Republican Senator in Massachusetts, Illegal Aliens, Obamacare

FOXNews.com - Excuses, Excuses: Democrats Dig Deep to Explain Loss in Massachusetts: "Democrats are offering a wide variety of excuses to explain why a truck-driving, war-supporting, health care reform-opposing Republican will be sitting in 'Ted Kennedy's seat' in the U.S. Senate."

Ok, aside from my ignorance on what truck driving has to do with anything, here's the answer to those that are baffled by the epic Republican win, epic Democrat failure, in the now-defunct democrat bastion State of Massachusetts. Drum roll please...

The economy.

Wow, who'd a thunk it? The issue that appears to always determine modern elections. Yep, the economy. But wait, George W. you say? Nope, sorry, that doesn't wash anymore, because now there's a new factor affecting the economy. Drum roll please...

Bailout money, and bailout bonuses.

Yeah, the bailout isn't working, has been epic mismanaged, and is an epic failure by itself. Add to that the bonus money given to those who SCREWED us over in the first place... and yeah, there's a lot of people pissed off, and out of work no matter their political lean.

So there you have it, not too shocking. The only real surprise is that the Democratic un-elect was ever in the lead. I can only suppose that it was just a temporary difference in exposure to the public, since the Republican candidate was some unknown truck driver.

That said, it also probably didn't help that Martha Coakley does not look like, appearance only, someone who will fight for a constituency. She looks like someone who should be home baking cookies. I base this off one photograph that I've seen of her. :)

Sure, other people will say this or that, making the election results as some sort of complicated tale. It's not. People are pissed off. Things aren't turning around yet, though to be fair, it has only been a year since Obama's oath.

WARNING: The U.S. President is not about the person, it's about the nation. Any President who fails to realize this or acts outside the national interest, will not be elected to a 2nd term.

The U.S. public understands the idea behind the bailouts. We also understand that it is failing, and will continue to fail. I believe most people wish the market economy would have been allowed to continue... AIG failure, "Banks too big to fail" failure, etc. Yes, they should have been allowed to fail, it would have been a lesson learned, we'd have gone through as bad a time as we have, but would likely recover faster.

But no, we allow these monstrosities to continue, and they screw us over even more with higher interest rates and fees. It's just pathetic. They should have died. Other companies would have filled the void, companies that have survived by not sucking in the then-current economy. Companies that could have had their shot at serving a much larger market with their business model. But no... we all got the shaft.

Hope? Yeah, here's your hope, just bend over. That's the Obama hope, or at least what it has become. Poor decisions. Why he continued with George W.'s bailout I'll never know for sure, but I suspect personal interests of his or his staff. People wanted change, not a continuation. Pathetic.

So, big picture, what the Massachusetts election really signals is that Obama's first year in office is a failure.

What he should have done... let them die. It was not the government's responsibility until Obama decided to continue with the bailout program. Had he let them die, that would simply be the market forces at work. Sure, we'd go through a rough time, but the government could have been in a "helping the people" mode then, not the current "helping epic-fail corporations continue to live" mode.

Either way, I'm sure if McCain had been elected, we'd be in the same boat. I can see Reagan letting the market work as intended, but I just don't see many other people with balls that big.

Did anyone else get a sick feeling when it was decided that WE would bail out these failed corporations? That was the Holy Spirit talking, saying, "WTF, r U sToopiD?!" Well, maybe not exactly that, but something like that. And here we are still bailing them out, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same, as, it, ever, was.

A very wise man once told me a very wise saying... when it appears to you that you're digging yourself into a hole, stop digging. Hello? If losing Mass. isn't a big enough sign that Obama is digging his own grave, then, well, we're all screwed until we can get a real leader, who's qualified, can make the tough decisions, etc. So what else is Obama digging?

Healthcare reform, hmm. I kinda like it the way it is, we just need to stop illegals from abusing it. Stopping the flow from Mexico would be a nice start toward real healthcare cost savings. After securing our border (that sounds so bad, funny how it's true) we would then need to deport illegals from within, or have them pay restitution and go through proper immigration channels before making them legal, or something along those lines.

Point blank, illegal aliens are hurting more than helping. They come here, go to the emergency room for all medical needs, don't pay, have their babies, don't pay, send their profits to another country, refuse to learn English, have no allegiance to the U.S., create environmental problems, and more. So not only healthcare would be affected by controlling illegal immigration, but society in general would be affected, mostly in a positive way.

Let's say Obamacare somehow passes. Guess what, it's still fail. Why? Because the same problems affecting the current method will now plague the new method. Worse, illegals will no longer be isolated to emergency room waiting rooms. Yeah, Obamacare will not only be a U.S. healthplan, it'll be a worldwide health plan. We can now brag that not only does America feed the world, but that we are also the world's hospital.

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Yeah, have the entrance to all the Obamacare facilities be a golden door.

So there you go. Obama's bailouts and bungling of the economy has lead to a win for Republicans in Massachusetts. Healthcare reform, "Obamacare," is similarly bungled. Obama needs to pause, reassess his footing and what the U.S. wants for the U.S., ie no Obamacare, and then take steps to really solve the root of the problem with any healthcare system in America, ie illegal aliens, and those that don't pay for the medical services received. That would at least be a positive starting point for a first term, addressing a root issue instead of a derivative problem.