Wahoooo! This is best news I've heard yet. THANK YOU MASSACHUSETTS!

The rest of the country doesn't know it yet, but Mass. voters just did everybody else a huge favor by killing healthcare reform!

Massachusetts has first-hand experience with it and trust me, the US does not want this. Mass. knows this already, and saved everybody from an impending nightmare.

Congratulations to Scott Brown, and to the true Independent voters who refuse to vote solely along party ideology but vote instead on the issues that matter most.

I LOVE MASSACHUSETTS. I love the RED SOX! Love the PATRIOTS!! CELTICS!!! BC!!!!!! Even Curt Schilling the Yankee fan. You all rock!

Only Republicans dare to celebrate with such pride being obstacles to social progress!

But what can you expect from people that accept the spending the taxpayers dollars in corrupt policies backed by massive lies and horrible enterprises (Enron, Halliburton, Irak, GoldmanSachs, pollution, Monsanto, selling of public waters and all the rest of less known acts by smaller crooks in the republican side)

There is a small handful of supporters for the republicans here. Fortunately the less educated and the more exposed to individualism rampant in rural areas the more likely to vote republican. So all the urban centers where people are better educated (the best come here to compete) do have to experience side to side ups and downs understand social policies to a greater extent than the all fearful pro-guns anti-government, uneducated anti-science party.

Easier to be against ANYTHING that promotes a change to the status quo yet incapable of backing or even understanding living standards for industrialized societies.

8 years of abuses to power are the best they have had to offer to this country, while basically destroying it.

Yet, would prefer to go back to that.

We the progressive should resist such barbarism.

lol dork.

Healthcare reform isn't over snicker. It will never be over. The Healthcare system has to be overhauled, but thankfully we have another chance to do it correctly. The answer is will the Republicans be receptive to the Democrats offer to work together?

Mehh, nah. I have no faith in either party to get the job done.

Wow, actually it was GREAT news from Mass! Like Tony the Tiger GREAT!

Why are you against progress and compassion?

This is great - the democrats are going ape-shit bonkers!!! Thank you Mass!

Just because you say it doesn't make it true. I don't see any Dems going "bonkers" - just laying out the things that make Brown a racist sexist a-hole. Even your hero Glenn Beck doesn't like him!

Oh, and his daughters are "available". Nice guy.

Moja piękna koleżanka, *ania*

How could it be that people from a state with government healthcare voted for him?

For the same reason Limbaugh Lauds (Socialist) Medical Care (that he used) in Hawaii!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/limbaugh-lauds-socialist_b_409378.html

Jake Dobkin is bad news. Why dont you just tell us the facts instead of telling everyone your opinion. Thats not news. Congrats to Brown. Hopefully I won't have to work 100 hours a week now to make less money so others can not work and get free health care.

I hope you lose your job a week after your cancer diagnosis.

That's really sweet of you - because we have differing views, huh? More moral high ground from a Democrat.You all continue to impress me so, I'm really learning the error of my ways.

"Losing your job a week after your cancer diagnosis" is an over-the-top response to someone who feels that no one deserves health care unless they are fortunate enough to have a job will good health benefits. Perhaps if you were in a situation like NannyState suggested, you would see how everyone needs and deserves health care that is affordable and it's not only for the wealthy or lucky. And FYI - bennies don't always pan out, either! Sometimes they don't pay.

A.) I wasn't replying to you.

B.) You're only half as obnoxious as the person above

you but you're trying...

I totally agree with you but be warned, you're leaving your comment in Gothamist's Crybaby Lounge.

What an annoying and offensive headline ("Bad news from Boston"). In fact, what happened yesterday in the Bay State was great news for the United States.

The reflexive assumption by Gothamist's editors that readers would monolithically agree that Brown's election was "bad news," evinces exactly the type of arrogance, and sense of entitlement, that the voters of Massachusetts repudiated.

Of course, I could also mention that this story has nothing to do with New York . . .

Maybe those voters got a sugar rush off of dumping the Kennedy legacy that angry, bitter old white teabaggers despise, but tomorrow and beyond, their state no longer matters. the Democrats have a 59-41 majority in the Senate and Massachusetts isn't there, making legislation. They now have a junior backbencher who can shoot spitballs for 6 years while the parade passes by. He didn't even mention Republicans in his victory speech. He has no real constituency.And New Yoek was affected because the Red Sox suck, so go fuck yourself.

yeah! let´s destroy all urban infrastructure, now that piece of progress comes from taxes, let´s give that back to the "taxpayers" and go back to frontier times. And what about money for wars!? the passion of republicans! who pays for that shit! From taxes think where republicans would be without the tax payers money!HIPOCRITS.

useful idiot!

what a awful display of ignorant recklessness by the republicans taht celebrate a halt to progress.

You aren't even coherent. More Bush Derangement Syndrome - it's just hilarious to watch how easily you thoughtless sheep become unhinged. Try and keep it together darling, you'll have other opportunities to blow.