Brown wins. Coakley pulls a Tom Brady

Last year we saw the Beer Sumitt on the White House lawn, this week we are seeing a "cry in your beer" festival  put on by Democrats and New England Patriots fans with guests on honer, Martha Coakley and Tom Brady. Tom Brady was abyssmal with several interceptions and a fumble and Martha Coakely took her foot off the gas just as Scott Brown was stomping down on the peddle of his gas guzzling pickup truck.

To be fair, we can't put all the blame on Tom and Martha, their teams performances were equally as lackluster. Can we chaulk it up to overconfidence? Everyone knows that in football and politics, overconfidence is the kiss of death.

Is this the end of the line for Brady and Coakley? Well, for Brady, there's always next year. But after sitting out a season recovering from his 08' injury, that old Brady magic just wasn't there. And neither were a few key players from those old championship teams. One just has to wonder if Brady and the Pats can reclaim their former glory.

The Senate race may have been Marthas one big chance.  There aren't many "maybe next years" in politics. Lose an important race like this one and the party is not likely to give you another chance next time around. 

So Tom, who has pulled out of the Pro Bowl to nurse his injuries, will be back on the field next year to try to reclaim his edge. If he can't do that next year then one has to wonder if he's seen his best days .Or maybe he can pull off a Favre? We'll see.

At least the Pats have one consulation: the team who knocked them out of the playoffs have themselves been knocked out. But by whom? The Colts! Ouch, that's gotta smart!

Martha is up for relection in November. Perhaps her Senate run has raised her profile, but the Republicans will probably want to finish her off. So she'll have to fight hard to keep her position. Which means she better start right now and not let up til November.

If there's any consulation for the Democrats, it's that Scott Brown has only been elected to fill out the remainder of Ted Kennedy's term, so he'll have to fight to keep the seat in 2012. Considering how things turned around so fast since 2008, voters anger could flip flop again and you can bet that the next Democratic nominee and the Party are going to fight harder than they did for the special election. If Brown turns out to be nothing but the 41st obstructionist vote,  voters remorse among Massachusetts independents could put the Senate seat, and the Supermajority, right back into Democratic hands.

Brown has got to do more than deliver the 41st vote. He also has to live up to the 'free thinking independent" ideals that catipulted him to victory and not cowtow to the ultra conservatives of the Republican Party. If he marches lockstep with the Republican agenda, then he will have only proven that Martha' Coakleys charactorization of him was correct.  If the 41st vote leads to an era of Republican Obstructionism and nothing gets done, then he could be a one term Senator. What he really needs to do to satisfy the anger of the electorate, is use the 41st vote to usher in an era of biparitsan cooperation that can actually solve the problems facing the nation .

Brown owes his victory to angry independent voters who want to see something actually get done. They did not elect him so he could bolster the stregnth of the Republican Party. They elected him to work towards building a better America.

Several high profile reporters in the political media have stated that they have never seen a special Senate election get so much national attention as this one has. All eyes will be on Scott Brown and how he uses the 41st vote . He has to satisfy the 'freethinking independent" voters who put them there, or his stay in Washington will be a short one.