Here come the attitude adjustments! Bayh, Lieberman and Webb see the light.

Scott Brown’s victory has already started showing signs of changing the tone in Washington. First up we have Senator Evan Bayh who has finally come out of hiding to warn Democrats that ignoring the message sent by Massachusetts would be a catastrophe: 

“There’s going to be a tendency on the part of our people to be in denial about all this,” Bayh told ABC News, but “if you lose Massachusetts and that’s not a wake-up call, there’s no hope of waking up.”

“It’s why moderates and independents even in a state as Democratic as Massachusetts just aren’t buying our message,”  he said.  “They just don’t believe the answers we are currently proposing are solving their problems.  That’s something that has to be corrected.”

“ The only we are able to govern successfully in this country is by liberals and progressives making common cause with independents and moderates,” Bayh said.  “Whenever you have just the furthest left elements of the Dem party attempting to impose their will on the rest of the country -- that’s not going to work too well.” 

Very nice words Mr. Bayh, but where the hell was that kind of talk on Christmas Eve?

Next we have Old Joe Lieberman saying that Massachusetts is sending a message on healthcare: 

"Well, it's pretty clear that, if Scott Brown doesn't win, it's certainly going to be close, and that in itself is newsworthy," Lieberman said. "And I think the message is -- from the voters of Massachusetts -- that people are anxious about the future and they're unhappy about what's happening in Washington."

"They're anxious about the economy, the continued high unemployment," he continued. "They don't like all the partisanship and deal-making here in Washington. And they're really skeptical about this health care bill."

"I think we're at a point where there are not -- there's not a single Republican who really will vote for this bill as it is now or as it was moving to be in the conference committee," Lieberman said. 

Speaking of the people not liking all that deal making, what exactly was the deal that made Old Joe Lieberman cave?

Finally, we have Senator Jim Webb from Virginia who says that the senate should stop voting until Brown is seated: 

 "In many ways the campaign in Massachusetts became a referendum not only on health care reform but also on the openness and integrity of our government process," Webb said in a statement. "To that end, I believe it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect Brown is seated." 

Something tells me Senator Webb can add: Bob McDonnell + Scott Brown = I’m Doomed!

I expect there will be a steady steam of attitude adjustments in Washington over the next few days. The big question is, will there be enough of them to effectively kill ObamaCare?

Via: Memeorandum

Via: ABC News

Via: The Hill

Via: The Hill

A quick comment on Joe Lieberman

Joe Lieberman caving on healthcare reform did not come as a surprise for me. It reminded me of when he became Al Gore’s VP. Lieberman had all these rather conservative principles that he immediately chucked upon becoming the VP candidate.

While I understand as second on the ticket you must align your views with the top of the ticket, Lieberman completely caved. Even Sarah Palin kept her views on ANWR in opposition to McCain’s position, no so with Joe.

Lieberman said he did not support the public option or Medicare expansion because he was concerned about the deficit, yet now that they are gone and more subsidies were added, Joe’s fiscal concerns vanished. How trading one expense for another is suppose to be fiscally conservative is beyond me.

If Lieberman thinks games like that are going to cut it in 2010 and beyond, I have some very bad news for Joe. 

Sen. Joe Lieberman on Maj. Hasan: “Home Grown Terrorist”

Kudos to Joe Lieberman for not turning away from the truth. There appears to be quite a bit of denial on the left as to Hasan being a terrorist, even though we have strong evidence of his ties to radical Islam.

From The Wall Street Journal: 

Mr. Lieberman, appearing on "Fox News Sunday," cautioned that it remained too early to draw any definitive conclusions. He said his comments were based on "reports that we are receiving" about Mr. Hasan's actions and comments.

The Army's top officer, Gen. George Casey, wouldn't rule out that the shooting was an act of terrorism, but cautioned against speculation at this point. "We all want to know what happened and what motivated the suspect, but we need to … let the investigation take its course," he told ABC News's "This Week."

Mr. Lieberman said that if news reports were true that Mr. Hasan had turned to Islamic extremism, "the murder of these 13 people was a terrorist act and, in fact, it was the most-destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11."

"We don't know enough to say now, but there are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act," Mr. Lieberman added. 

I fail to see why we should all shy away from the obvious. Hasan clearly was involved with radical Islam. What we should be doing is finding out how this guy was able to hide in plain sight for so long.

Aunt Amelia brought up Political Correctness hampering the investigation in the comments section here.  I believe she is correct that PC could easily demoralize our troops and is probably the main reason why Hasan was not removed from the military sooner. Political Correctness has no place in war or the military, deadly consequence will always be the result.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: The Wall Street Journal