The Democrats are caught between the proverbial ‘rock and a hard place’. They can’t advance legislation that both offers political ‘cover’ for what blue dog Democrats now know they need and still retain the support of the radicals within their own party.

Those radical democrats are in the majority and are philosophically opposed to legislation that blue dog democrats, independents and RINO’s would support.

Which means that they won’t be able to pass ‘jack’ over the next 9 months. Which means they won’t/can’t do anything to make things economically better. in fact, what they’ve already done ensures things will get worse. And the longer things stay economically bad, the fewer supporters they will retain. Approval numbers are nowhere near as low as they are going to go.

It’s already started, Jon Stewart is ridiculing the Democrat’s leadership.

The DailyKos and the Huffington post are going to eviscerate the Democrat’s leadership over this and demand they do something, something radical of course because they fundamentally misunderstand the American public. How can they not? They hate all America stands for and have nothing but contempt for the American people. But there’s nothing they can do. They’ve made their bed and now they have to lie in it.

‘Hope and Change’ is over.

There will be NO leftist “fundamental transformation” of America. They just can’t admit it yet but the fear of that truth was in their eyes tonight.

The Massachusetts secretary of state is discounting reports of voter irregularities in the state’s Senate special election.
A spokesman for Secretary of State William Galvin said Tuesday two reports of spoiled ballots could not be verified or found to be widespread.
In one case, someone voting in Cambridge claimed a ballot had already been marked for Republican Scott Brown. There was no way to verify the claim, but the ballot was destroyed.
In another case, a person in Boston reported finding a ballot inside a privacy folder also marked for Brown. Officials say it may have been left inadvertently by an earlier voter.
Aides to Democrat Martha Coakley called a news conference to raise voter awareness of the concerns.

The location of these complaints also casts doubt upon the claims;Boston and Cambridge respectively went 69% and 84% for Coakley. This does not pass the sniff test. If you are going to commit some sort of electoral fraud, you are going to do it in your stronghold, not in your opponent’s stronghold. If the Democrats wre to committ electoral fraud in Illinois, they would do it in their stronghold of Chicago. They wouldn’t do it in a downstate rural red-voting county.

Brown’s speech shows what a natural he is. He exudes strength, sincerity, intelligence, good humor, and is also at the same time very much a regular guy (except with model good looks).

Can’t believe the Republican Party got so lucky. Note, though, that in his speech he was careful to mention neither party by name. That’s quite a trick in an acceptance speech.

Smart man, with good political instincts.

But by God we’ve stopped this Obama bastard cold. You watch.

I called Obama a lame duck and neo called him a blame duck.

Next!

I am waiting for the first essay (here, perhaps?) on what it means for Obama to have laid what was left of his political capital on the line by jumping into the race at the last minute and making it All About Him — and to have lost so decisively.

I’m very happy to report that I was totally wrong.

Good for Massachusetts, and good for the country.

This election was a perfect storm for Democrats:
1. Their candidate sucked.
2. They have total control of the state, but their policies suck.
3. Their party has total control of the federal government, but their national agenda sucks.

The big message in this election is simply this: the politicians need to listen to the people.

Unlike Senator Kennedy, Coakley didn’t hit the streets campaigning one-on-one and listening to the people. Her opponent did.

The Democrats have run Massachusetts for decades. The only time the voters of Massachusetts ever vote for Republicans is when the Democrats threaten to totally wreck the state, and the voters put in a Republican governor just to stop the insanity. Well, things are going crazy again. Massachusetts has had a series of scandals hit the state house with Democratic leaders getting arrested, and the state is suffering under a thoroughly incompetent Democratic governor who appears to be in over his head and totally out of touch.

And then there are the Democrats in Washington. People all over the country have given their time to try to talk to their representatives, and people like Representative Barney Frank have told them to shut up and go home. The Democrats have proposed an agenda that most Americans reject, but the consensus among Democratic leaders is that they have the necessary votes, so that don’t care what the voters think.

Good working people in Massachusetts can see that things are wrong, they are asking questions, and they are being ignored. Today, they said, “Enough!”