Massachusetts

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the voters of Massachusetts.  You won!  Not Scott Brown, but the people of Massachusetts won.  They won for the whole country.  Mark Brown is the 41st vote against the socialist healthcare program that the dems are trying to shove down our throats.  This health care bill that they are trying to impose on us is unwanted by 65% of the electorate.  Why the dems insist on pushing forward is a real head scratcher.  They are governing themselves into oblivion.  If they push this through as written, they will not survive another election.  And mid term elections are only 10 short months away.

But with Scott Brown winning the senatorial race in Massachusetts yesterday, we have a real chance of stopping this bill or at least getting a bill that the Americans will appreciate.  And now the dems have lost their filibuster-proof majority, or supermajority.  I believe, like many pundits do, that this is setting the stage for the 2010 elections.  This is a message from the electorate of what is to come if our elected officials do not get their act together and start listening to the will of the people.  We are not here for the pleasure of the elected officials—for them to rule over.  They are here to serve us, to carry out our will.  We hire them.  We pay them a salary, though it is way too much and the retirement way too cushy, we put them in office, and it is us who are to be served by them. 

As for this being a message to Obama—absolutely.  It is a message to him that we do not want the change he is pushing.  His idea of change, a change to socialism, is exactly what our forefathers fought the British to free us from.  The people are starting to recognize this.  Albeit 14 months too late.  I wish I could say I didn’t see this coming.  But I did.  I told every one I knew who would listen that Obama was not the person who needed to be in charge of our country, the greatest country on Earth and the greatest force for good will on this planet.  Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing and it is painfully obvious by his policies.  For the first time during this administration I am truly hopeful that this could be a one term president.  There is nothing about him I will miss. 

Obama’s latest rationale behind why Coakly (-sp?) lost is that the electorate is angry at the Bush administration.  Yeah, this is leftover anger and it is Bush’s fault.  What?!?  And then to make comments about Scott Brown driving a pick-up truck as if it is some sort of dis, what was that about?  So the man drives a pick-up.  So it has over 200,000 miles on it.  So he is not an elitist.  Good on him.  But really, when are things no longer going to be Bush’s fault?  Today was Obama’s 366th day in office.  He wanted this job and the problems are now his.  Bush cannot be blamed forever.  Or can he?  Watch Obama and find out. 

So Massachusetts has likely saved us from a major step toward socialism.  They deserve a lot of credit.  What is more is that 35% of the registered dems voted for Brown!  Independents voted for Brown.  It’s not just a republican victory.  The GOP could not have done it without their help.  So to all the elected dems up for election this year, if you like your job, you need to take a step back and re-examine your position on the issues.  You have now seen that the American people are awake to your back room, shady deals and we don’t like it.  This is not “change we can believe in.”  This is nothing short of sleazy Chicago politics, unbecoming of a U.S. president.  Even one as thin skinned as Obama.