Naturyl
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:47 PM
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Massachusetts gave Kennedy's seat to a Repuke. That is unforgivable. Healthcare was Kennedy's dream, and just at the moment progress seemed possible, he was posthumously stabbed in the back by his former constituents.
America now believes that one of the most liberal states in the union has endorsed teabagger insanity. Massachusetts has killed us. Unforgivable.
Unrec all you want, but we all know it's true.
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:48 PM
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1. I was onced asked to run for public office. |
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I declined on the grounds that the public is ignorant and I do not want to get stuck like Jimmy Carter with an impatient/irrational public who cannot see the big picture.
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:50 PM
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2. A lot of good MA folks didn't vote for the puke |
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Now isn't ironic that old toast is defending such a blue stronghold?
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:07 PM
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From the looks of the turn out and by the final results a lot of MA folks, either good or bad didn't even vote.... The dems gave it away, she campaigned like a loser and they actually got the president there ONE time for an election they claimed was essential WHAT THE HELL were they trying to do? This wasn't a high school pretend class president election this was for a Senate seat.. that they claim was absolutely necessary .
They now have their excuse they have been looking for to drop all pretense of trying to do anything at all for the people and go back to business as usual with out all the hoopla pretense they have been spouting ...
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:12 PM
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18. I didn't keep up with the particulars of how the race was conducted |
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I am just so sad that that seat is not occupied by a liberal Dem. So sad for Massachusetts and so sad for the rest of us.
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:21 PM
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I saw she and the rest of the dems acted as if it was a shoo-in and there was no need to really push and this is the result, it is called complacency.
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:24 PM
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27. Wake-up call perhaps? |
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But what an embarrassing one. Dems have to find the right candidate. I understand this was a DLC pick. Do you know if that is right?
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:50 PM
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3. HCR is what Massachusetts already has. They don't want or need this HCR. |
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:13 PM
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19. Or they ALREADY know from EXPERINCE what an abomination this |
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Edited on Tue Jan-19-10 11:14 PM by aaronbav
INSURANCE PROFIT PROTECTION ACT is (actually the Senate Bill is a worse atrocity than that in MA) and don't believe it should be INFLICTED on the rest of the country.
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:13 PM
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21. Maybe they were upset at the prospect of having to pay |
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:51 PM
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4. Meh, it was annoying to see Coleman in Wellstone's seat. |
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But he's gone now, and the Senate has Franken.
Don't mourn. Organize.
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:21 PM
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From a MA resident who voted for Coakley but who now is focusing on making sure that Brown's time in DC comes to an end very soon.
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:51 PM
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5. Note: When you're from Alabama |
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Edited on Tue Jan-19-10 10:52 PM by bigwillq
you shouldn't criticize other states. I am sick of these "Let's blame the whole state, because one candidate didn't win" threads. :puke:
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:53 PM
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:54 PM
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8. Nothing is expected from Alabama. |
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Massachusetts is expected to not do things like this.
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:00 PM
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A lot of anti-Obama and anti-DEM sentiment=a repuke win. Plain and simple. That could happen in any state. But hate away on Mass. and Conn. and every other state because an election didn't go your way.
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:07 PM
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13. With that attitude, no wonder "nothing is expected of Alabama" |
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Edited on Tue Jan-19-10 11:08 PM by REP
Wait for someone else to do it. Terrific!
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Wed Jan-20-10 02:49 AM
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31. Ohh, if we were only to start going into what is expected from Alabama |
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:52 PM
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6. They really stabbed Teddy in the back |
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Now we won't have a health care plan.
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:55 PM
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9. Another GOP Brownie. Yep it's the same ol'e GOP sh*t. |
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:55 PM
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10. It was JFK's seat before it was Teddy's. |
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And now it belongs to a teabagger.
Unbelievable.
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Tue Jan-19-10 10:57 PM
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And like I said in the OP, unforgivable.
I feel especially bad for all the good MA progressives who did try. This is a loss that should never have happened.
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:09 PM
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15. That seat belongs to the people of Massachusetts, not the Kennedy family |
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Edited on Tue Jan-19-10 11:12 PM by REP
Or did you forget?
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:11 PM
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You misspelled Massachusetts! That's a cardinal sin, you know.
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:13 PM
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:13 PM
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22. Are you fucking kidding me? |
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Of course it belongs to the people. The same people that returned Ted Kennedy for over 40 years. The same people that returned him to office with 77% of the vote last time around. These same people who supported Ted and his health care reform just gave that seat to a fucking Palinesque teabagger. And you are lecturing on what belongs to the people? Really??
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:15 PM
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24. I'm not the one bleating about how it "belongs" to one family |
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Get over yourself. A bad candidate ran a crappy campaign and the people voted for someone else.
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:11 PM
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16. A friend of mine has a sociological theory that might explain this. |
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PEOPLE ARE STUPID!
That's pretty much it.
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:15 PM
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23. You do understand that you're essentially kicking people when they're already down, right? |
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I suppose that is the safest time to kick your own friends :eyes:
Nearly half of the Mass. voters who turned out today *did* vote for Coakley. I wish people would get a grip.
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:34 PM
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I feel especially bad for all the good MA progressives who did try. This is a loss that should never have happened.
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Tue Jan-19-10 11:37 PM
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29. From what I'm reading, the damned candidate didn't try |
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which makes it especially galling that so many MA progressives (and their allies around the country) worked so hard for this sorry (but very predictable) result. :(
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Wed Jan-20-10 02:47 AM
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30. Great Joe Bageant quote |
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He is a man of rare insight.
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Wed Jan-20-10 02:56 AM
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32. Health care was his dream. |
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Massachusetts have been living a Republican mandatory insurance company's dream for a decade and they've rejected that "dream" for the nation with this election.
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Wed Jan-20-10 03:04 AM
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33. It's like a bad episode of "The Twilight Zone." |
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Stomach-turning in a sickening way.
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Wed Jan-20-10 03:05 AM
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34. and here come the flames to the new guy... |
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>>Massachusetts gave Kennedy's seat to a Repuke. That is unforgivable. Healthcare was Kennedy's >>dream, and just at the moment progress seemed possible, he was posthumously stabbed in the back by >>his former constituents.
and that is why it was lost! That political position was open to the public. Last I heard, no one owned a Senate seat, alive or dead. Believing that mantra is the reason that Teddy now has the GOP dancing on his bones.
DON'T EVER TAKE A POSITION FOR GRANTED.
I talk about it in another post. I am a day trader now. I stake a position, hold it and never take my eye off it. When it turns, I get out and never look back. No one owns shit!
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