Okay folks, so we lost a seat in MA. We knew it was coming, and a valiant effort was executed on our behalf to save a candidate that simply lacked the liberal and political chutzpah required to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes. We should look forward to another day when we put a much stronger candidate on the ticket to unseat Brown. It's not hard to do, it's just not going to happen tomorrow (literally speaking, that is).
How HCR and other big issues will play out remains to be seen at this point, and it was already questionable at best even with the fabled 60 seat majority. That, and the whole damn thing just isn't being played out properly anyway, but that's another diary. In fact, it's countless other diaries that many of you have already written.
Folks, welcome to Politics. This stuff is work that is never done. And it's the kind of work that needs done both by us, and the people that we elect. Even if we were to get every single piece of progressive legislation ever passed tomorrow, there would still be work to do. So let's focus on the work of getting some real progressives into congress in November to start writing that progressive legislation, shall we?
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