Senator-elect Brown's upset of Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley, who had led Brown handily in polls as recently as mid-December, follows other recent conservative victories in Virginia and New Jersey. Now, we are seeing a clear trend.
Brown, a Republican, ran as an independent Bay State voice against unrestrained federal spending and massive amounts of new national debt, the weakening of America's national defense, socialistic Obamacare, and other liberal excesses occurring in Washington, D.C. The coalition of Democrats, Independents, and Republican voters across the Commonwealth liked what they heard. They bought Brown's campaign cry, "We can do better!"What will happen next? We can surmise that political Progressives like President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will push ahead hard to implement their vision of universal health care. If they wish, Progressives can try to pass parts of health care by the nuclear option -- via budget reconciliation, which requires only 50 votes in the Senate, not the fillibuster-proof 60 votes the majority no longer has. But, even if they want to do this, they will still need to win important procedural votes first, and many in their caucus are balking, now terrified of their own political futures.
Despite the opposition of the American people to their version of health care legislation, the Progressives feel they MUST do this NOW; otherwise, they will have no accomplishments to sell voters on this November. They're wrong to think they must pass this bureaucratic, big-government boondoggle, but that's their perspective.
More traditional Democrats will urge a pull-back to a more centrist position, similar to what President Bill Clinton did after mid-term defeats for his party in 1994. Think triangulation. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Virginia, and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, are two senators who are urging their colleagues to go slow. Now, as then, there is an internal war between the so-called Blue-Dog Democrats, like Rep. Dan Boren, D-Muskogee, and the much larger group of true-believer Progressives, who follow the political teachings of Saul Alinsky, Antonio Gramsci, etc. Over the next week, the internal political bloodbath will be thick in the water.
Politics can be awful. But, it WILL be interesting to see what strategy President Barack Obama implements and articulates during his State of the Nation address, which occurs exactly one week from today on Wednesday, January 27th at 8 p.m.
Meanwhile, following the Massachusetts battle — in what many are calling "The Second American Revolution" — the never-ending work of patriotic Americans everywhere to win the hearts and souls of their fellow citizens and to guarantee the future of the American Republic continues.
