Having Martha Coakley lose may finally wake up the Democrats in the Senate to unite and use their majority to get rid of the Senate procedure for filibusters. It is ridiculous to have a super majority of 60 votes in order to pass any meaningful legislation. During the Bush 43 era the GOP did not believe the democrats would use the filibuster. When the Democratic minority threatened to use it, the senate majority leader, Senator Bill Frist, countered by saying that they would destroy the filibuster rules with the so-called nuclear option.
President Obama has finally discovered that bipartisanship is a lark and may cost him his hope for a healthcare bill. That defeat would finally bury a very bad piece of legislation. While the details of this bill is still an unknown, we do know it lacks the strength to regulate the health insurance industry. Instead of taking a successful healthcare system, like either the VA or Medicare systems, the Senate version currently being pushed by the POTUS has all kinds of goodies for both a number of Senate members and a huge gift to the health insurance industry.
Don't get me wrong, I admire Obama but he has wasted a powerful senate majority with a gutless approach to getting support by taking a single payer system off the table. Who really carries what the CBO has scored. That did not deter the passage of the plan D legislation by the GOP did it! They were not worried one bit about fear from progessives while our current senators are more concerned about getting campaign donations.