The center of gravity in the national political arena has unexpectedly shifted from Washington, D.C. to Massachusetts. What was once expected to be an uneventful, solid Democrat win by Martha Coakley for the senate seat vacated by Ted Kennedy upon his death is turning into the possibility of an earth-splitting defeat for her and the Democrat party.
If Scott Brown, the Republic contender who mere days ago was trailing Coakley by a wide margin wins, President Barack Obama will lose his filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate. The implications of such an upset are mind-boggling for the nation – everything would change overnight. The President would have to alter his ram-it-through attitude towards legislation, and Americans would be the better for it.
Bi-partisanship, discordant though it might be, could actually take hold.
If anyone reading this does not believe that Washington Democrat power brokers are pulling out all stops to abort the last-minute possibility that Republican candidate Scott Brown will ever see the light of day as a U.S. Senator, consider this:
Observe what President Obama is doing, not what he is saying: The White House announced today that he is leaving for Massachusetts on Sunday to campaign on Coakley’s behalf.
There is one place that would benefit far more from his visitation– Haiti. Yet there’s been no announcement that he has any plans to personally reassure the Haitian people and to bolster their morale by his presence.
President Obama has more pressing things to do in Massachusetts.
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