Scott Brown Election Results Fallout

Where do I even start this morning? I woke earlier than usual and pulled up Memeorandum (aggregated news) to find what the chatter and fallout is this morning, surprise, surprise the left is in a tizzy with infighting, finger pointing, name calling, blame-pinning and all other kinds of goodies. In fact, there is so much of it I don’t even know where to start.

I am happy.

How about I just start out with Barney Frank, aka Bawney Fwank. Philip Klein in the Spectator has a transcription from MSNBC last night, Frank rattling off his feelings post election. Barney Shrugging?:

….But our respect for democratic procedures must rule out any effort to pass a health care bill as if the Massachusetts election had not happened. Going forward, I hope there will be a serious effort to change the Senate rule which means that 59 votes are not enough to pass major legislation, but those are the rules by which the health care bill was considered, and it would be wrong to change them in the middle of the process.

As Clifton says this morning, if Barney Frank is (potentially) throwing in the towel on Obamacare, how in the world can Pelosi scrounge up 218 Dems in the House that are willing to risk their necks? Note: I am reading that she is doing just that, more on that later. Moving on, how about this from Politico:

Republican Scott Brown’s upset win in Massachusetts Tuesday threatened to derail any hopes of passing a health reform bill this year, as the White House and Democratic leaders faced growing resistance from rank-and-file members to pressing ahead with a bill following the Bay State backlash.Democratic leaders insisted they planned to press ahead with health reform, and met late into Tuesday night in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. But they made no decisions about how to proceed

Senator Bayh (D: Indiana) is admitting what we all have known for a while, that the Democratic party has been hijacked by the far-left in this country and that Obama/Pelosi/Reid are the figureheads of just that. Massachusetts proved that (in the backlash) last night:

“The only we are able to govern successfully in this country,” Bayh warns, “is by liberals and progressives making common cause with independents and moderates. Whenever you have just the furthest left elements of the Dem party attempting to impose their will on the rest of the country — that’s not going to work too well.”

How about this in the Daily Beast, Mort Zuckerman writing something that I could have 10 months ago, that Obama is an ideologue leftist and has misjudged the entire country (in his socialist image), that a health care takeover in the midst of 10% unemployment is lunacy. Too little, too late, Zuck:

He’s misjudged the character of the country in his whole approach. There’s the saying, “It’s the economy, stupid.” He didn’t get it. He was determined somehow or other to adopt a whole new agenda. He didn’t address the main issue.This health-care plan is going to be a fiscal disaster for the country. Most of the country wanted to deal with costs, not expansion of coverage. This is going to raise costs dramatically.

In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual. He did change them. It’s now worse than it was. I’ve now seen the kind of buying off of politicians that I’ve never seen before. It’s politically corrupt and it’s starting at the top. It’s revolting.

Reader C-Gen in NY also emailed me something particularly sweet. Sweet as in the tasty crocodile tears over at Newsweek today. C-Gen points out that Dems are blaming progressive PJ bloggers for the massive defeat and loss of Ted Kennedy’s seat (and this Newsweek article claims last night had nothing to do with the One)!

Discussion throughout the day at Memeorandum.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention as well that I received a nasty, threatening email from an ACORN activist yesterday concerning the absentee ballot fraud video out of Mass., a person claiming to know ‘Isabel Melendez’ and such. Yes, little old me, who woulda thunk?

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