Coakley-Brown and Mass Insanity

What happened in Massachusetts yesterday?

The people of Massachusetts who are frustrated with the seeming lack of change, voted for change.

Unfortunately, a bit more than half the voters picked the wrong side to blame. Regardless of how you feel about the way the health insurance reform effort has played out, it’s important to note that most Democrats in Congress, and certainly the White House, supported swift, bold and effective change. The majority of Democrats in the Senate, for example, support the public health insurance option. But they couldn’t get it done because the minority Republicans blocked an honest up-or-down vote.

When it comes to financial reform, the Obama Administration and Senate Banking Committee proposed strong legislation to reign in the abuses of the big banks that led to this horrible mess. Meanwhile, the banking committee’s Republican leader said “no way, no how, not ever.” Why, I ask, is this republican supporting the very crooks who nearly sent this country into a Second Depression?

You get the idea: Lack of change is not for lack of trying. But despite being the majority, the Republicans have blocked the Democrats from voting. Of course, what else could we expect from the Party of No?

Scott Brown, the man who posed as a half-naked centerfold model for Cosmos, is just another republican who will refuse to clean up Wall Street and provide good, affordable health care for all. He has shown on the campaign trail that he will stand firmly with his Republican colleagues in favor of the Bush-era policies and politics that got us into this mess in the first place.

And if that doesn’t scare you into fighting even harder, I don’t know what will.