Reply #40: Look on the bright side of a Coakley loss.....

[Davis_X_Machina]

Shouldn't anyone in MA interested in improving the long-term prospects for the Democrats in Congress vote for Brown?

Turning the MA seat over to the GOP means a return to the HC status quo. Sure the status quo sucks, but it sucks less than the bill in Congress, right? At least there'd be no unpopular mandates, no handouts for insurance companies... That's DU gospel.

Of course you'd be even less likely to ever see a public option, never mind single-payer, any time soon, if Brown gets into the Senate -- we'll leave cap-and-trade, EFCA, judicial nominations, etc... out of the discussion since none of them are as important as HCR -- but Brown's election would kill the bill -- the very bill that I keep getting told is worse than the status quo.

And everyone knows that killing that bill is the only way to prevent a voter backlash against congressional Democrats, leading to a '94-style blowout this fall, followed by the loss of the White House in 2012.

So the real progressive vote is to vote for Brown, right?