Who is Scott Brown?

Why, he is The Terminator, of course.

He just terminated the Obama Presidency and with it any hope of an ambitious liberal agenda.

The people of Massachusetts have spoken: That wasn’t Ted Kennedy’s seat, and they couldn’t wait for him to finally die so they could put a Republican in his place and kill the Senate super-majority that was needed to pass health care reform.

Quite a mouthful, sorry.

But here it is: Kennedy is dead, Brown is in, and it looks to these eyes a whole lot like the honeymoon is over.

Or is this merely backlash for Obama calling the Cambridge Police “stupid”?

Well, maybe. An Obama backlash for sure, though. A heavily Democratic state just handed a historically liberal seat to a man who vows to oppose any such legislation, starting with health care reform.

Obama has spent almost all of his political capital and was greatly counting on a bump in the polls once this thing got passed. Now it will not get passed, not in anything like its current form, and all the Democratic options are bad.

This is 1994 come early. You remember 1994, Contract With America and the obliviation of the Clinton agenda. It seems to me that health care reform was on the table then, too.

If 2010 turns into a year where Republicans make major gains in Congress, here’s the result: We will never, ever again have a meaningful push by the federal government to reform health care.

That would be two out of the last two Democratic Presidents having their hat handed to them for even trying.

America doesn’t want health care reform? It hurts too much to laugh at that one. Of course America wants and needs health care reform, they just can’t agree on HOW. The best chance we had was for one party to get SOMETHING passed, and then hammer away at the thing for the next generation until people stopped complaining about it.

Ugly, I know, pathetic for sure, but the only way to get meaningful reform done. One party passes something and then we keep working on it.

The Republicans had six years of a stranglehold on power and didn’t even attempt such reform. Now they’ve succeeded, spectacularly, in blowing up the Democratic plan.

And the lesson which will certainly be learned is, Never again…

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