Of All Places
Obama Nation Building
Written by Douglas Wilson in Blog and Mablog, Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Well, it looks as though the Lord has been very kind to us on the health care monstrosity. Not only was He kind to us, He was kind to us through the instrumentality of the people of Massachusetts. Whodah thunk?
Without getting into any rah rah republican stuff over this, which I don't think I know how to do anyway, I simply want to point to the consequences of Scott Brown's election as senator from Massachusetts. This was about as clear a referendum on the health care proposal before Congress as can be imagined. If the Democrats double down on this, and they force through passage of the health care bill despite this message, then they will have become the Demoncrats, and the tenuous bands holding our civil polity together will quite simply come unstuck. The tea parties would be ten times bigger, and they wouldn't be tea parties anymore -- more like Jolt Cola parties.
This was not a blunt message. It was a blunt instrument message.
The leadership will not want to do it, but I think there is no way that the (many) nervous Democrats in the middle will not take full advantage of the cover that this election provides to them. And this means, despite the brave talk and bluster in the days running up to this election, that the health care bill is almost certainly dead. This, despite the fact that we didn't deserve deliverance from the health care monstrosity. We still don't deserve deliverance from it. But it looks as though the Lord sent it anyway. From Massachusetts. Of all places.
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