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Way to go, Scott!

Posted: January 25, 2010
1:00 am Eastern
© 2010

I didn't say it first, but I agree wholeheartedly.

"This one's for you, Mary Jo."

Last week's election of Scott Brown to replace Edward Kennedy in the U.S. Senate really was justice delayed for Mary Jo Kopechne, who died at the incompetent hands of the last Kennedy brother on July 18, 1969.

Because of money, family and political connections, Teddy Kennedy left the scene of Mary Jo's drowning in the car he'd been driving and proceeded into a historic run as a fixture in Washington.

This man, who never held a real job in his whole life, found his calling as a U.S. senator, ironically by completing the term of his brother John, who'd been elected president.

When Teddy wanted re-election, he got it – again and again and again – ultimately serving eight full terms. His position in the Senate became "Kennedy's seat," as though it belonged to him. It did, but only because voters re-elected him, as though not to do it would insult the Kennedy name and family.

He spent 46 years in office, his votes and legislation changing the United States from a free country to one that's now careening toward Marxist socialism.

When Kennedy died Aug. 25, for the first time in decades it was an open race for his Senate seat. But Democrats didn't worry. It was Massachusetts, after all. They figured their candidate was a shoo-in.

But something happened last Tuesday in that bluest of blue states, a state securely in the liberal pocket.

What happened was that a young, mostly unknown Massachusetts politician, Scott Brown, beat the odds and won election to the U.S. Senate to complete Kennedy's unexpired term. It's poetic justice that Kennedy died before his term was up!

Imagine! Democrat pundits figured wrong. Their candidate, state Attorney General Martha Coakley, lost.

What made the results historic wasn't just that it was to fill Kennedy's term, but that it wasn't just any candidate who won. It was a Republican!

Those pundits were really wrong.

The shock waves still haven't stopped reverberating, and the repercussions of Scott Brown's victory are already pushing the Obama administration to face up to the fact that the Obama magic isn't as pure as we'd been told – repeatedly told – mostly by Barack Obama himself. It was all that "hope and change" he talked about during the campaign and picked up by his supporters that carried him to the presidency.

People wanted "change" but didn't know what that meant. They talked "hope" but learned quickly that "hope" carried no currency. They also realized that with the new administration in charge, things would change – but not in the way they imagined.

It became clear that what the people wanted from their government made no difference to the people running Washington.

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From the president, down through congressional leaders, elected representatives and the countless appointed czars, there was a hard-left agenda that was followed and the voice of the people was totally ignored. In what was a full-court press, Obama and his partisans moved so quickly on so many fronts that it was almost impossible to see the whole picture. Clearly, it was intentional.

But it didn't take long for people to get the drift. The goal of the "hope and change" Obama administration was to have government take over as many sectors of the economy as possible, ultimately to control it along with the social direction of the country. Banks? Brokerages? Lending institutions? Insurance companies? Auto companies? Government even took over the college loan business.

Still on the agenda, government health care, cap and trade, international tax agreements, amnesty for illegals – all, while taxes, the deficit, government spending and unemployment soared and back-room deals proliferated.

The administration ended the war on terror, not by winning it, but by saying it doesn't exist! The American people, who are slow to anger, began to realize the Obama administration goes out of its way to avoid connecting Islam with terrorism and is especially conciliatory to Muslims.

This was carried to the extreme of giving accused terrorists the rights of American citizens by permitting them Miranda rights and the privilege of trials in this country for their crimes.

Our military was undermined in its charge to protect and defend our country by orders changing rules of engagement and watering down interrogation techniques.

These have resulted in criminal charges against our military for doing its job – with our government siding with the enemy against our own and with troops in the field being put in great danger because their ability to fight and defend themselves has been compromised.

Americans noticed. Washington didn't care.

Scott Brown noticed. He did care. He decided to run for the empty Massachusetts Senate seat and had no question as to his platform. For him, it was common sense. He's a patriot and a believer in the founding principles of this country. He didn't like the direction of the country under Obama and knew the best way to do something about it was to run for office and win.

He was everyman, speaking for the people. His platform was simple. He opposes Obamacare and promised to vote against it. He wants terrorism fought properly, no Miranda rights or civilian trials and strong interrogations. He believes in protecting our borders, no amnesty, cutting taxes, letting people keep more of their earnings, letting business thrive and getting rid of special-interest influence and backroom deals.

It was a platform that spelled GOP victory.

Predictably, Obama blames George Bush for the Democrat loss, and the pundits regard Brown and his supporters as low-class, redneck, truck-driving boobs.

Whatever you call them, they outnumber the Harvard-educated, self-appointed elites who are hell-bent on destroying this country.

There's a reckoning coming.

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