Celebrate Good Times
January 20, 2010
Scott Brown defeated Martha Coakley yesterday in the race for the late Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, 52% to 47%. If you haven’t been following it, here’s the skinny:
This probably means that Democrats no longer have enough votes (60) to overcome Republicans’ filibuster of the health-care bill in the Senate. That means that the Democrats’ version of health-care “reform”—already getting less and less likely as time went on, given that they hadn’t passed it before this year, an election year—is probably now dead. We won. Thank You, God, and a big thank-you to the people of Massachusetts. Read the rest of this entry »