Republican Scott P. Brown’s election to the late Edward Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat, a Democratic stronghold, was a cataclysmic event tonight, not just sending a message to D’s and R’s, but virtually a voice of Americans across this country, that they do not agree with President Obama’s national agenda.  It was the ‘Brown’ truck that could.  It was Mr. Brown goes to Washington. It was the 41st vote against health care reform.

A truck became a symbol.  Although Brown has driven a GM truck for sometime, Obama helped that imagery along when he said at a rally on Sunday, “So look, forget the ads, everybody can run slick ads.  Forget the truck.  Everyone can buy a truck.”

However, Brown countered: “Mr. President, unfortunately in this economy, not everybody can buy a truck.  My goal is to change that by cutting spending, lowering taxes and letting people keep more of their own.”

It was statements like these from Brown that struck a resounding chord among voters in Massachusetts and among citizens across the nation.

At the same rally for the Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, Kennedy’s son Patrick, kept calling her Marcia, but her name is Martha – if the Dems don’t know the names of their own candidates how can the voters believe the endorsement?

This was not a Coakley loss as much as it was a referendum against where Obama is taking this nation.

The implications of Coakley’s loss in a state campaign for the US Senate that Brown transformed into a national event, has the possibility to turn into a tsunami for Obama and his administration.

It could in fact destroy Obama’s signature legislation, health care – but only if Brown is confirmed immediately.

All of this has come on the anniversary of the first year into Obama’s first term.  This election follows losses by the Democrats in gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia.

The real question here is whether the Obama administration will recognize the obvious – that the American people do not buy into the agenda that’s being delivered not only because it’s not the one  promised, but because it’s not what the people want.

The real test will come in Obama’s health care reform, will they move forward on what the people want?  Or, will they stay the course at their own progressive peril?

Staying the course will require the following actions by Obama:

• Delay Brown’s confirmation
• Ram the Senate health care bill through, with the approval of Congress
• Implement the Reconciliation rule, which would require the health bill to be re-written making it into Swiss cheese

Or perhaps it could be a blessing for the Democrats if health care reform fails.  The Dems to some degree get a reprieve in the Congress in the 2010 election and perhaps Obama salvages what appears to be a one term presidency.

This is a telling event for America.  It has nothing to do with D’s and R’s it has to do with incumbent progressives, who’s agenda is to have third parties tell we the people how to live our lives.

I am proud of the people in Massachusetts, for they have sent a message to the President and Congress for all Americans that we are traveling down the wrong path, in the wrong truck.