Frugal Café Blog Zone

Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 20, 2010

Protest in Washington DC, November 2009: 'You can't fix STUPID, but you can VOTE them out' | Photo credit: robbybphotos, Flickr

From coast to coast for nearly a year, thousands of Americans have protested at town hall rallies and tea parties. They have written to their congressional reps and melted the phones in Washington, DC. They have expressed concern and outrage about the unprecedented power-grabbing, reckless spending, and heinous dismantling of our Constitution that Pres. Obama and his administration have been thuggishly forcing on the country.

And much of Congress and Team Obama have smugly thumbed their noses at American voters, with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and majority leader Harry Reid mocking and maligning these frustrated, angry Americans. Democrat members of Congress have refused to listen to their constituents. These pompous politicians have arrogantly ignored America to follow their own selfish agenda, rather than represent the desires of the majority of the American people who elected them.

Until now. Until the huge victory of Republican candidate Scott Brown in Massachusetts blew up in their faces like the ticking time bomb it was, and ALWAYS was.

Are you listening NOW?

Oops… should’ve listened to the people, should’ve defused the bomb, should’ve paid closer attention. You were all warned. Time to jump ship.

From Washington Post, Scott Brown wins Massachusetts Senate special election race:

State Sen. Scott Brown won a remarkable upset victory over state Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) tonight in a Massachusetts Senate special election, a victory likely to spawn broad-ranging political and policy consequences heading into the midterm elections.

“Tonight the independent voice of Massachusetts has spoken,” Brown said to raucuous cheers at his victory rally.

[...]

“I have no interest in sugar coating what happened in Massachusetts,” said Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (N.J.). “There is a lot of anxiety in the country right now. Americans are understandably impatient.”

Congressional strategists had warned in the closing days of the Massachusetts Senate race that a Coakley defeat had the potential to trigger a series of retirements within the Democratic ranks as members flee a political wave that could wash out dozens in the House and high single digits on the Senate side.

“My message to my clients? Jump ship now,” said one Democratic operative who advises a number of targeted Members of Congress. “Obama can’t help you.”

Democratic leaders spent much of Tuesday reaching out to vulnerable Members to convince them that the circumstances that led to Coakley’s demise were unique to her and the state and not indicative of the general political environment in which they will have to run in November.

From New York Times, A Year Later, Voters Send a Different Message:

It is not just questions of policy: for Mr. Obama and the Democrats, already worried about the coming midterm elections, the results could hardly have been more distressing. States do not come more Democratic than Massachusetts, the only one that voted for George McGovern over Richard Nixon in 1972, a fact that older residents still recount with fresh pride. By challenging the legacy of Edward M. Kennedy, the holder of the contested seat for 46 years and a liberal icon, the Republican victory could only be dispiriting to the left.

Most ominously, independent voters — who embraced Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign and are an increasingly critical constituency — seemed to have fled to Mr. Brown in Massachusetts, as they did to Republicans in races for governor in Virginia and New Jersey last November. It is hard not to view that as a repudiation of the way Mr. Obama and Democratic Congressional leaders have run things.

Oh, and “happy anniversary,” Mr. President…

Related reading:
Redstate: Obama’s Unicorn of Hope and Change Died Under the Weight of Ted Kennedy’s Ego
Gateway Pundit: He’s Got That Midas Touch… Obama Makes It 0 and 3 With Coakley (Video) and Oh Dear. Even Hardcore Obama Supporter McCaskill Says Dems Moved “Too Far, Too Fast” and Dr. Seuss on Scott Brown’s Big Win: Boom Boom Boom… Mr. Brown Makes Thunder
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Updates of Massachusetts Special Election 2010… Go, Brown, Go! Miracle in the Making? It’s Not Over Yet… BROWN WON, COAKLEY CONCEDES!
Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, Big Government: America Betrayed President Bush
Nice Deb: Ann Coulter On The Dem Smackdown In MA and Video: Scott Brown’s Victory Speech + Political Fallout Round-up
Joseph C. Phillips, Big Hollywood: The Wisdom of Massachusetts Voters
Ace of Spades HQ: Jimmy Carter Part II: Democrats Moving Away Sprinting from Obama
Hot Air: Politico: House Dems already starting to run from ObamaCare
Blue Crab Boulevard: Catch the Wave
Michelle Malkin: The Democrats’ Massachusetts meltdown and SEIU president Andy Stern clings to the blame-GOP card and Seeing red: Graphic of the night — and a cautionary note for the GOP
Flogging Bloggers; What Massachusetts Election? I Only Read The White House Blog and Schadenfreude – Media Matters In Desperate Denial Over Brown Win
Mcnorman’s Weblog: The Perils of Poor Judgment: A Rude Awakening
Bret Jacobson, Big Government: Winners, Losers and Lessons From Tuesday
Dancing Czars: Dems Assemble Circular Firing Squad Over Coakley Loss; Freedom Left Intact
VotingFemale Speaks!: Massachusetts Victorious in First Battle of the Second American Revolution; The Patriot’s Revolt against Tyranny of the DC Socialists
The Conservative Pup: “It’s The People’s Seat”
Diary of a Mad Conservative: Have we become a schizophrenic nation? and Mass. Senate Race: NBC News Cries Racism | The FOX Nation
Six Meat Buffet: Good Morning, DNC!
Riehl World View: Democrats Underestimated America’s Anger
GayPatriot: Why the Brown Revolution of ‘10 Has More Staying Power than the Obama Movement of ‘08 and Brown Victory: “The Most Significant Non-Presidential Election”?
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: ‘Teabaggers’ Tuesday Triumph
Patterico’s Pontifications: Did Obama Get Massachusetts’ Message? (Updated x3)
Scared Monkeys: “MASS”acre … Obamacare Soundly Defeated in Massachusetts as Republican Scott Brown Defeats Coakley … Pot Committed Obama Continues to Defy the People
Thomas Del Beccaro, Big Government: Between Barack and A Hard Place — The Lesson of ’68 Looms for Democrats
Paul A. Rahe, Big Government: George W. Bush Revisited
Critical Political Thinking: ~ Massachusetts Voters Demonstrate To Forty-Nine Other States: IT CAN BE DONE – (P.S. All Sitting Senators Strongly Advised To Take Note)
Sister Toldjah: Ahhh! The smell of Democrats circling the wagons
Firedoglake: Classy: DNC Throws Martha Coakley Under the Bus
Empty Suit: Scott Brown Wins
Hot Air Green Room: The liberal reaction to Scott Brown’s victory

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