RESULT!
Scott Brown (R) has won "Ted" Kennedy's old United States Senate seat in a by-election by a margin too large for the Democrats to stand a chance of contesting.And with that, the Age of Obama dies after 364 days. I've never seen an administration come apart faster that didn't involve someone with a rifle asking the DJ at the local radio station if he'd mind reading this brief announcement. With a Republican win in the staggeringly left-wing Massachusetts and Mr Barack Hussein Obama's filibuster-proof Senate majority gone, The One is now faced with either abandoning his wildly unpopular Socialist agenda or ramming it through the Senate in the dead of night with the help of a load of Democrat Congressmen who can hear the ebony wings of political death flapping in the middle distance.
Anything can happen in politics, but as it now stands, we've just seen Mr Obama make real history; not as America's first black president, but as the first president to become a lame duck before his first year in office has run out.
Normally, I wouldn't take such an interest in local politics, but the spiking of Mr Obama's guns means that the civilised world has had a reprieve because the sole superpower upon which we depend for our existence has been pulled back from the brink that Britain teeters on and Europe long ago slipped over. Far better that the American public sees this mountebank for what he is and sends him running.
And so the Right enjoys a moment to paraphrase a certain president of recent memory: We won.
Update: If he’s smart, he’ll take it. To quote the Spartans, "If".
And now, a wee bit of music for the celebrations.
Update: Is this Mr Obama's Clinton or Carter moment?
3 comments:
One of the amazing things about the electorate in the US is the ability to take silliness up to a certain point and then common sense comes roaring back.
Poke the people with just big enough a bayonet of taxation and oppression and the couches and easy chairs start to empty come election day and out go the tyrants.
November is going to be interesting unless Big O and company decide to play conservative for a while and the jesters at the networks declare; "why, he's been like that all along, don't know why you silly republicans hadn't noticed!"
I'm expecting to hear today from the crumbling statuary like Pelosi and Reid about how this election was just a blip or really not unexpected because of Coakley's weakness, or how it is in fact somehow an affirmation of the people's support of O-care.
Note how quickly it's been forgotten that O was stumping loudly in Mass over the weekend.
Doesn't matter, the battle cry for the next election has gone out: "We're Out of Change!"
It looks like the Martha Coakley campaign took their voter base for granted, thinking that they'd get many of the folks that had voted for Edward Kennedy in the past. It comes as no surprise that Coakley is no Kennedy and couldn't generate enough enthusiasm in the Democratic ranks to come out and vote. While the conservative and Republicans are quite motivated right now, and have been waiting a long time for the opportunity of a win in Massachusetts, and showed up in droves. We'll have to wait until the 2012 elections to see if Brown can do it again.
I don't think that Obama is psychologically capable of understanding (let alone admitting) he is wrong. The spin today is that Brown was elected because of the same anger that elected Obama. In other words (say it with me kids) "It's Bush's Fault!"(tm). The scary thing is, these people (except those up for reelection) really believe it.
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