By Mr. Curmudgeon
Democrats are scared and scratching their heads in reaction to Tuesday’s rout of Democrat Martha Coakely at the hands of Massachusetts’ Sons and Daughters of Liberty. On one hand, they say Coakely ran an inept political campaign against the Republican underdog Scott Brown. On the other hand, they say public outrage that continues to build against ObamaCare resulted from the inability of its Democratic proponents to articulate its benefits and successfully counter “misinformation” by its opponents. They are wrong on both counts.
Thomas Jefferson explained ObamaCare and Martha Coakely’s rejection by a majority of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts over two centuries ago:
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
Ah, “A decent respect to the opinions of mankind.” Jefferson and his colonial brothers felt compelled by decent respect to pen an eloquent indictment of the king’s offenses in the Declaration of Independence. King George felt no such obligation. Trampling upon the rights of his loyal subjects was a sign of his royal contempt for the opinions of those he governed. Every good faith petition made by colonial representatives to the King was rejected out of hand. His North American subjects were, after all, rough frontiersmen not of noble birth. When they rebelled, King George was determined to “keep the rebels harassed, anxious, and poor, until the day when, by a natural and inevitable process, discontent and disappointment were converted into penitence and remorse.”
Like King George, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and President Obama have no respect for the opinions of those they perceive as subjects. Like King George, their governance is designed to keep us “harassed, anxious and poor.” Like King George, they too believe America’s “discontent and disappointment” will dissolve into “penitence and remorse.” The closed-door meetings, the multi-billion dollar bribes, the out-of-hand dismissals of public disapproval of the health care bill, all led to their stunning defeat in Massachusetts.
They looked at the political map and assumed a solid blue state would suffer continued abuses as loyal members of the king’s personality cult. By viewing reality through the distorted prism of politics, Pelosi, Reid and Obama forgot they were dealing with human beings. As of this writing, King Obama and his Privy Council continue planning strategies to circumvent the people’s will. They do not hear opinions they cannot respect, even when doing so condemns their party and its agenda to defeat.
Like the single-minded and rebellious Lucifer in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Obama and his minions yell at Massachusetts and the nation, “To the last, I grapple with thee; from Hell’s heart, I stab at thee; for hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.”
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