Matthew J. Piette, P.E.

The Massachusetts senate race looks even tighter with the possibility that Scott Brown may pull it off.  I still don’t think so, but regardless of the outcome the political landscape will change.  Conservative Democrats are going to be very hesitant to support anything that will put them at risk.

If Brown wins I see little possibility of health care reform going through.  Despite what the Right is saying, President Obama is not very liberal.  He will probably take the opportunity, much as Bill Clinton did in 1993, and move to the center.

It isn’t, however, as though the Republicans are presenting any ideas of their own.  It is still a party without leadership.

I never though that things could get more partisan than they were under Clinton.  Then I thought the same thing under W.  Now it’s even worse.

As Joseph de Maistre famously said, every nation has the government it deserves.

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The election next Tuesday for former Sen. Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts between state senator Scott Brown and Attorney General Martha Coakley will most likely be won by Coakley.

Brown is opposed to health care, opposed to gay marriage, opposed to bank regulation, and opposed to emergency contraception for rape victims.  Those are not positions that play well in liberal Massachusetts.

But he has made a race of it and is forcing the Dems to spend money for a seat that they should not have had to even think about.  It will probably embolden challengers for other “safe” seats, like Sen. Feingold’s in Wisconsin.

It will be a tough fight in November.

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