Yesterday, Scott Brown virtually achieved the impossible, taking the vacant Senate seat in Massachusetts, the first Republican to hold a Senate seat in that State since 1972.
In what was basically a referendum on the direction the Country is being taken, Brown won 52% of the vote to the Democrats 47%. That percentage was fairly close to pre polling done in the day or two prior to the vote. It was said that early in the campaign, the Democrats had a 30 percentage point lead, so to blow something as huge as that, especially in a State that Democrats have had total dominance for the last ten years with all ten Congressmen and both Senators, must be a concern to Democrats, not only in Massachusetts, but across the whole Country.
Much has been already said that this Special Senate Election was a referendum especially on the ramifications of the Health Care Reform Bill. That may or may not be true, but what is interesting is those percentages that Brown did achieve.
That Health Care Bill is vastly unpopular across the length and breadth of the Country. Polling across the Country shows that the percentages of those for and against show that a larger percentage are against it. If the solidity of Democrats in Massachusetts is taken into account, with more in that State favouring a Democrat inspired Bill than would oppose it, then those percentage figures extrapolate out roughly close to the average for the whole of the U.S.
Even so, it would be hard to ignore the close relationship between what happened in Massachusetts and the feeling of the people when it comes to that Health Care Reform Bill, mainly because everybody is associating the two.
So when Nancy Pelosi comes out and says what she does in this short video, it is really disconcerting.
This video was posted to You Tube by Associated Press
She says, in respect of the Massachusetts vote, “we heard, we will heed, we will move forward with their considerations in mind.”
Then without even pausing for breath, she says, “but we will move forward for Health Care.”
This smacks of a classic case of listening to what the people have to say in a nice concerned way, wearing your ’serious face’, and then totally ignoring what was just said, almost as if to say that you are all wrong, and we know better than you what you really want.
This is plain, flat out arrogance, and there’s no other word for it.
Who cares what you think! We’ll do exactly what WE want to do.
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