And Rig, you still haven't learned that just because all you have is a hammer, every problem is stlll not a nail.


I in fact just yesterday learned a much more plausible contributor to the MA debacle for Democrats.    In MA virtually the entire government, it seems, is Democrats.   There is now in MA a lot of generalized disgust with their own state government.   They found a way to take it out on somebody--and break the Democratic monopoly.

So, despite the current overreaction--especially the extrapolation to the rest of the US--it seems she may well have lost for reasons specific to MA---in addition, of course to running a classically stupid campaign.

As for breaking up the health care bill:   this is a wretched idea, since it will take a lot more time but produce very little--so not avoid the Democratic Congress' likely fate of being tagged as a "do-nothing Congress".

1948, here we come.