The election of a Republican to the seat held by a Kennedy for five decades in a state bluer than B.B. King without Lucille should send a strong message to the White House and Democrats in general, especially moderates, about the strong opposition the majority of Americans harbor to President Obama and the Democrat leadership’s agenda.
Of note was that Brown campaigned in part specifically as the 41st vote against the currently proposed health care legislation, which as we have examined is not at all about health care; rather it is about aggregating and centralizing federal power while reducing if not completely dissolving the American idea of self-governance. It’s command and control, U.S.S.A. style.
But the people have spoken. Perhaps this time their message will not be ignored.
The “tea party” movement in protest of the Obama administration’s epic spending and unflinching push towards government-controlled health care over the past year had been largely ignored by the Democrat leadership as nothing more than a nuisance. A minor inconvenience at best, and at worst, in the words of some of the left’s loudest and most abrasive voices, dangerous mobs of violent, racist rednecks.
Yet despite the growing discontent, they pushed on.
Republican gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey in November did not dissuade them. These were aberrations, simply local races fed by local issues.
But Tuesday marked a change that simply cannot be spun otherwise. A Republican won the Ted Kennedy seat. The people backed up their words with their actions in the voting booths.
The problem for the Democrat leadership now is the Democrats, specifically, moderate Democrats who see the results of this election and realize their careers may be on borrowed time if they continue to follow their Progressive leaders. Radical Progressives in Congress and the White House, their friends in the media, not to mention their comrades in the celebrity community, will be tempted to force their agenda against the will of the people who have just spoken loudly and convincingly. According to Saul Alinsky, author of the playbook
for radical Progressive social change and hero and spiritual leader of the modern radical Progressive movement, the ends justify any means. And radical Progressives desperately desire government-provided health care. The question is which Democrats will win? Will it be the ruthless Progressives or the traditional Democrats who, in contrast to the sharp leftward shift in which the Progressives have driven the party are now considered moderate, even conservative?
The Scott Brown victory will hopefully embolden moderate Democrats to stand up to their Progressive leadership and put a stop to some very, very bad ideas. Americans do not want a centralized government bureaucracy determining what health care is appropriate for them. Americans do not want exempted politicians forcing them to buy health insurance. Americans do not want to be penalized for their health insurance coverage just because they don’t belong to a union. Americans do not want to subsidize other countries for supposed sins against mother earth. Essentially, Americans do not want arrogant, condescending, elitist intellectuals telling them what is good for them. This election has sent the message that this is still a center-right country which still cherishes individual liberty and the American concept of self-determination.
What can Brown do for you? One day after a shocking political upset a message is being sent: Listen to the people.
