(W)MMR: Scott Brown = MAN!

Warning, this is a political post. If you do not want to read my political musings, or are easily angered by conservatives, probably best to skip this one. But if you are overjoyed at a Republican actually winning Ted Kennedy's seat, please, read on!

Last night, something historic happened. Something monumental! Scott Brown, a Republican, won a Senate seat in Massachusetts! You read that right, we have a Republican Senator representing the bluest of blue states. Not only did Scott Brown win, he won by a pretty sizable margin...52% to 47%. In MA, that HUGE! You don't see Republicans win in that state unless they promise to be Democrats (see Romney, Mitt). But Scott Brown didn't run as a Democrat, he ran as an anti-Health Care, anti Democrat Republican. A true, red Republican. And won! In Massachusetts! Am I starting to make my point? This is huge!

And it's not just huge for Massachusetts, or the Senate, but the Country as a whole. Here's a few things Senator Brown's win had done.

1. The Democrats no longer have a 60-vote fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate. This is probably the most immediate, and important effect of Scott Brown's win. The Democrats can no longer force through whatever it wants. It will actually have to work with Republicans, take their input, and come to some sort of a compromise. Make no mistake about it, this vote was entirely a referrendum against the Health Care bill. People in this country just do not want politicians shoving things down our throats. And thats what the Democrats have been trying to do. From here on out, Obama and the Democrats will have to appeal to Republicans for support, and it should lead to some more moderate legislation.

2. Obama has completely lost his luster and influence. This is the third time in three months that Obama has failed to win support for a candidate he campaigned for. In November, he failed to hold onto the Governorship in New Jersey and Virginia, and now even a personal appearance in Massachusetts couldn't get a Democrat a win in the Senate race. Furthermore, its Obama's policies that are driving people, namely Independents, away from the Democrats. People do not like his far-left policies and legislation. Coakley didn't lose because MA all of a sudden became a red state. No, she lost because people right now are voting against the Democrats' policies in Washington. With no outside factors, Coakley wins this race in a landslide. But there is such a huge backlash going on against Washington right now, that any Democrat could be up against it.

This is big because it will be increasingly difficuly for Obama to rally Democrats to his cause this year. After watching what happened in Massachusetts, House members and those Senators up for re-election will be reluctant to side with Obama on his far left policies, for fear of the electoral backlash in November. Thus, Obama will have a hell of a time passing any of his Socialist policies.

3. Independents have shifted into the Republican camp. This is also big, because this voter bloc is the one that decides elections. If they are so fed up with Obama and his big government that they gave a MA Senate seat to a Republican, the backlash is less-blue states in November this year could be huge. Republicans need to pick up 40 seats to take back the House. And if this trend continues, it's definately possible.

4. The health care bill, ObamaCare, is dead with not the slightest prospect of resurrection. Brown ran to be the 41st vote for filibuster and now he is just that. Democrats have talked up clever strategies to pass the bill in the Senate despite Brown (refuse to seat him until they can vote and pass the bill, go to Reconciliation instead of letting the Senate vote again), but they won’t fly. Democrats know shenanigans like that would even further kill their chances in 2010.

Even in the House, they could have trouble getting the broad support for the bill they hoped for. After the Massachusetts fiasco, there’s sure to be erosion. How many Democrats in Republican-leaning districts want to vote for ObamaCare, post-Massachusetts? Not many.

It’s one thing for ObamaCare to be rejected by the American public in poll after poll. But it becomes a matter of considerably greater political magnitude when ObamaCare causes the loss of a Senate race in the blue state of Massachusetts.


This vote was a referrendum on Obama's Presidency, and the Democratic Congress allowing it to happen, unchecked. It was the people standing up and saying "we will not have ultra-liberal policies shoved down our throats!" It was a backlash against an awful Health Care reform bill. It was a message to all American Politicians...listen to us! Hear what we have to say! And don't think for a second that your ego and your arrogance is justified. We put you here to listen to us, and we can kick you out just as easily!

It should be an interesting electoral year, eh?