Rachael Maddow doesn't understand democracy

Tonight Scott Brown was elected the senator of Massachusetts, the first Republican voted there in 48 years. It is the equivalent of a Democrat being elected in Texas. It is huge and incredibly important and certainly sends a message that the American people are sick and tired of the current road we're on. It is a wake-up call for Washington to stop doing what they're doing.

Tonight on MSNBC on Rachael Maddow's show, when commenting on what this election means, Maddow is taking the "Thelma and Louise" tact, because it's the only one that liberals can take now. When her colleague suggested that now the Democrats should take this as a warning and a clear message and put the brakes on universal health care, Maddow had a very different read. She believes that the Democrats need to pass the health care reform no matter what the voters want. This is the real problem with liberals, they don't care about democracy, and they certainly don't understand it. No, Rachael, our elected officials should not ignore what we want, in fact that is exactly the opposite of what democracy is. In a democracy, the elected officials are representatives of the people, their job is to do *exactly* what the voters want, not to disobey them to do whatever they think should be done. This is what dictators and communists do, not representatives of the people in a democracy.

This is the problem with all liberals, all special interest groups that care more about what they want, even to the detriment of the will of the people. They want universal health care so bad that they could care less what the American people want - which is not universal health care. This is why they'll fall, one by one, until finally the message is heard. Health care isn't something that can be "fixed" if fixing means giving health care to everyone. Just like everyone in America having a two-story house can't be "fixed" and everyone in America having a Porche can't be "fixed". This time though, the Republicans better hear the message as well. George Bush's big failure was that he started spending money like it was going out of style. This time fiscal concerns must be tantamount, it all begins there. If we can't keep our country fiscally viable we can't accomplish anything. It's just like the advice they give on an airplane, when the oxygen mask falls, put it on yourself first and then your child, because if you pass out your child dies. Our country must take care of fiscal matters, to balance the budget and put our nation back on track to be economically responsible. Everything else depends on that. Washington, are you listening?