The Massachusetts special election is over. Senator-elect Scott Brown will now represent the Bay State. His stunning victory will provide the GOP with 41 votes to the Democrats' 59.
Meaning, the Nevada senator Harry Reid will either invite the GOP leadership into the negotiating table, or play hardball and pass all legislation with a senate budgetary maneouvre called Reconciliation requiring just a 51-vote majority.
In yesterday's blog, I mentioned that Brown must win by several thousand votes in order to avoid a Democrat hijacking. He won big in a state that has only 21 elected republicans compared to the Democrats' 178 in the Massachusetts House and Senate combined.
The Democrats are in disarray as they circle the wagon seeking someone or somebody to blame for their electoral defeat not only in yesterday's loss, but the losses this past November in the gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey.
With the Tea Bag movement in full battle mode, independents flocking back in droves to the GOP, and the 365-day Obama honeymoon over, 2010 will certainly be an interesting year in American politics as voters take out their hostility towards career politicians who created this miasmic economic conditions and a president who has absolutely no clue as to how to fix it.
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