Democrats go bold or go home.
Democrats..We were just bitch slapped now what are we going to do about it? The special election for Teddy's old seat is being called a many things but the bottom line is that Coakley was a bad candidate who was complacent and lazy. When your opponent more than triples the number of campaign stops you have over the last week of an election it means you were outhustled. When you refer to Curt Schilling as a "Yankees Fan" you are truly out of touch.
The blame game begins but to what end? This election leaves us two choices on how the next year will go short term and the next three years long term.
1. President Obama has only one hope of passing HCR and that is for the house to approve the senate version and fix the things wrong in reconcilliation. Whether you agree or not it's that or the last year will have been an epic failure. There are no other options because if you give the Seante another chance to vote then you do not get to 60. I intend to ask Speaker Pelosi to make sure that her caucus understands that the way to get reelected is pass this now and take the fight to the GOP. It's either that or give up while saying crap about continuing to fight another day but ultimately watching our majorities go bye bye in November.
2. Long term we all need to work to get rid of the fillibuster. Calling for it's abolishment along with a bare knuckles fight with the GOP can maybe save our majorities but if we do not come out ot this defeat really pissed off versus running to the center we are fucked.
My Meta message is that it's cowardly to run when things get hard and ugly. See Liberman and Bayh's statements today. No fillibuster renders them irrevelant. The hard part will be convincing the democratic base and independents that the Obama White House and Democratic leadership get the message. President Obama has done a lot of good but this passive thing he portrays is not working. Are President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid prepared to actually do what will be necessary to beat the mob mentality of the GOP and Teabaggers? Frankly I am not sure they are. BUT I am damn well going to try to convince leadership to start acting thay have a spine.
The alternative is simply awful so I resolve to go down fighting.