Democrats Lose Super Majority, Kennedy's Seat Goes Red

"In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees. In any other time in our history, this man would have been laughed off the stage as an unqualified and a disaster in the making by the most conservative of conservatives. Instead, the commonwealth of Massachusetts is close to sending this bad joke to the Senate of the United States."

So said Keith Olbermann on the eve of the Massachusetts special election to fill the seat occupied by liberal Democrat Teddy Kennedy for the past 46 years. If anything demonstrates the public's rejection of the Obama "progressive" policies, it is the fact that Republican Scott Brown, the man described so colorfully by Keith Olbermann, was able to overcome a 30 point deficit, the Democrats political lock on the Commonwealth, and a last minute push by the president to win Kennedy's senate seat.

There have been three major elections since Obama was sworn in, and the Republicans have won all three. In Virginia, New Jersey, and now Massachusetts, the Democrat party is hearing loud and clear that they misread the meaning behind Obama's election. The public was mad at George Bush. He had allowed federal spending to increase as if he were a liberal, he looked inept during the aftermath of Katrina and was nowhere near winning the two wars he had started. Obama was a repudiation of Bush. It was not a mandate for a socialist agenda. Yet that is what we got -- and rather quickly.

Obama's entire first year was spent alternately attacking the rich and embracing the Muslim world. That is not what the public wanted or expected, hence the immediate backlash. Spending all his efforts in the last half of the year to push through a health bill that promoted class warfare rather than focus on any real solutions that had bipartisan agreement showed his true intentions. And they have nothing to do with moderation. His is a far left agenda built on the belief that the people deserve to be taxed and the government deserves to spend as much as possible. It is the arrogance of the left that believes they are best equipped to decide who is entitled to how much.

Scott Brown won -- despite being in the minority party and, yes, in spite of his nude photo from 18 years ago -- because the people of Massachusetts saw what the national Democrat party agenda was and repudiated it. They do not want to be taxed to death just so that the Congress can dole out their money as they see fit. They do not want to support a party that would close Gitmo and bring those who want to destroy us here to benefit from our justice system. They do not want to support an administration that is redefining the Imperial Presidency or a Congress that makes secret deals and pay offs just to ram through legislation that the people oppose.

The voters have spoken again and will have a chance to be heard come this November when many more seats will go from blue to red.