Posted on 01/21/2010 7:56:04 AM PST by SmithL
There are two ways to look at Republican Scott Brown's pivotal victory in the Senate race to represent Massachusetts.
-- The voters looked at runaway spending in Washington and the corrupt deals cut to grease the support of key Democratic senators, government workers and Big Labor for Obamacare, and said: Enough.
-- Fickle voters in a state that gave Obama 62 percent of the vote in November 2008 turned around and handed victory to a Republican, who pledged to block President Obama's health care package, because they voted in a knee-jerk response to this question: Whom do I hate the most today?
My guess is that the answer is: some of both.
The cycle of voters rejecting the party they've put in power has accelerated. Party leaders can take the credit for this rejection, as they have been brazen in abusing power once they've secured it.
I have little sympathy for supporters who claim they are shocked that Obama has governed, not from the center, but from the left. For the most part, Obama has delivered on his promises.
Granted, some of what Obama promised - universal health care that would raise taxes solely for families earning more than $250,000 - never could be delivered. But D.C. Dems could have put together something that was a lot less objectionable.
Team Obama has heaped the blame on Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley for running a lame campaign. Coakley did misstep in claiming that al Qaeda was "gone" from Afghanistan. Worse (oddly), she expressed scorn to the Boston Globe for the very notion of campaigning like "standing outside Fenway Park" and "shaking hands." In any other year, the Democratic nominee could do far worse and win.
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What? No GW Bush blame?
If only they had seen the light a year and a half ago.
A large percentage of Mass voters who work for private companies have so called “ cadillac health care plans” especially since Masscare has driven their costs up by 30% already. They looked at Obama’s pledge of no new taxes if you make less than $250k.....lie! Open meetings on C-span...lie! And Joe Wilson didn’t need to yell it from the congressional chambers...lie after lie all year!
Fickle voters? C’mon! Nearly 50 years with the same guy in this one seat and suddenly they’re fickle? If they go Dem when Brown has to defend his seat then you can say they’re fickle.
Bush’s fault
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