Massachusetts: From Blue State to Brown State

With the stunning victory of Scott Brown over Martha Coakley in the special election for Massachusetts Senator coming on the heels of stunning state upsets in Virginia and New Jersey, there can be no more denial. The people of Massachusetts have soundly rejected the arrogance of elitists who believe that the senate seat vacated by the departed Ted Kennedy somehow belonged to him, or that his widow is somehow entitled to hand-pick his successor. Emboldened and energized by victory in liberal Massachusetts, Americans are in full revolt against Obama and Democrats.

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America has also rejected the recent opinion of some so-called "historians" that failure on health care dooms the Obama presidency. How tone-deaf, trite and overly-simplistic. The inverse of that ridiculous notion is certainly not true; success on health care doesn't help his presidency and the American people have made that abundantly clear, despite what Doris Kearns Goodwin said last week. But, if you're salivating over, or just patiently awaiting the prospect of a newly-chastened Democrat Party moving back towards the center, don't hold your breath. I warned during his campaign that Barack Obama was an unapologetic socialist bent on the destruction of Capitalism and our Constitution. Based on what I have seen and heard coming out of the White House since the drubbing in Massachusetts, Obama and congressional Democrats have no intention of backing off of their failed agenda. First, the post-election analysis by Obama advisor David Axelrod, was that they (Democrats) just need to do a better job convincing the knuckle-dragging masses that their socialist claptrap is what we really want, and that we would understand that, if only we weren't so damn stupid. Second, Obama has also brought his campaign chief, David Plouffe out of mothballs, presumably to help Democrats in the November election, but I have few doubts that Plouffe will be crafting the White House's message going forward on a range of issues. Third, after a long boycott of the separatist news channel, Presidential spokesmouth Robert Gibbs went on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, offering the outrageous claim that Massachusetts voters were supportive of ObamaCare and sent Scott Brown to Washington, not to provide the 41st vote against it, but to work with Obama to get it passed. Finally, in a January 19, 2010 interview with George Stephanopoulos, Obama himself said he was "surprised" and "frustrated" by Coakley's defeat. While I can certainly understand Mr. Obama's frustration, for him to say that he was "surprised", is patently ridiculous. Still invoking the tired "last eight years" cliché, Barack Obama just doesn't get it. He may have verbally acknowledged voter anger, but America's message to him and his ilk was to slow down and stop the spending. Despite that crystal clear message from the electorate, which they have been sending the entire year he's been in office dismantling the Constitution, Obama told Stephanopoulos that in the wake of Brown's stunning victory, he was urging everyone to move quickly on health care. But, don't listen to me. While everyone was busy last week keeping an eye on Massachusetts, Democrats were busy raising the federal debt ceiling another $1.9 trillion and Barack Obama was busy exerting even more control over the financial industry, causing yet another precipitous drop in the stock market, with the Dow Jones losing 400 points for the week, half due to Obama's continued meddling. According to some pundits and politicians, ObamaCare may currently be on life support, but I won't believe it is actually dead until I see the carcass and poke it with a stick a few times to make sure. Republicans don't actually inspire confidence in consistently opposing Obama's un-Constitutional recklessness and a strange personality quirk of dictators and others who exhibit traits of Narcissism is that once one has staked out a position such as Obama has on the need for his health care "reforms" and staked his reputation and political future on getting it done, there is no turning back. Much of what I have predicted about Barack Obama has indeed already come to pass, including the tough spot he now finds himself in and the fact that his own stratospheric expectations could never be met. A wolf in sheep's clothing, Obama the socialist ran as a centrist. He lied. He's now completely teed off his base, lost independents and further alienated just about everyone else, except those still drinking the Kool Aid. If he doesn't move sharply back to the center immediately, America's first light-skinned, African-American chief executive with no Negro dialect will be a mere historical footnote to the Second American Revolution.