in the House on a Brown victory. I think a handful of Dems who voted for health care will be so frightened of reelection defeat that they will vote against health care. That would be enough to kill the bill.
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