DSCC's Menendez: 'I Have No Interest In Sugar Coating What Happened In Massachusetts'

Thank God, a Democrat finally says something that's not either "Obama is as bad as Bush!" or "Please, Republicans, don't hurt me."

And yet another idiot subtly trying to deny that the Obama agenda, particularly health care, is about as popular as Tom Metzger at an NAACP rally. Yeah, you go on claiming that 2008 was an election that gave you a mandate to move the US farther to the left than France. Just get ready to lose a lot of elections. There is no amount of spin that can hide the reasons behind the victory of a Republican in the most liberal state in the union, particularly when Brown ran explicitly on blocking the health care "reform" bill.

For a better translation, just mentally replace everything he says they're not going to do with what they did, and what they're going to do with what they didn't do. Crystal clear.

Time will tell if this "unique election" teaches them not to field idiotic candidates. I doubt it though, because then they'd have to derive some meaning from what happened today.

Menendez's comment is right on the mark. I hope that he and other pragmatic Democrats reign in the polyannas.

"Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman"

Shouldn't he step down after this debacle? The title kinda says he's in charge of Dem Senate Campaigns.

Whatever he's doing, it's bad.

Exactly what they should be doing! Learning whatever lessons they can from this, and then moving on with the Democratic agenda. Doing anything else would be self-destructive and playing into Repuke hands.

Why should one election cause us to turn against our own? Who got us into this mess in the first place? The Repukes. Who prevents us from getting things accomplished? The Repukes. Don't let them frame this issue, too, as being negative against Democrats.

The tea-baggers have been very effectively screaming their demands for months now. What have we been doing in return? Not those in Congress, not those in the White House - you and me? That's where this battle is being fought. Have you been fighting?

Go left, go right, go center?

I say Rahmbama quits playing games and Barry sends Manny out to literally knock the teeth of a DFH down his stinkin throat. You know, as opposed to the metaphorical kick in the teeth Dems have been giving liberals for the last couple decades. Hell, maybe even get Lieberman out there to jump on his throat while he's down.

That'll get those independents and liberal republicans on board. Yeah. That's the ticket.

Yeah these geniuses will run further right. I'd bet my paycheck on it...

Can Obama sell anything? If, he can, what has it been? This week he will meet with Republicans at their retreat -- for what purpose? They will reject everything he attempts. In a week, the nation will listen to another great Obama speech at the State of the Union gathering. Another speech, but no action. How many rude Republicans will insult him that night? Will he push back? Or, will he continue to look for "bipartisanship" and fail?

What about actually passing something?

This guy says the republicans are on the side of wall street. Well for the last year it has been obama and the democrats who have done everything for wall street and the big banks. Obama is much more like Herbert Hoover than FDR.... This election was a clear repudiation of Obama's leadership.