A “small town” near Chicago or L.A. is not the same as a small farming community in western Nebraska. Only about forty percent of the population of L.A. County lives in the city proper. There are big and little suburbs throughout the county, and even some places that are true small towns with little obvious connection to the City of L.A. But that didn’t stop the whole county from approving a transit sales tax–a big city value if there ever was one.
No. Or was this a joke?
Yep the Repubs take a 41-59 majority into the Senate now.
I’ve got you wondering now, don’t I?
You could bet on the election in Australia.
Seriously? I mean really, are you serious?
Unfuckingbelievable.
None of this has a blessed thing to do with policy. And I remember his daughter on AI, I liked her. Doesn’t matter.
:dubious: I’m from a very red district, & that crap sells here like pizza sold below cost to ravenous college students.
To be fair, there should be a little background on why they don’t insure her. If she (heaven forbid) has metasized cancer, is it reasonable to expect a company to insure her?
And there was a third candidate playing spoiler, some guy named Joseph Kennedy unrelated to the Kennedy clan, pulling a stunt.
Really?
How many Americans want the health care bill? Is it up to 20% yet? Are you not clear that this is a victory for 4 out of 5 Americans that don’t want the government reforming health insurance (oops - health care :rolleyes: )
It makes sense if you realize that the GOP caucus in the Senate has been relatively disciplined this year, united in their desire to break the Obama presidency; while the present Senate Democrats are still acting like a loose association of persons who can’t even be bothered to share any common values beyond an affection for the letter “D.”
Are you serious? You really think that the bill is polling below 20%? Perhaps you should re-examine your “facts”.
I’m not even going to touch your question about kunilou’s daughter, as the answer about whether a child with cancer should have access to affordable treatment in the richest nation in the history of the world should be obvious to anyone.
Hasn’t it pretty much always been this way? The Democrats have always been fairly disorganized, which the Republicans are mostly on the same page.
Congratulations to Senator Elect Brown, may he vote the will of the people who elected him.
I am especially pleased that a republican won. The reason the especially is there is because the democrats, on an almost purely party line vote, changed the rules for how a vacant seat is filled, when it looked like Sen. Kerry might step down to become president. The democrats did not want the then republican governor to appoint his successor. Then, when it was clear that Sen. Kennedy would leave a vacant seat to be filled by a governor who is now a democrats both Sen. Kennedy and the democrats urged that the law be changed back.
The democrats, in Massachusetts, did these kind of purely partisan law changes. I am glad that someone from the other party took the seat.
Perhaps you missed the part where the original change was to *preempt *a partisan move by Romney, and the later change was to correct a flaw, in both cases in the cause of democracy itself.
Who should be criticized for that?
80 percent want a health care bill. jJst not this bill the Repubs gutted with insurance company help. The Dems made concession after concession to please the Repubs who will not vote for anything the Dems propose. The fact is a 51 vote majority should be passing laws. This 60 votes for passage is a perversion of Democracy and a shameful misuse of the Filibuster. it is time to make the Repubs earn a filibuster and go to the floor and read phone books for days ,so we can see how far they will go to please corporations.
By the way Brown showed up at the Senate to be sworn in today. They sent him home because the election has to be certified and signed off on first.
That’s ridiculous. He went down to meet some of the Senators, like McCain, Reid, and Kerry. He didn’t expect to get sworn in today, and in fact plans on returning to MA tonight. Nobody sent him home.
This is incredible spin, and surely the outcome of this election should tell you everything you need to know. When Romney was going to appoint a Republican (presumably) that was bad because everyone knew the people would only elect Democrats in Massachusetts (the very existence of Gov. Romney should have exploded that logic).
Now that the people have elected a Republican, everyone who made excuses for the Democrats changing the law back, should be ashamed. But not of course the Democrats in Massachusetts. They are shameless. We are on our way to having three speakers of the state House being indicted for felonies for in a row. Two have already been convicted. The current speaker has been paying for the defese of his predecessor out of public funds.
I moved to Massachusetts six years ago after living in Kansas City and Atlanta. I was a staunch Democrat. But that was before I met Massachusetts’ Democrats. Corrupted to the core by one party rule, openly contemptous of the electorate.
Whether this election was driven by local issues or a referendum on Obama/National Democrats/UHC is not an either-or issue. Martha Coakley was a poster child for government that doesn’t care what you think or want. People related to that to what is going on in Washington. I was one of those late switchers to the Brown side. The only thing I needed to know was that he wasn’t Coakley. There was strife in our home, because my wife is more or less a single issue, pro-Choice voter. Then the calls from the Coakley camp came in over the weekend. Dozens of them. Nasty, negative calls, every single one of them. She ended up pulling the lever for Brown. Never thought I’d see the day.