Reply #48: its simple - Ted Kennedy and HCR [View All]

[demwing]

Ted Kennedy dreamed of HCR. He spent many years in pursuit of this goal. If the voters in his own state, when contemplating how to fill his empty seat, think it better to stop this sham HCR in its tracks, then you've GOT to know that the distaste has reached critical levels. Ted Kennedy's base would rather kill this bill than see it passed in his name.

Is that because the bill is too progressive? Too progressive for Ted Kennedy?

Does ANYONE, other than republicans and Joe Lieberman, think this bill is too progressive? I hope not.

A Coakley loss won't make Dems more progressive, you're right about that, but for the wrong reasons. It's like the old saying - "Change come from within." Only Dems will make Dems more progressive. Superficial change, forced changed, isn't progressive at all. It's false.

A Coakley loss would be a glaring smack in the face - in fact, the very closeness of this race should be a smack in our faces. the real question is whether we have the ability to take a message and act on it? Do we get it?

If we don't get the message from Massachusetts, we're either too fucking dumb to hear it, or we're ignoring it on purpose.