As a yellow-dog Democrat living among fellow rednecks in a red state, I’m disappointed about the results of the Massachusetts election. But in the long run, losing the super majority could be healthy for the nation. The GOP will not feel so powerless that it votes in lockstep against every progressive piece of legislation proposed by the Obama Administration. If House Democrats have any guts, they will pass the Senate version of the Health Care bill and make legislative revisions later. At least Congress will have done something to deal with one of the most perplexing long-term problems facing the country. Indeed, it is now or never for lawmakers worried about the November elections. Passage of the current bill gives Democrats nine months to recover from voter backlash. That is a long time in terms of politics. Voters have a short attention span as evidenced by the rapid reversal in the public support of health care reform. Like Ross Perot’s Reform Party created in 1992, the “tea party” whiners will fade into the far reaches of our memory. That’s assuming the Administration can produce jobs, which is the most painful and most visible of the problems now confronting the country. Bill Clinton successfully worked with Republicans, even as they attacked him over the pointless Whitewater charade. President Obama accomplished much in his first year, but moved too fast with too much change. Perhaps he can learn from a case study of the semi-successful partisanship during the Clinton years.