Coakley and Brown face down for Mass. Senate Seat.

What happens Tuesday in Massachusetts can be the difference between progress and stagnation – and it is a harrowing prospect that faces all of America if Massachusettans (-ites, -ens, -ers?) chose the latter.

If you have not been watching the highly politicized developments here, a special election was called to filled Sen Ed Kennedy’s now vacant seat.  What was a guaranteed victory for Dems, now becomes a thin line of victory that they are walking.

I do not know much about either Democrat or Republican, but from the platform that I have heard the Republican Candidate Scott Brown running on, I cannot say I would be happy if he won.

He is stirring up anger over the current unemployment rate and federal spending.  I fundamentally disagree with him on both of these – reducing unemployment and increasing federal spending goes hand in hand.  When other companies and consumers are too scared to spend, which stimulates the economy, this is when the government can and should step in.  Also, while the unemployment rate is in double digits, had the government NOT intervened with its “costly measures” (sarcasm) then there is no telling how much WORSE the slide could have been.

But my most important contention is his declaring he will be the one to derail health care reform. Talk about another political window of opportunity for opposition to thwart what should be common sense.

Health care reform has been like a child that is facing birth with complications.  However, rather than rolling the baby in the womb so that it is in the proper position to be received by America, we have some “doctors” of policy that would just as soon leave the baby to strangle on its own umbilical cord.  Or worse yet, foolishly leave the baby in the womb when it is clear that it has to come now.

Such actions are irresponsible, and I can only hope the fragile agreement on health care is not shattered by a swing vote used to win a battle but to sacrifice the greater war for all Americans.

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