Jon Stewart on the Massachusetts Senate Election

Jon Stewart took on the race for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat last night, taking jabs at the Democrats in the process. Upon hearing that Republican candidate Scott Brown was leading the polls, Stewart was dumbfounded that the Kennedy legacy could be lost to “a naked guy who owns a truck.” Confounding him even more were the actions of Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, who has made a series of gaffs in her campaign and few attempts to be likable. After running the down the series of insults she’s made to Boston, Stewart jokingly added: “Coakley went into the bar in ‘Cheers,’ and didn’t know anybody’s name.” But what irked Stewart the most was the mindset among Democrats that if they lose this seat, they’ll lose their chance of passing health care reform. Reaching his breaking point, Stewart detailed the ridiculous logic: “If this lady loses, the health care reform bill that the beloved late senator considered his legacy, will die. And the reason it will die… is because if Coakley loses, Democrats will only have an 18 vote majority in the Senate, which is more than George W. Bush ever had in the Senate when did whatever the f*** he wanted to.” via huffington post