Scott Brown Feels The Earth Move Under His Feet

This. This is HUGE.

This. This is a GIGANTIC blow to the Democratic party.

Scott Brown, against all odds, wins Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts - a state where the Democrats ruled sans exceptions.

Now begins the "wha happened?" and the "what does it mean" and "how could this happen" and "what does Obama do now?" speculation. I've taken an interest in this election because of the sheer importance attached to it. I got to hear a lot about Brown from the Vermont feed here and at first I thought he was going to be sacrificed to the gods. Then, as time passed, listening to the call-in talk shows, I thought hey, maybe he can be Joe Namath after all and guarantee an improbable win.

It'll be very interesting to see how Obama handles this moving forward. 


I heard one democrat say, "it's ok if Brown wins. He'll be a weak candidate in 2012 and we'll defeat him there." Maybe. But isn't that a little like a football team saying, "it's ok if we lose to them today. They'll be weaker next year and we'll beat them then."

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As a sports junkie, it was interesting to hear Coakley (insanely I might add) claim former Boston Red Sox Curt Schilling (of all people) was a New York Yankees fan! I don't know for sure, but did she break some sort of ancient Bostonian sports covenant? Wow. Some pundits think this only added to her troubles and ultimate demise. I don't about that, but you just don't say that if you really have the pulse of a Boston sports fan. It would have been more believable if she said he was a Philadelphia Phillies fan since he played for them.

For you Quebecers out there, it's like saying Maurice Richard was a Toronto Maple Leafs fan.

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Now that Brown has won, some say this spells the end of Obamacare.

The onus is on Brown and the GOP, if this happens, to once and for all articulate their own plan.

Let's hope they avoid logical fallacies like, "How can the government run health care if it can't run the post office!"

Because it's incompetent on one side doesn't mean it will be so on the other. Yes, there's ample evidence to suggest government inefficiencies and waste is possible, but there are other ways to get this point across.