Dems want it both ways... Americans be damned

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2010/01/18/pelosi/index.html?source=rss&aim=/politics/war_room

Pelosi says we will have healthcare "one way or the other." On the one hand, Obama headed to MA yesterday to plead his case that the "health are bill is in jeopardy"! They realize that a loss there would be a stinging defeat in what has quickly become a referendum on the current healthcare bills. One candidate has pledged to pass it - she had a 30 point lead a few months ago. Her opponent has pledged to vote against it - he has a 9 point lead in a poll released on the morning of the election. (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/senate/ma/massachusetts_senate_special_election-1144.html)

So, on the one hand, the gun to the head of the voters is "you won't get healthcare if you vote for Brown."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/19/rep_weiner_health_care_dead_if_scott_brown_wins.html

The gun to the head of the rest of the voters is, even if you pull off an astounding victory by electing a Republican to the Senate in traditionally Democratic Massachusetts and say "NO" to healthcare, we'll pass it ANYWAYS!

If Brown does win, the Democrats controlling the state are threatening not to certify the election results and let him be seated in the Senate in time to vote on the bill. Contrast this with the Democrats saying Coakley will be sworn in IMMEDIATELY if she wins and you have a tyrannical government on your hands that gives no account to the will of the people.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/01/19/new-mass-senator-sworn/

Historical Significance

The Senate seat up for grabs is the one previously occupied by Ted Kennedy. If Brown, a Republican, were to win the seat previously held by the Democratic leader who's life goal was to push national healthcare and thus stop the bill in its tracks, the irony and embarrassment would be a very bitter pill for Obama and his ilk to swallow. They will have been given the political equivalent of the finger by the people (who, as we know from the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, are the ones that are REALLY in charge - in theory anyways).

Lets go back a bit further, to say... 1775.



Now, those Mass residents would say that the current residents are pansies, although they may applaud them for standing up to tyrannical gov't in the short term. The real truth is that they would've never let it get this far.

Sons of Liberty

They started protesting tyrannical actions by the British government beginning in 1765. Their most famous act was ultimately the Boston Tea Party on Dec. 16, 1773. They had members in many states, including Patrick Henry, John Hancock, James Otis Paul Revere and Dr. Joseph Warren. (Patrick Henry, obviously, was a Virginian)

They forced British loyalists into hiding beginning in 1766. An event they are quite famous for is the incident involving Andrew Oliver. He was to be commissioned as the Distributor of Stamps for Massachusetts. On August 14, 1765 an effigy of him was found hanging in a tree on Newbury Street. Next to it, was a devil climbing out of a large boot. (A play on words regarding the Earl of Bute)

A large crowd gathered and the sheriff's were commanded to remove the display but refused to in fear for their lives. Before the day was over Oliver's property on Kilby street was burned, his effigy was paraded to his frount yard where it was beheaded with the occupants of his house looking on, followed by his house being stoned. The effigy was then taken to nearby Fort Hill where it was burned in a large fire. Later that night the Sons of Liberty ransacked Oliver's (now abandoned) home. It was very clear who was in charge in Massachusetts - the people, not the tyrannical government.

From the South Carolina chapter of the Sons of Liberty, we get the origins of the yellow Gadsden Flag, with it's rattlesnake and the now famous words, "Don't Tread on Me." It doesn't take much to see how the origins of that flag now resonate with the revived movement to dispel tyrannical government. In fact, that's what they are doing in Massachusetts today.

Tying It Together

On April 19, 1775 Massachusetts Minutemen fired the shot heard 'round the world against the oppression of the world's largest super-power. Today, January 19, 2010, they will have another chance to do the same. The current government has made it clear that the will of the people is of no account to them. The Massachusetts patriots will fire their shot heard 'round the world one ballot at a time. Whether the government chooses to listen to that is a different matter altogether. One thing is for sure, the people of Massachusetts in 1775 wouldn't stand for the dictation of their lives by an oppressive government that was unresponsive to their wishes. We will see if the people of Massachusetts in 2010 will do the same.

The British Boston Commissioner of Customs, John Malcom, was tarred and feathered twice.