We’ve had about 24 hours now to digest the Massachusetts special Senate race in which Scott Brown, the Republican, beat the Democrat, Martha Coakley, 52%-47%.

I’m already kind of sick of the news about it.

But, it was a popcorn night around the TV for me, and it was a night that ended earlier than even this political animal could believe.  You should have been following my updates on Twitter!

As the greatest rock band in the world, REO Speedwagon, named one of their albums, “You Get What You Play For” Scott Brown played and worked hard and won that sucker by a wider margin than most expected.  Good job Senator-elect Brown.

I heard several Republicans and their pundits’ say, “It’s a tidal wave,” describing this victory and a couple wins buy GOP governors.

Hardly.

The biggest thing in the race to me was that in Massachusetts of all places, where Ted Kennedy ruled since the early 60s, a Republican won his old seat.  Great googly-moogly!

But it’s not going to change the culture in Washington, D.C.

The Democrats and their pundits, right after the race was called for Brown, were trying to put on a smiley face and calming their base of support and kind of saying, “It’s ain’t all bad.”

You know, they are sort of right.  Harry Reid is still the majority leader.  Nancy Pelosi is still the speaker of the house, and Barack Obama is still the President.  The committee chairs have not changed.  Today, the Democrats proposed getting our credit card’s limit raised another $1.9 trillion – just so we can pay our bills.

Maybe they will use this extra $1.9 trillion to buy a few trucks in which they can pretend to be Scott Brown and campaign across their respective states.

The Democrats still have a 59-41 margin in the Senate, and although they had 60 votes, they seemed to be drunk on the power and ended up fighting each other over really stupid things.  A weak leader named Harry Reid could do nothing but watch his kingdom come tumbling down.

In 2006 and 2008 the Democrats (most notably candidate Jon Tester) used the angle that the Republicans were “spending like drunken sailors” back in Washington and, if elected, they would change it.  They made it WORSE.

Time has a way of working things out in the political world.  One party will have power for awhile, then the other.  Both have been known to screw things up.  In the present history, the GOP should like their chances, but they also have weak leadership in the senate and the house, and those of you who read my previous comments know that even senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell would not even predict a Brown victory.

So as much as things change, they stay the same.