If you had any doubts about the gravity of the election of Republican Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, you may abandon them now…

President Obama warned Democrats in Congress today not to “jam” a health care reform bill through now that they’ve lost their commanding majority in the Senate, and said they must wait for newly elected Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown to be sworn into office.

The president also said the same voter anger that swept him into office in 2008 carried Brown into office on a stunning upset victory Tuesday night over heavily favored Democrat Martha Coakley.

“Here’s my assessment of not just the vote in Massachusetts, but the mood around the country: the same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office,” the president said in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. “People are angry and they are frustrated. Not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.”

Brown defeated Coakley in the special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.

With his victory, Brown becomes the 41st Republican vote in the Senate — meaning Democrats have lost the 60 seat super-majority they need in the Senate to avoid a Republican filibuster.

Of course, President Obama isn’t the only Democrat currently doing a furious backstroke away from the jaws of the American electorate. The blood was in the water about 15 minutes after Brown declared victory last night when frightened politicians started ringing the emergency bell…

There are ways Democrats can jam through the current health care bill with procedural tricks or legislative creativity. But what seemed a certainty a week ago feels unlikely today. Don’t take the word of Republicans or even reporters on this one. Listen to what Democrats are saying as they appraised the results overnight:

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) told a local reporter, “It’s probably back to the drawing board on health care, which is unfortunate.” Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) told MSNBC this morning he will advise Democratic leaders to scrap the big bill and move small, more popular pieces that can attract Republicans. And Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said his leadership is “whistling past the graveyard” if they think Brown’s win won’t force a rethinking of the health care plan.

Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), who now might draw a challenge from Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), said the party needs to rethink its entire approach to governing.

I can’t wait to hear an update on Cap and Trade. And where does this leave Nancy Pelosi, who up until last night was still promising to rush Obamacare through the system no matter what?

House Speaker John Boehner has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?

You might recall President Obama throwing around the phrase “let me be clear” a few zillion times over the last year. In fact, he used the phrase so much, ABC News wrote a story about it last month.

“Make no mistake. Change isn’t easy. It won’t happen overnight. There will be setbacks and false starts.”

“Those who routinely listen to the president have come to expect some of those expressions to pop up in almost every speech. (That includes you, cynics and naysayers, the ones Obama mentions all the time without identifying who is saying nay.)”

“Yet in the portfolio of presidential phrases, none is more pervasive than Obama’s four-word favorite: Let me be clear.”

“It is his emphatic windup for, well, everything.”

But thats yesterday’s news according to a new report from Politico. The new word of the day is “unprecedented” and the Obama Administration just can’t use it enough.

“The Obama White House is addicted to the “unprecedented.”

“Perhaps it was a sign when President Barack Obama sat down in January to record his first weekly address and announced: “We begin this year and this administration in the midst of an unprecedented crisis that calls for unprecedented action.”

“What has followed is declaration after declaration of “unprecedented” milestones. Some of them are legitimate firsts, like the president’s online town hall at the White House in May.”

“But others the president wins merely on a technicality, and several clearly already have precedents.”

“The White House’s announcement of its unprecedented — “a first by an American president visiting China” — town hall meeting with students in Beijing, for instance, drew a collective eye roll in certain circles back home, namely among former aides to President George W. Bush, who had already been grumbling about Obama’s carefree application of “unprecedented.”

I wonder if anyone in the Obama White House will acknowledge the “unprecedented” spending they’ve engaged in since taking office 11 months ago?

“President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents — spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history.”

“In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion — $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush’s term and the first eight-and-a-half months of Obama’s.”

“That price tag came with a $1.4 trillion deficit, nearly $1 trillion more than last year. The overall budget was about a half-trillion more than Bush’s for 2008, his final full fiscal year in office.”

Appearing on yesterday’s “This Week” with George Step-on-all-of-us, Ingraham smacked down Charles Gibson for not knowing about the ACORN scandal and the White House for going after FOX News more agressively than they’re pursuing terrorists.

This is classic Laura Ingraham and pure poetry.

Earlier today, Jake Tapper of ABC questioned White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs over Obama’s nonsense war with FOX News.

I’ve been watching the FOX News channel this afternoon.

Jake received major kudos and props from Glenn Beck at 5 and just now from Bret Baier on Special Report, (update: and now O’Reilly and Hannity) which got me thinking…

How long before Tapper moves to FOX?

Can’t you see it? I think it would be great.

Anyone? Anyone?

So says the first commenter over at Jake Tapper’s blog, Political Punch. Tapper had an interesting exchange with White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on the nature of Obama’s stupid war with FOX News.

“From this morning’s gaggle in White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’ office:”

“Tapper: It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one –”

“(Crosstalk)”

“Gibbs: Jake, we render, we render an opinion based on some of their coverage and the fairness that, the fairness of that coverage.”

Read the whole thing here.

Hat tip to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air.

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