Man is not free unless government is limited.
--Ronald Reagan
You're right, we're not gonna hear anything like that from the White House for a few years
and Reagan thought that medicare would turn us all into Bolsheviks.
i don't know if you think that Reagan is somehow an authority on how to be a good president, but putting him up as if he's Washington/Jefferson/Lincoln doesn't improve the actual quality of what Reagan said, or did, and i know that you probably want to put him on the $20 bill, but most people don't agree with you. i don't find Reagan quotes some sort of objective measure of truth, not sure why you post them as if they were.
further, the "popularity" of the tea party/Fox News/etc. -- though you have done a nice job illustrating the effective coordination of these elements of the right wing echo chamber -- isn't all that popular when you actually look at the big picture. there are 300m people in the US, and only about 2.5m of them will watch Hannity on any given night. is he more popular than, say, Maddow? sure. but it's all relative. and it doesn't come close to looking at, say, 53% of the vote and 365 electoral votes.
as for the politics of health care, major change is hard, and it comes at a cost. just look at Civil Rights. LBJ did the right thing, and lost the south, perhaps forever as racists and segregationists know they have a friend in the Republican Party. you'll also note that polling now shows that 49% of the public are happy with the health care bill, and please, go ahead and run on it's repeal, or, better, run on how the health care bill is bad politics. if that's your platform, good luck to you. and, lastly, the elections in NJ, MA, and VA all had one thing in common: an uncommonly weak Democrat. Corzine was as corrupt as they come. i live in VA, and Creigh Deeds was laughably bad. so was Martha Coakley. if you run centrist Republicans feeding off understandable anger about unemployment against pathetic virtual-incumbant Democrats, yes, absolutely the GOP is going to win. if you're taking these three races as anything more than that, i think you're going too far.
the truth of the matter, INDY, is that you're being an ideologue. there are certainly fundamental philosophical debates to be had over the role of government, but you're not offering them. you seem as interested in that as the GOP is in actually doing the hard work of governing.
is this Obama Derangement Syndrome?