GO MASS-ES

Of course victory is invigorating. This is what the maquis must have felt like when they heard about Rommel getting dusted in the desert. But we still don’t have Allies at Anzio, or Il Duce swinging from a signpost. Let alone Normandy. But hey, maybe Massachusetts is signpost of progress, just like those were. Wish it didn’t feel a bit like Himmler marginalizing Goring—bad for them, but hard to see as all good for us. This said because there are some indications that the Esteemable Mr Brown may be a little stronger on not-so-liberal than on conservative credentials. But it is Massachusetts. The notorious Peoples’ Republic thereof, so anything to the right of CPUSA can be counted as a win.

So why did this happen? That is the key question as to what it will really mean. We don’t know. Obviously, a lot of people who usually reflexively vote for Democrats actually voted for a Republican. Obviously, too, people who can be swayed but, in that place anyway, usually vote Democratic voted the other way. Maybe there was at work an inverted version of Obamania involved, causing people to vote contrary to their basic instincts. In this case against their instinctive perception of liberalism as normalism; in Obama’s case overriding instinctive Americanist sensibility which usually puts the brakes on ballots for ideologically foreign candidates when it comes down to the wire (Henry Wallace, McGovern, Dean, Nader).
It’s too much to hope that Massachusetts is reddening in a meaningful way, but tactically this is a God-send. It really may mean the end of Obamacare, and more spending plans ending in "trillion”. It may even mean the Obama program generally is mortally wounded. But here is to hoping it means at least one thing that will be of benefit: This particular politburo occupying the capital will not hold in such blatant contempt the public’s wants and demands. Never has a majority, and only marginally one-third, of the public supported the so-called health care reform program. More were markedly against it. And yet the Democrarky in both houses were determined that the public will be damned. They were going to force this down the gullet of America no matter what— or at least as long as they thought they could get away with it. It becomes extra-hypocritical-funny when the institutional Dems complain that the three-fifths rule in the Senate frustrates the will of the majority— the majority of the Senate, that is. The majority of the public, on the other hand, could go skroo themselves if it weren’t for their protection by a minority of members.

One has to wonder at the soaring arrogance displayed by the liberal DC elite on this one. Up-to-date polls show that health care ranks way outside the Top 5, maybe even the Top 10, concerns of the public. The bill never had support from more people than opposed it. The Dem leadership was simply determined to force it through anyway, just to sate their own powermongering appetites, the people be damned. Till now. We can only hope that this stomp-down also crushes the economy-crippling cap-and-trade dreams that have even less support from a wakening people besieged by assaults on their freedom, their wallets, and their health.