The Beginning of the End

Scott Brown became the first Republican senator elected from Massachusetts since 1972 with a stunning and eye opening victory over Martha Coakley in yesterday's special election. It should serve as a lesson for the Democrats, whose far left agenda has seriously dampened America's enthusiasm for their type of ill wrought change.

But more, and this should really put the fear of God in the party, it signals yet again the disgust with which our nation has begun to view them. And their leader. President Barack Obama is now batting .000 when he has placed his prestige on the line for a candidate or a cause. He could not get Democrats elected governor in New Jersey or Virginia, nor a Democrat crowned senator in that bluest of States, Massachusetts. Lest you think that is merely American anger at work, consider that on strikeout number four, his attempt to get Chicago the 2016 Summer Olympics, it was essentially the world, the world which is supposed to love him because it hates us, which turned him thumbs down on that one.

There is talk of parliamentary tricks and maneuvering to prevent Brown from taking his seat before the next critical vote on health care. The leftists on the Potomac would be smart to scrap the whole idea. To force it through now or to delay Senator-elect Brown his seat would only further anger an electorate determined to set this nation aright once more. The people are sick of politics as usual, and the whole health care debacle in the Senate (buying Nebraska's vote? That's bribery under a legal moniker, plain and simple) simply reeks of that.

Could this be the beginning of the end for the Obama Administration? Have the Democrats overstepped themselves and pushed their socialist view of the United States too far? Has their hypocrisy (increasing the debt by what, four times, after years of lambasting Bush's spending?) been exposed to our people for what it is: the politics of raw power and nothing more?

Stay tuned. But November 2010 is looking better all the time.