Who's thwarting 'the will of the people'?

Democrats need to start heading off this "argument" immediately:

And any Democratic move to slow-walk seating Brown in order to pass reform, [Republican strategist Phil] Blando said, is "just naked, pure power politics where, at that point, you're just thwarting the will of the people."

To state the obvious: a Senate in which sixty votes is required to pass any legislation does not reflect "the will of the people."  Republican lying, stonewalling, bad-faith negotiation and procedural manipulation of a Senate whose norms have grown dysfunctional have been thwarting "the will of the people" since the day Obama was inaugurated.  No legal Democratic maneuver to obtain a vote on the reconciled House and Senate bills should raise the slightest ethical or political qualms.

UPDATE: TPM reports that Democrats will have a minimum of 15 days after the election before Scott is seated:

Looking over these statutes, it seems clear that unless the result is very, very close (think Al Franken and Norm Coleman in Minnesota, or Scott Murphy and Jim Tedisco in NY-20), we should probably know on election night who has been elected when the vast majority of votes are counted. But even then, state law is clear that a certificate of election cannot be issued until at least 15 days later.

And if Senate Democrats insist on a completed certificate -- just as the Senate Dems did in their unsuccessful attempts to keep out Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL), and Senate Republicans did in their successful blocking of Al Franken during the Minnesota litigation -- that would keep the winner out for at least 15 days.

Does anyone doubt that if the parties' roles were reversed, Republicans would have precisely zero qualms about ramming through what they could before the new Senator was seated -- or, for that matter, that they would find a way to ravel out the process well beyond fifteen days? Remember Norm Coleman?  The passing of the Medicare prescription drug benefit bill in 2003? 

Instead of barreling ahead, Democrats are telling talk show hosts that health care reform is dead if Brown wins.

Republican doggedness is a product of ideological rigidity. But that doesn't make the Democrats' spinelessness any less nauseating.