What Does it Mean?

Sully reacts to the Brown victory in Massachusetts.

There is, moreover, the incredible lie that somehow all the debt that lies ahead was created by Obama in twelve months, in a recession, when austerity would be fatal. This was a lie propagated mercilessly by the FNC/RNC and by partisan bloggers like Glenn Reynolds. And it has stuck, as Obama has pressed for centrist reform between the screamers on the left and the haters on the right.

 

I'm sorry but this is not an anti-government vote. It's a hissy fit because reality has finally hit and the conservative bromides of the 1980s work as poorly as the liberal bromides of the 1970s. If Brown were urging big, structural cuts in entitlements, if he were proposing junking health insurance reform because he has a plan to balance the budget in five years, if he were pledging to vote against the wars for the deficit's sake, if he were proposing ways to restrain private healthcare costs and Medicare's GOP-passed Medicare D - whose fiscal impact makes the current reform look like a tightwad's - it would be one thing. But he isn't and they aren't.

They merely want to kill a reform presidency. They have no alternative. They have no policy that could restrain health insurance costs and the desperate plight of the uninsured. They have no plans for tackling climate change, when they can bring themselves to admit it exists. They have no plans to win or end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that Obama himself isn't trying. They have no idea how to balance the budget - except more tax cuts!