The Smarm Stops Here

The GOP Elephant in the Room

I knew that the Massachusetts Senate race for the Republican was going to be hard-won considering that only 12% of the population in the state are registered Republicans. I even feared that the Democrats would steal it like they did during the gubernatorial election in Washington State with Gregoire and more recently in the Senate race in Minnesota with Franken, but I didn’t know it was going to be a landslide for the red team. Granted, a landslide would have required more like a 10 point win; but I think in a state where you had Ted Kennedy representing you for almost half a century along with that whining, “I was swift boated”, flip-flopper John Kerry, it’s safe to say that a five point win constitutes a landslide victory.

Even David Brooks of the NYTimes will concur that the recent election of Scott Brown to the Massachusetts Senate seat is a barometer of how the Americans feel about the Obama administration’s obsession with redistribution of wealth, government takeover of health care and anything else they can get their gangly fingers on. Brooks’ recent article entitled Politics in the Age of Distrust, shows that even someone who writes for a libelous newspaper can’t avoid the GOP elephant in the room.

If Martha Coakley had dressed up as Betsy Ross and traveled around giving out American flags to natives of Massachusetts, it still wouldn’t have sponged away the big blue “O” on her front. The people of the state of Massachusetts have spoken. They always do seem to have a way of making their presence known and their voice heard loud and clear. Obama needs to cut his losses and stop kvetching about what Bush did…honestly, I thought he had figured out by now that this line gets him nowhere.

“…the same thing that swept Scott Brown into office, swept me into office. People are angry and they are frustrated. Not just because of what has happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.” – said to George Stephanopoulos in an ABC interview on January 20^th.

This guy is insufferable. In what universe and by what logic does the same thing that swept Obama into office 14 months ago (i.e. Americans fed up with Republicans acting like Democrats) translate into the same thing that swept Scott Brown into the Senate seat of one of the bluest states in our great nation?

The only possible conclusion that a sentient person can come to after seeing the results of last Tuesday’s election is that the opposite if what happened 14 months ago is now true. People are angry and frustrated precisely with you Mr. President, not President Bush and his ilk. They don’t want universal health care, they don’t want “social justice”, and they don’t want your attitude.

I have heard people saying that now no Democrat is safe. True enough. I would venture to say that no American is safe until our current administration is flung into oblivion.

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