Pathetic Displays in Washington and Massachusetts

The growing possibility that Republican Scott Brown might upset Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election to replace the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, has Democrats in Congress scrambling for strategies to pass the Obama Health Care "Reform" Bill before he can be seated and has the Coakley campaign wallowing in the mud, using any tactic to derail Brown.

This morning's Democrat and Chronicle outlined the frenzied efforts to come up with ways to pass "Obamacare" without the 60 seat super majority the Democrats now enjoy in the Senate; and which they would lose if Brown is elected. One of the possibilities is to hurry the vote while Massachusetts election officials drag out the certification of Brown's election. Democrats in Washington acknowledge that such an obvious defiance of the voting public would bring a "firestorm of criticism". Apparently, however, their agenda is more important to them than democratic principles like honoring the will of the people.

Meanwhile, in Massachussets, the Coakley campaign reached pathetic, desperate depths. One campaign ad claimed (falsely) that Brown would refuse emergency room treatment for rape victims. The PowerLine posts linked here, here, and here, and the related links in those posts, outline the state of the race in the Bay State.

Frankly, this election and the ridiculous spectacle of the "negotiations" to pass a health care bill (which have included what amount to "bribes" to certain states to secure their Senator's vote, at the expense of other states) are among the things driving the growing "tea party" movement.

More and more people have come to realize that our elected representatives do not really feel a need to represent our interests as opposed to the intersts of their political parties, special interest groups and their personal agendas. These officials have become a modern aristocracy whose arrogance and disdain for the average guy has become monumental.

Scott Brown may be a harbinger of the awakening of the American people to the dangers of yielding too much power to statists and special interests. If he does win, it would be appropriate that the first shot in this new revolution was fired in the same state from which "the shot heard 'round the world" was fired.