Brown surges ahead

This is unbelievable! Scott Brown has surged ahead in the Mass. race, in addition to raising $1 million a day since last week. IF he wins and IF they try to avoid seating him, all hell will break loose. People are angry, and that includes Democrats and Independents. They are overplaying their hands; they have seen this as a once in a lifetime opportunity to push through any legislation they wish to keep themselves permanently in power (Who would register as a Republican with all those Democrats in charge of your health care and medical & voting records online and easily accessible? Remember Joe the Plumber.). Following the health care legislation will be the voters registration which will open the floodgates for totally screwing up the voter registration roles and enrolling people who don't care to vote but will surely have "surrogates" (read ACORN) to do the job for them. There is all kinds of mischief afoot. This race can stop it, or at least slow it down.

Although Brown’s 4-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley is within the Suffolk University/7News survey’s margin of error, the underdog’s position at the top of the results stunned even pollster David Paleologos.

“It’s a Brown-out,” said Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center. “It’s a massive change in the political landscape.”

Hollywood abandoning Obamacare?

Can it be? Is it too much to hope? Read it at NewsBusters.

Alec Baldwin, award winning actor and wannabe leftist political commentator, called on Congress to sink congressional health care legislation today, saying he would rather the federal government "Put a Major Oil Company Out of Business," according to the headline of his column at the Huffington Post.

Baldwin isn't the only liberal entertainer calling for the death of ObamaCare. Plans to tax so-called "Cadillac" health care plans--or the most expensive insurance plans--have riled up some key Democratic supporters. The Teamsters Union and the AFL-CIO have protested, but now objections are also being raised by Hollywood's biggest unions.

Ben Nelson booed

HA! Well, I guess you asked for it, buddy! And you can't understand why people are angry! It's like OJ all over again:

Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson and his wife were leaving dinner at a new pizza joint near their home in Omaha one night last week when a patron began complaining about Nelson’s decisive vote in favor of the Senate’s health care bill.

Other customers started booing. A woman yelled, “Get him the hell out of here!” And the Nelsons and their dining companions beat a hasty retreat.

What a horrible woman!

What is UP with Jack Cafferty? He's been off the reservation for a few days now. Wonder what's going to happen to pull him back?

Brown raised $1 mil PER DAY THIS WEEK?

Unbelievable! (Check this out at NRO) The people move! Not the unions, not the special interests, not the government, not the Democrat machine.....

Knowledgeable sources in Massachusetts tell The Daily Caller that Republican candidate for Senate, Scott Brown, has raised at least $1 million dollars every day this week, most of it online.

Although Brown’s campaign touted Monday’s money-bomb fundraiser that brought in $1.3 million dollars, the campaign declined to confirm totals for other days this week.

Heh. That's the way to win

Coakley has a tin ear. She was involved in an absolute debacle of a prosecution of an innocent man in the Amarault day care case, as documented by Dorothy Rabinowitz of the WSJ, she watched while Dem operatives pushed a reporter to the ground and then said she saw "Nothing!", she didn't bother to campaign for "Teddy Kennedy's seat" and then went to Washington to pull in millions from unions, the DNC and lobbyists, all the while accusing Brown of not supporting rape victims and claiming there are no more Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Now she's insulted Fenway Park and the voters, all to Curt Schillings' scorn. Read at Legal Insurrection:

Coakley Takes Slap Shot At Fenway Fans

The Massachusetts special election continues to amaze. Democratic candidate Martha Coakley has taken a swipe at Fenway Park fans:

Coakley bristles at the suggestion that, with so little time left, in an election with such high stakes, she is being too passive.

“As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?’’ she fires back, in an apparent reference to a Brown online video of him doing just that.

Well yes, politicians go out to meet the voters even if it means standing out in the cold. At least politicians who want to win in Massachusetts.

The Big Mo!

Guess who's got it? SCOTT BROWN, Hottie McAwesome!

Save Our Seals!

If you can attend, local patriots will be holding a Save Our Seals rally at Hood Park at noon on Tuesday, the 19th. Remember that Matthew McCabe, 2004 PHS graduate, is the seal who will be tried stateside.

If you don't like your numbers, make up some

WSJ has an article about recent politicians' bending of numbers to suit their needs. Most important are the health care numbers that have been abused to generate the kind of budget that can hoodwink the public into believing this health care debacle won't totally destroy the US economy forever. (Hint: We are short doctors now; we are going to add 30 million more people onto the rolls. Could this possibly cause a leeeetle problem with LINES? Oh, and it'll be cheaper to add 30 million people too. Cuz we're going to get rid of the corruption in health care. Yeah, that's it. Government always gets rid of corruption. Just like in the article posted below in which the California government employees can run red lights with impunity and raise their pensions by 25% without telling or asking anyone. Yeah, that's right. We'll just close and lock the doors. Cuz no one knows what goes on behind closed doors.)

Even more blatant is the numbers game being used to justify health-insurance reform legislation, which claims to greatly expand coverage, decrease health-insurance costs, and reduce the deficit. That magic flows easily from counting 10 years of dubious Medicare "savings" and tax hikes, but only six years of spending; assuming large cuts in doctor reimbursements that later will be cancelled; and making the states (other than Sen. Ben Nelson's Nebraska) pay a big share of the cost by expanding Medicaid eligibility. The Medicare "savings" and payroll tax hikes are counted twice—first to help pay for expanded coverage, and then to claim to extend the life of Medicare.

Police union endorses Brown in Mass.

Without gasping, guffawing or stuttering, Michelle Malkin notes that the SEIU union in Massachusetts endorsed....SCOTT BROWN...This race is really heating up. Unfortunately Massachusetts is known for monkeying with absentee ballots.

Mass. Democrat/state Attorney General Martha Coakley can’t keep the vote of a sheet metal worker/union member she paid to hold signs for her.

And despite her “law and order” platform, she can’t keep the votes of police unions, either. Not even one affiliated with her Purple Shirt patrons at the SEIU.

The One quadruples deficit

Groan. It only gets worse. He tripled it last year and is ready to quadruple it this year. Jim Hoft has the story at Gateway Pundit.

Considering these numbers it is likely that after tripling the US national deficit from the previous year in 2009, Barack Obama is on track to nearly quadruple the national deficit from 2008 when George W. Bush left office.

The Obama Disaster–

Everyone must sacrifice

In this environment, the White House threw 1 party every 3 days. Wonder how much that cost, in addition to the money they blew on Copenhagen.

Former Mardi Gras queen and current White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers has a favorite French saying originally attributed to the Cajuns who settled in pre-colonial Louisiana: “Laissez les bon temps rouler!”

It loosely translates into “Let the good times roll” – and roll they have at the Obama White House, while nearly 11% of the workforce remains unemployed, nearly four million Americans are losing their homes, and terrorists ride the open skies.

In fact, according to the Chicago Tribune, the stylish Ms. Rogers and the party-hearty First Couple hosted no less than 170 parties and social events through December 3 of 2009. And that does not even include the 17 parties and 11 open houses – feting more than 50,000 guests – ABC News reported the Obamas hosted throughout the Holiday Season.

For those not counting, that means by January, 2010, Ms. Rogers had staged one gala White House event every three days throughout the first year of the Obama Administration, making the once austere Executive Mansion look more like party central.

And it is all by design. As Politico recently reported, Social Secretary Rogers says the Obamas want to “replicate the same kind of environment they had in Chicago.” In the Windy City, the paper reported an Obama friend as saying, “If there was a party or an event, they were there.”

How public servants became our masters

This is a sickening read over at Reason, if you can stand to make it all the way through.

People who are supposed to serve the public have become a privileged elite that exploits political power for financial gain and special perks. Because of its political power, this interest group has rigged the game so there are few meaningful checks on its demands. Government employees now receive far higher pay, benefits, and pensions than the vast majority of Americans working in the private sector. Even when they are incompetent or abusive, they can be fired only after a long process and only for the most grievous offenses.

It’s a two-tier system in which the rulers are making steady gains at the expense of the ruled. The predictable results: Higher taxes, eroded public services, unsustainable levels of debt, and massive roadblocks to reforming even the poorest performing agencies and school systems. If this system is left to grow unchecked, we will end up with a pale imitation of the free society envisioned by the Founders.

Be inspired!

Listen to Lt Col Allen West, running for congress in Florida:

Massachusetts miracle

The shot fired heard round the world....

More on the elited "educated" class

They aren't like "us." We don't know anything. We are out here in flyover country paying the taxes for the people like Nancy Pelosi who fly all over the world in private military jets (who protect her), eating mignon and appetizers, staying at 5 star restaurants and laughing at us dumb shmucks. David Brooks, you need to learn a few lessons outside your ivy league education.

People in newsrooms all over the country decided that someone who talked the way they did was the cure for what ailed the country, and are stunned to find out it is not.

His cosmopolitan cool hasn't defanged the terrorists, who still want to kill us, disarmed North Korea or derailed Iran's bomb. His knowledge of Burke hasn't united the country, which is now more divided and angry than ever.

Obama, Brooks concedes, has "recoiled" the country, but seems at a loss to say why.

Could it be that The One has misjudged both the times and the country?; that he made a strategic mistake in pushing for health care (and a tactical one in trusting the Congress)?; that he created a nightmare for most in his party, who face epic losses this year? Heaven forfend.

Even Democrat commentators are catching on

Wow!

Remarkable video

You may have about this video of the dog running away from the office just before the earthquake hits in Haiti.

More on Coakley's cluelessness

It's "frightening" the momentum Scott Brown has. Heh.

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.

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.

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.

Personally, I’m not a fan of this movement. But I can certainly see its potential to shape the coming decade.

More stories

Of the arrogance of Coakley and the unions paying members 50 bucks to hold signs for her. Heh.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2010

Union Guys for Scott Brown

On the Tom and Todd show this morning (WRKO AM680), Bill Hudak (Republican candidate for Mass. Sixth Congressional Dist., North Shore) called in with a great anecdote on the Brown-Coakley debate last night.

He said that the union guys were out in force outside the building with big 4' x 8' Coakley signs. As Scott Brown arrived at the building, he went over and greeted the guys. Hudak overheard them tell Brown, "We're voting for you. We just got paid $50 to hold the signs."

When Coakley arrived, in typical arrogant liberal style, she walked right by the guys holding her signs without a word of acknowledgement.

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.

"Do you think it was right to insist on three people being at the debate?" Gergen asked Coakley. Yes, she did.

He followed up with this doozy: "As you look back on the campaign, do you have any second thoughts on how the campaign has unfolded?"

"Absolutely not," she said.

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.

It's the PEOPLE'S seat

Not Teddy Kennedy's seat. Over ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS RAISED IN ONE DAY by the Scott Brown campaign. Don't give up the ship!

Over $1 million SO FAR!

In ONE DAY! WHOO HOO!

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.

Obama gets into the Mass. fight

Boy, they must really be nervous. The One, who didn't want to come to Mass. to help Coakley out, has issued an email missive begging for money and help for Coakley rather than Brown. Heh. Running scared. (Brown is over $800,000)

Sick of the lying yet?

Flopping Aces has the lowdown. Lying? You mean the promise of transparency? No access for lobbyists? No pork barrel spending? Check it out at FA.

Brown up to $758.000!! Wait! $790,000

The goal has been changed to ONE MILLION DOLLARS!! Contribute today! Break the Dems' lock on the Senate!

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.

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