There is nothing else on Memeorandum right now but the Massachusetts special election. Everybody thinks they know why Scott Brown won and why Coakley lost, what message the voters have sent, what the election results augur for 2010, why they don’t matter that much, what the Democrats should do now, or not do, whether health care reform is dead now or whether it’s still alive, who is to blame, and who let whom down.
In this cacaphony of yelling, finger-pointing, predicting, denying, gloating, mourning, analyzing, and doom-saying, Josh Marshall is the only one I’ve seen so far (granted I haven’t read a lot yet) who says it all in just four paragraphs. Here are the first and the last:
Message of the day to all Dems, Coakley, Rahm, Celinda Lake, national Dem committees, Axelrod, whoever, whatever: Shut the *$%& Up! I don’t know how else to say it. I’m watching MSNBC and hearing all the key players dumping on each other. As I’ve said, the Coakley campaign seems to have been run just terribly. And that’s just the beginning of it. But really, with all that’s at stake, the White House political office left this to Coakley, unsupervised? Really? I just have very little patience hearing all the people who are by definition all to blame have an argument about who’s most to blame.
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Jon Chait has this right. The Dems need to relax, get to work, pass the bill and move on.
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