Massachusetts Special Election

If the GOP can broaden their message to include candidates who identify as Republican, even if their views are not totally in sync with those of the larger Party, as Massachusetts goes so may America come November.

Voters are angry, and while it is illogical that people seem to be looking to break the gridlock in Washington by voting in Republicans who are no better, the anger is based on real concerns.

If one is to draw a lesson for national politics from Massachusetts, it is less about policy -- the notion that the Massachusetts electorate was voicing its opposition to federal health care legislation -- than about politics.

Whether it's GOP head Michael Steele, pols, or right wing media spinheads, conservatives have been giddily regurgitating ad nauseum about how the "country is undergoing a massive shift to the right," as Sean Hannity disingenuously boasts.

None of the crises facing us all -- from the global banking system to global warming -- can be dealt with if a tiny number of super-rich corporations have a veto over every inch of progress.

President Obama State of the Union speech shows little understanding of the time we're in or of the daily experience of real Americans. Maybe it comes...

The day following the Massachusetts special election, Fattah spoke with me about the necessity for Democrats to push forward with the mandate he believes Obama received a year ago.

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A lot of things may have changed in light of the Massachusetts special election upset Tuesday, but one thing that remains the same is the health insurance crisis in America.

What is the "revelation" for the Democrats now? Is there a possibility of a "second coming" for the Party and for health reform?

For one full year Obama has laid back, waited, and let things spin completely out of control until even Ted Kennedy's old seat has been squandered on the altar of bipartisanship.

The post-mortems following the Massachusetts Senate by-election are coming in fast and furiously, but by far the most instructive remarks come from the President himself. He clearly doesn't get it.

We've hemorrhaged billions of dollars and the lives of countless heroic servicemen boldly pursuing American security abroad. But when the security of over 40 million Americans living without health insurance within our very borders comes to question, hesitation.

The Liberal Lion is rolling over in his grave His seat even the President could not help save A state senator for only five years Has brought the Democratic establishment to tears

The Democratic Party has squandered the enormous opportunity bequeathed to it by the election of 2008.

Do what Bill Clinton did after the 1994 health care rebuff: re-group and move to the center. It would show that the White House is not tone deaf. It would allow your party live to fight another day.

Until we change the calculus so that the angry and anxious exact a penalty for obstruction and reap the benefits from concrete actions, results like those in Massachusetts will multiply and the dream will die.

In the aftermath, the commentary is rolling in. Here's a round-up of HuffPost bloggers' reactions, predictions, I-told-you-so's, and more.

The biggest factor that influenced this election. When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

Yes, it's a shock that unknown Scott Brown could take Ted Kennedy's seat, but that had more to do with facts on the ground than on any seismic shock that prefigures national politics.

We liberals need to reclaim the Democratic Party as a party that is willing to meet halfway with conservatives and Republicans even if that means only step-by-step reforms on health care.

Dear President Obama, Your administration and your party are in trouble. That is clear from the elections in Massachusetts and Virginia, from the dro...