Let's just hope MA fixes the election for the Democrat. The fixers win these days. When in Rome....

The reason he's even in play is the disastrous "health care reform" bills. Democrats, wake up! This will trash you.

All elections are rigged, this is just more establishment hi jinx.
If anyone really wanted ' change' they would vote for an independent.
Americans are sheep, they do what they are told to do. whether Coakley or Brown wins, it is still a win for the establishment. They have the populace going in circles.
Demoncraps, repukelicons are one and the same.
Critical thinking is dead, America is a corpse being picked at by corporate banking vultures.BS pure BS

GO TEA BAGGERS! Another excellent article by William Rivers Pitt. We should be thankful, the new "Tea Baggers Party" has begun breaking off from the GOP party in its quest for alleged ideological CONSERVATIVE purity. The US Congressional system needs updating to three-party, or four-party system so that we would have coalition government which are by its nature be less open to corruption that two-party. And, then we could return to the orginal approach of the founding fathers: the Presidential candidate with the most votes is elected President; and the Presidential candidate with the 2nd most votes is elected Vice President of the USA. Before the great and honorable Joe Bider - look at the pittaful list of VPs and VP candidates: Agnew, Mondale, Bush, Quayle, Lieberman, Palin and so on ... GO TEA BAGGERS!

Why Should I Care? The democrats have both houses and the white house. The US continuing to fund illegal wars and occupation. We give away billions to banks and insurance companies. The media is run by a handful of companies. The Constitution is a doormat. WRP doesn't appear to notice any of this, and has his panties in a bunch over Ted Kennedy's seat going to a Idiot Republicrat instead of an Idiot Demublican. Looking over Coakley's record, I am convinced that she is another worthless politician. From now on I'm not voting for anyone who is TOO STUPID to figure out that 9/11 was done by the Mossad. Back when WRP was talking about Bush and the illegal wars, I used to think he knew what shinola was. Now I'm not so sure.

The Tea party is an interesting political, grassroots, phenomenon which is splitting the Republican Party and agglutinating the far Right. We may not agree with them but one to have to give credit for their initiative. They have succeeded in making their voice be heard. The party followers will never be progressive, liberal or whatever. The progressives have not a movement like the Tea Party. Progressives are basically conservatives, more restrained and less emotional. Hence, the Democrats, who are not progressive, are safe. Maybe the “Teaters” will be able to push some changes in the present political landscape. The Progressives should not criticize or despise but whatch and learn.

Why is t that a crazy tea bagger and his party can get such traction when the sane and rational Green party gets ignored by the voters? Our country is in trouble.

Folks... it is time to abandon this ship. The United Stares is the Titanic; the iceberg has been hit; water is filling the lower compartments;...

There are countries (especially in South America) who are exploring and enacting progressive agendas. None are perfect, but they are pushing the envelope on collective governance. That is where I am going. I want to experience what it is like as an entire country grapples with confronting corporate globalism and the death throws of the American Empire. These countries welcome people who are passionate about social democratic experiments.
Join them, and do the good work while the Titanic slips beneath the waves of history.

Martha Coakley is dull and boring, just what you would expect from a DA. Dems in Mass had a chance to support Rep. Capuano, a far more exciting and left of center figure, but they went for Coakley instead. Women were her strongest suit. Hopefully they will come out en masse for her.

Of course, Obama and his so-called health reform bill has been a disaster. Aside from her lack of charisma,this is dragging Coakley down.Enough people are unhappy with Obama's so-called health care reform. He should have stayed with a jobs program. After all, if you had to choose one, what would you prefer--a job or health care?

What difference does it make? We have a "Democratic"president who continues and escalates wars. We have a Congress and a Senate who are too busy posturing to make any worthwhile decisions. People are afraid to have "socialized" medicine, but still apply for it as soon as they turn 65. As long as TV and therefore special interest money rule the elections, this country is lost.

The amazing thing to me is the makeup of the Tea Parties. I know of several educated successful private business people who have jumped in with both feet. Their view is that both the Dems and Reps no longer represent true capitalism, which built the wealth of this nation. ALL Congressmen are now owned by Wall Street. True Capitalism would have let the banks and businesses that got in trouble fail. If that had happened, there would no need for any kind of 'punishment' supposedly soon be delivered by our government on bankers, they would change there ways on their own. .

I need heath care reform. My insurance company denies even the most simple claim. The CEO made half a billion dollars one year. I can't understand why health reform is a detriment unless people really do fall for the tactics of the insurance companies and the politicians they fund. Please tell me people are smarter than that.

On Fri, 01/15/2010 - 22:41 — Anonymous wrote:

"Why is it that a crazy tea bagger and his party can get such traction when the sane and rational Green party gets ignored by the voters? Our country is in trouble."

D'oh, because the Green Party lacks Financial Backers to further its ability to spread their message! Just go look at who is funding the noisy shows of force.

As I reply, I find myself seeking to transform the term "tea-bagger" into some register of scorn. Latin offers a rich cross-pun, especially in light of the discussion of Scott Brown's past -- Thea-Folles [thee-ah-foal-lays]. This one of several Latin words for bags specifies a tanned scrotum in use as a bellows -- so, a windbag blowing a spray of what results when a dried residue that was tedious to produce is reconstituted into a diluted extract in hot water. Too bad the country is falling prey to their Follies.

Just shows you how stupid and ignorant the American people are.

A lot of the anger out there results from the Dems calling a subsidy to the insurance industry a health care reform measure. Most Obama voters took him at face value when he he argued for progress and change. These same people now have little left but 'faint hope'. But I will say the wall street bail-out did, in fact, prevent more damage than people can possibly imagine to main street: unemployment/underemployment could easily be 25% today. Nonetheless, main street should have gotten more jobfunding and growth.

Hey Mr Pitt, your comment "...proof the world has gone stark raving mad" is a symptom of your Americanism! It's not the world, my friend, that's gone stark raving mad, it's the middle piece of North America, the US of A that has succumbed to a mass psychosis. In fact this 'Americanism' is a major symptom of the psychosis where those afflicted, which is the majority of Americans it seems, assume that the 'world' IS America and that is why your beleaguered country has run amuck perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity around the real world! What a dismal state of mass insanity has engulfed the once great US of A!!!

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Hark, are you f$%king serious? This is a giveaway to big insurance, millions will still be without health care. Why does big insurance need to have anything to do with basic healthcare? This is insane, the bill is pretty awful.

I became an American after Obama was elected, believing that Americans had finally come to their senses about the inability of Republicans to govern their way out of a paper bag. The realization that here, in my own Blue State, far right Conservative Scott Brown actually has a shot at Ted Kennedy's senate seat has caused me to throw up my hands in despair.

It's hard for me to understand how so many adults seem incapable of patience and common sense. When they should have been out in the streets with their pitchforks, all I heard for the past decade about president Bush's catastrophic policies was grumbling. As if they are 6-year old children pouting over having to wait for ice-cream, they expect Obama to instantaneously clean up a mess that was years in the making. By any reasonable standards, Obama's first year in office has been a success, yet the Media has persuaded a lot of Americans that this is not so.

And so, without bothering to consider the alternatives (the result of a John McCain presidency is nightmarish) Obama fails because he doesn't walk on water.

Yes, a lot of Americans are in dire straits, but it will be a disaster to jump ship now and put any trust in Scott Brown's leaky vessel. So much was wrong with America it will take a decade to even begin to see the results of Obama's efforts. Put Brown in Kennedy's Senate seat, and it will take 20 years, and that's only if Brown doesn't completely succeed in contributing to the total derailment of our slow success.

The teabaggers are pretty much like the Nazi Brownshirts. This is a Weimar moment, and the events to come could be much like that experienced by Nazi Germany.