Referendum and Requiem on Change

Expressing surprise at the news from the Bay State seems rather anti-climactic now that Scott Brown, (R), has been declared the winner in Massachusetts’ special election to replace Ted Kennedy. Given the breakneck speed applied to the liberal agenda after Obama was elected, one could have reasonably concluded that the Democrats themselves had little faith in what they were preaching. While a number of factors contributed to the voters’ angst in the Commonwealth, and indeed in Americans who lived vicariously through Massachusetts voters, Health Care Reform ranks the highest. Most polls agree that support for Health Care Reform in it’s current form has all but evaporated due, in part, to back room deals, political payoffs in return for support and votes, and the denigration of those who opposed the reform agenda. Paradoxically, this lack of transparency occurred right out in the open, prompting an outcry from all across the political spectrum. Two of these deals, a 300 million dollar payment to Louisiana, ostensibly for Katrina damage, on top of all the federal dollars given them to date, and a tax exemption from any Medicare and Medicaid expansion for Nebraska raised hackles all across America at the blatant bribe. The Senators from these states agreed to vote for the Senate version of the bill after being awarded the taxpayer money. These two deals were announced after they had been agreed upon behind closed doors, enraging citizens of all stripes. The Reform agenda has been pursued aggressively by the Obama administration and their counterparts in Congress without a key component; the people’s input. After all, they are the ones who will be paying for it, not Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi ( a “requirement for legislators and elected officials” clause is conspicuously absent from any version of the reform bills), they of course, will be exempt, and thus immune from any of the soviet style bureaucracy they have forced on America. The further the debate in congress progressed, the less the people were included, culminating in a summer recess of angry constituents showing up at Town Hall meetings held by democrats, that even the spinmeisters at the DNC could not blame on the Bush administration. The agenda itself has revealed other aspects of Obama’s vision for America, and the citizens are taking a step back from the hero worship whipped up by the media and taking a look at just what the Progressive view Obama has of America, and what it means for ALL Americans. It hasn’t been a good showing based on Scott Brown’s drubbing of the status quo. The appointment of radical czars and associations past and present of those proclaiming a radical agenda has long been visible in some circles, while denied and covered up in others. William Ayres, for example, is an admitted, unrepentant terrorist, who was instrumental in moving Obama’s career along, even hosting a “coming out” party, welcoming him to the Chicago Radical Political Machine. Reverend Wright, a radical in a different sense, but in solidarity with Ayres in his hatred for America, has long been decried by those on the Right All the while hearing nothing from the Left on the Obama family’s 20 year membership in Wright’s congregation. It was issues like these, coupled with the outrageous shenanigans on Capitol Hill by both House and Senate democrats, that were on trial yesterday. The resounding defeat should send a message to the Boxers, Bayhs, and even to Hillary Clinton, that Americans are NOW starting to pay attention as a nation, and are holding elected officials accountable. First, in Virginia and New Jersey and now in Massachusetts, the democrats are getting the message, that hitching your wagon to the radical, socialist, left wing, element in the party is going to get you Coakley’d. In 1994, a similar hard turn left was arrested by the voters, which returned the House to the GOP for the first time in 40 some years. This forced the democrats, under Bill Clinton at the time, to move to the center. Will the current Chief Executive do the same? It remains to be seen, but one thing is for certain Change has come to Massachusetts.