While he may not be the idealist of ideal candidates (ideal being defined as NOT republican, rather more conservative than what you would typically expect of a republican of course ) – nonetheless, Scott Brown won, and he’s better than the alternative.

Why, you ask?

Because the form of government which was designed for this great nation was NEVER supposed to have a super majority with a president of the same party in the white house. Senators like Al Franken and nutjobs like Nancy Pelosi were never supposed to be voted into the system in the first place. The failure of the American people to elect those of sound mind and judgement is at fault for the pain we’ve had to endure with these jokers in office. It was us who decided not to act, to rest on our laurels and decide that ‘someone else will vote‘. It was us who didn’t vet the candidates properly and we are paying the price.

To quote a famous story passed down from the days of the declaration of independence:

At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 18, 1787, a Mrs. Powel anxiously awaited the results, and as Benjamin Franklin emerged from the long task now finished, asked him directly: “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic if you can keep it” responded Franklin.

With all that’s gone on this past few years, I hope we have realized as a nation that we need to pay closer attention or we’re going to lose everything we enjoy, to predators from within. Predators whom don’t care what we want. Predators who introduce and/or vote for bills their own constituents don’t even support. For example: I could care less what Barney Frank or Pelosi wants or what other congressmen from other states want, if someone represents my district and my district doesn’t want a healthcare bill; THEY BETTER NOT BE VOTING FOR IT. It IS that simple.

I digress

So what does this mean for democrats? that’s the question of the day. Pelosi is out there touting that no matter what, healthcare reform WILL go on. I’m wondering how she plans on making that happen without the super-majority. From what I’ve been able to tell it seems that the only way to do that is to pass the current bill as it stands which WON’T make many people very happy; it would almost spell disaster for the congress this year a-la 1994 all over again.

We’ll see what happens… We can only pray that this is enough to keep the sweeping “change you can believe in” at bay until we can fix this mess.

Change I can believe in entails my 1 year old son NOT having a -$186,717 net worth on the day of his 1st birthday.

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