The Massachusetts Voters Speak

Scott Brown

Congratulations to the voters in Massachusetts. You've made your wishes know to the entire country by electing Republican Scott Brown. We get it... you're mad as hell and you're just not going to take it any more. After all, the buzz word is just say no. That theanswer to all our problems.

Mitchell Bard, Huffington Post, gives us a look at what to expect:

...the Republicans in the Senate do exactly what they've been doing since the day Obama was sworn into office. They will obstruct. They will say no. They will lie and try and scare Americans to make sure the president doesn't get what they view as any political victories. And, most of all, they will continue to look out for corporate interests over the average American. Only now, with 41 votes, they will have the power to block every single initiative the president and the Democrats in Congress propose to address the pile of problems left to us by the incompetency of the Bush administration.

the people of the Bay State will have sided with insurance companies and drug manufacturers over the the tens of millions of uninsured Americans, as well as the tens of millions more suffering from increased premiums and decreased coverage. They threw in their lots with those that would invent death panels, and decided their U.S. Senator should side with the caucus whose leader claimed that passing health care reform with a public option could "cost you your life." Maybe Bay Staters were hoping Brown's Senate seat would be near his new colleague from Alabama, who wrote to one of his constituents that health care legislation would "directly subsidize abortion-on-demand," "rations health care so that our citizens are withheld important and potentially life-saving treatments," and "requires taxpayer dollars to fund health benefits for illegal immigrants."

It's hard for me to to believe that "the citizens of the Bay State, in which Democrats outnumber Republicans three-to-one, which doesn't have a single Republican in its U.S. House delegation, and whose citizens just 14 months ago voted for Barack Obama by a margin of 62 percent to 38 percent, elected Republican Scott Brown, who happily accepted tea party support and questioned whether Obama's parents were married," to fill Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat."

As Mitchell Bard points out, democracy gives the voters what they ask for. Was asked for George Bush, not once, but twice. In return we got an "intellectually lacking, incompetent fear monger who duped the country into an unnecessary war with no exit plan, and then botched the occupation." When "the American people voted him back for a second term... Bush was able to continue to run the country into the ground, weakening the military, getting stuck in a quagmire in Iraq, neglecting the war in Afghanistan, and culminating in the near financial crash in September 2008. Democracy worked perfectly.

It will be interesting to see the impact of the Massachusetts voters decision and how it effects the entire country. If you need any additional revenue for the state, you can have your new Senator pose nude for Cosmopolitian again, just as he did in college. Way to go guys!

Source: Mutchell Bard, Huffington Post; Steve, LeBlanc, The Globe and Mail