Republican Scott Brown has won the late Ted Kennedy’s former Senate seat after a heated battle in Massachusetts. Brown handily defeated Democratic candidate Martha Coakley. The win for Brown is a major defeat for Democrats, who can no longer muster 60 votes to overcome frequent Republican filibusters in the Senate.
We talk with Takeaway Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich, along with Eric Ueland, a former top aid for the Senate GOP leadership, about how the election results will change things in Congress.
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Your host just called the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts a "disturbing milestone." Why not a "remarkable " milestone or an "encouraging" milestone? Bias rears its all-too-common head again!
It's a wonderful thing that on President Obama's anniversary of taking office he is given a corrective to his health care bill: it has to not fund abortion and it has to have conscience protections, just for starters. The March in Washington this year will be a party.
Perhaps after everyone "guesses" what this vote means for the Democrats, there can be some analysis on why it's so important that the Democrats have 60 votes in the Senate -- because not a single Republican will vote for any Democratic initiative. They are the party of "No" and, unfortunately, the Democrats are not as united a group. No one can seem to rein in the Democrats. The so-called blue dogs are more similar to Republicans than Democrats. And, one other comment - the media is more interested in reporting issues as someone's failure rather than having a real analysis and conversation.
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