…that Democrats in Congress just gave a big FU to the people of Massachusetts, arguably the most liberal state in the union.
Think about it—it was Massachusetts that only two short months ago elected a Republican senator to fill what had long been Teddy Kennedy’s seat, for the express purpose of sending a message to Washington that it didn’t want this bill. It is Massachusetts that has a special burden and no need for this legislation because it already is being stressed to the fiscal max by Romneycare. And it is Massachusetts that has supported the Democratic Party perhaps more strongly than any other state, ever since the second half of the twentieth century—which included being the only state to have voted for George McGovern in 1972.
Some thanks Massachusetts gets. Under the bus with it!
Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely 
March 22nd, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Is it a big FU or is it a proverbial “shot across the bow” for them to get in line. All the same, it’s a big bus and they’ll have lots of company.
March 22nd, 2010 at 4:17 pm
I have a hard time finding any sympathy for the folks in Massachusetts, who gave us Ted Kennedy for over 40 years.
I feel genuine low-grade animosity toward people who ignored all of the evidence and put Obama in office. (I don’t know what to do about my children). I tend to feel the same toward those states and congressional districts who send Statists and/or idiots to work their mischief on the rest of the country through the Congress.
March 22nd, 2010 at 5:26 pm
Mass gets double screwed with Obamacare.
Yikes.
March 22nd, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Some thanks Massachusetts gets. Under the bus with it!
LOL. I’ll have to tell that to my Yellow Dog Democrat sister-in-law, Massachusetts born and bred.
March 23rd, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Oldflyer:
Have a heart, please. Not all of us in Massachusetts voted for Ted Kennedy. (I didn’t, for example, and I’ll bet our Gentle Hostess didn’t either.) There were just never enough of us to make a difference.
It’s not easy to know, year after year, that your vote is thrown away. (A common joke here, at the end of 2009, was that the special election didn’t matter — Ted Kennedy would win anyway, alive or not.)
I’d feel the same way about the folks in Pennsylvania who kept sending the despicable Jack Murtha to Congress… except that, being a conservative in Massachusetts, I sympathize.
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
March 24th, 2010 at 10:32 am
> which included being the only state to have voted for George McGovern in 1972
Think of it as very right and proper payback for both that and giving the nation Teddy for so long.
March 24th, 2010 at 10:33 am
… and Barney Frank, too, while you’re at it.