Republican Scott Brown Wins MA Senate Seat!

Just this past night, Republican Scott Brown earned himself a Massachusetts Senate seat, thereby replacing Democrat Ted Kennedy in Congress. The story behind his campaign is quite remarkable. As this seat would determine if there were enough Democrats in the Senate to pass the healthcare bill, many influential leaders were involved, including President Barack Obama.

As there are now only 59 Democrats and 60 votes are needed in the Senate to pass a bill, the healthcare bill will now need to be supported by at least one Republican in the Senate. This is a very encouraging thing because now there is no benefit to the Democrats to work on the bill alone–exclude the Republicans entirely and they simply will vote against the bill.

Beyond the encouragement to us that the healthcare bill now stands a lesser chance of being passed, regardless of funding for abortion, we can also see how much influence the people indeed can have. Several recent polls show that at least a plurality, and in most cases a majority, of Americans in general oppose abortion funding in healthcare.

Today that has been verified in the election of to-be Senator Scott Brown R-MA. Another wonderful praise that healthcare is that much less likely to be passed!