Gregory D. Lee

After President Obama’s inauguration, if I had predicted that within his first year in office, his party would lose gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia and a Senate seat in Massachusetts, you simply would not have believed me. After all, the president was enjoying an unprecedented wave of popularity and he had solid Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress.

It seemed like such a good idea at the time.

As early as six weeks ago, if I had suggested that Scott Brown, the Republican candidate for the Massachusetts Senate seat once held by Edward Kennedy, would not only win the special election, but win it by five points, no one would have believed me. After all, Kennedy held that seat for 46 years.

In the same week of Mr. Brown’s victory, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a five to four decision, ruled in United Citizens v. Federal Election Commission, that large portions of the McCain-Feingold campaign financing reform act violated the First Amendment.

The court decision re-establishes First Amendment rights for individuals and corporations to make unrestricted campaign donations for or against any candidate or issue up to the day of the election. Republicans (except Sen. McCain) hailed it as a victory for free speech, while Democrats whined that corporations will now decide the winner of future elections.

Mr. Brown’s election has finally given Democrats a reality check. If there was any doubt about buyer’s remorse, there shouldn’t be now, thanks to the Massachusetts electorate. It decided that enough was enough when it came to one-party Democratic rule, even in the bluest of blue political states.

The entire American electorate has buyer’s remorse. It doesn’t just stem from health reform the Democrats have pushed for the past year, but a variety of decisions it perceives as either too liberal, expensive, socialistic or just plain dumb.

Within a couple of days in office, the president signs an executive order to close Guantanamo Bay, but no one in the administration gave much thought about where to send the detainees.

The so-called $787 billion stimulus bill passes, but it didn’t stimulate anything. Instead of unemployment holding below eight percent as the president predicted, it eventually jumped to 10.5 percent.

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Democrats continued to push Republicans to support their health care reform bill, but they wouldn’t take the bait. The more the electorate heard what was in the bill, the more vocal they became against it.

Then, Major Nidal Hasan kills 13 soldiers and wounds over 40 others at Ft. Hood, Texas, and the politically correct president cannot bring himself to say that it was a terrorist event, or even if the event was performed by an Islamic extremist.

On the heels of the Ft. Hood tragedy, the president allows Attorney General Eric Holder to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the architect of 9/11, in federal court in Manhattan instead of a military tribunal at Gitmo where he wanted to plead guilty.

The administration then announces it will purchase a slightly used Illinois State prison to house the remaining Gitmo detainees, despite overwhelming opposition from the electorate to not bring any of them to the homeland.

In the meantime, President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi continue to conspire on how to raise taxes 40 percent on so-called “Cadillac” health care plans, and push their ambitious bill through Congress without any Republican support. The bill now costs over $1.5 trillion, and necessitates $500 million in Medicare cuts. All transparency promised by the president is lost. Negotiations were never shown on C-SPAN despite the president’s repeated campaign promise. Instead, backroom deals were cut and several Democratic senators took taxpayer funded bribes for their votes.

Christmas compounds the president’s problems when a Nigerian national tries to explode his underwear onboard a Detroit bound international flight. The dots were never connected, and instead of sending him to Gitmo for interrogation as an enemy combatant, FBI agents read him his Miranda rights and he clams up. Actionable intelligence is lost.

After only a year, the electorate has irrefutable evidence that Democrats are not only drunk with power, and completely out of control with spending, but also are weak on national defense.

Do you believe me now when I predict Republicans will take over both houses of Congress in November?

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