Ambulance Driver

Yesterday’s election of Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts special election to fill the seat held by Sen. Ted Kennedy can only be labeled a disaster for the current health care reform efforts in Congress. Already many members of both the Senate and House are getting Tony Romo-like “happy feet” in the face of the repudiation of a liberal candidate running for a seat once held by a liberal icon in the most liberal state in the country.

One could excuse them from thinking, “Am I next?”           

Consequently, don’t expect Democratic leadership to be able to keep their majorities in lock-step and push something through to the President’s desk. Many moderate votes that seemed solid as late as last week are going to switch to “no.”

ObamaCare is deader than Julius Caesar.

But that’s not the only thing to learn from this bombshell of an election. The Brown campaign is now saying that while voter opposition to Congress’ health care reform was strong, their internal polling pointed to Brown’s stance on terrorism to be his biggest wedge issue.

Brown was consistent in his message that terrorists did not have a right to a tax-payer funded lawyer, that they should be brought before military tribunals and not the Federal Courts, that detaining them without trial was fine with him and that waterboarding was not torture and was a technique that should be used to garner information.

Ambulance Driver believes that a vast majority of Americans agree with this and those elected officials who have misjudged the electorate on this issue now have a lot to think about.