Democrats have the White House, and they continue to wield strong majorities in the House and the Senate. Yet, this is how upset they are at losing one seat in the Senate, and thereby their filibuster-proof super-majority (comments culled from thousands of random tweeters on Twitter, and censored when taste requires):

@Ninanicole55 Why Massachusetts… WHY?!

@Swine_flu_tip Disappointed that Scott “Sarah Palin with a Penis” Brown is now the Junior Senator-Elect from Massachusetts, but calm down.

@Gabzilla_25 Massachusetts is a red state now? Oh Lord…

@TedMcClelland New bumper sticker: BLAME ME, I’M FROM MASSACHUSETTS.

@KKNEUB my good ol’ state of Massachusetts, WTF happened last night?

@mkfaughnan Embarrassing that massachusetts elected Scott Brown just because they didn’t like Coakley

@nancywisser RT @susancohan: RT @nyycarl07: Very disappointed in you Massachusetts. #wtfwereyouthinking

@ldlewild RT @ebertchicago: Massachusetts voters say, “Our state has a great health plan that we love, but why should you have one?”

@scjessey F**king Massachusetts birthers, teabaggers and religious wack jobs. Way to f**k up America even more.

@GregHack News haiku: People are stupid/Mind numbingly dumb, even/In Massachusetts

@MZPR Massachusetts you disappoint me. Are we in limbo – will those in need ever get health care in this country?

That one that goes, “Massachusetts voters say, ‘Our state has a great health plan that we love, but why should you have one?’” has probably been the single most “retweeted” message from liberals unhappy with election result. It appears to be the theme to which they are supposed to cling. However, a fact that all of those people seem to be happy to miss is that any state can pass its own particular health care legislation, as Massachusetts did. The question at issue is federal control of every state’s health care system, and indeed federal control of every individual’s approach to paying for their own health care.

Of-course one gets awful sick and tired of hearing the issue framed as “health care” anyway — that’s the best indication that the person talking is either being deliberately disingenuous or doesn’t know what they’re talking about. What’s being considered in Washington is nothing to do with improving health care. It is all about imposing massive new federal requirements on everyone (though not so much on union members and the state of Nebraska) with regard to health insurance. It’s about money, and it’s about control. It’s never been about care. And all these whining idiots on Twitter — should they find themselves unable to face a world where the Republicans have 41 of 100 seats in the U.S. Senate and decide to swallow an overdose of something — will get the best care available in their local U.S. hospital, even if they are unable to pay a dime for it.

It sure is one heckuva country.

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