A disaster in the making!

I am quite upset at the prospect of the Democrats losing their Senate seat from Massachusetts in the special election next Tuesday. This will make them lose their bare 60 vote filibuster proof majority in the Senate, allowing the Republicans to obstruct the healthcare reform which was close to coming to fruition. I hear that the people of Massachusetts are angry at the Obama Administration, and they are going to vote for Republicans, in protest. This is like one cutting off the nose to spite the face! Don’t they know that the Republicans are for the rich and the well off, and they will not do anything for the welfare of the common people? How can they forget so quickly the eight years of nightmare under the Republican President George Bush? It is amazing how the Republicans were able to make up stories (death panel, socialism, Obamacare etc.) and run with them while the cowardly Democrats watched from the sidelines. The foolish ‘hands off’ tactic by President Obama to get a bipartisan healthcare reform is another reason for the present fiasco. (I still cannot understand why a President with over 70% job approval, and fantastic communication skills, stayed in the shadows without pushing for a history making achievement in his Presidency). If the healthcare reform did not pass, the Democrats are going to lose badly the 2010 mid-term elections giving the Republicans more power. Everything is going to come to a gridlock in the Congress, and the Democrats will be voted out of the office in 2012. This is exactly what the Republicans want. Of course, the country will go into the toilet in this process. But that does not matter. It is winning the elections which matter. I am disgusted.