Well it's over, and Big Government Scott Brown beat Big Government Martha Coakley.

The thing I find most curious is that the fine liberal people of MA (and some from NH and NY too) who were taught Tolerance and Diversity and presumably Civics are editorializing on their loss. Which is understandable, really. Nobody wants their candidate to lose. And one thing humans want more than food is to be right.
Now there are 59 Democrats in the senate instead of 60. Still a majority, just like yesterday. And from Brown's history I don't expect much more than a ripple in the Potomac. Hardly the glacier-melting sea change the locals are wailing about.

But statistically we have something that every fan of democracy has to support:
Balance.
Unless you don't really like playing fair, and all that spew about Democracy and Tolerance and Fairness and such is just convenient lies.

I can live with balance. It forces both sides to make their case. Or pay someone off. And that's how they make the sausage, it seems.
But still, the election's over, yet the bitching continues. And it's only based on...well...nothing really.

When the new boy gets installed in DC and does something, then people will have legitimate opinions.

But for now, an anonymous sample from Facebook of what apparently typical Massachusetts voters are saying:



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is ashamed to be from Massachusetts.

I am sad that Mass. Voters did not show more courage. Only cowards run to the status quo when the water gets choppy. Uncle Teddy is rolling in his grave. Shame on Massachusetts voters for being afraid of what needs to happen. That being "burn the f'n village" to the ground to fix all that the Rep's have f'd up over that previous decade.

scott brown is a windbag. blowhard. cosmo centerfold. male bimbo. sycophant. next year's has been.

fuckin' hominids... hope they die out and get replaced by reptiles

I never new I had this many republican friends. I mean, I know alot of my friends in NY lean republican, but I didn't realize this many in Mass. I am a confused person right now. Ugh.

Is so pissed he can't even think of anything clever or condescending to say.

Massacheusettes continues its proud tradition of doing everything wrong.

Ugh . . . I'm ashamed to be a resident. Like the bad driving rep wasn't enough!!

Jeez. Did all of the liberals like me move out of MA? Teddy is rolling in his grave.

Massachusetts has just made us an international laughingstock. Good job, guys.

Canada sounds like a good idea.

I hope that Massachusetts is happy becoming a red state. I disown you.

Ohhhhhh Massachusetts..........say it ain't so!!!!! please tell me this is only a nightmare...please, please, please.

WHO ARE THESE ASSHOLES? MY NEIGHBORS? PEOPLE I WORK WITH? ANY OF YOU VOTED FOR THAT SHITHEAD REPUBLICAN, FESS UP RIGHT NOW! RIGHT HERE ON FACEBOOK! REMEMBER BUSH? NO? YOU FORGOT ALREADY? BRAINS OF A CHIMP???

Brains of a goldfish. MORONS!!!!!

it's ok. we've lost before. we can take it. comes from not being part of the privileged class.

Teddy should be rolling over is his grave and saying "what the fuck"

Guess I better keep working if I want health insurance.

is not looking forward to seeing Scott Brown's shit eating grin for the next few years

WHOA! NOW WHAT!? I KNOW...MOVING TO EUROPE! SEE YA....

Crap.

I'm so embarrassed. I'm sorry, America

I guess that's better than the time I will be spending helping my parents with their healthcare coverage.

It looks like the republican fucks have cheated again.

we're screwed

What have you done people...what have you done. ...

just doesn't get it.

I'm done trying to have conversations with brainless republicans.

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'What?'
'I said', said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, 'have you got any gin?'
'I'll look. Tell me about the lizards.'
Ford shrugged again.
'Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them', he said. 'They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it.'
'But that's terrible', said Arthur.
'Listen, bud', said Ford, 'if I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say "That's terrible" I wouldn't be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin."
— Douglas Adams (So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish)

Yup, it's election day in the Bay State, and the special senate election to replace the one person who did not die in a car in Chappaquidick has proven to be a frothy one. The Ds and Rs are both claiming their major party opposition is lying and evil (when in fact both are lying and evil) and the one choice available that would actually help the republic is derided (You're just throwing your vote away!); Joe Kennedy.

Fact is, Both Coakley and Brown are big-government expansionists. Coakley wants you to think Brown will eat your unborn babies if you vote for him, but he is in favor of Cap-and-trade, backed Romney (Hillary) Care, and in 11 years of elected office never once introduced legislation to rein in government spending. He came out against Question 1, the ballot initiative to end the state income tax, for instance. He voted against the Democrats to raise taxes last summer but earlier he voted for

• the income tax penalty imposed by RomneyCare
• appx. $700M in new tax-fees every year.

and probably voted with Romney for

• "closing loopholes" to increase taxes
• enabling business property tax increases

A Romney clone, if you will.

Coakley says "As Attorney General, I took on drug companies and health insurers, rooting out fraud and abuse that drives up costs for families and seniors and achieved record recoveries in Medicaid fraud cases."

She sure did all right. Here are the pharma contributors to her campaign:
Thomas Boggs, Patton Boggs: Bristol-Myers Squibb Chuck Brain, Capitol Hill Strategies: Amgen, BIO, Merck, PhRMA Susan Brophy, Glover Park Group: Blue Cross, Pfizer Steven Champlin, Duberstein Group: AHIP, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis Licy Do Canto, Raben Group: Amgen Gerald Cassidy, Cassidy & Associates: U. Mass Memorial Health Care David Castagnetti, Mehlman, Vogel, Castagnetti: Abbot Labs, AHIP, Astra-Zenaca, General Electric, Humana, Merck, PhRMA. Steven Elmendorf, Elmendorf Strategies: Medicines Company, PhRMA, United Health Shannon Finley, Capitol Counsel: Amgen, Astra-Zeneca, Blue Cross, GE, PhRMA, Sanofi-Aventis. Heather Podesta, Heather Podesta & Partners: Cigna, Eli Lilly, HealthSouth Tony Podesta, Podesta Group: Amgen, GE, Merck, Novartis. Robert Raben, Raben Group: Amgen, GE.

She took them on, all right. Where I come from, that's called "pulling a train."

But of course her history is even more storied. She was on the team with Luther Scott Harshbarger, state attorney general at the time, who helped trump up the fraudulent prosecution of the Fells Acres Daycare case. The kids' "testimonies," proven later to have been completely fabricated and induced by the "therapists" who "interviewed" them, destroyed the lives of the Amirault family. Two rotted in prison for decades while their mother was spared the lengthy sentence by death in prison. She went on to prosecute others on made-up testimony and built her career by standing on the faces of these innocents.

Which makes me wonder what the hell kind of people can cast a vote for her knowing this alone. The Blue Kool-Aid is strong here.

Both major party candidates talk about all the great stuff they're going to do for us in Washington. Create jobs, something-something-something healthcare.... Uh, you dimwits have been in Massachusetts for decades. Why didn't you do any of this while you were in office here? Oh yeah, I forgot; Brown backed Romney Care, a program that was declared so "successful" that they bankrupted it in 3 months. That's right, OUT of money in 3 months. My bad.

Then we have Mr Kennedy. Saying the stupidest shit you've ever heard:

We need to cut spending.

On foreign-policy, I believe we must promote free trade and peace.

Our military has become over extended with troop deployments around the world that do not make us safer.

Today, health care is significantly more expensive largely due to government regulation and liability insurance required to be held by our physicians.

The system needs to be changed so that every person entering the country must be accounted for and must contribute.

I view marriage as a religious matter and not something that government should be allowed to define as our religious freedoms are protected.

Anything less than equal treatment under the law is not acceptable. This standard goes for Race, Gender, Physical Characteristics, Gender Preference or any other item that could be the root of discrimination.

It's crazy talk, I tell.......hey, wait a minute.

I know who I'm voting for. I've had enough!


'On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.'
'Odd', said Arthur, 'I thought you said it was a democracy.'
'I did', said Ford. 'It is.'
'So', said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, 'why don't people get rid of the lizards?'
'It honestly doesn't occur to them', said Ford. 'They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.'
'You mean they actually vote for the lizards?'
'Oh yes', said Ford with a shrug, 'of course.'
'But', said Arthur, going for the big one again, 'why?'
'Because if they didn't vote for a lizard', said Ford, 'the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?'

— Douglas Adams (So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish)