Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Martha Coakley, GFY

Seriously, you were a horrendous candidate. Way to "lock it up" by thinking you had it won, totally misreading the public at large and not campaigning at all. Brilliant. Oh, and Democratic Primary voters in MA, you can GFY too. Seriously, way to choose the wrong candidate for the current political environment. I voted for Capuano, who by the way, can GFH. Capuano, you knew this was going to be a difficult election long before anyone else, reportedly telling the caucus "you're screwed" after the primary campaign. Why weren't you campaigning for Coakley, or at least drawing attention to national implications of the race?

And that goes for you Obama White House. First with all your putzing around with Olympia Snowe and wasting months trying to win a vote you were never going to get, letting this thing drag through the summer (when the Crazies of Crazytown came out of hiding) and leaving it in the hands of mostly uninformed, underemployed voters. And on top of that, you didn't make a peep about the election, the whole time Coakley's numbers were falling off a cliff. You suck too.

And don't even get me started on the likes of Ben Nelson (D-NE), Evan Bayh (D-BAG), Joe Lieberman (D-HEAD) and all the Blue Dogs who will learn exactly the wrong lesson from this (ie, when you look like a pussy, voters treat you like a pussy) and will let this thing die. Hey assholes, what exactly are you going to run on then? You already voted for the bill or something extremely close to it. You think you're going to get anything done now? These donkeys kept the Democrats from passing any meaningful legislation in the first year (outside the stimulus), complained about it, empowered the minority and left themselves with exactly zero accomplishments to campaign on. So any Democrat who thinks that letting HCR die now is a good idea and will help their electoral chances in October is pretty patently retarded and can GFH/H.

Strangely, the only person I think deserves a pat on the back here is Harry Reid. He somehow managed to adhere to the White House's silly wishes (include Olympia Snowe, let the bills grow organically through each house of the legislature, etc.) and managed to cobble together his caucus of 60 Senators (including a lot of the aforementioned sanctimonious assholes) and get a bill passed. You can say what you want about his leadership in the past and I know lots of people complain about the Senate bill in its current form, but I think what he accomplished is pretty impressive. And I think it's not going to be repeated.

Everyone else can GFT.

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