Now It's a Fight to the Death

Near the top of my list of people who should be shot on sight are those who respond to catastrophe with a cheery "Let's look on the bright side!"

However, I actually think that Martha Coakley's well-earned loss in the Massachusetts Senate special election presents yet another huge opportunity for President Obama and Congressional Democrats.

Yes, they have ignored and wasted one such huge opportunity after another this past year, but this time their backs are against the wall and the knife is at their throats.

Either the House swallows hard and passes the piece-of-shit Senate health care deform bill this morning and President Obama signs it before lunch, or he might as well resign and hand the country over to Caribou Barbie and Glennsanity right now.

I've been saying it since October 2008: A Franken victory and Specter's party switch gave the dems 59 votes, NOT 60. Traitor Joe is, always has been and always will be out for himself and out to ass-rape the liberals at every opportunity.

Even if Coakley had won - especially if Coakley had won - Traitor Joe would have sabotaged the health care reform bill at the last minute. He probably would have been joined by Big Insurance Employee Ben Nelson, and cowards Bayh and Lincoln.

The simple fact is that Massachusetts has always been irrelevant; there was no way pathetic little Harry Reid could get 60 votes again, even if the House hardly changed the bill at all.

All the options are gone; President Obama and the House have no place to go. The one and only one way to salvage health care reform is for the House to accept and the President sign the Senate bill.

Yes, it's beyond horrible. But once it's law it'll be next to impossible to repeal and easier than anybody thinks to improve.

But here's the real value of doing that: it throws the gauntlet in repug faces: You think 41 votes puts you in charge of the world? FUCK YOU! We'll take a page right out of 2003 and just shove everything through on reconciliation with our 51 reliable votes. Repugs will be irrelevant.

Repeal Smirky's tax cuts for billionaires, cancel Blackwater's contracts with the Taliban, tell Archer-Daniels Midland it's on its fucking own, smash Big Coal and Big Oil to smithereens.

Congratulations, repugs: you've ensured that Obama and the dems have nothing left to lose.

Cross-posted at They Gave Us A Republic ....