Not watching returns....

Last night the Dems were told by the electorate that they do not approve of the direction that "hope and change" is going. Not at all. The sole house seat that was up for grabs went to a Dem, but only because the GOP rep in question pulled out less than 5 days before the election and declared for the Dem: she was being soundly beaten by an independent conservative and in spite cast her lot with the Dems. Because she was still on the ballot, she received 5% of the vote plus enough confusion to elect the Democrat. Otherwise -- had there been a GOP primary -- the small "c" conservative Republican would have won.

And the two Democratic governors that Obama stumped for ... lost. The Obama magic was not in evidence last night. The coat-tails were actually cling-ons.

You see, as the polls became clear last week that both Greig Deeds and Jon Corzine were going to lose, the White House started saying that this vote was not important and that this was not an early referendum on the Obama plan. Gibbs the press secretary stated last night that Obama wasn't even watching the returns.

How stupid can you be?

If true, there are two ways of looking at it: (1) Obama wasn't watching because he already knew that he was toast; and (b) he is so removed from reality that he deemed this irrelevant. Since we can be sure that he WAS in fact monitoring the results if not actually glued to the TV, and that Gibbs is lying out of his pie-hole, this statement is simply insulting. Only a bona-fide Kool-Aid drinking O-bot could accept this spin.

Corzine -- the ex-Goldman Sachs (funny how that name comes up again) chairman -- is a billionaire. Or so close as makes no difference. Yet despite a profoundly "blue state", and many, many millions spent and the Obama fairy dust sprinkled liberally, he got soundly pounded. At least 6 points ... about as bad as Bush's beating by Obama. You can't say this was close, but Obama has a mandate ... you can't have it both ways. If anything Corzine's defeat in the heavy union state is far more telling. They were unable to buy the votes. His nemesis, Chris Christie, bu contrast is self-made. Public schools and Seaton Hall law school are hardly the stuff of king makers. As U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Christie has all sorts of bad smelling skeletons in his closet: most are investigations and indictments of Democrat politicians in New Jersey (the actual number also feature a balance of Republicans, but the press prefers to talk about vendettas against left-wingers). Corzine tried to paint Christie with the Bush paint brush -- Christie was a major supporter and fund raiser for Dubbya -- but even that wouldn't stick.

O-bot Gibbs will try and tell you that this election was unimportant ... but why was the Messiah stumping around New Jersey on the Sunday before the election for an unimportant event?

And the beating in Virginia -- a swing state that was supposed to have permanently gone to the Blue crowd -- was even more sincere. Deeds was obliterated at the polls. And this electorate went for Obama in 2008. So something has changed. Remember Obama promised change? Only the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia, many of them Federal Employees, don't like what they see.

And what they see is Pelosi, Reid and Obama about to bankrupt the country with health care that will only result in disaster. For Pelosi's part, she is desperate to get this passed: before politicians can go home to their voters over Christmas -- where they will learn that to vote for this POS is to guarantee that they will be looking for a job after their next election.

The Wall Street Journal went so far as to describe this bill as the worst piece of proposed legislation since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of the 1930's. And just as certain to tank America.