Brown Win in Mass a Victory for Virginians

While the national and state Democrats deny it, Scott Brown's Senatorial election is a direct repudiation of much of their agenda. That Massachusetts, a historically liberal state, would provide the rebuke underscores how extreme and out-of-step with the public the Democrats' legislative proposals really are.

Senator-elect Brown consistently stated that, if elected, he would vote against the Democrats' plan to radically change the way health care is purchased and administered in the US. In his victory speech on election night, Brown said that his election would force Democrats to scrap their healthcare scheme; he invited Democrats to support Republican efforts to correct problems with health insurance administration, availability, and competition while preserving the free-enterprise foundation of our medical care.

Every Democratic version of healthcare "reform" would either immediately replace the current health insurance system with the Federal government as the "single payer", or else set conditions that would gradually force Americans into government-run healthcare. Polling going back to last summer, when details of the Democrat's actual proposals were revealed, consistently showed a public opposed to a federal take-over, and objecting to the massive debt it would entail.

The increasingly desperate attempts by the Obama administration and Democrat leaders in Congress to cobble together enough votes to pass the bill were revealed to not only be unethical - buying the votes of Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu and Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson and giving special tax exemptions to organized labor to stop their oposition - but also arguably unconstitutional. While Republicans have offered alternatives to a government take-over, local Democrats, notably State Senator Mark Herring, have essentially remained on the sidelines throughout the debate over Virginians' healthcare.