Scott Brown not only defeated Martha Coakley. He probably defeated ObamaCare too. On the Richter scale of political earthquakes, this one is about a 9.2. The race is huge not only for its impact on the present--a 41st vote upholding Republican filibusters--but as a harbinger of things to come. Change, or get changed--that's the message of Massachusetts to Democrats across America, November is ten months away. There may be two, three, many Scott Browns. Brown is immediately a Republican rock star and the Drudge Report, appropriately in the age of Obama and Palin, dubs him a theoretical presidential contender. As massive as this is nationally, it is huge, for altogether different reasons, for long suffering Massachusetts conservatives. A Massachusetts Republican hasn't served in the Senate since I was five years old. The few Republicans who have served statewide generally have been of a decidedly more liberal stripe than Brown, too. So not just a Republican victory but this Republican's victory makes it so much sweeter. Scott Brown had no chance, in the land of Tip, Dukakis, and Kennedy, but he took his chance and won. It wasn't supposed to end this way, Martha Coakley and others commiserating at her Irish Wake, are certainly sobbing. No, it wasn't supposed to end this way. But it did. Bill Clinton's wake-up call came almost two years into his presidency. Barack Obama's alarm rang in less than a year. He hits snooze at his own peril.

Having worked for Brown since this Summer when I attended a GOP picnic and at the time was just trying to help get him enough signatures to get on the ballot, I was invited to the post election party tonight.

What a time! Local celebrities were everywhere, ample food and drink in a wonderful venue, his daughter Ayla singing with the James Montgomery Band backing her up.

And then the announcement that Marcia had conceded. Priceless!

Ted Kennedy's seat going to a Republican in Massachusetts no less. Way priceless.

And a long eloquent and content packed speech by U.S Senator Elect Scott Brown. Inspiring.

What was most interesting were all of the attendees from other states who had travelled to Massachusetts to work for Brown giving it the absolute flavor of a national election.

Did I say inspiring?

I love how you all are celebrating that our tax dollars are going to be used to stall the congress into not doing anything. What a mature approach. And conservative nonetheless! An inept government sure is inspiring!

"stall the congress into not doing anything"

Yes, yes a thousand times yes!!

What do we need to do other than to fine tune and make as efficient as possible our current system?

Considering that most people are pretty darned happy with their coverage (and contrary to the Democrat scare mongering, all people that require medical care get it) in this case, doing nothing is much more preferable than completely destroying the best healthcare system in the world by allowing government to go on an expensive binge with builtin mismanagement and rationed care.

You people crack me up. You want to do something just for the sake of doing something no matter how stupid and destructive that would be.

Again, Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.

You can not simultaneously "fine tune and make as efficient as possible our current system?" and stall congress into doing nothing.

Logic fail.

Your logic is a mental disorder.

And seriously, 'best healthcare system in the world'?!?!?!

Is that why hundreds of Vets are committing suicide currently? Any you saw Walter Reed right? What about Ballooning costs? Tort law? The sheer lack of preventative medicine leaves something to be desired as well.

"You want to do something just for the sake of doing something no matter how stupid and destructive that would be."

*Cough, Iraq, *Cough....

"Sunk cost" is an economic fallacy, FDSA. You're arguing sunk cost. But in parallel: "I love how you mourn that trillions of our tax dollars won't be used...".

Worrying about the couple billion in sunk cost of this Healthcare bill as opposed to a program that ONLY balances by paying 10 years for 4-6 years of service, and still cost "under 2 trillion" dollars is a little penny-wise/pound-foolish.

But the parade of nonsense-spewing libs never stops. Nobody forced the democratic party to spend this much time on this issue especially to figure out to "ram it through" when it was facing ever-increasing opposition.

I'm just gracious to the people of Massachusetts, who did the un-Thomas-Frank thing and voted against their "own interest" in that a bailout of the Mass. single payer system was one of the things this blue state stood to gain from current Healthcare bill.

As I've stressed to liberals recently, the phrase is GENERAL welfare not general WELFARE. All the senators taking their buyouts and bailouts for their states are doing the latter, and not in any spirit of the former. If you believe that healthcare is a huge burden to your state, then exempting your state from it does not promote the GENERAL welfare.

Interesting that you are using Walter Reed as an example of medical care gone horribly wrong. Good one. Because it is a perfect example of a government run system!

In fact, at the beginning of his term, President Government Controlled Healthcare proposed throwing Veterans out from under the wing of government care and into private insurance companies. That tells you a couple or three things about what the O really thinks and continues to display who we know he is.

The proposal would have authorized the Department of Veterans Affairs to charge private companies for treating injuries and other medical conditions related to military service, such as amputations, post-traumatic stress disorder and other battle wounds. The measure was intended to save the VA about $530 million a year, but the administration's pursuit of third-party billing sparked resistance from leaders of powerful veterans groups, who met earlier this week with Obama.

So, private healthcare would have saved the government $530 million a year. Hmmmmmm.