I currently find it difficult to write clearly. Scott Brown’s victory tonight in the special election is unprecedented and a shame to the entire state of Massachusetts.
In August, we mourned the loss of Teddy Kennedy who had led of for so long. Today, 56% of Massachusetts citizens pissed on his grave and everything he stood for. We will be the unraveling of any health reform and will have set the entire nation backward two steps where we should have moved forward five.
Brown already sickens me. I caught a few minutes of his speech this evening on NPR to catch his party-line rhetoric describing how the US Constitution only applies to US Citizens and that we should afford no rights to people we capture in battle. While I feel harsh penalties should be in store for those that are truly guilty of wishing to harm the citizens of the US- we should always base our justice system on solid evidence and not single sided arguments in a Salem Witch Trial manner.
As someone pointed out tonight, the conservative party always has the upper hand on most things for a simple reason- they are the party that is ‘against’ progress. To create progress, you sometimes end up with split ideas and have to figure things out. It is easy to be at the top of the hill defending the status quo.
Fellow citizens of Massachusetts- today you did not vote for ‘moderate’. You didn’t just give the finger to the State House, or to Washington. You didn’t vote for change. You took your foot and you shot it, then shot the other one to make sure the job was done right.
