Waiting for Righty
By John Batchelor on January 17, 2010 at 2:00 PM in Current Affairs
The cause of the slow-down is Massachusetts. Everyone at the White House is watching the polls from Boston and the early reports of Scott Brown leading in absentee ballots, and leading with 20% of the Democrats voting Brown.
The Brown surge gives plenty of room for those in the healthcare talks to refuse to cooperate.
Why give Mrs. Pelosi anything when Brown is about to wreck the Senate’s 6th vote?
If healthcare fails, let it fail without concessions from liberals or conservatives in the Dem caucus.
Also, there is a sweet argument that the Democrats on the Hill want Brown to win and are stalling the White House pow-wow as they wait for Righty.
A Coakley loss will wreck the process, sink the bill, and free everyone of the bad news of Harry Reid.
Also, a Coakley loss will relieve Boston of the burden of electing a junior senator who does not understand (or want to understand) the Red Sox Nation. The Curt Schilling flub is incomprehensible. The smear on a flier — paid for by the state Democrats — that Brown wants rape victims abused the more was not only clumsy, it also gave Brown an easy counter-punch — almost as if Coakley has been ordered to take a dive?
Nah. There is also the strangely frail and snobby remark by John Kerry,






















