Scott Brown won the Massachusetts election just last night and already the entire DC establishment is in rapid-fire spin-mode to explain away what happened. Finger-pointing between the Coakley campaign and the White House and DSCC is rife, with some Senators coming to the exact wrong conclusions. In fact, Greg Sargent over at the Plum Line blog was more wrong than he usually is, saying:

"10:06 PM: On Coakley's loss. There will be a ton of analyis and recrimination surrounding Martha Coakley's stunning loss. But I wanted to make a quick, though narrow, point: The predicament her loss has created for Dems is yet another reminder of the folly of the Dem decision to delay reform last summer in hopes of winning over a few GOPers — and, by extension, of the folly of their broader, ongoing quest for empty "bipartisan" support for the health care plan."

In other words, he thinks bipartisanship was the problem. Beam me up, Scotty.

Senator Claire McCaskill seems to understand a lot better:

"As I said to somebody last night:, everybody needs to get the Washington wax out of their ears and listen and pay attention that people out there believe that we are going too far, too fast."

You've got that right, Senator. After cutting deals to give a $60 billion tax break to unions and government workers, and a number of other shady backroom deals, the health care bill was probably over 3,000 pages, and who knows how many trillions of dollars. Congress needs to start over, get back to the basics, and pass health reform that controls costs, reforms the insurance system, and creates a real market place. And they need to do it in an open and transparent bipartisan manner.