I imagine when Barak Obama looked outside the morning after what is being referred to as a modern day Boston massacre, his sun was gone (or at least dimmed). Perhaps he “turned on some music to start [his] day, lost [himself] in a familiar song, closed [his] eyes and slipped away.” Slowly and surely, the days since the eve of his one year anniversary have revealed something amiss in the way he’s governing America. The liberal version of health care reform, cap and trade, and foreign terrorist trials in New York, among other political faux pas, are fading from his myopic view and the volume of the voice of the people is being turned up.
Finally those of us who cringe every time he makes a move toward socialism and leftist ideals can breathe a sigh of relief. Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts not only gives equilibrium to a frightfully unbalanced senate, but it brings about the kind of change that gives many Americans hope for the next three years. Finally, the proverbial “his day is coming / how much longer can he get away with it” public sentiment is coming to fruition. Obama’s hand has been called. His execution of disastrous decision making has been stayed. The voice of moral clarity and common sense cried out for a reprieve and the voters of Massachusetts responded with approval.
For most of Obama’s first year in office conservatives tried voicing their disapproval of his agenda only to be ignored, disparaged, and talked down to. But now members of his own party are joining the chorus. Echoing what many Americans have been saying all year, Rep. Marion Berry, D-Ark said “You’re trying to do too much too quickly.” Moreover, while railing at Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner concerning the bailout, Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass. said “It just stinks!” Rounding out the trio Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. searching for clarity in what the Whitehouse really wants said “We’re not getting much guidance from the mother ship.”
In a recent article in the National Review Online, writer Yuval Levin while referring to the President’s demeanor at the State of the Union speech said he seemed “amazingly disconnected from the moment.” Levin opined that Obama seemed to depict the loss of the democrat senate seat in Massachusetts as resulting from the public being “downtrodden and depressed…” but Levin concluded “the public mood seems more like fed up.”
Clearly, it is time for the President to listen to all the people - from red states and blue. They have something to say and it is probably worth hearing. Hopefully, President Obama will give serious thought to the election in Massachusetts, because unlike much of the liberal sentiment clouding the path of just governance in Washington, what happened in Massachusetts is more than a feeling. It is the voice of wisdom, perseverance, and passion of the American ideal rising up to assume its rightful place in the pursuit and expression of freedom.
