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Home clean government Scott Brown “Massachusetts Miracle” Could Spell Doom for Michael Bennet

1/11/2010 By Ben 3 Comments

Scott Brown “Massachusetts Miracle” Could Spell Doom for Michael Bennet

So I take a weekend away from blogging, and the national political landscape quaked with a Democrat-sponsored poll showing Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown in a statistical dead heat with Democrat Martha Coakley. Yes: in Massachusetts! Now let’s be honest: odds are still against a GOP win in the Bay State, but the fact that victory is in the sights a week before the special election to replace Ted Kennedy sends a loud message in itself.

Now word leaks that the Democrats actually are considering delay of seating Brown, should he win, to take another step toward cramming Obama Care down our collective throats. Redstate blogger Dan Perrin aptly describes the political consequences of such a tactic as “lighting a torch while standing is [sic] in a field of gasoline”. After noting Scott Brown’s tremendous momentum, political guru Michael Barone echoes Perrin and predicts such Democrat obstructionism would create a “national firestorm.”

Would Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi really have the nerve to do it? I’m sure they would much rather drag Martha Coakley — “who is running as an assumption,” Hugh Hewitt writes — across the finish line than have to choose between stonewalling the clear will of Massachusetts and the American people on one hand and giving up on Obama Care on the other.

If you’re Michael Bennett, there would be no positive spin for a “Massachusetts miracle” electoral outcome. His pledge to commit political seppuku on the altar of Obamacare, if necessary, would look even more like it’s coming to fruition. Even an uncomfortably close Coakley win in the Bay State’s liberal bastion would portend an extremely difficult slog for the appointed Senator Who.

I’ll be paying close attention to Massachusetts to see if it’s time to start the countdown on Bennet’s short Senate tenure.

Filed Under: clean government, Colorado Politics, Fiscal Policy, General, Health Care, liberty, National Politics, PPC

Comments

  1. Al G says

    1/23/2010 at 7:07 pm

    Simply put, the people have spoken!
    Editor scottbrown41.com

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  1. Peoples Press Collective » Come to Defend Colorado from Obama Care Rally on Tuesday, January 19 says:
    1/11/2010 at 2:15 pm

    […] being hammered out behind closed doors in Washington, D.C. One is still somewhat of a longshot: to win a 41st vote in the Senate in the January 19 Massachusetts special election. On the same day, Coloradans can help fight Obama […]

  2. Peoples Press Collective » Rasmussen Shows Massachusetts GOPmentum: Coakley 49, Brown 47 says:
    1/13/2010 at 10:14 am

    […] this is an important race, and one I’ll continue to keep a close eye on. After all, we know what a “Massachusetts miracle” would mean for Colorado’s appointed Michael […]

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