I've read a lot of analysis over the past two days about Tuesday's historic repudiation of Barack Obama and the Democrats who control Congress, but here's an explanation of what happened in just four paragraphs from the editorial pages of The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
WHO'S THE BOSS?
Democrats, liberals, progressives, socialists and many of the muckety-mucks of the left-leaning punditocracy have been working overtime to dismiss the import of the election of Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts.
Mr. Brown, a state senator, stunned the political world Tuesday by defeating the Democrats' "sure thing" candidate, state Attorney General Martha Coakley, in a special election to fill the seat of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. But the margin of victory confirms this was no fluke. And it is not hyperbole to suggest that the wisdom of suddenly independent-minded Bay State voters might have saved the nation.
For an important check and balance to the Democrats' agenda, a full trot into socialism, has been restored — the filibuster. And, immediately, that places in peril the left's licentious health care "reform" proposal. But it also affects everything the Democrats want, including judicial appointments.
It remains to be seen whether Massachusetts is the bellwether for this fall's midterm congressional elections. But Scott Brown's election clearly is a shot low across the Democrats' bow that, in the least, will humble the braying donkeys and remind them that the people really are in charge.
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