1 Celebratory alcoholic beverage of your choice tonight!

Overall, quite a pleasing development. I'd like to read it as a general repudiation of Obama policies, but at least at some level it also reflects on Coakley just being a poor candidate with big skeletons in her closet. Still, a victory's a victory, and I wish Brown well.

2

There's no doubt that Coakley and her team ran just about the most inept campaign in recent record. but that isn't enough to explain this.

3

For the longest time, I thought the Republicans had scored a major victory by forcing the Democrats and their allies to spend major money (To the tune of $1.4 million from the DSCC alone - how many other Senates races that might have helped?) to keep the Ted Kennedy's seat.  I never, even in my wildest dream, expected my hope of a 'sinkhole' for Democrat resources to turn into a Scott Brown victory.

Yes, it is time for the adult beverages...

C.T.

4 Keep the tinfoil hats handy, though.  There's been speculation that the "pre-marked ballots" was a setup to give Coakley a pretext for a legal challenge, "just to be sure".  Meanwhile, the Dems ramrod the health care bill through, the thought goes.

I don't think it will happen.  There's enough Dems with half a brain to put a stop to that scheme.  So drink up, me hearties!  Arrrrrrrr!

5 The Massachusetts Secretary of State has already rejected that report as being bogus. I don't think it's going to go anywhere.

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Here's that report about the Mass SecState.

Given the magnitude of this stunning upset, I'm not sure I believe that even the Dems are stupid enough to try playing games with this, such as challenging it in court, or asking for a recount, or making claims about voting fraud. This is clearly a voter repudiation of the way the Dems have been behaving recently, and trying to nullify it that way risks turning a bloody nose into a broken neck.

Senator Webb (D-Va) has already publicly stated that the Senate should seat Brown as soon as possible.

Tomorrow Obama delivers his State of the Union Address to Congress. The Republicans will then deliver their response (not to Congress). I'm willing to give big odds that they'll let Brown do it, which will put him even more into the national eye than he already is. If, after that, Reid and his gang play all kinds of games to delay seating him, it could turn into a constitutional crisis. In the end, there are too many Democratic senators who are now feeling a cold wind on their necks who would refuse to support such shenanigans.

7 To think that the people of the bluest of blue states Massachusetts may have just saved us from Obamacare is just delicious.  Big bonus being it's the day before Obama's one year anniversary.

8 No need for those wind turbines off Hyannis anymore. Just rig up a big alternator to Teddy...

9 "How can they vote against their own interests?"

-j

10 Massachusetts residents already have an excellent health coverage. Obamacare is going to ruin that by rationing and it is not in their interests. That said, I expected them to be more brainwashed. A relatively well known animeblogger, TheBigN, is a medical school student, so he stands to lose a lot from the medical profession taking it up the anus from the additional government regulation in Obamacare, yet he apparently supports it (according to his reaction on Twitter). Fortunately, he resides in DC, so his vote did not count.

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Last time I looked it, DC residents did not pay federal income tax - which might explain why they only have a (supposedly) non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives.

I mean, you can always find someone, in any field that is about to wopped, who will vote with the people about let loose the rope to the gullotine blade.  It would take a really, really bad thing to drive away, for example, staff officers the Pentagon hoping to be on the next promotion list to general officer from helping to write up a paper on a new anti-terrorism strategy in Afghanistan for Joe Biden and not have only his staff develop it...

...Well, maybe something can be bad enough that nobody in a field wants to touch it with a ten-foot pole.  Still, that is the exception.  Hopefully, Brown's victory will create more of those exceptions.

C.T.

12 I think I'm going to close this now.