Democracy Wins!
January 19, 2010
Call it a teaching moment.
The voters of Massachusetts schooled President Barack Hussein Obama today when they elected Republican Scott Brown to fill the United States Senate seat which had been held by the late Edward M. Kennedy for forty-seven years prior to his death in August 2009.
In a stinging rebuke to the Commonwealth's Democrat machine, national Democrats, the president's agenda, and Mr. Obama himself, voters gave Brown a 52%-47% victory, with 1% going to an independent.
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Brown, who defeated State Attorney General Martha Coakley, ran against Obama's healthcare plan, deficit spending, and one-party rule.
A few months ago, polls showed Coakley with a 30-point lead in the state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by three to one, and where no Republican has been elected to the U.S. Senate since November 1972.
Significantly, the registration profile of the Bay State's voters is 12% Republican, 36% Democrat, and 52% Independent, and according to a Politico Insider Advantage Poll released yesterday, Independents favored Brown by a staggering 41%.
Independents, of course, are the electoral segment that gave Obama his improbable victory in 2008, and they appear to have turned against his agenda and governing style, if not him personally.
Democrats blame Coakley for having run a poor campaign, and they blame the Democrat National Senatorial Campaign Committee for failing to recognize that the race was turning against her.
While the Democrats are busy pointing fingers at each other, however, they might take a look at the Rasmussen Poll released on January 18th, which indicates that nationally voters preferred Brown over Coakley by a 49%-34% margin.
Nationally.
Voters nationally wouldn't know Martha Coakley from Martha Stewart.
They are familiar with Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and Tim Geithner, however.
They have heard of what's now cynically referred to as the Louisiana Purchase, in which Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu's healthcare vote was purchased for a $300 million guarantee to Louisiana.
They have heard of the Cornhusker Kickback, in which Democrat Senator Ben Nelson's healthcare vote was purchased for a $100 million guarantee to Nebraska.
They have heard of the $60 billion union bribe, in which union members would be exempt from the president's 40% tax on every one else's healthcare insurance.
They have heard of the Islamic bomber who, despite a $50 billion annual Department of Homeland Security budget, managed to smuggle an explosive device onto a U.S. airliner and nearly killed three hundred passengers.
Independent voters have heard of the nationalization of GM, Chrysler, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and they've heard of the president's $1.4 trillion budget deficit.
Independent voters know of the president's attempt to tax their heating, electricity, and gasoline in the name of the bogus "science" of global warming.
Independents are part of the 56% of the national electorate who oppose Obamacare and have witnessed the president's efforts to cram it down the throats of the American people.
It's no surprise, therefore, that in a state in which Independents are the majority, the president spoke there on Sunday to a crowd that was half the size of the crowd to whom Brown spoke at the same time.
Democrats now speak in terms of refusing to seat Brown prior to the healthcare vote, or of forcing the House to swallow whole the Senate version of the bill.
For these elected representatives we have a word of advice: Cram down this healthcare bill and you'll discover what it means to be on the receiving end of a firestorm.
Our brothers who served in the Vietnam War used a more colorful term, but we're sure you get the picture.
If 'moderate Democrat' is not an oxymoron and there are any of you in Congress, you should understand this; the magical mystery tour of 2008 is over.
Obama is not the Messiah.
He's more like the hula hoop; a flash in the pan.
He has been revealed to the American center as too far out on the left wing.
Force him back to the middle or suffer the consequences in November.