It’s a worthwhile reminder to the GOP that even though this particular health care reform deal might be dead, that doesn’t mean that health care reform should not take place. Like M. Scott, I fear that Brown’s victory might be misinterpeted as a way to just support the status quo.

That said, I’ve also been wondering if there is a reason that Republicans have not always been so passionate on health care reform as Democrats. I have a theory that one of the reasons Republicans have been active in trying to defeat health care is not simply because they are mean-spirited people as some on the left might think, but because they know there is nothing in it for them- no incentive to work for change. This is what Mark Thompson over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen has to say about how the GOP views health care in response to fellow Leaguer Jamelle:

On Tuesday, Massachusetts voters humbled Democrats by reversing the decision of their state legislators and electing Republican Scott Brown to a U.S. Senate seat that has been held by democrats for all but 6 years since 1926. Tuesdays vote provided definitive proof that “God don’t like ugly. And he ain’t too fond of cute.”

The stunning win of Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race Tuesday has sent shock waves throughout the political world. But, as usual with tectonic shifts like this, everyone is totally misreading what happened.

Republicans have every reason to be crowing today and Democrats have every reason to be depressed. I would call what happened Tuesday night the “Browning” of America. The people of Massachusetts spoke with their votes that they are more interested in results, not party labels.

The problems both parties face is not with their bases, but with independent voters. There are more independent voters than there are Democrats or Republicans. In Massachusetts, 51% of the electorate is independent. The “Browning” effect is going to force both parties to come to the political center. That is the lesson from Tuesday vote. Any other spin is simply nonsense.

How quick political fortunes can turn particularly when politicians don’t heed the voices of citizens outraged by the actions taken by those who are to represent them. Perceived as an uncontrolled vehicle bearing down the road full speed ahead, the Patriots of the recent Tea Parties, regardless of their stripes, took it home to Boston where our national rebellion first began against taxation without representation-the state of Massachusetts. In put downs against average Joe’s, this time one Joe named Scott driving a Brown powered pick up clearly uncloaked the arrogance of the Obama Administration and cronies revealing how out of touch they are with middle class Americans.

The silent majority is silent no more. Middle America though told otherwise is smart enough to know the stimulus, bail outs and other expansions which smell of government takeovers will be at the expense of their disposable as well as main income. Clearly democrats in Congress assumed that the 2008 election gave them a mandate for change when what was asked is for something fairer and different. You may fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time for most folks aren’t fools.

Democratic Pollster Celinda Lake: “[T]here’s A Wave. And That Wave, It Hit Virginia; It Hit New Jersey; It Hit Massachusetts.”

In the run-up to the January 19 special election in Massachusetts to elect a replacement for the late Senator Ted Kennedy, all eyes were focused on the Democratic candidates with scant attention paid to Scott Brown the Republican nominee. After all, Massachusetts is the bluest of blue states and with no Republicans in the state delegation to Congress. This should be a cakewalk for the Democrats. And yet, Brown is nine points behind state attorney general Martha Coakley, the Democratic nominee.