Had They Used Arial Narrow Coakley Would Be Senator

Nancy Pelosi takes a crack at interpreting Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts:

The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, said on Thursday that Democrats remained committed to passing far-reaching health care legislation, but she said that the House would not simply adopt the Senate version of the bill and send it to President Obama in part because of problematic provisions that she said contributed to the Republican victory in the Massachusetts special election on Tuesday.

Yeah, that’s it. The good citizens of Massachusetts made good use of all the time and visibility that Congress has allowed for the study of the proposed health care bills. Joe the Plumber, Bill the Banker and Sally the Social Worker gave haste to reading the Senate version, comparing it meticulously to the House version.

It was some clause of some paragraph of some provision somewhere that displeased them and made them turn on hapless old Martha and her saggy queen mother, Nancy.

I wonder if exit pollers were asking voters “was it the fourth paragraph of the Senate version as it contrasted the fifth paragraph of the House version that changed your mind? Or was it the font?”

“Unease would be a gentle word in terms of the attitude of my colleagues toward certain provisions in the Senate bill,” Ms. Pelosi said.

I can picture Pelosi saying that on camera while over her shoulder and out of focus, Democrats, overstuffed briefcases under their arms, papers streaming out of them, are seen fleeing like rats from a burning building.

America is pretty okay with their health care as it is for the time being and would rather their government help them find a job and quit spending their great great great great grandchild’s retirement. Nancy Pelosi may be the only liberal in Washington that didn’t get the message Tuesday evening.

“Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”

2 thoughts on “Had They Used Arial Narrow Coakley Would Be Senator

  1. Do you think the sky is blue in the world where Pelosi lives too?
    I think the best review of the situation was by Taranto at Best of the Web. He pointed out that the establishment media and the Democratic Leadership live in a fantasy world listening only to their fringe leftist blog buddies and editorial page pals while pragmatic, moderate back bench Democrats are running, not walking, away from this steaming pile.
    When Barney Frank questions the wisdom of moving forward with a takeover of 1/6th of the economy, it’s time to reassess.

  2. Barack Obama told George Snuffleupaguos that coakley lost “because the of the same anger that swept me into office”. It’s so obvious. The people of MA are still mad at Bush, so they voted for the Republican.
    Barry and Nancy live under the same sky, and it ain’t blue.

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