Don't Get it!

It is difficult for me to believe that some people do not understand the results of Massachusetts election.
These are my thoughts on the matter, but me know what you think.

Most of the media and liberals in Washington DC thinks that the election of Scott Brown to Sen. Kennedy's seat is a consequence of the American peoples frustration with the legislative establishment in Washington DC, and not a direct reaction to this Administrations domestic policy, specifically healthcare, taxation, spending and terrorism. They continue to assert that the American people are upset not with this last year in Washington but rather the last eight years of the Bush Administration. They base this, I believe, on Obama's overwhelming victory in last year's presidential election. However, I believe that Obama's victory was as much a repudiation of Bush's excessive spending and the economy as anything else.

President Bush and the Republican Party did very little to give the American people a sense of fiscal restraint and reining in government. Candidate Obama at least gave lip service to balancing the budget, to transparency in government, and in limiting special interest groups access in Washington DC. But over the last year Americans have watched transparency turn into invisibility, fiscal restraint turn to creating deficits in one year that the Bush administration took eight years to run up, and limiting special interest group access to mean just a different group of special interests such as liberals, unions and those that agree with the Obama left wing agenda.

I do believe Americans want to see some change in healthcare, things like more competition, ability to maintain policy coverage after leaving there their job, and a slowdown in the acceleration of premiums. I do not believe Americans want universal health coverage that will increase the cost of healthcare and their insurance premiums and increase the federal deficit. Americans do not want to see the kind of back door deals that occurred in December and January that under any other circumstances would be called corruption if they were not in the halls of Washington DC.

The election of Scott Brown to the Senate from Massachusetts is in fact a repudiation of Obama's policies. Americans want fiscal restraint from their government, they want a less intrusive government, they want all Americans to be treated equally and not have corporations Or unions have special access.

There are liberals in Washington who believe that the Obama administration's inability to deliver on their promises of healthcare and social justice vis-à-vis the gay-rights movement and the wars, among other things are the reasons the people in Massachusetts repudiated the Democratic candidate and urge a doubling down on those policies. In truth, I believe if the Democrats and the Obama administration adopt this policy it will mean a huge victory for Republicans this November. As someone who leans pretty solidly Republican this is an attractive scenario. However, it is not healthy for this country. I do not want to see bad policy enacted just so Republicans can gain ascendancy in 2010 or 2012.

There are those among the Republican Party who claim that Republicans need to broaden the base. That the repudiation of Bush's policies were a clear indication that Republicans need to move to the middle. I believe, however, that Obama's victory was indeed a repudiation of Bush's policies, but Bush's policies relative to the growth in government and excessive spending, not his conservative ideals. America is still a center-right country. The Republican Party, if it wants to regain its position of authority, must continue to espouse conservative values fiscally internationally and socially in order to regain their position of authority in Washington. And I believe, they need to come up with a positive message to prove to the American people that they are not going to go back to the policies of continued government growth and unencumbered spending.

So, that's what I think. What do you think?