112,000 "registered" Mass voters are dead. Several tens of thousands are known or suspected to be registered in more than one voting precinct (this is not confined to Mass) because Dems have managed to prevent laws requiring voter I.D. being passed in almost every state. Nobody knows how many illegals will vote, or how many will follow the old Dem political mantra of "Vote early: Vote often."
Even if Brown wins, despite the polls unlikely where Dems outnumber Reps by 3:1, the Mass. Secretary of State has promised to delay his certification for the maximum time, two weeks, even then he has to be confirmed and sworn in by the US Senate before he can cast the 41st. vote to support a filibuster. You can be sure that Harry Reid will spin that out as long as possible. All this despite the same Mass Sec. of State having certified a Dem. Congresswoman two days after a special election, whom the House Dem. majority immediately swore in to vote on a key Dem. Bill.
All in all, with a combination of Dem delaying tactics, it could be March before Brown would be able to derail Obamacare. In the meantime, the Dems have several choices to ram that abomination through. The most likely: the House accepts the Senate version as is, despite its conflicts with the House version, with a promise from Dem leadership to fix these later.
And even if a miracle occurs, and the Republicans somehow manage to delay the vote until Brown is sworn in, the Dems can, and will, force it through by bastardizing the Reconciliation Process, which has nothing to do with health care (it was introduced to prevent a filibuster from stopping the passage of a budget) but only needs 51 votes.
The Hill reports that Democrats are “eyeing a parliamentary maneuver to sidestep the Senate’s filibuster rules to pass healthcare if they lose their supermajority.” And Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Monday, "Let's remove all doubt, we will have healthcare one way or another."
Likewise, Republican leadership are expecting Democrats to pull out the stops to pass health care reform in the event of a Brown victory. "It's pretty clear that they're going to use every trick imaginable ... to shove this down the throats of the American people," House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Monday.
Heritage’s Director of U.S. Senate Relations, Brian Darling, explains that if Brown wins today, Democrats will have two options:
“One would be for the House to take up and pass Obamacare with reconciliation being used as a technical corrections mechanism to allow Democrats to avoid a filibuster in the Senate. Option two would be to drop Obamacare and finally understand that the American people want Congress to scrap this version of health care reform and start over.”
Get used to it. It's going to happen.
And here’s what the execrable Keith Olberman of the rapidly sinking MSNBC thinks (hey Keith, don’t be shy; tell us what you really think):
http://www.thefoxnation.com/massach...brown-homophobic-racist-teabagging-misogynist
How about that Dem candidate, Martha Coakely, Keith? You know, the one who let a moster who had raped a 2-year-old with a hot curling iron out without bail, and as he had political friends was going to ask for a light sentence? Or the totally innocent (as it turned out) people running a day care center who were subject to a modern Salem Witch Trial on bogus accusations of child abuse (pressured by prosecution psychologists to say they were abused, the children repeatedly said no, until finally breaking and agreeing, some of them describing being sexually abused by goats, monsters with tails and horns or creatures coming down from planets, etc.)
Attorney General Coakely pressed the trial for political purposes (hysterical parentls) and put the innocent day care center people in jail for long sentences. How did that grab you, Keith? Why so silent?