Scott Brown wins in Massachusetts, and "we the people" deal a massive blow against socialized health care!
Remember ... 58% of Americans want smaller government!
‘Downfall’ in Massachusetts
Hannah Giles Showed Up at Last Night’s Celebration in Boston . . .
. . . and the grandness of the occasion required that I introduce my close personal friend to everyone on Blogger’s Row. There are photos and videos somewhere, but the main message Hannah wanted to share was that she is going to be at CPAC next month and she wants all under-30 conservatives to attend her special CPAC event called XPAC.
The celebration of Scott Brown’s victory was a historic occasion, as I explain in my column today at the American Spectator ...
after brown….a call to arms!
Since well before Obama was elected, I predicted that he would win, that the Dems would win big, and that this smashing triumph would be the destruction of the party.
That process is now in full gear.
Here’s what the Brown victory really means: Obama, Pelosi, and Reid’s biggest threat to liberty in this nation has been derailed, probably for another generation. Given where I expect medical technology to be thirty years down the road, this most likely means that the single most effective engine of socialization in the United States has been permanently disarmed.
Obama has staked his presidency on socialized medicine, and he has failed. Hurrah! I hoped he would fail, and predicted he would fail, even before he was elected.
The only thing the Dems can do now is try to change the subject, which, after some false bravado, I expect them to do. But it won’t be enough. November is too close, and the forces of history have turned against them. They had their moment and misjudged it horribly, and now they will pay the price.
Barney Frank Whines that Needing 60 Votes is Unfair!
Scott Brown Win Clouds Pelosi's Future
If the late Edward Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat isn't safe for Democrats, is Nancy Pelosi's speakership of the House safe?
No one has carried more water for Obama than Pelosi, who time and again has pushed the administration's agenda to House passage, only to watch it founder in the Senate.
The big test is health care legislation, the survival of which may require Pelosi to do what even she has warned may not be possible: force the House to accept a Senate bill that contains provisions that are anathema to liberal and conservative Democrats alike, from a tax on generous union health plans to abortion language that is not restrictive enough for a core group of Catholic House lawmakers.
Pelosi insisted Tuesday that "whatever happens in Massachusetts, we will pass quality, affordable health care for all Americans and it will be soon." Yet even if she somehow prevails, the election shock in Massachusetts will force her and the president to sharply scale back their ambitions.
The idea that the third-party candidate splits the republican vote is the biggest lie in politics!
But Kennedy – who ran as an independent, but is a member of the National Libertarian Party – had much to say as this short, topsy-turvy special election campaign came to an end.
Though he was sent tens of thousands of e-mails from Brown supporters telling him to get out of the race, Kennedy said he never seriously considered doing so.
“When somebody belligerently hammers you with e-mails and all this other kind of stuff, you’re never going to support that person. You’ve basically assaulted me, and now you want my help. Why would anybody help anybody who doesn’t go about it politely?” said Kennedy, 38, who is a vice president at State Street in Boston, and took an unpaid leave of absence from his job to run his upstart campaign. “If they really wanted my endorsement, somebody from Scott Brown’s campaign or himself could have picked up the phone and given me a call, but they couldn’t be bothered to do that.”
Kennedy said a lot of people voted for Brown to stop the Obama agenda.
“This vote is not a vote for any candidate. This vote is a referendum on health care,” he said.
Kennedy said he believed he was pulling would-be Coakley supporters because his campaign received over 120 emails on election day alone from “people who were going to vote for Martha Coakley that decided to vote for Joe Kennedy,” compared to one such e-mail from the Brown side.
“We are getting all of the individuals who would never ever vote for a Republican, people who pro-gay rights, people who are antiwar, that don’t want to see Martha Coakley (win),” he said.
The idea “that the third-party candidate splits the republican vote,” Kennedy said, is “the biggest lie in politics, and it has been for years.”
Brown Victory!
Sure, it’s a bit sad that we who oppose the growth of government can do little better right now than celebrate the fact that we’re still able to muster a filibuster — but I’m willing to celebrate anyway.
And "Shoe-leather" McCain chases the pretty girls ... Scott Brown's daughter, Ayla Brown (VIDEO). H/T - The Camp of the Saints!
The Scott Brown victory is big folks, but never let up. NEVER!
UPDATE:
For "Marcia" (VIDEO)
I'm Losin' You!
A Titanic Race if There Ever Was One
It’s Your Principles, Stupid
The polls have closed, the votes are counted, and Massachusetts voters have sent the “Scott heard ’round the World”. All day long, pundits have been giving their assessment regarding why Scott Brown would win. All day long, too many of these pundits have proven that they still have not learned to listen to the clear message being sent by the American people.
I believe the voters rejected the operating principles of the Reid, Pelosi, Obama oligarchy. Just as Republican voters lost faith in their leaders for the bloated spending, Democrats and Independents have looked with horror at the principles dominating this Congress that said any health care bill is a good bill.
Before the GOP celebrates the personality of Brown, or the victory for moderates or begins believing the GOP is back, they need to consider that the same body politic that now distrusts the Democrats is the body politic that reviled the GOP just 14 months ago.
So now begins a new race. A race for credibility. The Party that hears the voters and regains the trust of the American people will be in control in 2011.
The first step to regaining trust begins with an apology ... Just once I want to hear a Republican leader say this: ”Yes, we spent like (pick your metaphore) a. drunken sailors, b. college girls with a new credit card, c. lotto winners on Rodeo drive, and you took the credit card away from us, you were right, and we are sorry.” The emphasis needs to be on a heart felt, full out mea culpa apology. Admit you did a terrible job carrying out the duties we elected you to do! Admit it, dammit! You overspent. You were wrong. You need to own up to it.
If the GOP will do that, and beg for another chance, we may be able to save this Country from the economic collapse driven by the leftists elected by the reaction to the wayward Republicans. They need to swear to cap the spending, cut failed programs and guarantee that they will shrink the federal government back to its Constitutional limits.
If they do that, we just might have a chance to leave this country just as our forefathers left it for us-better.
