The shot heard 'round the world

So that was how we started.

Last night, Massachusetts gave us "The Scott Heard 'Round the World". (I really wish I had made that up, but I didn't...) While I laid on the couch watching the election returns, I couldn't say much. Two reasons. One, I'm sick and my throat is on fire. Two, I kept seeing 52% Brown (R), 47% Coakley (D). Those figures didn't change. Then, when the results hit 75% of the votes counted, and the AP called the election for Brown, I was shocked. I mean, Massachusetts is seriously blue! Ted Kennedy, "the liberal lion", held that seat for so many years.

Now it's time for.... the blame game!

The blame game goes all the way to the top. Second (and third, fourth, fifth.. by now I don't remember) verse, same as the first. Here's what White House press secretary Robert Gibbs had to say last night during a press briefing about Tuesday's elections.

"The electorate is expressing a sense of anger that has been continuous since before the 2008 election that brought President Barack Obama into the White House. There is a tremendous amount of upset and anger. In many ways, we are here because of that upset and anger.”

Oh. Really? George W. Bush is at fault. That's getting old. Mr. Gibbs, you sound like my kids. Never accepting responsibility and blaming someone else when they get found out.

So what's next? We've seen that President Obama doesn't care at all about the Democrats. He completely ignored them in his health care speech on September 9th, 2009, by talking to "my Republican friends", and "my progressive friends". As we have seen, especially in the Senate, when they were trying to get their 60 votes, "democrat" does not necessarily mean "progressive".

What is next for me, is waiting to see when the Democratic Party starts to self-destruct. It's coming. I wonder if "The Scott Heard 'Round the World" is the start of the next American Revolution....