Democrats Planning a Health-Care "Screwjob"

"Screwjob", as used in professional wrestling:

....a match with a controversial or unsatisfying finish, often involving cheating or outside interference.

"Screwjob", as used in American politics and performed by the Democratic party:

"Certainly the dynamic would change depending on what happens in Massachusetts," Pelosi told us and our notebook-toting brethren Monday in San Francisco at an MLK event. "Just a question about how we would proceed. But it doesn't mean we won't have a health care bill."

And now this:

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Mon, January 18, 2010 — 7:09 PM ET
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Democrats Seeking to Push Senate Health Bill Through House

The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders, scrambling for a backup plan to rescue their health care legislation if Republicans win the special election in Massachusetts on Tuesday, are preparing to ask House Democrats to approve the Senate version of the bill, which would send the measure directly to President Obama for his signature.

Folks, we're about to be on the wrong end of a screwjob. We're about to be robbed of our health care by a government that no longer believes in the will of the people or democratic representation.

In wrestling, the storyline continues, but the "bad guy" does not always pay for his/her sins. Let's make sure in the storyline that is American history, this renegade government is forced to pay for their transgressions...

Vince McMahon, king of the screwjob, until...January 20th, 2010

Does Coakley Suffer From an Enthusiasm Gap?

Does a bear sh*t in the woods? Is Barack Obama a liberal?

While Scott Brown has more volunteers than he can handle, and more supporters than lawn signs, Martha Coakley remains convinced that her campaign's get-out-the-vote efforts will win her an unexpectedly tight Massachusetts Senate special election.

Really? Legal Insurrection takes a look at how that GOTV effort is working out for Martha, less than 24 hours before Election Day, in a video taken around 1030 this morning:




Hmmm...these are Democratic phones, so maybe they're on their union-mandated break period?

So maybe if we give it 15 minutes, it will look like Brown headquarters!


No? Guess the SEIU bus from out-of-state hasn't rolled in yet...

Marco Rubio - The Next Scott Brown - on Obama's "Bank Tax"

If Scott Brown wins Tuesday, Charlie Crist ought to pack it in Wednesday, as a Brown win would not just be a repudiation of the Obama agenda (originally, crassly, embraced by Crist earlier) but a revolt against "the machine", be it Democrat or Republican.

Rubio speaks out on The Corner about Obama's ludicrous new "bank tax":

Earlier this week, I spoke out against President Obama’s wrongheaded decision to place an onerous and punitive new tax on the financial institutions Americans rely on to loan them money to buy homes, safeguard their money, and fund their businesses. Since then, I have been subjected to vicious attacks from Democratic party operatives, liberal bloggers, and even some in the media. Tired old stories long ago proven meritless were rehashed with new sinister headlines. Even the bank that gave me a line of credit on my home was dragged into this.

This is life in Obama, Reid, and Pelosi’s America, where not only is free enterprise attacked, but so too is anyone who dares to defend it.

I wear liberal attacks as a badge of honor because ultimately my campaign is not about me, but about giving a voice to the millions of Floridians who are fed up with the policies they see coming out of Washington, just like this bank tax.

No one should be fooled by the spin. President Obama’s bank tax is not about recouping money for the American taxpayer. If President Obama were truly serious about that, he would call on Congress to repeal his failed stimulus program tomorrow so that future generations won’t be saddled with its crippling debt.

President Obama’s bank tax is about finding new ways for the Democrats who control Congress to confiscate more money to pay for their big-government takeover...

Give 'em hell, (Senator) Rubio!

Scott Brown more "Presidential" than Barack Obama?

Well, if you listened to them speak yesterday, it kind of comes off as a no-brainer.

What did Obama have to offer? Liberal elitism, as he slammed Scott Brown and his truck several times in his Bush-bashing campaign speech for Martha Coakley. 'Cause a pickup truck is a sure-fire symbol of redneck ignorance, right? Just ask anyone in Massachusetts...

And the president lied, as is par for the course as well. ABC's Jake Tapper calls him out:

The president said of Brown: "I don't know him, he may be a perfectly nice guy. I don't know his record, but I don't know whether he's been fighting for you up until now."

But he also revealed some fairly intimate knowledge of Brown and the race....Clearly President Obama -- as he should -- is well aware of Brown's record.

So why did he lie about it? To portray Brown as just another no-name truck-driving nobody from the sticks? Is that worth devaluing the reputation of the president of the United States?

Turns out he couldn't handle a heckler either; John McCain showed more class in dealing with the Code Pinkos who invaded the Convention in September than Obama did yesterday...

And finally, according to the in-the-tank Boston Globe, the President had a "sold-out" crowd of 1500 hanging on his every hackneyed word, while Scott Brown pulled in 2000+ at a rally nearby.

And while Barack Obama’s speech yesterday was vintage 2008 Obama, Scott Brown offered something a bit more substantive:

Should I have the honor of representing our state in Washington, D.C., I will serve no faction but Massachusetts. I will pursue no agenda but what is right. I will be nobody's senator but yours.

Raising taxes, taking over our health care, and giving new rights to terrorists is the agenda of a new establishment in Washington. And they think you're on board with all of it. They think they own your vote. They're sure they can't lose. But on Election Day, the Bay State will set them straight.

We are witnesses, you and I, to something historic. We have run a race never to be forgotten. We are in a cause that deserves all that we can give it. In these final forty-eight hours, let us see it through to victory.

All along, I have counted on the goodwill and support of independent-minded people like you, and never more than right now. I ask for any help you can give, and above all for the honor of your vote.

One mocks and lies, the other coolly deliver facts with honesty, courtesy, and humility.

Looks like Brown has taken over the mantle of "cool" from our Vulcan Boy-King. And you'd better believe that if Brown wins, the anger you see smoldering under Obama's facade will erupt into a full-blown temper tantrum....

The final word:

It is fitting that in Massachusetts tomorrow, Obamanism will face a test that cannot be met by a Louisiana Purchase, or a Cornhusker Kickback, or a Collective Bargaining Kickback, or convening a vote at one in the morning or on a Saturday night. It will be a plebiscite that the president himself has nationalized — conducted on the last day of his first year, in the most liberal state in the nation, in the place where the original tea party occurred.

Four Hours, Four Polls, Four Leads for Brown

I'm almost afraid to report it; at this point I am actually concerned about depressing the turnout - the Republican turnout, that is...

Ah, for the heady days when Martha Coakley had a 30 point lead....up in smoke, like Obama's promises...

I take the PJM polls with a grain of salt; they've shown the highest margins for Brown so far. The second PJM/CrossTarget poll, realeased a short while ago, shows Brown leading Coakley by 9.6% (51.9% to 42.3% with 5.7% undecided). For PJM, these actually represents a drop in Brown's momentum, as they had him up by as high as 15. But the 9.6% is significant, because...

....InsideMedford.com did a poll with the Merriman River Group, and came up with the following result:

Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 50.8% – 41.2% in the contest to fill the seat of the late Senator Ted Kennedy.

So there's that pesky 9.6% number again. Hmmm....

Public Policy Polling, which vacillates from bulls-eye (New Jersey) to air-ball (NY-23) and is known to lean left, comes up with the following:

Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 51-46 in our final Massachusetts Senate poll, an advantage that is within the margin of error for the poll.

Over the last week Brown has continued his dominance with independents and increased his ability to win over Obama voters as Coakley's favorability numbers have declined into negative territory.

Those planning to turn out continue to be skeptical of the Democratic health care plan, saying they oppose it by a 48/40 margin.

I gotta believe PPP might be the closest to the mark here; in Jersey they had Christie over Corzine by 5% less than 48 hours before the election, they were criticized for what was perceived as "too wide" of a Christie margin, and finished the closest as the actual margin was Christie +4. Note that PPP made all the same "Corzine could still pull it out" excuses in their final Jersey poll as they do in the linked Brown-Coakley poll....

And for what it's worth - Intrade, which I actually tend to dismiss until election day itself, currently has Brown worth $65 to Coakley's $35. It has varied wildly all day, but Brown has held the lead regardless of margin. Expect it to continue to fluctuate...

Poor Martha...this was supposed to be so easy! I can see her little head spinning as she wipes her eyes and hopes against hope that the last three weeks have been just a dream, a horrible nightmare, and that she's gonna wake up any minute now with the 30 point lead still intact....

White House Predicting a Coakley Loss?

Be aware, however, this has nothing to do with Barack Obama and the radical agenda of the Democratic Congress...it's just the "climate", don't you know:



And speaking of climate...the original belief was that a low turnout would help Scott Brown; now, based on voter enthusiasm, I am not so sure. Nevertheless, if that's still your belief, than there is even more serendipity in the air via this NOAA report:

NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...

PRECIPITATION...IN THE FORM OF SNOW...SLEET OR RAIN SHOULD
DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING THEN CHANGE TO SNOW AND
BECOME OCCASIONALLY HEAVY TONIGHT. THE SNOW WILL TAPER TO
FLURRIES LATE MONDAY MORNING OR DURING MIDDAY.

TOTAL STORM ACCUMULATIONS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN A
12 TO 18 HOUR PERIOD WITH A LOW PROBABILITY OF ISOLATED HIGHER
AMOUNTS.

Man, looks like the Dems could really use some "climate change" right around now, huh?

Boston Globe: Obama's "Diminished Aura"

They recognize the disease, but like a medical doctor from the Dark Ages, come up with a fairly wacky cause-and-effect.

You see, according to the Boston Globe, Obama's diminished presence has nothing at all to do with the revolt of the middle-class and independents against his policies and candidates, oh no. The strange sapping of his strength due to the fact that he has not been liberal enough! And that's why Martha Coakley is struggling, as well.

You can't make this stuff up:

The feverish excitement that propelled Barack Obama and scores of other Democrats to victory in 2008 has all but evaporated...Young voters and left-wing Democrats have become frustrated with progress on the Obama agenda in Washington.

While many young voters imagined that an Obama presidency would mean a speedy closure of Guantanamo Bay prison, a wind-down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a health care plan that would, at least, provide a government insurance plan to compete with the private sector, they instead are frustrated at the slow pace of change.

Actually, there is no evidence whatsoever that "disaffected youth" are bringing down the Obama presidency. But the liberal agenda has always needed scapegoats, and for the moment (and for the Globe), it appears to be 20-somethings and Obama's allegedly center-right agenda.

But the Globe sees a silver lining as the administration lashes out against conservatives (read: anyone opposing the Obama agenda), and beams with pride as the special interest groups begin to wage their dirty war:

The White House has been courting liberals of late. Obama has been brutally critical of Wall Street bankers who are scheduled to receive eight-figure bonuses, rhetoric that has a strong populist appeal. And Gibbs last week deemed “stupid’’ the comments of conservatives Rush Limbaugh and the Rev. Pat Robertson for their comments on Haiti.

National groups such as the Service Employees International Union and EMILY’s List have gotten heavily involved in the race, warning Democrats that Brown would take the country back to the policies of the Bush era....

Organizing for America, created to keep the Obama grass-roots campaign network active, is also working to energize the Obama base.

Sounds like the Globe is desperately trying to reassure itself that the aforementioned leeches will cure the disease.

Me, I hope this is the only paper that Obama reads as he flies into Massachusetts today. Hopefully he'll follow their guidance, pimp his liberal agenda, and give Scott Brown the final push over the finish line...

Joe Lieberman to endorse Scott Brown?

The rumor mill is churning (like Martha Coakley's stomach):

Joe Lieberman may be close to announcing his suppport for Massachusetts Senate Candidate Scott Brown. Citing the historical Healthcare Reform Bill as the main issue attracting Lieberman to endorse Brown's Campaign. Scott Brown is vehemently opposed to the proposed Healthcare Legislation.

Joe Lieberman has run against many of his Democratic Counterparts in the Senate over the so called Obamacare Health Care Reform Bill. Back in December, with the public option dead, Democrats revived an old proposal to expand Medicare, but Lieberman voted no. That plan was considered by a small percentage of liberals as a decent alternative to the public option leaving Lieberman at odds with Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid.

Speculation is such that if Lieberman were to endorse Scott Brown over the coming weekend that would most likely seal the defeat of Martha Coakley for Senate...Latest polling has Brown leading Coakley by a margin of 1 to 4 points...

A Lieberman endorsement would be the death knell for the Democrats in Massachusetts. It could also cost Joe his chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Might be worth if for the senator just to keep his tongue and let events play out as they appear they might, with no risk to his position. On the other hand, he may not need to worry about appeasing the Democratic party much past November anyway...

C'mon, Joe. The Left hates your guts regardless...just for laughs, why don't you send them right off the cliff with an announcement made right around the time when President Obama (Obama to Visit Disaster Site This Weekend) hits the stump for Martha?

Clueless Coakley Chokes On World Series Hero

How the hell can you claim to represent Massachusetts when you can't even identify Curt Shilling, statewide hero (and personal nemesis)?

Dan Rea: Umm Would Barack Obama be in if this thing was not this close?

Martha Coakley: Umm it’s hard to know, I think that he uh is welcome in Massachusetts and I’m sure everybody is happy to see a president come.

Rea: 62 to 36

Coakley: But I think probably if it weren’t so close Rudy Giuliani would be here and besides he’s a Yankee fan (Laughter) I just want people to know (Laughter)

Rea: Uhhh yeah but now Scott Brown has Curt Schilling

Coakley: and another Yankee fan

Rea: Schilling?

Coakley: Yes

Rea: Curt Schilling a Yankee fan?

Coakley: nooo, alright I’m wrong on my, I’m wrong

Rea: The Red Sox’s great pitcher of the bloody sock?

Coakley: well he’s not there anymore.

Audio:




Coakley is Tuesday's Toast....


UPDATE: Curt Shilling responds:

I’ve been called a LOT of things…But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan. Well, check that, if you didn’t know what the hell is going on in your own state maybe you could.

Turning Manhattan into Detroit, One Decree at a Time

Mayor Bloomberg, fiscal hawk/social liberal, has got one part of his split political personality into a tizzy over Obama's plan to raid Wall Street:

"If you want to see what happens to a city when their major industry fails, just take a look at Detroit . . . I'm very concerned that we don't drive business overseas . . . I certainly hope that our legislators in Washington will fight to protect our industry here. I certainly expect them to."
-- Mayor Bloomberg, commenting yesterday on President Obama's plan to tax banks, many of which are major contributors to New York City's economy


He's right, of course. But is shows why its so hard to make sense with a bipolar disorder. The very social welfare programs that Mayor Mike and Barry O champion need to be paid for by someone, and who better than the all-time classic bad guys, the "Wall Street Fat Cats and their Bankers"?

But New York City depends on the tax revenue from these firms - and their employees - to balance their own budget, and pay for their own social welfare program (such as eliminating trans-fats). Should Obama lower the banking industry's profits, and curtail the wages of their employees, there is much, much less taxable income for the city and state of New York to rake off.

Simply put, between the additional obligation that Obama's health care reform will place on the state ($1 billion plus), and with the "off-the-top" rake-offs that Obama plans to take off the city's/state's biggest taxpayers, New York will be faced with bankruptcy in about a decade. Expect a collapse of the social system a la the 1970's to follow in short order.

But as we posted yesterday, New Yorkers aren't as smart and tough as everybody thinks...


UPDATE: I see JWF posted on this as well; he points out that Chuck Shumer, never one to place his own ambition behind anything, including the health and well-being of the millions of people who he represents, supports the destruction of New York. See above about not being all that samrt, and whatnot...

Schilling Slams Coakley: "Ignorant/Stupid/Dishonest"

Ranger great Mark Messier once said there is nothing harder than winning the 4th game of a best of seven. Your opponent, with nothing to lose, keeps coming and coming and coming like an animal fighting for its very survival...and you need to be able to take all those blows and still persevere in order to win that 4th game, that championship.

Curt Shilling has done it. Twice, if I recollect. For a team beloved in Massachusetts. So it's interesting to see where a warrior like this stands in a race like this; who Rambo would take into a foxhole with him - and who he would disdainfully scorn:

Former Red Sox ace Curt Schilling ripped Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Martha Coakley today for dissing Fenway Park, saying her disdain made her seem “out of touch.”
“That’s exactly what I’ve come to expect from politicians. So many are so far out of touch with their constituents it’s laughable and pathetic,” Schilling told the Herald.

Schilling, famous for helping the Red Sox clinch two World Series wins, also questioned Coakley’s recent statements that terrorists have left Afghanistan.
“Her Taliban comment is the height of one of these three: ignorance, stupidity, (or) dishonesty,” Schilling wrote. “I want someone with energy, someone that wants to change it all. She’s lock step business as usual in a way that should be frightening.”

So what's going to have more sway in the state of Massachusetts on election day: The judgement of a heroic local warrior, or Coakley's semi-literate attack ads?

January 19th can't get here soon enough...

Massachusetts Polls: Brown By 4!

Probably means Brown will win by 8:

Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate all the way to the White House, a new poll shows.

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.

Maybe it's just a new kind of Kennedy...still young and handsome, and apparently flush with cash....

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.

...but this time, he's conservative.

Looks like the "Age of Obama" is going to be about as durable as Hitler's "Thousand-year Reich"...

Democrats: Cold Weather Is For The Little Folks!

Such is the rarefied air that they breathe, that...their rarefied air must be warm! All the better to protect their fragile little bodies while they tax us to death....

Democratic ex-Tennessee Congressman and potential future New York Senator Harold Ford (yes, it is confusing) works around those bitter big-city winters:

On many days, he is driven to an NBC television studio in a chauffeured car. He and his wife, Emily, a 29-year-old fashion executive, live a few blocks from the Lexington Avenue subway line in the Flatiron district. But Mr. Ford said he takes the subway only occasionally in the winter, to avoid the cold when he cannot hail a cab...

While wannabe Democratic Senator Martha Coakley reacts with shock and awe at the suggestion she stand outside in the cold and shake hands with....mere citizens!

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.

And yet these guys live in deadly terror of the globe getting warmer! Talk about cognitive dissonance... not to mention a complete detachment from us common folk who, you know, cannot go from limo to limo in the winter...

Barack Obama to New York: Drop Dead!

Michael Goodwin, writing in the New York Post, vents:

OK, let me be clear: The president of the United States hates us.
He socks New Yorkers with massive new taxes to fund his health-care monstrosity.
He punishes Wall Street for making too much money.
He threatens political jihad against anybody who dares challenge the too-precious Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
He tells our governor to take a long walk on a short bridge....

His lack of gratitude alone should be enough to turn a blue state red. That he actually seems hostile to our interests should add fury to our resistance.
The only hitch is that New Yorkers aren't as smart and tough as everybody thinks. Our savvy pugnacity is an urban legend.
When it comes to politics, if you hit us, we beg and plead: Do it again.

Goodwin's right, you know. The big political buzz in New York is that Harold Ford Jr. may pull a Hillary and move to New York in order to mount a primary challenge to hapless Democratic seat-warmer Kirsten Gillibrand. The media wets themselves with glee over the possibility that we can get our own "light skinned, well-spoken" minority candidate to Washington, and is urging a run.

And this is what they'll get:

On many days, he is driven to an NBC television studio in a chauffeured car. He and his wife, Emily, a 29-year-old fashion executive, live a few blocks from the Lexington Avenue subway line in the Flatiron district. But Mr. Ford said he takes the subway only occasionally in the winter, to avoid the cold when he cannot hail a cab. … Asked whether he had visited all five boroughs, he mentioned taking a helicopter ride across the city … Asked about his baseball loyalties, he responded: “I am a Yankees fan,” and added that he had yet to visit Citi Field, the home of the Mets. … He has breakfast most mornings at the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, and he receives regular pedicures.

A man who can really relate to the average New Yorker, sweating and schlepping through day after brutal day in the big city. But if he runs, the media will Obama-ize him and ostracize his critics as racist. And he'll win. And he'll promptly turn his back on the state and use its people and their future as a bargaining chip for his own continued rise to power, a la Chuckie Schumer.

And we'll beg and plead: Do it again...

Michelle's Got Her Jimmy Choo's Going On!

Talk about being insulated. While her husband bargains away my health insurance behind closed doors, Michelle Obama's going to town with Jimmy Choo:

Mrs. Obama held a roundtable at the White House with print reporters this morning...

Yeah, yeah, her and the hubby are the sh*t, yadda yadda yadda...and then we get to the good stuff:

FLOTUS Fashion Watch: There was no photo/video coverage of the event. According to reporters in the room, Mrs. Obama wore a red dress and above the knee Jimmy Choo boots, which she said was a way to avoid having to wear stockings.

So what does a pair of above-the-knee Jimmy Choo's run these days? Looks like $1000 + is the low range, and that's on Amazon...

OK - so lets see....first, we have the $540 sneakers ("Let them eat Keds! Bwahahaha!") that Michelle wore tastefully to a charity event...

The we have her customized Robert Clergerie thigh-high boots (Oh, so that's how Baracky likes it!), also coming it at well over a grand. And while she was at it, she ordered a pair of calf-length boots in beige buckskin...also customized to fit her precious totties....

And of course, there are her throwaway shoes she bought for her Hawaiian vacation, a little $635 per pair number by designer Maison Martin Margiela. Just like you and I do every time we go down for a few days at the Jersey Shore!

We thought we were getting Hope and Change, instead, we got our very own Imelda Marcos and Hugo Chavez!

...were the Marcos shoes... merely grotesque? The Russian word poshlost suggests the transcendent vulgarity at work in the Marcos spectacle. Poshlost is something preposterously overdone but without self-knowledge or irony. It is comic and sad and awful....

The King and Queen roll around sensually in their ill-gotten riches, while the peasants toil with greater and greater resentment.....

Jon Corzine: "I Sucked"

I am paraphrasing, of course, but it looks like he now knows what the rest of us figured out well before election day...The New York Times reports, with a tear in its collective eye:

In a farewell address tinged with more wistfulness than Wall Street bravado, Gov. Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey acknowledged on Tuesday his inability to solve the state’s mounting fiscal problems and said he hoped that he would be remembered for his commitment to the state’s children.

Before a joint session of the Legislature for his fourth and final State of the State address, Mr. Corzine bluntly admitted that he was leaving behind the same problem he had inherited: “Let’s face it: Everyone’s property taxes are too damn high.”

But Mr. Corzine said he was proud to have made enduring improvements to the lives of millions of the state’s most vulnerable residents by dedicating billions to rebuild schools and to pay for preschool education for 50,000 children and health care for 100,000 children.

So you f*cked up your #1 campaign promise - cutting the nation's highest property tax - and instead dedicated billions the state didn't have to "children" who will most likely flee the state due to its onerous tax burden. All this, while the property tax continued to skyrocket.

Truth is, most of the billions in taxpayer dollars that went into the New Jersey school systems were swallowed up by waste, fraud, corruption, and administrative positions and perks. Ask Chris Christie, he should know - he prosecuted enough of Corzine's school-board buddies....

Meanwhile, the overwhelming amount of these billions went to designated under-performing "Abbot" school districts, which achieved virtually no enduring academic results despite all the extra monies that rained down upon them. Of course, this necessitated cutting back on education funds in middle-class school districts - you know, the children of the folks that were actually paying for Corzine's "enduring improvements" - but Corzine notably did not ask to be remembered for his contributions to the lives of the middle-class residents of New Jersey.

If the children of New Jersey were such a concern to Corzine, maybe our billionaire governor (who, according to the Times, left the chamber for a ski vacation in Switzerland) could have used some of his own limitless fortune to help build schools and hire educators, instead of raising taxes, creating deficits that threaten to bankrupt the state, and screwing the middle class, all in order to fulfill his liberal fantasies. Helping the poor is nice, but shaking down an almost-poor person in the name of charity is criminal.

As was Corzine. But the King is dead. And boy, did he suck. And he can hide behind "the children" and other moral vanities all he wants, but it appears as if not even his own people are buying it:

While his voice appeared to break at several points during the 30-minute address, there were few other signs of emotion outside the rows where Mr. Corzine’s family and closest friends were seated...

Not missed, not loved...

Coakley Sinking Deeper Into the Quicksand...

...man, sometimes when it goes bad for a political candidate, it goes really bad, and the meltdown becomes hard to watch...

Nah. Not really. Watching Martha Coakley implode under the pressure of an actual campaign is fabulous. Here's video of one of her handlers pushing down The Weekly Standard's John McCormack after a question she didn't like:




And listen here to the union guys with the Martha jackets on talk about how they're getting paid to show support, and who they're really going to vote for once the curtain closes in the voting booth:



MIchael Graham at The Corner:

The video of the Coakley staffer—most likely DNC hack and former Kerry campaigher Michael Meehan— shoving the Weekly Standard's John McCormack to the ground, and then repeatedly shoving him again and again in view of AG Coakley, is a watershed moment. It could turn out to be a campaign killer.

First, it highlights the fact that Coakley had left Massachusetts to attend a lobbyist fundraiser in D.C.. Taking big bucks from Big Pharma in the middle of this fight? Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Then there's the guy who got shoved. McCormack is the reporter who asked the question about Afghanistan that literally stopped Coakley in her tracks. After a few blinks of incomprehension, she answered by asking "Does anyone ELSE have a question?"

This issue is a disaster for Coakley because it reveals her utter lack of experience or (apparently) basic knowledge on foreign policy, just two weeks after a terrorist successfully got on a U.S. airplane.

Brown should roll the "shoving video" in his spots, with the tagline: "Tired of being pushed around?"


UPDATE:
Best blog headline of the day, from RS McCain: Is Martha Coakley Even Sleazier ThanTila Tequila?
Well, if you even have to ask....

Coakley Lead Down To...2?

That's according to Rasmussen:

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%.

Three percent (3%) say they’ll vote for independent candidate Joe Kennedy, and two percent (2%) are undecided....

Coakley is supported by 77% of Democrats while Brown picks up the vote from 88% of Republicans. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, Brown leads 71% to 23%. To be clear, this lead is among unaffiliated voters who are likely to participate in the special election

The Washington Independent makes a sobering point:

The really surprising thing about this poll? While Brown has made his campaign explicitly about the chance Massachusetts voters have to block the health care bill, Rasmussen finds a solid majority of voters in support of the bill. According to the internals, 52 percent of voters back “the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and the congressional Democrats” to only 46 percent who oppose it. A plurality, 41 percent, of voters say the stimulus package has helped the economy–only 23 percent say it’s hurt. Coakley’s bumbling campaign can’t close the deal with an electorate that agrees with her on the issues.

And that's still the stumbling block - these folk's blood still runs blue. Question is, will the blue-bloods turn out next Tuesday, or will the booth be filled with the red-hot rage of Republicans and independents (71%-23% ...WOW! It only took 60% of indies to break towards Chris Christie for the Republican to win in New Jersey; and that's in a a state with a 600K Democratic voting advantage)?

The Democrats are freaking out. Look at this anti- Brown screed put out by the DNC; sounds like it could have been written by an angry Truther in his dimly lit, tinfoil-wrapped basement:

“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…”

Smell the desperation? Let's hope the good folks of Massachusetts can too....

Media Coverage of Scott Brown You Likely Haven't Seen....

Sometimes I find myself inside the right-wing noise machine - and don't get me wrong, I like it there - and I become overwhelmed by the desire to hear what the other side is pitching. It's why I still have NPR programmed in to my car stereo...

So here's a few stories you may not have seen, for better or worse...first, from the "Bostonist", we get the best headline yet:

Naked Senate Candidate Scott Brown Loves Torture

The Naked Senate Candidate (NSC) told reporters yesterday that he endorsed the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" on terrorism suspects, including waterboarding, which he would know is considered torture by many jurisdictions, is arguably banned by the Geneva Convention, and is prohibited by the U.S. Army Field Manual, had he spent his time at Boston College Law School doing something other than posing nude for magazines....

Brown's opponent, Martha Coakley, like most people who believe that human life is worth more than an old shoe, opposes waterboarding and other forms of torture....

Not sure if referring to Brown as "The Naked Candidate" is a bad thing, guys, if he changed his name to that moniker and placed it on the ballot by next week, we'd have a guaranteed winner...

Next, the Boston Globe reverts to form and starts shilling unrepentantly for Martha Coakley by bringing in NARAL and turning up the fear factor:

A group of women supporting Democrat Martha Coakley bitterly railed this morning against her Republican rival, Scott Brown, saying that his political positions were dangerous for women and that he was using "smoke and mirrors" to obscure his true beliefs and previous record.

Do you know who Brown is? If not, the Globe will identify him for you:

A photo of Brown, until recently a relatively little-known state senator from Wrentham, has been featured for much of the day on the Drudge Report, a popular right-leaning website, with a headline, "Will this man end Dem super majority?"

Coakley, the state attorney general, who is trying to become the first female US senator from Massachusetts, has made women’s issues a strong component of her campaign.

Gee...so who's the good guy and who's the bad guy again? Thanksfully, we have the B-G to tell us...

From Canada, we get a new angle on why Massachusetts should support Brown:

Senator Scott Brown Would Be Tribute to Memory of Mary Jo Kopechne

What do all of the Boston Globe's put-upon women have to say about that? Nothing; they're trying to get guest passes into the Kennedy Compound...

And the Washington Post seems to think this qualifies as the Democrats bringing in the heavy hitters for Coakely:

And finally on fundraising, President Obama sent an email to his list insisting that "the outcome of this race couldn't be more important" and asking donors to dig deep to help Coakley...

But as usual, Obama cannot be bothered to even dig deep into his schedule to make an appearance for Coakely...which may tell us more about this race than all the polls in the world...

No "In-State" Tuition for Illegals in New Jersey

Elections have consequences; boy do they ever...

In the past few days, two items high on New Jersey's liberal agenda have been shot down by a legislature who knows that their state has turned purple - with rage, as well as in voting parlance.

On Friday, the legalization of gay marriage, strongly supported by outgoing governor Jon Corzine and the Jersey media, was squashed by a larger-than-expected margin. Yesterday, another one of Corzine's pet social welfare projects was KO'd as well:

Lawmakers shelved plans to vote Monday on a proposal allowing immigrant children not in the country legally to pay in-state tuition rates at New Jersey public colleges.

Because Monday's meetings of the Senate and Assembly were the last before the legislative session expires Tuesday at noon, the bill dies. It didn't have the votes needed to pass, at least in the Senate, according to two lawmakers.

Gov.-elect Chris Christie who takes office in a week, has criticized the bill, suggesting that it's unlikely to be revived before 2014.

Under the bill, students who are undocumented aliens would be eligible to pay in-state tuition if they attended a New Jersey high school for at least three years, graduated or got the equivalent of a diploma and file an affidavit with their college promising to apply to legalize their immigration status as soon as they're eligible.

Notice the prejudice in the reporting here - "immigrant children not in the country legally", "undocumented aliens"...not too much of an ax to grind at the Asbury Park-Press, I reckon...

But it's good to see the state's elected officials reacting to the will of the people rather than the will of Dirty Jon Corzine. With this hackneyed plan polling miserably since it was introduced back in April; it seems as if politicians have decided not to test the wrath of the people with an election only 10-odd months away...

Bottom line: New Jersey residents voted out the key architect of the state's liberal social program, and things are turning around already, with two items high on the left's wish-list stopped dead in their tracks. Elections matter, now more than ever, and they can change our lives for the better. They already are in New Jersey, and Christie hasn't even been sworn in yet.

Can you hear me, people of Massachusetts?