Reply #10: Ahm, this is what I said last weekend

[TayTay]

"There is no deeper national implication. This is not a death knell for the Democratic party or Obama. This is a story of a domestic spat between "parochial divisions" in Massachsetts."

I have seen this movie before. I have no idea how many times I have written that this was also a family-fight in MA. I have spent years trying to explain what goes on in Massachusetts.

"There really are two parties in MA, the Democratic Party and the Democratic Party."

Believe it or not, one Dem Party smacked the other down yesterday. This means a town/gown fight, a rich/poor fight and a deep desire to punish people who seem out of touch. This is an ongoing thread in MA history. (The American Revolution itself in MA had elements of this. The Know-nothings movement in 1850 MA had elements of this. Ed King's truly ugly win in 1978 for MA Gov had massive elements of this and that race is eerily similar to what happened yesterday.)

There were also elements of suburbs versus city. Western MA versus inside Rt 128. Yup, all of that is in there. (What part of this have I not spent years talking about?

Sometimes we lose a house in a bad storm. The winds and waves blow down the structure. At first we mourn it's passing. Then we remember that the structure was rotting and ripe to fall and we ignored that for years and years. We can either leave the rotting pile there or rebuild on a more solid foundation with new strong walls and new strong materials. It's up to us what we do with this opportunity.