The Massachusetts election

As the Democrats lost a Senate Seat that had been in the hands of Edward Kennedy for almost fifty years many things will be on the line, the biggest one health care reform.
As it was, the Senate seat was a water down version of the House bill, which, in my opinion, is not going to do the trick containing costs, and extending coverage to every citizen. That is what the Europeans and Canadians have done, and it works. If it wouldn’t, like Republicans say it doesn’t, they would have reformed it by now.
After almost 25 years in this country I am still in amazement how people in this country vote against their own interests.
They think that by sending a member of the opposition they are punishing the present administration. In reality they are only punishing themselves, because if health care is not reformed, which is what these voters are implying with their votes, they will pay the consequences sooner or later, in fairness sooner rather later, with higher costs and less coverage.
But it is easy to blame the voters for their choice, but this seat was not in a Conservative state within the bible belt of the country.
It was in, what is possibly, the most liberal state in the Union, Massachusetts.
And we can blame candidate Coakley for what seems to have been a poorly run campaign, but at the end of the day, it is the Party who was at fault.
Just like Rush Limbaugh says that the way that conservatives will win is by moving to the right, unless the Democratic party moves to the left, with conviction, and not by putting their toes in the water to test the temperature of the country, they will lose badly in November. For starters they should remove Senator Lieberman from his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee, and push Senator Nelson to run as either as an Independent or as a Republican. He does not hold any Democratic values. And even if that means having less members in the Senate it will define the Party. Right now it wants to please everybody, which is impossible.
Somebody said many years that you cannot server two masters.