If you wonder why the election was really lost in one of the bluest states in the land, you have to go no further than the Left’s response to the results. Quite simply, “It’s not our fault, the Republicans did this to us.”

The Washington Post’s EJ Dionne’s lame, blame game lacks only the now tired reference to George Bush:

Republicans in Congress will be empowered to hold to their course of obstruction by Sen.-elect Scott Brown’s victory.

At some point, Obama’s ambitions were destined to collide with the views of a Republican Party fundamentally opposed to almost everything he wants to do. Obama could try to get big things done or he could work easily with Republicans, but he could not do both.

Or how about this in the New Yorker by Hendrik Hertzberger as a reason for Obama’s troubles:

“..an essentially nihilistic opposition party dominated by a pro-torture, anti-intellectual, anti-public-spirited, xenophobic “conservative” movement; and a rightist propaganda apparatus owned by nominally respectable media corporations and financed by nominally respectable advertisers. Excuses? Maybe. Good ones, though. Sometimes excuses actually excuse.”

Hey EJ and Hendrik, open the curtains, leave your cubicles with the commemorative Obama Hope posters hanging over them and mix with the rest of us. It ain’t the Republicans that did this damage. They had no way of stopping good legislation that the populace liked AT ALL. Maybe a simple civics lesson is needed here for these guys, the Democrats have the majority in the House and the filibuster proof 60 seats in the Senate that equals=NO STOPPING POWER BY THE OPPOSITION AT ALL. But instead EJ Dionne barfs out this drivel:

As a result, he found himself leaning entirely on support from within his own party, forcing a strategy of inside deal-making. This alienated Democrats from the many rank-and-file Americans who don’t like the looks of such arrangements, however necessary they are.

And by avoiding arguments over philosophy and ideology — by failing to offer a pointed and running explanation of why he was reversing the policies of the previous administration — Obama left independent voters confused about his goals. They saw expanding deficits and high unemployment. Absent a coherent Democratic narrative, they were open to a Republican story that linked the two and blamed the Democrats

Actually most of the push back came from within the Democratic party. The Republicans were mere cardboard cut out politicians in this game of legislation crafting. Obama wasn’t “forced” to lean only on his party. He made the decision to ignore Republicans and the growing anger of the populace because he thought he knew what was best for us. Sheer arrogance and elitism. But the Left continues to protect its man with the now familiar mantra, “Obama is not at fault, he had no choice.”

Actually, he is a grown man with the biggest grown man job in the world, which he made the grown man decision to accept and he made the grown man decision to give his agenda to Pelosi and Reid to craft and push. He then stood by and watched at these “leaders” called the citizens who protested their efforts to run health care, “Nazis” “Tea baggers” “Astro-turf” and in a very un-grown up man way ignored it all. His chin jutted out more than ever as he allowed his party to ignore the people of the land…Just in case they missed the “intellectual elites” like EJ and Hendrik missed it, that means independents, Republicans and Democrats.

This failure wasn’t about not going out with a narrative. No president has been more visible than Obama…he’s literally always talking..interviews, speeches, press conferences. This election was a referendum on the narrative. Wake up and smell the coffee, a very small sliver of the population likes the Liberal Left and their policies. Unfortunately(for him) even the President doesn’t get it as seen today in the Washington Post:

-One senior Democratic strategist said that in conversations he had with party leaders, there seemed to be an unwillingness on the part of the White House to acknowledge the party’s new problem with independent voters, who were key to Obama’s victory.

-White House aides rejected the idea that the Massachusetts election was a referendum on Obama.

-Obama said the relentless pursuit of his domestic policies — and a failure to adequately explain their virtues — had left Americans with a “feeling of remoteness and detachment” from the flurry of government actions in Washington.

“We were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values,” he told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

Can anyone say tone deaf? Can anyone say being stuck in a fish bowl? Echo chamber?

The jaw dropping aspect of this whole episode is the Dem’s relentless pursuit of political hari kari and now they are surprised that it hurts. They pushed terrible legislation no one liked because it stunk of government intrusion and incompetence. It lacked any effort of inclusion of the other partie’s ideas. It was a cesspool of backroom deals for their own only. No tort reform because of the big donor trial lawyers(even though all the experts said this needed to be in there to curb costs) and the union’s are exempt from taxes the rest of us have to pay. The Ben Nelson fiasco. It goes on. It was the equivalent of the legislative shit sandwich we were all supposed to be happy to take a bite of…no thanks.

So let’s help these guys on the Left by answering the question swirling in their craniums, Why did Scott Brown really win? Simple. Scott Brown won because he ran a better race. Because he wasn’t a Democrat. Because the people wanted anything else besides the Obama agenda. Because they are tired of the arrogance and dismissiveness of your party. Because Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are morons who keep doing things no one likes. This shit might play in the small and dwindling enclaves of ultra-liberal bastions like San Francisco or the office cubicles at the Washington Post and the New Yorker but they don’t play for most of us. Quite simply put, the pseudo-elitists intellect exhibited by the likes of the liberals such as EJ Dionne and Hendrik Hertzberg have alienated the populace and that includes Democrats. What’s the response? A little self-introspection? A little humility? No…

EJ’s sage advice is “more of the same.” Pelosi and Reid unsurprisingly say the same thing. It’s like driving a car with one brake, heading for a cliff and EJ’s advice is “Gun it!!!!!” At this point, I agree…go ahead. Put your miserable party to rest, so the rest of us can hopefully correct this ship and go on living.

What people want from their government is competence, accountability and oversight over large issues i.e national defense, the general economy, immigration. A government that works for us. They realize the government is terrible at running everything else. When either party offers that kind of government, they will reign supreme.