Live Free… or Get Out of the Way

What isn’t there to say about Scott Brown’s victory yesterday? A Republican has not been in that specific Senate seat since 1952 (1972 was Kerry’s seat).

The Republican victory is not a function of Coakley’s campaign or Brown’s truck. It’s not because the Democrat party didn’t properly support Coakley. Read the papers and listen to people talk in Massachusetts. They want to be represented. They want to control their own fates. They want their freedom and they’re not going to let big government socialists steal it.

Here’s what MSNBC’s Scott Olbermann had to say:

“In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees. In any other time in our history, this man would have been laughed off the stage as an unqualified and a disaster in the making by the most conservative of conservatives. Instead, the commonwealth of Massachusetts is close to sending this bad joke to the Senate of the United States.”

I would deferentially suggest to Olbermann that in channeling Howard Dean in his lunatic rant, he missed the point:

The individuals in the deep blue state of Massachusettes proclaimed to the world that they prefer Scott Brown – with none, any or all of Olbermann’s slanderous faults – to the socialism with which Olbermann and his syndicate would shackle our free nation. I’ll repeat that: We’ll take anything other than socialism.

Speaking of the good Mr. Dean, here’s his take on the Scott Brown victory:

“The message that I think, the anecdote I give is that we have to be tougher. The Democrats haven’t been tough enough. George Bush would have had the health care bill done a long time ago. It would have gone through reconciliation and been what we wanted.”

Hmmm… be tougher. Let’s review at least a few highlights I can recall of the last few months:

* Reid literally buys the votes of Senator Ben Nelson (cornhusker kickback) and at least three others.
* The Obama administration gets into the vote buying game promising plum jobs in the administration to Democrats who get fired in the midterm elections in exchange for yay Obamacare votes.
* House and Senate leaders independently force votes on ~2,000 page bills without giving legislators sufficient time to read and understand the bills before voting.
* Reid forces the Senate to hold its first Christmas Eve vote in over 100 years. For what purpose?
* Democrats in both houses quite plainly and repeatedly lie to the country on national television about the cost of their respective bills, claiming the ten year costs are “only” an austere $800 billion to $1 trillion. Those repeated pronouncements are lies because while they are based on ten years of taxes, they only include four or five full years of spending.
* Reid, Pelosi, and Obama hold secret talks about the healthcare bill, locking out duly elected representatives of American citizens. As part of these secret talks, Obama now infamously breaks his promise of “broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN.”
* Leading up to the MA special election, state Democrats in Massachusetts threaten to delay Scott Brown’s certification and implicit value to the electorate while federal Democrat congressmen threaten to rush through votes or use reconciliation to effectively deny representation to the majority of American citizens of Massachusetts.
* Democrats broadcast their intentions to use reconciliation and other procedures to rush through the bill before Scott Brown can get to D.C. Those Democrat maneuverings subvert MA voters’ rights to representation.

With all those affronts to not only the concept of democracy, but arguably our Constitution as well, short of a Bolshevik Revolution, what exactly does Dean mean when he prescribes being tougher?

Dean goes on to conclude that:

“I don’t think this was a backlash against the fact that we needed health care reform.”

It would appear probable that Dean is wrong here again. I can’t find the stat online, but I heard on Fox News Radio that a Massachusetts poll showed that 97% of Brown voters were against Obamacare and 96% of Coakley voters were for it.

In the case of both Dean and Olbermann, they are confusing what they would like to see with the facts, and perhaps in so doing, their intention is to manipulate what others see.

Finally, we have Nancy Pelosi’s pre-election prognistication:

“Let’s remove all doubt. We will have healthcare one way or another.”

Hey, Nancy, didn’t you get the message? Americans don’t want socialism. Go sell stupid someplace else.