Admittedly I've been keeping a degree of distance from the whole thing, for one thing because I don't live in Massachusetts and for another because I generally don't get involved in political drama... But I think in some ways, this wasn't just about R vs. D or even about the healthcare bill itself. I think what a lot of people were afraid of was one party having a super majority, and ramming things through governmental proceedings with no checks and balances to stop them. I know that I did not like the idea of a party with not unstoppable, but far less stoppable, power, even if many of my thoughts and ideas are better represented by that party than its main opposition.

But as I am not in Massachusetts and had no say in the matter which just took place (which was not the voting down of health care, but rather the election of a replacement senator), I do not feel qualified to comment further. I also don't like getting political with a good friend :-P