The Massachusetts “Miracle on Ice” hit Democrats like an avalanche crashing in on a downhill skier. Gone is their 60-vote, filibuster-proof Senate supermajority. Likely dead is the Senate version of health-care “reform,” if not Obamacare altogether. Stunned and confused, Democrats now scramble around trying to decipher “what it means.”

President Barack Obama’s hard-left base calls the loss of Teddy Kennedy’s seat a wake-up call – for bigger spending. They see the defeat as a referendum for broader and bolder “health-care reform” that includes a so-called public option, higher taxes and an expansion of the number of insured through Medicare. Their argument goes like this: People are unhappy, not about reckless spending, but because Obama has governed like a “centrist.” He’s “caved in to special interests,” hasn’t gone far enough and hasn’t increased government fast enough. He abandoned his “progressive agenda,” and voters punished him. Voters, wanting more government, elected a guy who promised less.  Full Piece