Obama's lost senate seat is a victory for Netanyahu

..having been in Washington at the time..The appointment of the "Energy Czar" Bill Simon was a description of Simon's duties and powers to coordinate and help the country in the Oil crisis of 1973. Bill simon was just another White House Staffer, but an important one. Mark--don't talk or write crazy--it had nothing to do about Bolsheviks or hurting the 'left." Republican didn't talk or think like that in those days -- give me a break Viet-Nam wasstill boiling along! In 1973, Nixon was also drowning in his own cover-up of the Watergate affair. My friend was his Senate Liason at the time..Nixon was fighting for political life.

Now is the right time for the US to stop acting as a weak mediator between Israeli/Palestine and pass the baton to the UN or the European community. It really doesn't matter whether it's the Republicans or Democrats who hold sway, neither party really cares about justice for the Palestinians.

Fear and loathing, properly packaged, can make decent people do stupid things. This too shall pass.

Nixon chose the term Czar as a dig at left wingers and what he considered Bolsheviks. Now the Bolsheviks are coming out of the woodworks to carp about the Czars again.

"Only the Likud can bring peace" - Lisa Without endless war the Likud would be out of power fast. Netanyahu isn't going to get tossed out of office for dabbling with peace.

I predicted this months ago. Obama and democrats will come crashing down on their domestic agenda and Obama will need to regain his political capital. He will follow the Grand Master himself, Bill Clinton. Bill was in desperate trouble with the Monica L. scandal when he smartly decided to bomb the crap out of Serbia. The fact that he bombed a wrong country that forced a dangerous international precedent breaking up a legally formed, independent country and caused irrevocable strategic damage in the US relations with Russia (with China taking silent notes on Taiwan) non-withstanding, Bill?s problems evaporated overnight and his popularity soared. My prediction is that the Obama will play this card later this year. I hope I am wrong.

Howdy Mark, I agree with many of your comments. However, the USA is at war. More than 200.000 US Servicemen/women are fighting to free the people of Iraq,Afghanistan and Pakistan. Now a new front has appeared in Yemen. Maybe even in Somalia at some later date. The US economy aint so great. Job losses, bank failures and general malaise has woken up middle America. You know, the silent majority. Massachusetts may well have been lost. Then again so are the lights of many Democratic held States being extinguished, mainly because the US needs a firm and resolute leader. Somewhat lacking to those that love marching bands, apple pie and the American Dream. Have a nice day. Goodnight from snowy, freezing Swiss Alps.

Do Israelis realize that 50 million Americans are without health care? My Israeli friends were shocked to learn that in order for me to be self-employed I must pay $1,200 monthly for health insurance in Washington DC. I realize Bibi and the Israeli right don't give a damn that yesterday's Rethuglican victory will end the health care reform bill and effectively kill millions of uninsured Americans. They only see it as a green light to carry on ethnic cleansing in the territories.

Give progressive results. Lesson for the future Democrats.

I refuse to ignore push polls fro the F-word channel and its mirror-twin, MSNBC. Feel free to ignore my analysis. But call in polls by viewers are not a valid way to analyze voter sympathies. Democrats have self-destructed now on health care reform. And if anything will pass, it will require a republican acquiescence. But the universal NO vote is no longer a Republican option if there is to be any functioning US government.

This won't actually change anything. Although Obama might have said a lot that was critical of Netanyahu's continued defiance of the law and UN Security Council Resolutions, he didn't actually do anything. The spokesperson might have changed, but the people running the show are exactly the same.

..Czars is a terrible word to describe people, who work on the Presidents' staff with titles like "Assistant to the Pres." or "Counselor to the Pres." The first unofficial use was in Nixon's White House describing Bill Simon (Energy Czar)who corridante the energy crisis of 1973. Kissinger was basically a Czar as Nat Security Advisor. Pres Bush #43, has similar title for staff members on the NSC. Jackies all these individuals, who are recognized experts in their field, are staff extensions of the President; and the President is resonsible for their success and failures.

I say good too and it is great news.But unlike you I did not vote for the Democrats,but for the Republicans. After this latest am elated to know Obama's is slowly but surely going down the PAN. And not a day sooner. There you see Yariv a typical Jew,like many others who voted him and now are regreting it.

How? Regarding the settlements he might overdo what he underdid until now ... the freezing. But actually I agree with Cipora that Obama would be blocked to do as he would like.

I do not think winning one seat in the Senate will result in changing the basics. he democrats have 59 seats and the Republicans 41. What it does do is prevent some misuses of Presidential power. However, Obama follows his own rules and no one seems to pick up on this. His appointment of "Czars" without congressional approval is, to my mind, completely illegal under the US Constitution.

Whatever happens Obama is going down the hill. His ratings have plummeted at an alarming rate. I say let us wait for the November midterm elections,then we can judge what he will try. As for vengeance:Who is he going to be vengeful against and how?

The connection is very remote,if there is any... Unfortunately,the "pyramid" the left built all over the world from 1917 on is too massive...the left feeds on the hopes and aspirations of a world of have nots...promises them the paradise and drops only crumbs for them to survive...It's the very same in Brazil.The government gives the "professional destitutes" a "bolsa familia"(a monsthly stipend),for them to shut up and vote for the left...It's cheaper than to build an infrastructure,give them educationj and health...Poor is the one that feeds on the remains of the wolf's feast...The "right" still has a huge mountain to climb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everybody knows that Israel considers it in their own interest to avoid peace. At the same time, they must pretend to want peace. Result? Anyone who plays along with Israel?s peace games is wasting their time and adding to their frustration while the result is always the same.

is a futile attempt , regardless who is in white house . Israel is a country where taking risks in human lives will never be acceptable , and this is exactly the main issue here . Peace or no peace , Arabs will always find reasons to murder Jews and this natural impulse must be kept in a tight check . So foreign pressure is fruitless anyway , unless they can prove the opposite without losing Jewish lives .

The USA is a great nation with a great part to play in the Jews` role in the world, but sadly when we put our trust and reliance solely in them - then from within them will come the realization that we can only rely on our Father in Heaven.

As someone who has voted democratic upon until last November I am happy to see the Dems lose this seat. Starting with Obama and his cronies and aura of arrogance and elitism permeates the party. I saw Obama for what he is. A typical trashy Chicago politician. Thanks to the media and Mccains decision to pick Palin is what gave him the victory. Coakley felt as though she was entitled to " ted kennedy's seat". She was wrong. Even Obama could not save the day. He is for 0-3 now, Virginia, NJ and MA. Cant wait till 2012 when Obama goes home packing. Enough with him and cronies wanting to spend 800 billion dollars on health care reform. Money that this country can ill afford to waste on a plan that will not work. THis election loss is the first sign that November 2010 is going to be an ugly race for the democrats.

You say:... Obama may look for revenge elsewhere .... right here ... and no one knows where this could end up. His declining popularity at present is his fault and no one else's.Why should Obama look for revenge? Cheer up S this is a good omen for Netanyahu and Israel. Still your last paragraph is more to the point. The sooner the Republicans get into power the better for Israel..at least one hopes.

Obama will now end the softly softly approach. Pig-headed naysayers in Israel and America will have a fight on their hands. The people will revolt against the power of self-satisfied big money.

On 09/10/09, you stated on Talkback: "Apparently Obama is making some headway on the domestic agenda. HMO stocks are down in anticipation that Obama might win on health care reform. Believing Fox News push polls isn't always the best idea." What polls were you following, Mark, that gave you such superior insight at the time? Yet you are back to educate us again with more predictions, no doubt from sources far more reliable than those who watch Fox would be aware of. The poster you responded to on that date, #64, by contrast, looks quite prophetic now.

This is all good for a laugh. Here is the bottom line: Israel isn't the center of the world. Middle East peace is not important to the vast majority of US voters. Obama won the presidency because the US economy was in decline. If the US economy is still in decline he will become a lame duck and fail to win re-election. Time to grow-up and take a step back.

The numbers in the Senate made things more dysfunctional that before. Now with assurance of lockstep41 votes, Republicans can shut down the government. But They can't pass anything without compromising. Democrats can't pass anything now without compromising, either. This will be a systemic shock to both parties. Republicans will try to blame Dems for doing nothing and Dems will blame Reps for preventing anything from being done. But when the postal service and Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid start not sending out checks and unemployment comp stops being delivered, and the banks go into their next spiral, things will get interesting. The US finally got an Ambassador to Iraq because Republicans from my state and others told the shadow-President DeMint he was damaging the Party by stopping the confirmation vote. He backed off because Dems were making the case DeMint was hurting the US Army in Iraq. The whole Rep Strategy of blocking Obama everywhere has to be revisited.

Yeah, I saw him again later in the morning and I agree with you. But he was encouraged by the people (and ladies) after each sentence too... All in all, Obama is a better speaker...as I said to Cipora before writing to you... But Coakley? Yucky!

I will agree with you about Obama's incompetence. America was ready to go with him anywhere. Yet, all he offered was sweet talk and let the others do something. But the doing was the problem... In health the problem was THE ENORMOUS COST of providing mediocre treatments by mediocre doctors. Only by reducing those costs would it be possible to extend the health insurance to all Americans. But here HE DID NOTHING!! Regarding the environment he simply made a joke of the whole thing in Copenhagen. In Cairo, he offered beautiful LUFT for solving the enormous problems of the Middle East. Not to speak of his lamentable extending of "open hands", right and left, with nothing inside! And so on... The best to you, S

Build enough settlements and a two-state solution will become impossible. I'm surprised that the Arabs haven't started funding the construction of settlements. When the Isreali right figures this out it will be too late as usual.

Meretz that supports going bk to the 67 borders represents the PA Arabs and the very looney radical left - all of those are enemies of peace. They all supported the Oslo accords that distanced the middle east from a just peace. The Oslo accords gave arms to enemies of peace which blew up in all of our faces when the PA threatened all pro Israel pro compromise Arabs and declared war on Israel something that sent the process back to square 1. Peace will come when the Arabs accept that Israel is never going bk to the 67 borders and jews have every right to reside in hebron, gush etzion ofra and shilo. The Likud says yes to a demilitarized PA state with land contiguity in part of the WB.

It means a big defeat for health care reform and other issues generally supported by US Jews. It's funny that a big win for Netanyahu is a big loss for US Jews. Too bad the Mass election wasn't decided just by Jewish voters.

The Israeli left is the number 1 enemy of peace. These pro Hamas/PA activists have sent a solid message to Islamo-fascists that their struggle is just and that they can be violent and that they shouldn't compromise. They blame the conflict on occupation and they ignore the real cause of the conflict which is Muslim intolerance and hate that is propagated by the PA and the Hamas! Peace will come when the Arabs really want peace and are willing to compromise for it Concrete concessions on the side of the arabs means: 1)Accepting that Israel will not go back to 67 borders - Israel will maintain the settlement blocks 2)Recognizing Israel's historic connection to the Temple Mount and permitting Jewish prayer and the erection of a Synagogue on the Temple mount

People are so confused. The Democrats still have an 18 seat advantage over the Republicans. The Republicans haven't had that kind of majority in the Senate in close to 80 years. Those who think this indicates a downfall of Obama or the Democratic party simply have no idea what they are talking about.

Hard as it may be to believe, Israel wasn't even a minute consideration in the Massachusetts senatorial race. Midterm elections nearly always swing against the current administration, and Americans vote their pocketbook. Don't read too much into this election. Americans are weary of Israeli and Palestinian gibberish and lack of political will. No election will change that.

Netanyahu wasn't really under any poressure from the US to do anything about making peace anyway, so it's hard to see how this changes anything. Obama has shown that's he's just as much in thrall to the Likud pro-occupation lobby as every other US President Nothing has changed

i tend to agree that he might look for revenge. however, he will be blocked on all that depends on legislation. furthermore, more changes might come in november. what worries me most is the incompetence that has been the hallmark of this group thus far. be well, shalom, cipora

Obama today: they can, I can not!!!!!!!

... thumping on the podium after every sentence... ... with the ladies cheering & swooning...

also why is it that yous dont like obama ,, is it cause his not like bush starting wars all over the world like a cowboy,, or is it cause his black,, cause i thought israel is a peace loving country and doesnt like war which also says it doesnt like racism ,, all the guy is trying to do is make this world a better place without starting wars and just put everyone on the same playing field,, but for some reason everyone doesnt see it that way,,,, maybe its all about the benjamins and who can get the most

Not sure yet if it will help Israel but a good start.

... Obama may look for revenge elsewhere .... right here ... and no one knows where this could end up. Nevertheless, I am glad Mrs Coakley lost. She appears to me as an insufferable character, while Scott Brown looks just nice - her opposite. Finally, let's hope the Republicans will now be able to stop Obama's plunge, head over heels, into the destruction of the dollar.

G-d said "I will bless those that bless you and curse those that curse you". As a Christian? Obama should have learned his bible.

Now that the Republicans have the ability and have promised to stop any and every piece of legislation Obama puts forward or supports, the Republicans in the Senate have to take responsibility for making the US government work or stop. At best, the situation in the US will be confused for some time and shadow-President DeMint from the Party of NO will have to clarify his priorities. Meanwhile, the Demographic bomb will keep on ticking as the settlements expand and Palestinians start looking for Israeli citizenship and the vote. Happy Trails, Bibi.

Until the next US general election we'll be watching procrastination and circus tricks. Poor, poor us.

Despite the liberal press in Boston earlier showing Coakley ahead in the polls, the outcome was obvious with 10% unemployment and government control looming at every turn. The Kennedy's may be liberal but above all they are rich and the rich don't like Obama's naive 'tax the rich' solution to the exploding US deficit and debt. Abandoning her is the easy way for Dems to rein in their pollyanna-ish leader. Brown supposedly was collecting $1M per day in online campaign contributions. Israel can count on Obama backing away from involvement in anything that may end badly, such as another round of ME peace talks. With Iran likely becoming ripe during his second half term he will need all the support he can get.