The ramifications of Scott Brown’s election to the US senate are reverberating throughout the halls of congress. After Pelosi and Hoyer’s knee jerk reactions were quickly recanted, the speaker admitted she did not have the votes to proceed with the health bill in its current form. That was a tremendous victory for the American taxpayers. What seemed like a Boeing 747 roaring thru the senate  now has been brought to a screeching halt far short of liftoff.

Nothing could be as significant as that but now the infighting has begun within the democratic ranks and how that plays out  will indeed, be interesting, and probably dictate a GOP takeover  this November. There is a clear split in the ranks and it is along centrist and uber leftists lines. The centrists (there seem to be more and more all of a sudden) are advising caution in light of the Massachusetts’s debacle while the far left want full speed ahead on their agenda, redouble the legislative efforts and the voting public be damned.

Campaign committee chair Chris Van Hollen  called for a renewed focus on job creation and less emphasis on Democrats’ health-care overhaul. And guess who listened? The anointed one himself. He hopped on Air Force One and flew to Ohio to tour a factory and give a speech about jobs and how he was going to make everything better. The only thing wrong was that he blasted the banks and told the poor folks of Ohio that he was going to get back every last dime (he likes dimes) that were loaned to the banks during the bailout and the people would get their money back. Apparently he thinks they can’t read or watch TV in Ohio because the banks already have paid back the loans, with interest, and his attack on Goldman Sachs was pure rhetoric as Goldman was the single largest contributor to his campaign.

Then, the recipient of the Louisana Purchase, Mary Landrieu, a seemingly reluctant supporter of the bill, said Wednesday that the “loss in Massachusetts should serve as a wake-up call to the wing of the Democratic Party that wants the federal government to overreach and overspend.” I guess she heard Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) say the same thing so figured she could score some points back home by parrotting him.

MoveOn.org, the liberal advocacy group with a five-million-member email list, circulated a poll taken late Tuesday of 1,000 Obama voters in Massachusetts, showing even those who backed Mr. Brown supported the health-care plan. This is totally contrary to the Rasmussen poll taken which said healthcare was the number one issue. Moveon went on to tell their supporters that they wondered if the democrats will change course but had they learned the right lesson. What lesson might that be, Mr. Soros? How to dodge a speeding bullet?

Obama and company clearly saw the handwriting on the wall when they announced they would move ahead on its signature health-care overhaul, albeit substantially pared. Just how they plan to do this is anyone’s guess. They’ll have to find some more dark closets to meet in so C-Span can’t find them.

One very important fact came out of all this and in the immortal words of Janet Napolitano, “the system worked!”