Idiotic Dems lost Mass.

[RadioRaheem84]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQQvBktDaXs&feature=related

Brown won in Massachusetts, effectively losing their anti-filibuster majority. Now you can bet your ass that "Change" is dead. Even with the shoddy compromises the Dems made, now we can expect even more compromises.

[Sasha]

did you see the daily show?
liked the "59 seat mayority, thats more than bush ever had, and he did whatever the fuck he wanted" bit

see it here: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-18-2010/mass-backwards :lol:

[ZeroNowhere]

If the healthcare bill is dead as a result... Awesome. That would also, incidentally, mean that the only worthwhile election recently involved electing a Republican.

[Axle]

If the healthcare bill is dead as a result... Awesome. That would also, incidentally, mean that the only worthwhile election recently involved electing a Republican.

The healthcare bill has (essentially) been dead for a while. It was a sorry-looking peice of legislature even before they compromised the living hell out of it...now it's like a dead body in a ditch that Congress keeps poking with a stick.

[cb9's_unity]

Watching this election has been painful.

The campaign was visible proof of how sexist the American political system can still be. Martha Coakley's (the democrat) support of abortion got her consistent threats of rape and murder that Brown flatly refused to condemn.

And the media actually found a way to make Coakley look "unsympathetic" to religious freedom because she believed hospitals should be forced to give raped women emergency contraception.

[RedScare]

Well there goes healthcare reform down the tubes. Maybe some of my liberal friends will see how well reformism works now?

[Rusty Shackleford]

did you see the daily show?
liked the "59 seat mayority, thats more than bush ever had, and he did whatever the fuck he wanted" bit

see it here: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-18-2010/mass-backwards :lol:


the daily show also made a big point about the democratic partys weakness and this politicians seeming lack of care for who she was trying to represent/govern

[Communist]

Brown won in Massachusetts, effectively losing their anti-filibuster majority. Now you can bet your ass that "Change" is dead. Even with the shoddy compromises the Dems made, now we can expect even more compromises.

Meh. If you ask me...and true noone did, but anyway lol...I bet quite a few Democrats are absolutely giddy about this. Now they can point fingers more easily. Play the blame game a tad more.
But it really doesn't make any difference. The Democrats are the Republicans are the Democrats.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Yes we can?

No YOU fucking can't!

[The Author]

"Nowhere do "politicians" form a more separate, powerful section of the nation than in North America. There, each of the two great parties which alternately succeed each other in power is itself in turn controlled by people who make a business of politics, who speculate on seats in the legislative assemblies of the Union as well as of the separate states, or who make a living by carrying on agitation for their party and on its victory are rewarded with positions.

It is well known that the Americans have been striving for 30 years (nearly 150 years now, Engels wrote this passage in "The Civil War in France" in 1891) to shake off this yoke, which has become intolerable, and that in spite of all they can do they continue to stink ever deeper in this swamp of corruption. It is precisely in America that we see best how there takes place this process of the state power making itself independent in relation to society, whose mere instrument it was originally intended to be. Here there exists no dynasty, no nobility, no standing army, beyond the few men keeping watch on the Indians, no bureaucracy with permanent posts or the right to pensions. and nevertheless we find here two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt means and for the most corrupt ends – and the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians, who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality exploit and plunder it." (Emphasis Mine)



--Frederick Engels

Of course, times changed. We now do have a standing army, and we now do have a massive bureaucracy with permanent posts and the right to pensions, and we do have dynasties (not in the traditional aristocratic sense) of rich capitalists passing the torch from generation to another. Still, Engels was right, and this bullshit election in Massachusetts was just more grist in the mill to prove his point.