This is a day for right minded Americans to savor for a long time. Scott Brown convincingly defeated Martha Coakley to win the Massachusetts Senator position held by Ted Kennedy from 1962 until his death last year.
That the state of Massachusetts, one of the most predictably loyal Democratic states would serve Brown such a significant victory speaks volumes of the nation’s dissatisfaction of the Democratic Party’s attempt to transform our constitutional democracy into the statist nightmare of Obama nation.
Any one with the slightest bit of common sense and decency cannot help but be outraged with how the Democrats’ attempt to seize control of the nation’s medical system by some of the most blatantly cynical and corrupt methods imaginable. When Nebraska gets special consideration on Medicaid and excluding its insurance giant Mutual of Omaha from fees that would be imposed on other health insurers for Ben Nelson’s vote and similar treatment is passed on to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan to reward the auto workers, an entity largely controlled by Michigan’s labor unions, and the State of Louisiana likewise gets Medicare concessions not available to other states to court Mary Landreau’s vote, how can any one consider that proper conduct. To add insult to injury adding concessions to labor unions exempting union members from taxes others with private insurance would be forced to pay puts the Democrats of the United State Senate at extreme odds with rational American thinking. Martha Coakley pledged her unconditional support for the Senate’s plan.
While Coakley certainly made her share of idiotic mistakes from not knowing who a major Red Sox star was and called him a Yankees fan to campaigning for special interest lobbyist money in Washington DC days before the election, her arrogance and detachment from the electorate in the Bay State was astounding.
Make no mistake, however, that this election was more about Barack Obama and the behavior of Harry Reid’s majority of sixty Democrats than anything else. The Obama administration has dropped the ball on one issue after another from not taking responsibility for the near miss of a terrorist catastrophe over the skies of Detroit and its inexplicable ignorance on the Fort Hood massacre to radical environmental policies like “cap and trade.” The mantra of hope and change with a spirit of openness in government that voters thought they were embracing in voting for Obama proved an illusion. Right from the get-go from the earliest appointments, how they were handled, and how the President first began his taking the reigns of power, the Obama administration proved itself dependent on filthy Chicago style machine politics trading favor and selling out to special interests the total opposite of the promise to, as one for instance, have negotiations for “health care reform” broadcast on CSPAN.
An important threshold was crossed. With but 41 votes, the Republicans can now sustain filibusters and block the most onerous Democratic legislation.
Momentum has shift since November when voters in Virginia and New Jersey turned their statehouses to Republican leading to a huge triumph on this date. Hard work remains as there must be more turnover in both the house and senate to restore the nation’s Capitol to the people’s house.
Let us savor this victory as we prepare for greater battles ahead.
That the state of Massachusetts, one of the most predictably loyal Democratic states would serve Brown such a significant victory speaks volumes of the nation’s dissatisfaction of the Democratic Party’s attempt to transform our constitutional democracy into the statist nightmare of Obama nation.
Any one with the slightest bit of common sense and decency cannot help but be outraged with how the Democrats’ attempt to seize control of the nation’s medical system by some of the most blatantly cynical and corrupt methods imaginable. When Nebraska gets special consideration on Medicaid and excluding its insurance giant Mutual of Omaha from fees that would be imposed on other health insurers for Ben Nelson’s vote and similar treatment is passed on to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan to reward the auto workers, an entity largely controlled by Michigan’s labor unions, and the State of Louisiana likewise gets Medicare concessions not available to other states to court Mary Landreau’s vote, how can any one consider that proper conduct. To add insult to injury adding concessions to labor unions exempting union members from taxes others with private insurance would be forced to pay puts the Democrats of the United State Senate at extreme odds with rational American thinking. Martha Coakley pledged her unconditional support for the Senate’s plan.
While Coakley certainly made her share of idiotic mistakes from not knowing who a major Red Sox star was and called him a Yankees fan to campaigning for special interest lobbyist money in Washington DC days before the election, her arrogance and detachment from the electorate in the Bay State was astounding.
Make no mistake, however, that this election was more about Barack Obama and the behavior of Harry Reid’s majority of sixty Democrats than anything else. The Obama administration has dropped the ball on one issue after another from not taking responsibility for the near miss of a terrorist catastrophe over the skies of Detroit and its inexplicable ignorance on the Fort Hood massacre to radical environmental policies like “cap and trade.” The mantra of hope and change with a spirit of openness in government that voters thought they were embracing in voting for Obama proved an illusion. Right from the get-go from the earliest appointments, how they were handled, and how the President first began his taking the reigns of power, the Obama administration proved itself dependent on filthy Chicago style machine politics trading favor and selling out to special interests the total opposite of the promise to, as one for instance, have negotiations for “health care reform” broadcast on CSPAN.
An important threshold was crossed. With but 41 votes, the Republicans can now sustain filibusters and block the most onerous Democratic legislation.
Momentum has shift since November when voters in Virginia and New Jersey turned their statehouses to Republican leading to a huge triumph on this date. Hard work remains as there must be more turnover in both the house and senate to restore the nation’s Capitol to the people’s house.
Let us savor this victory as we prepare for greater battles ahead.
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