The Democratic primary may have produced the single worst possible candidate for a hotly contested statewide election in this environment.
Coakley slept through December, has an arrogant attitude of entitlement which must put off voters, is mired in the past with her Bush-Cheney Derangement Syndrome, and doesn't seem to understand that the voters are pissed off at the political establishment of which she is a part. The optics of Coakley going to D.C. tonight for a lobbyist fundraiser are horrible.
Scott Brown is a great campaigner. Martha Coakley is a horrible campaigner. The stars may be in alignment.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
More on Coakley's cluelessness
It's "frightening" the momentum Scott Brown has. Heh.
Union members voting for Brown
Here is video proof that union members who were paid 50 bucks to hold Coakley signs at the debate are voting for Brown. Amazingly, the other side always says organized interests are supporting the tea party movement but it's ALWAYS the reverse. How many people are unhappy with the Republicans now? LOTS. That's why small campaign donations are DOWN at the RNC and UP in individual campaigns. Listen carefully to hear the verbal exchange.
More info on Coakley's fundraisers
Unlike Scott Brown, who raised 1.3$ in small donations in one day (What to go, tea partiers!), Coakley is raising money from special interests. Lots of links about this today:
With Democrat Martha Coakley in trouble in the Massachusetts special election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat, Democrats could lose vote No. 60 for President Obama's health-care bill. In response, an army of lobbyists for drug companies, health insurance companies, and hospitals has teamed up to throw a high-dollar Capitol Hill fundraiser for Coakley next Tuesday night. The invitation is here.
Of the 22 names on the host committee--meaning they raised $10,000 or more for Coakley--17 are federally registered lobbyists, 15 of whom have health-care clients. Of the other five hosts, one is married to a lobbyist, one was a lobbyist in Pennsylvania, another is a lawyer at a lobbying firm, and another is a corporate CEO. Oh, and of course, there's also the political action commitee for Boston Scientific Corporation.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Brooks sniffs at tea parties
Sniffs. Pouts. Whines. Read it at the NY Times. Just be sure to read the snarky response at American Thinker:
In the near term, the tea party tendency will dominate the Republican Party. It could be the ruin of the party, pulling it in an angry direction that suburban voters will not tolerate. But don’t underestimate the deep reservoirs of public disgust. If there is a double-dip recession, a long period of stagnation, a fiscal crisis, a terrorist attack or some other major scandal or event, the country could demand total change, creating a vacuum that only the tea party movement and its inheritors would be in a position to fill.
Lobbyists, unions & opportunists rush in to fund Coakley
So the Dems (DNC) are saying that “Scott Brown made a deal with the devil — and he should have held out for a better one. . . . Brown’s embrace of radical tea party groups for funding coincides nicely with his willingness to accept the millions in television ads from shadowy out-of-state organizations with links to Karl Rove.” But Brown raised $1.3.3 million in one day with an average donation of $77 per person. Coakley has lobbyists, unions and all manner of Washington elite rushing in to pay $10,000....per person...from D.C., not Massachusetts.
So who's made a deal with the devil?
New Rasmussen poll
The Brown and Coakley race is down to 2 points. Brown is surging among independents. Feet on the ground say the surge is incredible and that they are getting anecdotal evidence from even UNION members!
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley attracting 49% of the vote while her Republican rival, state Senator Scott Brown, picks up 47%.
More on the Brown Coakley debate
To be reaired on c-Span this morning at 6:30 a.m. Apparently Gergen can't seem to understand the difference between hard hitting questions and softballs. Over at the Weekly Standard:
The debate was moderated by CNN's David Gergen. Near the end of the debate, he had two questions for Brown and Coakley each. After putting Brown on the spot over Roe v. Wade and "climate change," Gergen turned to the Democrat with his hardest hitting questions of the night.
Oh, brother! Suicide?
Come ON, people! You are SO depressed because a MOVIE isn't real? Somewhere there's a line that people need to draw between reality and fantasy. Apparently that's too difficult for some people. Ugh.
A user named Mike wrote on the fan Web site "Naviblue" that he contemplated suicide after seeing the movie.
"Ever since I went to see 'Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it," Mike posted. "I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in 'Avatar.' "
Other fans have expressed feelings of disgust with the human race and disengagement with reality.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Over 20 people and millions of $
For the Copenhagen summit. They won't say where they stayed or how much they spent until they have to. Many of them flew over commercial, but over 20 went all expenses paid. CBS has the story:
But finding out more was a bit like trying to get the keys to Ft. Knox. Many referred us to Speaker Pelosi who wouldn't agree to an interview. Her office said it "will comply with disclosure requirements" but wouldn't give us cost estimates or even tell us where they all stayed.
Senator Inhofe (R-OK) is one of the few who provided us any detail. He attended the summit on his own for just a few hours, to give an "opposing view."
"They're going because it's the biggest party of the year," Sen. Inhofe said. "The worst thing that happened there is they ran out of caviar."
Obama's approval on health care at new low
Along with his personal approval rating, which is at CBS 46%. Health care approval rating is...
Just 36 percent of Americans approve of Mr. Obama's handling of health care, according to the poll, conducted from Jan. 6 – 10. Fifty-four percent disapprove. In December of last year, 42 percent of Americans approved of the president’s handling of health care, and 47 percent approved in October.
Detroit tea partiers assemble at Detroit Auto Show!!
Wow! This is exciting! Our comPATRIOTS in Detroit were on the move today!!! The Blog Prof was there and has the story. Go HERE to check out his report. FYI, the Blog Prof does some great reporting on Detroit
Scott Brown update
He's already surpassed the $500,000 goal! Be sure to go HERE to donate. Don't Give UP THE SHIP!! From Michelle Malkin:
The Brown campaign’s online moneybomb fundraising effort that Imentioned this morning has surpassed its $500,000 goal and hadcrossed the $625,000 threshold late this afternoon.C-SPAN will air the final debate between Coakley and Brown tonight at 7pm Eastern. Go here.
Sarah Palin
So here's the latest scourge against Sarah Palin. Read the headline. You won't believe it. As usual, we take the worst possible view possible regarding anyone conservative and vice versa if you're a liberal. Notice they refer to Kennedy as the "liberal lion."
Also note that Sarah Palin is moving to Fox as a commentator. That should be interesting.
The gossipy new campaign book that has the political world buzzing portrays Sarah Palin not just as an ignoramus who believed Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 but also as possibly mentally unstable."Game Change," the 2008 deconstruction, says the stress of vaulting onto the national stage caused Palin to have wild mood swings.
"One minute, Palin would be her perky self; the next she would fall into a strange blue funk," the authors write.
Scott Brown moneybomb!
Things are CRAZY at the Scott Brown headquarters in Mass. It's all over the blogosphere. There are varying reports of polls that show Scott up and down. However, momentum is his way. Remember, if he wins next Tuesday, the Dems lose their super majority. It's a start! Legal Insurrection has been visiting headquarters. Here's the report. I donated already! Have you?? Go HERE to donate!!!
What I saw today was just a snapshot of the campaign. But that snapshot showed to me a truly grassroots campaign bursting at the seams with energy and enthusiasm and support.
If what I saw accurately reflects what is happening statewide, it is going to be very, very interesting on January 19.
Update: What I saw is echoed in what PPP found in the poll released tonight, huge excitement for Brown, not so much for Coakley. And Boston Globe poll released Sunday morning contains much spin, but shows tie among most motivated voters.
Temporary website
NOTICE: We're back, using the Col Hazard website. Rumor is that the America Rising video that was on the teapartyatperrysburg website had BOTS that attacked it as spam. We were under attack! I believe this is why we were repeatedly warned that the website was SPAM. Apparently that video (have you seen it? It's wonderful! If you haven't seen it, go here to watch. It won't hurt your computer to watch it. I'm just not going to run it here again. Go HERE to watch.) Once that problem is corrected (if it is), we will switch back to that website. Until then, check this space for updates.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Once you accept the science
(cough cough choke) You can accept the fact that they are still using GWB as a whipping post and decrying the state of the planet, even as we go into the coldest September in recent memory.
John Kerry has written an op-ed for the Huffington Post comparing the inaction in response to a heating planet to the inaction of President Bush before September 11th.Kerry reaches deep into the bag of global warming hysterics to uncork this piece, saying that the fate of the nation hinges upon the passing of some sort ofclimate change legislation.
Right wingers are terrorists
Yeah, especially on 9.11. I don't know about you, but 9.11 is a sacred date for me. I don't consider it time for tomfoolery. Read it at NewsBusters:
On Monday, Jonah Goldberg at The Corner forwarded a shocking page from the Organizing for America website (mybarackobama.com) that promoted setting aside 9/11 as a day to call Senators to pass a Public Option as they “fight back against our own Right-Wing Domestic Terrorists.” They also suggest conservatives are "the heirs of yes, bin Laden."
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
Man on the street quoted in NYT
So how does the "man on the street" get quoted in the NYT? Does the reporter go down to the "street" and randomly ask someone passing by the paper? Hm. Why do that when you can ask the reporter at the desk next to you or...call a former reporter...or ask your best friend who, not surprisingly, thinks the same way you do about something. Read about it here at PowerLine:
Several years ago we noted the emergence of a remarkable phenomenon: a New Yorker, whose name I can't readily find, had been quoted in newspaper articles as a "man in the street" something like 150 or 200 times. How does that happen?This morning's "Public Editor" column in the New York Times sheds light on how "random" Americans get quoted or cited in newspapers:
Last Monday, a front-page article said that technology -- e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, texting and the like -- has completely altered family routines at the start of the day, creating tensions in many households. Like similar trend stories, it began with an example: the Gude family of East Lansing, Mich. -- Karl and Dorsey and their two teenagers.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Meow....the unwashed masses rebel
She has some good points, but contempt for the average citizen drips from Robin Givhan's language. Read at the WP:
The assemblies have the look of a lone bean-counter and a throng of unhappy workers. Visually, there's nothing to indicate we-are-all-in-this-together. It's an odd juxtaposition, given that during campaigns, politicians are quick to roll up their sleeves or slip into a Carhartt jacket when making a sales pitch to the working masses. The point of the clothing change is to indicate empathy and solidarity. Instead, for these town halls, the legislators have been going out in full Washington regalia. (President Obama has been photographed dressed more casually in the Oval Office than he was for his recent question-and-answer session with the regular Joes of New Hampshire.)
Washington's power brokers have suited up to underscore their authority and the seriousness of the subject matter. And bully for them. But their attire also says: I am the boss of you. All those howling citizens -- in their T-shirts and ball caps and baggy shorts -- are saying: No, you're not.
Drinking the Kool-Aid
Read it at NY Daily News:
The video ofHillary Clintonpeevishly snapping at a student questioner in theCongowas the meltdown seen 'round the world. But that undiplomatic moment was hardly her worst on theAfricaswing.
The real clunker came with her pathetic attempt to compareNigeria's corrupt and violent 2007 elections to the contested 2000 American presidential results.
In equating the two, the secretary of state echoesPresident Obama's sour apologia tours around the globe. Either he's writing her speeches now or Clinton's drinking theWhite HouseKool-Aid. Neither is appealing.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Race talk ratcheted up
Read it at Hot Air (Follow THIS link):
Here’s my question: At the end of the HuffPo piece, he’s quoted tsk-tsking at the House GOP for not formally denouncing the swastika aimed at David Scott — as if the Republican Party’s supposed to take collective responsibility for something done by one anonymous nut whose party affiliation we don’t even know. If the GOP’s supposed to do that, how come it’s not similarly incumbent upon our blessed savior, the avatar of Hopenchange, to say a discouraging word or two about the insane amount of demagoguery and demonization pouring out of his own party right now? And I don’t mean the stuff coming from nutroots blogs; I’m talking about the Senate majority leader mumbling about “evil-mongers” and the Speaker of the House wringing her hands about swastikas and other congressmen warning of “brown shirts” and“political terrorists” and now this from Clyburn. The rhetoric from the Democratic leadership has turned completely poisonous, yet The One won’t open his mouth to calm it down. How come, champ? Are we playing good cop/bad cop again with these cretins? Exit question: How come this didn’t earn any Bull Connor analogies back in the days when protest was still patriotic?
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Corruption in Detroit schools
Years of liberal corruption have finally caught up with the city, its employees, its unions, its businesses, its schools....
In an effort to narrow its budget deficit, the district plans to close 29 schools, allow private companies to take over 17 of the districts 22 high schools and lay off more than 2,500 of its 13,000 employees.
Plagued by poor test scores and occasionally by violence -- including multiple shootings near the locations of the district's biggest-ever summer-school program this year -- the district has lost about half its students since 2001. Partly due to attrition, the district only graduates around one in four students who enroll in ninth grade, according to some estimates.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The emergence of a ruling class
crossposted at our sister site, Tea Party at Perrysburg
It became clear to me today.
The media are missing a significant piece of the puzzle when it comes to covering what is happening across the United States. They cover the town halls and demonstrations in sound bites, moving quickly to elite panel discussions of how rude and discourteous taxpayers are being to their elected representatives, how this rudeness does not advance true discourse, how they are ruining their own arguments because no one can hear above the screaming, how the rudeness perhaps masks racism against the President of the United States.
Well, fine. Washington's not been listening anyway. That's why we're screaming. What have we got to lose, at this point?
The truth is this: we're not just protesting the government takeover of health care.
We're protesting the blatant and audacious emergence of a ruling class.
We don't like it. It is un-American. And unconstitutional.
Those of us who are conservative, a MAJORITY in this country, by our very nature do not protest. We do not get into people's faces. We do not march on Washington.
In the past, we didn't anyway.
We just paid the bills, made the mortgage on time, rolled our eyes when we saw healthy young couples buy steak with food stamps, groaned when we paid our taxes every spring and pursed our lips as we watched liberals try to steal God from every nook and cranny of our lives.
Some of us voted for the first black president, gladly and with great hope.
Many of us voted reluctantly for a so-called maverick, who seemed to be more of a tool of the left than a guard of principles and conservatism, labeled a maverick only because he sided too eagerly with the left at times. We tolerated him, held our noses and went ahead and voted for him. Some of us stayed home.
It's true that 9/11 changed us. It struck deep in the hearts and minds of people who love this country.
Many young people responded to an enemy who threatens to swallow our way of life, who hates everything about us: our way of life, our love of country, our clothing, our music and, most of all, our religion. The young people see and understand the threat.
But still we did not stand up to the emerging ruling class. We hung flags, sent packages to our brave ones overseas, quietly went about our business sporting our patriotic bumper stickers and t-shirts, paid the bills and hoped for the best.
So why did the tea parties begin? What happened that snapped the attention of so many traditionally mute, law-abiding citizens?
I was talking to a liberal friend of mine one day and mentioned that I had attended a tax day tea party. He mocked me and sneered, "Nobody's raised taxes! You don't even understand the history of our country. You're protesting something that hasn't happened yet."
Ironically, President Bush is the one who started this revolt with the stimulus package.
"It must be done now!" they cried. "We must hire this [tax cheat] to run our finances and we must spend 200, 400, no EIGHT HUNDRED BILLION dollars to shore up our economy."
And where will we get this money?
Why, we'll print it, of course.
In circulation at the time this demand was made was $800 billion.
Breathtaking.
On April 15, 2009, we knew that the taxes we were paying now are only the beginning. And the economy is resting on lacy porous bones.
We watched as Washington appointed dozens of czars outside the purview of any watchdog or accountability, had staffers write thousands of pages of legislation in the most obtuse language they themselves refused to read, and rammed it all through as quickly as possible before we could put down our cheese sandwiches and reach for the phone.
We watched as billions of dollars were thrown at companies with connections, while local auto dealers who had faithfully served their communities were cut off, bankrupted; we watched while people who had bought houses they couldn't afford were rewarded, and people who ran up credit card charges in excess of $10,000 were bailed out by our tax dollars. Why do I pay my mortgage, we asked.
The ruling class flies around the world on important missions, such as investigating global warming, in jets that spew thousands of gallons of fuel into the atmosphere, and ride around in their SUVS and limousines while advising us, the little people, to unplug our phone chargers from the wall and ride bicycles to work.
We watched while they voted each of their offices another $92,000 apiece in "petty" cash.
We watched their carefully staged and choreographed events whose purpose was to delude us into believing that things were all good, that everyone was in on the gig, that all change was good and that hope was still in store even as billions of dollars were routed toward crooked groups like ACORN and union thugs took over the once thriving auto industry. Under investigation in a dozen states, these groups are privileged recipients of our hard earned dollars, dollars representative of the time it took us to earn them., our lives.
So the cracks began with the stimulus package, which had even liberal taxpayers saying, "Gee, lots of earmarks in that package."
Regardless of the will of the people, the sneering ruling class patted themselves on the back, celebrated with raised glasses and rushed the bill through with an urgency that was so immediate that, say, a President would surely sign it immediately when it hit his desk, rather than take his wife out to dinner in Chicago first.
Oh, wait.
Then they went to cap and trade. Billions and billions of dollars in taxes, regulations and restrictions in the way we live our lives. A few of us caught on, and we jammed the switchboards in Washington.
To no avail.
But then they reached too far. They reached directly into our daily lives to our health care.
Why? Because they could. And because this way they can complete the cycle of social engineering that is at the root of these legislations.
You're dumb for thinking government health care will end in euthanasia, they said, even though that is happening in Europe and the state of Oregon and the government is planning to meet with seniors every 5 years to discuss their end of life plans (hint hint).
You're deceived if you think government health care will lead to more abortions, even though it's in the bill.
You're a tool of the Republican party, the ruling class declared, as if those nitwits are organized enough to get THOUSANDS of people out for rallies for the Constitution and town hall meetings. Ha. Can you imagine?
They mocked us by saying, "But if you're on Medicare, you're already on government health care and SEE? It's not so bad." Yeah, except we heard you want to partially dismantle Medicare to pay for this other BIG government boondoggle. And many of us use Medicare as supplemental, not primary, insurance.
You're being foolish, they said, if you believe that health procedures will be limited or controlled under government health care.
Except that the whole point of government health care is to save money, isn't it? ISN"T IT? And how do you do that without cutting?
By building parks and controlling our diets so we can all be physically fit and not get sick anymore? Those millions of baby boomers who are going to be taking their places as senior citizens will need to be supported by the younger workers in our society and you're going to CUT the costs of health care when they emerge on the scene as the largest segment of the population?
The President himself (or is it Himself) said you might be more comfortable taking a pain pill rather than having the procedure. His advisor, another Emanuel, believes health care should be determined by quality of life.
And who will determine that?
The ruling class doesn't want to drive out private insurance or tell you what doctor you must have, they claim, but it's too late. We're more informed than you are, we have YouTube now, and we've seen the President saying, with our own lyin' eyes, that the goal is universal single payer health care, yes, just like Canada, where you have to wait months to even get a doctor, where a movie star just died because they didn't have the equipment to handle her injury and where cats can get MRIs before people can.
We've had it.
Especially knowing YOU, the ruling class, will not even sign a commitment to enroll yourselves and your family in the same health care plan you want to herd all of us, the commoners, the peasants, the bourgeoisie, into.
So we took to the streets with our homemade (not mass produced) signs and our cheerful boos and our resistance to Nancy Pelosi's $550 million jets to sport her, the Democrats and the Republicans around the world and we started screaming, "Liar!"
We've been punched, slighted, abused, mocked and laughed at for believing in the founding principles of this country.
Last night even the beloved Charles Krauthammer said our noisy protests are losing the battle. That the ruling class is winning because we are so uncivil.
No, dear Charles, a paradigm shift is reorienting this country. We have had it, and we know no other way to protest than this. We're screaming because we AREN'T organized and being told how to do this.
We're screaming and booing because YOU AREN'T HEARING WHAT WE ARE SAYING. You won't listen beyond your talking points. Instead you hold "telephone conferences" for people you invite and then have the local newspaper print the results. What a joke.
You HAVE to say we are shills for some organization because you don't want to believe what's happening. You don't want to see that we aren't going back to the way it was and that scares the ruling class as much as 1789 France.
This country does NOT have a ruling class, no matter how much you cheat to make it so.
CAN YOU HEAR US IN THE BELTWAY NOW?
And, HEY, have you read the Declaration of Independence lately?
It's a pretty revolutionary document, ya know?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
When you're not in control, you swear.
To intimidate, blast 'em with every swear word you can think of.
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Geithner directed an expletive-laden critique at the heads of the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, the SEC, and other agencies.One source familiar with the meeting said, “It was a sh*t storm."
Monday, August 3, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Michelle O's garden polluted
Heh. Eat it all. Please. Pass the arugula.
Michelle's organic dream has been dashed by a nasty toxic legacy lurking in the soils of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It turns out that a previous Presidential gardening team had used sewage sludge for fertilizer..
This is a fairly common practice with one huge problem. Sewage sludge tends to be laced with anything that people pour down the drain and often contains heavy metals. Not surprisingly, the National Park Service tested the dirt beneath Michelle's garden and found the plot has highly elevated levels of lead averaging 93 parts per million
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