Martha Coakley: A Democratic Canary in a Coalmine?

“Obama demonizes Republicans for ‘demonizing’ Democrats using ‘the oldest play in the book.’”

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.. I am in LOVE with Scott Brown!
Gooooo Brown!

Go DIVIDED Govt!!
that is a true check and balance!
give the keys to the hen house to one fox be it Dem or Rep.. and look what happens..

As I watched the President yesterday, the hypocrasy of his words were remarkable. President Obama has fallen from grace with the masses because he has truly participated in blatant bribery and corrupt activities. This is the stuff of Mafia bosses, not US Presidents. Regardless of the outcome of the election, the future is clear. Once one loses credibility in life, it is almost impossible to recover.

Awesome job Jake, you are one of the few that is not intimidated by the politics of DC. It matters not if it is Bush or Obama, you ask the tough questions and report the facts without the spin and sugar coating. Keep up the good work. Believe it or not, many of us are not gullible drones willing to be manipulated by the political propaganda from the left and the right. We want the truth without the twist.

Maybe we all feel uncomfortable with any party in control of both houses and the white house… it’s just too cozy.

The polls do NOT show the two “neck-and-neck”. Obviously this author doesn’t have a clue what math is. Brown is substantially ahead, and the trend is going even higher.
No wonder I don’t believe anything reporters say anymore.

Jake,
Thank you for being a stand-up journalist – not afraid to report the truth and call ‘em like you see ‘em. I have lost so much faith in the mainstream media, but your willingness to be impartial is so refreshing. I hope your bosses find more reporters like you.

Obama… Always I
Obama… Always Me
Obama… Always My
Obama… Never We
Obama… Never Us
Obama… Never Our
Obama is not of “We The People”!

Beware Mr. Obama’s okey-doke.
Look under the hood of his “truck:” big banks, pharmaceuticals, insurance companies, lobbyists, unions.
If he thinks Americans are easily duped with his Elmer Gantry act, he doesn’t get it at all.
His elitist sneering is wearing very, very thin.

Remember what this monster — Coakley– did to the Amirault family. She by herself is a horrible person and a horrible candidate. If she loses, which she really should, she did it to herself. She is like Nifong, a self-interested liar and prosecutor of innocent people.

Feel the hate!

Just think, Coakley supports giving tax breaks on health care to union members and not to other working class that are not union members. Mass. voters can help all working class Americans that are not union members by electing Brown.

Kennedy calls her “Marcia”?!”I don’t know his record”?Do the Democrats even care about this race?Obviously Coakley is a disaster and out-of-touch,but you would think that her supporters could do the minimal research and remember her name.This may be a referendum on Obama,but it seems to me to be more a referendum on the Mass. Democrat party’s sense that the seat was theirs and it didn’t matter what the voters wanted; the party knew best what was good for the people.Patrick will be the next to go.

“People are frustrated and they’re angry, and they have every right to be,” President Obama said, “I understand. Because progress is slow, and no matter how much progress we make, it can’t come fast enough for the people who need help right now, today.”
When is he going to get it? The anger he’s witnessing has nothing to do with people wanting “help.” In fact, it’s precisely the opposite: It’s about wanting the government to GET OUT OF OUR LIVES.

Interesting how so very many Obama supporters label any that don’t agree with his and their policies as “haters”.
Kathy | Jan 18, 2010 9:30:39 AM
Do you not understand why? Below are a few quotes from this very thread. These are people disagreeing with Obama’s policy, that are personal attacks, in some cases casting Obama as not American. Accusations of high crimes and treason are tossed off like slogans. This is not rational disagreements with policy, it is classic personal dehumanization of an opponent and is creating an atmosphere that is leading to the Secret Service having to deal with more death threats than for any other president, ever. That’s what the Right’s peddling of hatred rather than actual policy disagreement has led to.
“President Obama has fallen from grace with the masses because he has truly participated in blatant bribery and corrupt activities. This is the stuff of Mafia bosses…”
“Obama, Palosi, Reid, the axis of evil.”
“Obama… Always I
Obama… Always Me
Obama… Always My
…
Obama is not of “We The People”!”
“It will be a tight race but only because the corrupt democrat machine is buying the votes with SEIU and ACORN.”

“If Republicans…standing up for the status quo and for insurance companies over American families and businesses…” Last I checked the health, insurance and legal industries were the major contributors to Pelossi, Reid, Miller, Boxer…etc., made more donations to Democrats than Republicans.
None of the insurance companies are American businesses?
I would love to own a company in an industry in which it was a law that every American had to buy my product!

Mr Tapper rightly points out that Obama didn’t bother to dwell on his healthcare initiative at the rally yesterday. Reminds me of the time I disassembled my fathers lawnmower and then couldn’t put it back together again. I tried to put off the inevitable punishment by not mentioning the lawn at all….it didn’t work.

What???? The health insurance companies are the biggest winner in the Senate bill.
Sabastian | Jan 18, 2010 9:39:30 AM
Their ‘winning’ is thanks only to the Republicans standing as a single block against single payer.
And if you think they’re happy about no longer being able to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions or drop patients when they get sick and start costing money, you’re delusional. Or easily led by the liars on the Right. There is no question the new bill reins in the insurance companies (just as there is no question that it raises taxes on some – it’s not free, but it is paid for).

jhw
Let me ask you a question.
Should a person be able to open a bank account with $5 and then withdraw $10,000 then next day?

I love it…
When a Republican is up 5, 10, 9, and 5 in the last four polls, it is “dead even.”
But if the roles were reversed, I’m sure Coakley would be “running away with it.”

Should a person be able to have a car accident one day and get insurance the next day and have the accident covered by the new policy?

Jhw539, the only quote that had even a hint of hatefulness was the one mentioning the “axis of evil”. Other than that you have proven my point. Please discredit the other quotes you listed with hard facts.

“We will have a discussion right there in front of the American people” said Obama.
“The public will be part of the conversation” said Obama.
You are a complete idiot if you believe anything more Barack Obama has to say.
drjohn | Jan 18, 2010 9:48:23 AM
Speaking of complete idiots, the health care bill has had more hours of Congressional debate publicly televised than any bill in the history of the nation. Name one bill, ever, that has had this much open debate. Can you even name a single bill in the last century that has every had the kind of massive townhall debate this one had, never mind all the televised floor debate and committee meetings. And the number of marked up bills, working drafts and committee submittals made public on the internet are again unprecedented – in the past this stuff wouldn’t even be available to the public in hardcopy.
But that’s not 100% perfect, so you’re spinning that it is a failure. But a Democrat is someone that will settle for “more transparent process ever with more direct public involvement than any other bill in a century.” And if you don’t agree that’s true, just name the other bill that went longer, had more televised debate, or that had townhalls in almost every district.

Obama says “everybody can buy a truck.” Not really, not in this economic environment, and certainly not with the threat of crap and tax.
Just another example of Obama’s elitist and totally out of touch attitude.

Obama gets that people are angry .. he just doesn’t understand the reason they are angry.

He went on to paint Brown and the GOP as exploiting that “pain and anger to score a few political points. There are always folks who think that the best way to solve these problems are to demonize others. And, unfortunately, we’re seeing some of that politics in Massachusetts today.
That’s right, demonize the evil GOP and decry the politics of demonizing the others in the same breath. Has there ever been a more shameless hypocrite in office?

Its always dead even when acorn is in the cemetary collecting votes.

Man, what an Empty Suit this president is! He is just a nasty little man. He’s a local street politician (neighborhood organizer, local activist), nothing more. I’d take 8 more years of George Bush in a heartbeat (you know, the guy who gave freedom to 50 million middle easterners), rather than another week of obama. What a HUGE mistake you poeple made who voted this turnip into the Presidency!

According to Obama, Brown parks his pickup on Wall Street.
The cheering from the crowd showed their ignorance or either they just don’t care.
Obama’s cabinet is filled with WallStreet insiders and his biggest campaign donors came fom the likes of Goldman Sachs.
His lies are catching up with him as many Americans discover the truth.
No thanks to the MSM.

Obama and the Democrats did the one thing they couldn’t afford to do – they showed all the idiot hipsters and collectivist college dumb-dumbs that it’s “uncool” now to be a democrat. It was the only thing they had. No matter how much the notion of “cool” is withouth substance, it was really the only thing the party had going for it – that being a democrat was “young, hip, cool” – you know – all Vote or Die MTV crap. Surprisingly, taking personal responsibility for ones self and ones life is the new cool. Who a-”thunk” that admitting to being a fan of The Daily Show is among the lamest things a person could do.

Is that spin that this is the most televised democrat practise squad in history, but you will never get to see the main event, what crap.

Funny. If the healthcare “reform” legislation is so wonderful and popular, why didn’t Obama the Great mention this “historic” legislation yesterday in highly liberal Boston?
There was no reference to Scott Brown being the key vote against passage of the health care reform bill as a reason to vote for Coakley. Not even in Boston.
Hmmmm…..I wonder why.
In fact, this was an obvious sign that the White House knows exactly how overwhelmingly unpopular the legislation is. Democrats have grossly underestimated the public’s hatred of this “reform” bill and the contining wrath of trying to ram it down our throats. More Americans than ever now know the bill has nothing to do with “reform” and everything to do with a sloppy play by Democrats to grab power and control over lives on the way to Obama’s nanny state utopia that he will preside over as boy king.
No president has fallen so far so fast than Obama, who enters his second year with the lowest Gallop approval ratings of any president in history. But then again, no president has displayed so much corruption, arrogance, dishonestly, narcissism and incompetence.
Obama is poison.

Only 33% of “likely voters” (although that term means something different in every poll) like the Senate bill as it stands. Almost 60% favor it if you add a public sector run insurance option.
And yet, if Brown wins, the press will inevitably crow that Obama and the Democratic Party are being “too liberal”.
Such is the disconnect between our corporate press and reality.

“Name one bill, ever, that has had this much open debate.”
Wow. Can I have whatever you’re smoking?
BTW, Obama promised 8 times to have open debates on CSPAN…

State Senator Brown voted with the GOP 96% of the time.
What could be worse than that?
U.S.Senator Obama voted with Pelosi and Reid 96% of the time. Pelosi and Reid.
Wonder if Brown voted present 129 times like Obama.

The Cambridge Police back Scott Brown.
Not acting stupid anymore.
What say you Obama?

Posted by: jhw539 | Jan 18, 2010 10:09:43 AM
Uh huh.
Go ahead. Search “Health care secret talks” and see what happens.
It was all public until it got meaningful. We were supposed to see who got what and why.
We didn’t.
As soon as Obama made his back room deals with big pharma the charade was over.

U.S.Senator Obama voted with Pelosi and Reid 96% of the time. Pelosi and Reid.
mick | Jan 18, 2010 10:11:15 AM
And the Republican party voted to support George W Bush a similar percentage (and set records for the number of filibuster three years in a row protecting Bush’s Republican policies – no Democratic minority has ever, EVER, filibustered as much as the Republicans).

jhw
This election is a referendum on Obama. There’s no doubt about it. All that remains is to see whether the Massachusetts machine overturns this election as they did in Minnesota. Let’s see if dead people vote. Let’s see if there are more votes than there are voters. Let’s see if judges keep the polls open until Democrats bus in enough illegals from surrounding states to overthrow the result.
It will be interesting.

I see panic on the left. Lots of panic. even if brown were to lose, this is worth it. Obama, the dems, had a golden opportunity to live up to what they promised in the 08 general E. They lied, and despite the mainstream medias attempt to ignore the lies, the truth is getting out there. The radical agenda, the attacks on personal liberty, the spending/failed stimulus, hypocracy, the Pelosi/Reid Serial corruption, its all getting to the people now. The blinders are coming off, and even Jake tapper is shifting away from his pro Obama love affair of last year. The press is seeing it in the WH conferences with Gibbs. This COuntry has made a grave mistake, helped much in part by the mainstream liberal media, who have now been caught in bed with the left. The freeloaders dont/wont care, but most Americans arent free loaders. Many fell for and voted for “HOPE” and the only change they got was bigger govt and even more blatant corruption and irresponsible spending. You did it to yourselves AMerica, lead by the very Free press that is nothing more than political enablers controlling the message through yur airwaves. I only hope it can be stopped in time.

drjohn: If this health care bill is “better than any major bill, ever” as you claim, that what are you Dems worried about?
Pass the Senate version of the health care reform bill before Brown takes office, and take your case to the people. Campaign on it in the upcoming Congressional elections.
And when you do, please be sure to explain how the taxes to pay for the health care reform bill go into effect immediately, while most of the benefits claimed for the bill don’t go into effect till 2013. (That gimmick was necessary to prevent the bill from exploding the Federal deficit even further.)
See if you can sell that one to the voters.
Good luck!

Posted by: sinz54 | Jan 18, 2010 10:21:32 AM
You are mistaking me for the liberal jhw.

The Democrats know the country hates their healthcare proposal, but they have pushed so hard for so long. They don’t know how to pull back even when it is obvious that passing this legislation will be political suicide. Having Scott Brown win in Massachusetts would give them the perfect excuse to back down while saving face. It is a blessing in disguise.

It is very clear that the Outrage is very much on the side of those who oppose the president and Congress’s policies, as measured in the polls by the “strongly oppose” and the “strongly approve” numbers. This race is really a death knell for the Dems…looks like nationwide.

“Meanwhile, back in reality, Obama’s approval rating in MA is over 57% – as judged by questions on the exact same poll showing Coakley behind.”
If only non-workers are polled, I suppose.
That love for Obama really paid off swell yesterday. He almost filled half a hall.

If Brown wins, not only will this incredibly unpopular bill be stopped, it will also give Democrats the excuse they most love to use…that the evil Republicans succeeded in keeping health care from the poor when in fact, many on the Left also don’t want it and may well show it with their votes. Hypocrites

Posted by: jhw539 | Jan 18, 2010 10:29:48 AM
You could have paid for the entire Iraq war with one Barack Obama failure stimulus package. You could go a long way to pay for all of our wars with the money Obama has given to Wall St bankers alone.

If Brown wins, not only will this incredibly unpopular bill be stopped, it will also give Democrats the excuse they most love to use…that the evil Republicans succeeded in keeping health care from the poor when in fact, many on the Left also don’t want it and may well show it with their votes. Hypocrites
Posted by: Kathy | Jan 18, 2010 10:30:59 AM
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You have to wonder about how dead this bill would really be. Scott Brown supported health insurance mandates in MA, the single most unpopular part of the Senate bill.
The ultimate irony is that the GOP individually supports the most unpopular parts of the bill, yet the necessity of punishing the Democrats for bowing to their right wing is going to benefit the GOP.
If only the media would report this story in a straight-forward manner, we might learn something from the experience.

I attended the Scott Brown Rally in Worcester, MA yesterday. It was electric! With foresight the campaign organizers rented space at the local hotel and simulcast the event in case too many supporters showed up. Guess what? The overflow crowd was several thousand strong.
It’s estimated that the Brown Rally outdrew the Obama-Coakley Rally by 2-to-1. Independents, Democrats, Republicans, doctors, nurses, teachers, union members, small business owners and many, many others were there. It’s not about the left or the right. It’s about following the will of the people and the People of the United States do not want wealth transfer programs disguised as healthcare or climate change.
The “butcher’s bill” at the November election will be high. Win or lose tomorrow, Scott Brown and the citizens of the U.S. have already won. This race highlights what the “silent majority” is willing to do to take back control of the government. away from “entitled politicians.” The silent majority is awake, it’s organized and it’s willing to spend as much time and money as needed to end this Administration’s assault on the democratic process.
Entitled politicians watch closely, unless the Obama machine can find Al Franken-like absentee ballots, Scott Brown wins going away.

Obama can’t survive in an environment of independence and individualism.
The small time community organizer does not know how to operate outside the one party corruption den in Chicago. The poor are in worse shape now than they have ever been thanks to the democrat party’s success of keeping them down, uneducated, and angry. Ditto every other urban dem conclave ruled by these slum lords.

Even if Coakley squeaks this out, the democrats need to take notice that their politics of division and hatred are not welcome here.
Obama is easily the most divisive President in the past 40 years, and the democrats fuel that division.
It is far past the time for them to change their ways. It’s time for them to go away.

“There are always folks who think that the best way to solve these problems are to demonize others”
Well no #### Mr. Obama. that is exactly how you got elected. using the Saul Alinsky playbook of “demonizing others”.

“Wow, dems can’t even stay in power for 1 year before people start voting them out—in some of the most blue states in the country. ”
This has been a painful lesson but it shows the true substance of Democrats.
We’re in a recession. What do they do? Spend, spend, spend.
On anything useful? No.
They spent it mainly on Wall St bankers.
Unemployment is high. What do they do?
Try to ram Crap and Trade down our throats.
What have they done to help create jobs?
Nothing.
What have they done for investment?
Nothing. Their efforts have made loans for investment all but impossible, no matter how worthy one is.
This is why there is no recovery.
Are CDO’s and MBS’s still selling?
Why did Obama not limit losses at Fannie and Freddie?
So he could use F&F as policy arms to dole out more money to those who won’t pay it back.
A tax on banks?
BEAUTIFUL! It’s not like they won’t pay that on to customers!
It’s hard to imagine a more destructive plan for this country.

Obama’s comments have to be the most Stupid, as in Stupid with a capital “S,” comments I have ever heard. This is what happens when the educational system has been dumbed down over the past quarter century. You can say crap like this and stand a good chance of getting away with it. I wonder if the Democrats are now getting it after ignorning the collective voices of the American people for the past 8-9 months? I will be writing my Senators and my Congressman and asking this question of them.

Obama & Co. struck a sweet deal for big pharma
jennifert7 | Jan 18, 2010 10:52:29 AM
And Republicans didn’t with the HUGE drugs benefit giveaway, where they put into law the government wasn’t allowed to bargain but had to pay list price?
The sweet deal Obama struck was that pharma would only have to PAY a limited amount, it was not a giveaway.

If the best ever means those of us who work and aren’t Obama pals pay for all of you who don’t contribute, no thanks.
drjohn | Jan 18, 2010 10:32:40 AM
No, I quite clearly defined what I was talking about. This has been the most transparent process ever with more direct public involvement than any other bill in a century. It is not perfect, but it is BETTER THAN ANY MAJOR BILL, EVER.
If you wanted to debate something else, perhaps you shouldn’t have started with the absurd and discredited Republican Big Lie that the health care bill has been ‘rushed’ through ‘in secret’.

The irony lies in the now established fact that this is now a left leaning country, except in the minds of the corporate media village.

AngryMobVoter, you are quite mistaken. If the tax didn’t exist for union members, it wouldn;t exist for non-union workers. Nobody proposed a tax based on non-union membership, you are just being silly.
The “teacher tax” in fact is levied against the cost of the plans, and who it effects are the groups and individuals most likely to be older and female. I has nothing to do with union membership.
Someone tell me how taxing teachers health benefits is going to bring in revenue? Oh yeah, by having us pay more in property taxes.
We’d be better off putting everyone on the government payroll on a government plan, instead of cycling our tax monies through private profit insurance companies.

“Have you watched the 200 hours+ of debate on the health care bill currently available at C-Span?” Posted by: jhw539 | Jan 18, 2010 9:45:52 AM
“This has been the most transparent process ever with more direct public involvement than any other bill in a century.” Posted by: jhw539 | Jan 18, 2010 11:04:43 AM
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You can watch the “talking” about the “game” for hours on end, days…weeks…months on end, but if you don’t televise the “game” itself, then that is NOT transparency.

Flashoverride, taxes are the government’s only source of revenue.

As a Massachusetts resident I am witnessing a resurgence and energy in MA voters the likes of which I have never seen. Kennedy didn’t have the seat-He had a throne and Ma residents are overthrowing the monarchy once and for all!

Oh, I disagree that the Croaker’s campaign has been “imperfect.” It’s been perfect in it’s God-awfulness. She deserves the ############ she’s about to get for her smug sense of “I’m the Democrat, that’s all you need to know” entitlement alone. It seems a majority of the good people of Massachusetts, God bless ‘em, are at long last mad as hell and aren’t gonna take it anymore. Beware, Democrats; we in California are pretty damned ticked off as well.

Affirmative Action Pres at work, The LEAST experienced President ever and the only thing he has to say is, ITS NOT MY FAULT! Also, Look, Brown drives a truck(Government Motors made??)
Even TOTUS plans to vote for Brown. Ha Ha

And he went after one of Brown’s signature shticks, his old pickup truck, used to convey Everyman appeal. “You’ve got to look under the hood,” President Obama said. “Forget the truck. Everybody can buy a truck.”
That is THE MOST ironic comment Obama has made to date. I’m sure 99.9% of the American public would agree that Obama is the truck that got purchased without the voters looking under the hood. He (Obama) might look good on the outside, but if you look under the hood to see what’s running the truck, you’ll find a mess of indecisive, far left, union loving spark plugs. Not to mention the engine being run by Pelosi and Reid.
And, by the way, his comment that “everybody can buy a truck” really shows how out of touch he is… in this economy, can “everybody” REALLY buy a truck?? Oh, wait, I forgot he was in a room filled with elitist liberals. Maybe in THAT room, everybody can buy a truck.

“The irony lies in the now established fact that this is now a left leaning country, except in the minds of the corporate media village.”
Posted by: Flash Override | Jan 18, 2010 11:06:05 AM
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You’re kidding, right?

Thanks, Jake… for carefully analyzing Obama’s words. This guy is always parsing and nuancing in order to manipulate others. Now when Obama gets called out on breaking campaign promises, he actually refers to his own parsing/nuancing to explain that he did not really promise anything. Also getting really tired of his “axis of evil” blame game, i.e. Bush, any GOP, and big evil business (insurance companies, pharma, Wall Street, etc.). The latter is most disgusting within the context of “reform” because Obama has made so many sweetheart deals with them in his private (not transparent) meeting. Remember how the Dems howled about the same thing regarding the Bush/Cheney energy bill? Notably, Obama voted for that energy bill after he got his own sweetheart deal for corn ethanol in Illinois. (Hillary and McCain voted against it.)

There will always be people that won’t admit they were wrong about anything no matter how many facts they’re given. Let’s hope that their egos aren’t too massive when they actually vote.

“Search for “DrJohn” through these comments and you will read much of what is inspiring real Change right now, 2010. He is exactly right!”
Yeah, search right back to this one:
“Should a person be able to have a car accident one day and get insurance the next day and have the accident covered by the new policy?
Posted by: drjohn | Jan 18, 2010 9:51:20 AM”
-where drjohn demonstrates an incredible lack of understanding of the fundamental differences between health insurance and car insurance not genuinely possible by anybody actually involved in the medical profession.

I can’t believe the dems are willing to give up a senate seat in the bluest of states over this crap piece of legislation that NO ONE wants. How foolish.

If “anybody can buy a truck”, then why did we need cash for clunkers? When obama speaks, he doesn’t even remember his own arguments and policies. And if he is the de facto CEO of GM, even in GM’s worst days, the CEO would Never denigrate its products or the people who buy them.

From the Boston Globe, who endorsed Martha “Marcia” Coakley. LOL
—Martha Coakley made a jaw-dropping declaration earlier this week at the only live televised debate in Boston that she has deigned to do. She said, and I quote, “I’ve traveled the state and met tremendous people.’’
If she did, it was under the cover of darkness, with an assumed name.
Because if she had really traveled the state, if she had taken the time to meet voters, Coakley wouldn’t be in the position she finds herself in now, heading into the final weekend of this special election campaign in a perilously close race against a GOP state legislator nobody had heard of a mere six months ago.
Back in December, Coakley beat her closest opponent by 19 points in a primary in which she got stronger by the day. She strolled into the general election with high name recognition, strong favorability ratings, and as the Democratic candidate in a state that hasn’t elected a Republican to the Senate since 1972. It looked as if it would be impossible to lose.
So what did she do? Apparently, she’s tried to accomplish the impossible.—

If you buy a car but choose not to buy auto insurance, then total the car should you have the right to buy insurance after the fact and have that car replaced by the company?
Kathy | Jan 18, 2010 11:50:03 AM
The REALITY is that the health reform bill requires everyone to have insurance, if they don’t they have to pay a fee that goes to offset coverage costs. This is the mandate part of the bill and this is EXACTLY why this unpopular element is a fundamental part of the legislation. Democrats putting good law making. No denials for pre-existing conditions can ONLY work since Democrats are taking the bumper-sticker attacks that dishonestly only mention the mandate.

Obama has destroyed his own party.
Will MA follow him off the cliff too.
Harry Reid…you and Barbara Boxer are next!
These people are so stupid they will jeopardize their own careers by ignoring constituents and following Obama.

Great article, Jake. The article’s title says it all.

President Obama said. “Forget the truck. Everybody can buy a truck.”
Jake, you forgot to add that Brown drives a GM truck with nearly 200,000 miles on it. Now that the US owns GM you would think Obama would want to promote that rather than demean it…
Obama said. “Forget the truck. Everybody can buy a truck.” REALLY?
Scott Browns response,“ Mr. President, unfortunately in this economy, not everybody can buy a truck,” “My goal is to change that by cutting spending, lowering taxes and letting people keep more of their own money.”

Martha “Marcia” Coakley to the Martin Luther King Breakfast in Boston:
Dr. King had a dream……that I would be elected Senator.
Their reaction was less than enthusiastic.

Scott Brown for President

President Obama said. “Forget the truck. Everybody can buy a truck.”
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
One of the most foolish things the man has ever said, on so many levels. He did not help her cause.

By the assumptions and statements given
by the Dems, its all about style
and presentation and not substance.
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia ( given that
name by Kennedy) could not even do that
correctly. If Mass. wants a totally
clueless arrogant leader sent to
Washington on their behalf, than it
sounds like Coakley will be a good
choice. God knows she would be one
of many with those attributes. Go
Scott Brown…and Mass. the country
is counting on you.

Forget it Jake.. It’s Chinatown.

-President Obama said. “Forget the truck. Everybody can buy a truck.”
So, Champ, why did we need Cash for Clunkers??-
And he’s supposed to care about Co2 and AGW!

“If your body gets wrecked you have to try to convince your insurance company to keep dumping money into it indefinitely no matter what.”
Like your car, your body is your problem.

Ha ha ha ha ha. No Obama will be the canary. Even with a poor campaign, a Democrat should carry a double digit lead in Massachusetts. It’s the Obama effect that’s dragging everything down. A heavy anchor drags down all boats…

Today, P.Kennedy called Coakley, Marsha. Like Obama, they don’t know her as a brainless ‘canary’ but another vote for BHO’s socialist pacifist agenda. The voters in Mass. have good healthcare and Obamacare will actually add taxes and expenses to each Mass. citizen. Time to move on from the Kennedy era. Time to go with the recent WAPO poll that showed 58% of Americans want smaller govt. not larger federal expansion. Tapper is right on. Surprisingly since all of the MSM is in the tank for the leftist Dems.

Why does it not surprise me that Scott Brown looks like a buttoned up corporate Ken doll?
Right. Let’s also ask Biden and Reid their thoughts as well.

58% of Americans want smaller govt. not larger federal expansion.
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Voting Republicans into national office won’t make that happen. Won’t shrink the deficit either. And it certainly won’t reform health insurance and health care delivery or the financial industry or fix the economy or create jobs. The historical data– the track record– speaks for itself for those not duped by lip service.

Let’s also ask Biden and Reid their thoughts as well.
Posted by: Byrd | Jan 18, 2010 12:51:47 PM
Romney would be a better fit– they have the same cardboard cutout (or is it plastic?) look going on.

Posted by: James Danley | Jan 18, 2010 12:46:00 PM
While confessing I’m too lazy to argue specifics I must say you guys are always brimming with good ideas until it’s time to try and actually legislate any of them.

obama = every word a LIE
by now we can see this

You mean like the economic boom of the 1990s…
I mean the historical data on job creation, middle class income, pushing for health care reform, size of government, deficit (didn’t Reagan triple it and build up the military branch of government significantly– oops, yes he did)– you know, the actual numbers and facts versus the party line spin which many tea party astroturfers and loyal elephants seem to have memorized and rigidly stick to despite reality.

“So the tsunami is rolling now”
I think you must be watching the film backwards edlarson; that’s the tsunami that just washed all the Republicans out of Washington the last two elections naturally settling back.

-WE SIMPLY CANNOT AFFORD THIS HEALTH CARE BILL-
YES WE CAN! By borrowing more money from China, taxing banks and health plans (but not unions or those that live in Neb.) and other stuff…Done.

Here’s a guy who just crafted a health bill with union giveaways, insurance company handouts, and taxpayer-financed special interest checks for Nebraska and Louisiana, and he has the nerve to tell us he’s trying to change how DC does business?
Get real, Barack. Stop insulting our intelligence by saying one thing and then doing another. Rahm’s got you doing business Chicago thug style, and some of us are looking at the actual facts, not the manufactured image of you Axelrod is trying to create.

“Why completely destroy the private sector’s healthcare coverage;”
But look how well Fannie and Freddie have worked out!

don’t want to go backwards– and if I sound desperate its because I remember perfectly normal-seeming people voting for Reagan and W. and thinking they were doing something positive.
Posted by: There is no Planet B
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LMAO, these “seemingly normal people”
were rejecting the Jimmy Carter era of malise..high interest rates, massive inflation, weaking of the US Military, Terrorist coddling. (Iran Hostages), and we are now looking at the same performance by Barry Obama as we saw in Jimmy Carter

You guys debating Democrats and Republicans sound like sheep for both parties. As someone else pointed out, we had a great run in the 90s with a Democrat President, and GOP Congress.
It was like the deficit got smaller as Clinton’s hair got whiter. I hope to watch the same thing happen to Barack’s hair by voting for him again, while making him contend with a GOP Congress.

Every poll I see shows that america does not want THIS health care plan. Why arent the politicians voting what the people that voted them in want. Isnt that why we elect them? Start over we need something but this is absolutely a terrible bill. Dont go to a secret room, keep everyone in congress involved. Dont hide. Let everyone in on it.

Posted by: another crisis, another photo-op | Jan 18, 2010 1:29:10 PM
As I said before, spin it however you want. Carter was ineffective as a president, but just because Reagan was the anti-Carter and you applaud that, that doesn’t mean he was highly effective on a wide range of issues or put into practice the ideology his worshippers still cling to rigidly. (hmmm… how many of those pillars actually got put into play again?) We are dealing with the results of that ideology and the narrow-minded folks who cling to it despite changing circumstances (and despite the fact that Reagan didn’t cling to it as rigidly– by any stretch of the imagination, lol).
Anyway, I hope SMC is right and Coakley wins. I agree that “It is cynical for the GOP who doubled our national debt in 8 years to be talking about fiscal responsibility. The tax cuts, the wars, the medicare drug bill did not benefit the middle class. The heathcare bill is for the middle class”, and I hope it will pass and the propagandists won’t win again and continue their attempts at destroying our beautiful country, and the middle class.
Keep your head, Massachusetts!

Democrats are generally incompetent in governing.
Liberalism does not work. Never has, never will.

“I agree that “It is cynical for the GOP who doubled our national debt in 8 years to be talking about fiscal responsibility.”
And Barry beat them!

Jh, what you really should do is bite the bullet and actually watch Fox, listen to talk radio etc., even if it’s terribly hard to do. Then look up-google-those things that you believe the right is lying about in order to disprove them. If you’re only getting your info from the MSM, you’re getting only a small part of what’s going on. I’m not being sarcastic in any way here.

To Barry and edlarson:
Blah, blah, blah. Enough of your tiresome baseless arguments about how bad “the last 8 years” have hurt us because of the Republicans and how Reagan tripled the debt. It has been precisely the hypocritical Democrats (AND Republicans forgetting their “fiscal conservatism”) that has gotten us where we now find ourselves (Reagan couldn’t spend a dime without the Democratic congress authorization, ed!) The people of Mass. are smart enough to see through the blatant hypocrisy of the Democrats and the nasty lying and desperation tactics they use to ram their liberal agenda down the country’s collective throats. They are going to use their heads and use their power in this special election to stop the abuse of Obama and the Chicago thugocracy, as well as Pelosi and Reid. Don’t think for a second if the roles were reversed, a conservative state wouldn’t do likewise.

Betya he thinks they who are in Massachusetts are a bunch of less educated, God-praying, gun-huggers. What do they know our Smartest Clueless Leader’s real meaning when he sells ‘em things he knew nothing about.
Mr. jpt, don’t spoil the fun to point out the obvious. If you have time, find out how we may get the $1000 our Greatest Smartest Clueless Leader promised if we vote for him. Have you received the checks you deserve from him yet?

Actually Dan R. does not know what he is talking about. If two similar people have “Cadillac” health plans. The plan is not taxed if the person is a union member but it is if the person does not belong to a union. That is clear discrimination and shows to what lengths Obama and Congress will go to buy off another they have to in order to pass a bill the American people do not want. This provision hurts ordinary Americans in order to buy union support.
Let’s put this in perspective:
Imagine two ordinary Americans that are almost identical and have so called “Cadillac” health plans. Imagine the significant difference between these two Americans is one is a union member and one is not. The American who is not a union member will pay a tax on his health plan while the other will not. That is DISCRIMINATION! Is that the change the American people voted for? Obama and the Congress lied about the transparency and bipartisanship. It is time to VOTE THEM OUT!!!
Imagine an ordinary American who has a chronic health condition like heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, or one of many other chronic conditions. This person seeks out an employer who offers a “Cadillac” health plan to cover his substantial health care expenses. Now this Congress and Obama will tax that person for seeking out a plan that best meets his healthcare needs. Of course he only pays the tax if he is NOT a union member. Is that the change the American people voted for? Obama and the Congress lied about the transparency and bipartisanship. It is time to VOTE THEM OUT!!!
Obama and Congress are not doing the work of the American People and they are not listening to the will of the people. They will use any means no matter how dirty to ram this bill into law. The American people need to come together and VOTE THEM OUT!!!

Sorry it is Flash Override who does not know what he is talking about. If two similar people have “Cadillac” health plans. The plan is not taxed if the person is a union member but it is if the person does not belong to a union. That is clear discrimination and shows to what lengths Obama and Congress will go to buy off another they have to in order to pass a bill the American people do not want. This provision hurts ordinary Americans in order to buy union support.
Let’s put this in perspective:
Imagine two ordinary Americans that are almost identical and have so called “Cadillac” health plans. Imagine the significant difference between these two Americans is one is a union member and one is not. The American who is not a union member will pay a tax on his health plan while the other will not. That is DISCRIMINATION! Is that the change the American people voted for? Obama and the Congress lied about the transparency and bipartisanship. It is time to VOTE THEM OUT!!!
Imagine an ordinary American who has a chronic health condition like heart disease, kidney disease, diabetes, or one of many other chronic conditions. This person seeks out an employer who offers a “Cadillac” health plan to cover his substantial health care expenses. Now this Congress and Obama will tax that person for seeking out a plan that best meets his healthcare needs. Of course he only pays the tax if he is NOT a union member. Is that the change the American people voted for? Obama and the Congress lied about the transparency and bipartisanship. It is time to VOTE THEM OUT!!!
Obama and Congress are not doing the work of the American People and they are not listening to the will of the people. They will use any means no matter how dirty to ram this bill into law. The American people need to come together and VOTE THEM OUT!!!

Obama: “Forget the truck. Everybody can buy a truck.”
In this economy? Just who is he trying to kid, anyway?

As someone who very proudly has NEVER voted for a Democratic presidential candidate (been voting since 1984). Reagan was a huge success!! Conservative ideas concerning the economy work EVERY time…
Well, I’m sure you would be proud of that if you think conservatives ideas work every time without evidence to back up your claim. LOL. I don’t think you can name a deflationary recession and explain in detail how conservative principles fixed it. I also don’t think you can even tell us how Reagan fixed the economy without vast government spending and debt. But if you want to try, go for it. LOL.
Massachusetts, please vote for Coakley. We don’t need another Ken doll paying lip service to conservative ideas and putting forth NO innovative ideas for putting us on a good path. The party of no gets us nowhere.

bring back the republicans, they started the destruction of america in 2001, they deserve a chance to finish off the country for good, and divide it up among their corporate buddies even more than it is now, that way all the ‘real’ americans and tea part loons will wake up once they realize they were just the ultimate tools

Liberalism does not work. Never has, never will.
Posted by: tjp612 | Jan 18, 2010 1:47:20 PM
Funny, I’ve always thought the liberalism set forth in the Declaration of Independence was part of our exceptionalism. But maybe that’s just me and other liberals and progressives. Rather live under communism, fascism or tyranny? I thought that was what all you “patriots” were fighting against.
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Let me help you out here pal; it all depends on how you define “liberalism”. Today’s liberals bear absolutely NO relationship to liberalism as defined in the constitution, or as defined in the dictionary. Today’s liberals are an ugly conglomeration of:
1. Divide and conquer race baiters; divide the electorate into ethnic camps, convince them they’re “victims”, and demonize white males.
2. Class warfare neo-marxists declaring capitalism is not only eeeevil, but that it doesn’t work. Their solution? European style socialism with massive taxes, total govt power, and corresponding high unemployment with negligable GDP growth.
3. Big govt trolls who care nothing about govt inefficiency, fraud, or waste. Big govt is the Left’s PRIMARY goal, in and of itself.

demonize white males.
Posted by: JohnR22
hey pal, what was that about ‘ race baiters’..
as the Pres said: ‘they take pride in their own ignorance’
were you even in america from 2001 – 2008

Posted by: dialectician
you will have to travel to Kenya with Orly Taitz to find your answer

“divide the electorate into ethnic camps, convince them they’re “victims”, and demonize white males”
So the real victims are the white males huh? It’s always funny to hear right-wing boot-licking corporate peons profess their lame definitions of liberals while crying the blues.

Obama is a complete failure as President, complete failure.
He says this….was that there were going to be some who stood on the sidelines, who were protectors of the big banks, and protectors of the big insurance companies, protectors of the big drug companies….and he is the protector of BIG UNIONS, car manufacturers and Freddie and Fannie. He is so incredible. He must think that we are so stupid that we believe his crap.
Beck is right – mobilize anger and then you have a cause.
And Obama has mobilized anger, but it’s against him, not the banks, not the insurance companies, etc. This country is angry because he is so arrogant, lies all day long and is so desperate to fundamentally change this country.
Hopefully, God willing, he will be stopped tomorrow!

w

How ironic that,if Scott Brown wins, he will replace the senate’s single greatest champion of health care legislation by running against it.
The country does not want ObamaCare. Virtually every piece of research in the past three months shows this. And Massachusetts does not want it any more than the rest of the country (possibly because it already has a version of universal health care and is dissatisfied with it, possibly because it just doesn’t want to pay twice for the same thing, or a combination of both).
It is likely that Martha Coakley will lose tomorrow. And if she should somehow win it will be by a hair.
If this can happen in bluer-than-bue Massachusetts, what does it tell Democrats in other,less secure states?

I toldja so:
from Mark Tapscott:
“A new study of the nation’s voter registration records finds 3.3 million dead voters are still on the rolls – including an estimated 116,483 in Massachusetts – while another 12.9 million who are ineligible also remain.
The study was done by Aristotle International Inc., a Washington, D.C. technology company that specializes in election-related programming and database services for public officials and agencies.”
And by God I’ll bet all those dead people vote in Massachusetts tomorrow.

Obama tries to tie Scott Brown to Wall Street while he has a cabinet full of Wall Street insiders.
But his supporters either don’t know or don’t care. Obama likes his supporters to be in the dark.

Found by Bill Jacobson at Legal Insurrection:
Michelle Obama: “Barack saw his mother, who was very young and very single when she had him, and he saw her work hard to complete her education ….”
“very single when she had him….”
hmmmm

When Obama talks about demonizing others, he is actually talking from experience. He used it as a community organizer. That is why he can speak well of it.
Obama health care is idolatry. It is based on the wrong premised that good health can be bought. Good health is a gift from God. Money can only buy good doctors, state of the art medications and expensive hospitals but NEVER good health. In fact one can have very good health without spending any money on drugs and medicines. Good health is a by product of a HOLY spirit, and a HAPPY soul. Your spirit or your heart becomes HOLY when you acknowledged complete sovereignty of God over your life, i.e. when you TRUST God completely. You will know when your spirit is HOLY when you experience LOVE, JOY and PEACE in you. These make your soul HAPPY, allowing you to LOVE and FORGIVE. The result of all these is a HEALTHY body, GOOD HEALTH.
Obama care cannot buy love, joy and peace. Even if you have all the money in the world, there is no place you can go to to purchase love, joy and peace.
GET REAL. Trash Obama care and turn your life over to God. TRUST God to keep you in good health.

Martha Coakley: A Democratic Canary in a Coalmine?
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We can certainly HOPE!

Whether Coakley wins or loses it won’t teach Obama anything.
All he cares about is his legacy.
Pass HC at all costs.
The people don’t want it, the Dems will lose their careers in November.
Backdoor deals and bribes, higher taxes.
Obama, Pelosi, and Reid don’t care.

I hope a win in MA will be the beginning of the end of Obama and his plan to “change” America.
It’s our freedom vs the end of a power-grabbing gov’t takeover.
Liberty vs Tyranny

When you have an incompetent President pushing an equally incompetent canidate on the people against their will… you end up in situations such as these.
I knew Obama was incompetent, but the DNC should have done their homework on selecting a proper canidate. If the person doesn’t want the job, or do what it takes to win… They shouldn’t be given the opportunity, pure and simple.
They got away with one bad canidate and
choose to replicate that strategy in Mass… thankfully the people are more intellegent than what they were projected as, and are demanding more from their representatives in Government… like Competency!!! It’s about TIME!

Only problem is that he does not want you to remember it is He who gives Your money to the Big Banks in the first place.
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Don’t you mean the TARP funding designed and put forward by the Bush administration?

I knew Obama was incompetent, but the DNC should have done their homework on selecting a proper canidate.
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Obama is far from incompetent and he’s proved that throughout the year. If you want to talk incompetency, you talk the previous administration.

Minnesota was one marvelous example. 177 precincts generated more votes than voters. Liberal judges do not want to disenfranchise dead voters.”
Lets see the original erroneous claim was 25 precincts had more votes after a recount than on election night by WSJ not registered voters versus votes, now its 177 precincts with more votes than voters.
The lesson as always? Right wingers lie.

“The study was done by Aristotle International Inc., a Washington, D.C. technology company”
Gee a company selling voting technology (databases, age & id verification) did a study that says you need their product.
Other studies by the company include
“Aristotle Supports Federal Trade Commission December Findings on Age Verification of Restricted Movie Trailers Online”

Thank you Mr. Tapper for not drinking (and presenting some relevant points).

WSJ:
“In other cases, the board has been flagrantly inconsistent. Last month, Mr. Franken’s campaign charged that one Hennepin County (Minneapolis) precinct had “lost” 133 votes, since the hand recount showed fewer ballots than machine votes recorded on Election Night. Though there is no proof to this missing vote charge — officials may have accidentally run the ballots through the machine twice on Election Night — the Canvassing Board chose to go with the Election Night total, rather than the actual number of ballots in the recount. That decision gave Mr. Franken a gain of 46 votes.”
“Meanwhile, a Ramsey County precinct ended up with 177 more ballots than there were recorded votes on Election Night. In that case, the board decided to go with the extra ballots, rather than the Election Night total, even though the county is now showing more ballots than voters in the precinct. This gave Mr. Franken a net gain of 37 votes, which means he’s benefited both ways from the board’s inconsistency.”
Soros’ Secretary of State project pays off handsomely.

Dead people, pets, Mickey Mouse, and some people will vote more than once, at the suggestion of Ed Schultz…The result? People will forever associate Democrats with cheating and fraud.
This election has already made DC and the country aware that Americans REJECT socialism. November will be fun.

Mickey Kaus:
“Did ACORN chicanery elect Al Franken? That’s the import of this tactfully phrased Minneapolis Star Tribune column.** Franken won by 312 votes. ACORN claimed to have registered 48,000 43,000 ew Minnesota voters. If just 1% were ineligible but cast ballots, or had ballots cast for them illegally, and survived the recount process … that’s 480 430 votes, almost certainly overwhelmingly cast for Franken. … Maybe in pristine Minnesota even ACORN is clean. If so, the state would apparently be an outlier. …”
It will be amazing if there is ever another truly fair and free election in this country.

“a Ramsey County precinct ended up with 177 more ballots than there were recorded votes on Election Night” -WSJ, 1/5/09
Better to ask for forgiveness…
“Minnesota was one marvelous example. 177 precincts generated more votes than voters.”
Better to use reading comprehension.

“Meanwhile, a Ramsey County precinct ended up with 177 more ballots than there were recorded votes on Election Night.”
Yes. Having more ballots than what was recorded on election night is not exactly crazy as ballots are lost, improperly voided etc.
What drjohn said
“Minnesota was one marvelous example. 177 precincts generated more votes than voters.”
You implied there were more votes than actual voters in 177 counties rather than 177 more ballots in 1 county than there were on election night.
So was it dishonesty or stupidity?

While president Obama jokes about brown and his pickup”everybody can buy a pickup”,he forgets that under his leadership a whole lot of people can’t afford one!

“Every American who has a retirement fund or some of their savings invested is very happy with the results on the DOW since Obama took office.”
With unemployment at 17% it’s really great that Goldman Sachs is doing so well.
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There are millions and millions of ‘regular’ Americans who have retirement funds or some of their savings invested. These people are very happy with what has happened with the 30% increase in the stock markets since Obama took office.

Dead people, pets, Mickey Mouse, and some people will vote more than once, at the suggestion of Ed Schultz…The result? People will forever associate Democrats with cheating and fraud.
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You ought to read and research more carefully. If weird names were gathered for a voters’ list, they were not put on that list. They were properly screened by the process.
Your lies only diminish the ethical believability of the right wing and the Republicans.
Posted by: tierra | Jan 18, 2010 6:21:35 PM
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I’m glad you realize the Democrats cheat in all elections including in caucuses. I hope you will be the one liberal that can be a good role model for other liberals and prevent this type of thing from happening tomorrow in MA and in the future. You may want to go to your local ACORN office and begin there. Go Tierra Go!

Tierra, please be a good role model for other Democrats and help them stop cheating in elections. You can be the one shining light that will stop them. Begin at your nearest ACORN office.
And might I add – check online for examples of the rampant cheating and fraud in the 2008 primaries against Hillary Clinton’s supporters.

Hang on a few- Glenn Beck is calling me….

Ed Schultz said he’d cheat to get Choakley elected.
Lesson? Democrat always cheat and lie.

Did you see the video of Obama in the half empty hall saying that Choakley would voted against the tax cuts and how silent it was in response???
Hilarious!

Ryan:
“To a right winger, the Dow going from 8000 to 10500 is the Dow having “recovered a bit”.
So in 2008 with $100,000 in the market, March 2009 saw that drop %50 to $50,000. The %30 percent gain since March brings the investment all the way back up to $65,000. Wow, I’m impressed.
TARP is what brought the market back up; Bush did that.
Obama’s stimulus wasted hundreds of billions of dollars, tripled the deficit and prevented the market from making a full recovery.
What color is the sky in the left wing world?

Since when is liberal politics encouraged by Wall St performance…LOL…Look, I understand that if I was so wrapped-up and guilt ridden for voting in lemon candidates I would be grasping at straws also…but the point is Wall St..DOES NOT FOLLOW Main Street…Wall St bets on the future value of business and like before, Wall St. predictions have been wrong…Look toward unemployment which is still higher than previous administration…

Since when is liberal politics encouraged by Wall St performance..
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Any economist worth their salt will tell you the market recovers first, jobs second.

“The gymnasium where Obama spoke was filled to capacity (1,500) and an additional 2,500 watched from the student center building. Additionally, many, many more were unfortunately turned away due to lack of room.”
Those were all SEIU workers bused in from many states away.

Did you see the video of Obama in the half empty hall saying that Choakley would voted against the tax cuts and how silent it was in response???
Hilarious!
Posted by: drjohn | Jan 18, 2010 6:37:32 PM
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“The gymnasium where Obama spoke was filled to capacity (1,500) and an additional 2,500 watched from the student center building. Additionally, many, many more were unfortunately turned away due to lack of room.”
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You’re further undermining people’s ability to believe the right wing lies dr.john.

Pssst!
Coakley says there’s no more Taliban in Afghanistan!
Pass it on!

Halliburton
Michael Moore invested in Halliburton. Clinton gave Halliburton no-bid contracts.
Obama retained Blackwater.

Anyone notice that Obama didn’t mention Obamacare with Coakely?
Gee, I wonder why….

So, Brown might win in Massachusett(e)s…wow.
Guess those folks in that state value their pocket books more than they do socialist progressivism…it’s fine when others pay for it I guess.
Sounds like the hope ‘n change tingles up the leg are in the past.

drjohn your posts aren’t credible. Your enthusiasm for a return to the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Gonzalez days is obvious, but your credibility not so much.
Posted by: tierra
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Whose credibility? The blame Bush meme ain’t working too well for you. It’s old, tired and boring.
The new bumper sticker seen around town is “Obummer.” That, unfortunately is the new reality.

Brown’s platform is “I drive a truck”. And people are going to fall for that like they did for Bush’s “Awe shucks, Ahm jess a good old cowboy”?
The soap opera cartoon reality of politics in America.
It took the Bush administration 8 years to double the national debt and leave the economy in complete ruin – and the Obama administration is supposed to fix it in a year?
Let’s get real.

Stop using the term “Democratic” when you mean “Democrat”.
The current crop of Democrats (upper-case D) are anything BUT democratic (small d).

Obama’s transparency has brought one thing to light. We have known that politics are corrupt, but ever turning a blind eye to the process we kept on electing scoundrels like Pelosi and Reid to public office.
With Obama’s brand of Chicago politics, there is no longer a “blind eye” to turn; bribery, threats, deals and political arrogance are clearly visible.
The deals may be made in the dark, but even a liberal media scrambling for something to report is bringing it to main street. Even a liberal media is beginning to hammer on Obama’s campaign LIES!
Harry Reid comments to the effect that deals are expected in politics. And deals are all that Obamacare seems to offer.
Alexis de Tocqueville said it quite prophetically, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”
So, what has Obama accomplished in just one year? He has birthed a movement of unity in America that is growing by leaps and bounds, though it be a unity against his corrupt and arrogant march into socialism and government takeover.
We can thank Mr. Obama for awakening the unquenchable American spirit of independence and freedom. A spirit that will prevail until the foundations of a democratic republic are re-established.
Join GOOOH (google it if you haven’t heard of it)and help Pelosi find her way home while sending Obama a clear message that we don’t want his socialism!

tierra: “You apparently missed the complete mess the country was left in after that administration – and you expect the Obama administration to fix it in a year?
No matter how much of the Republican kool-aid you drink, you cannot eliminate the reality.”
Look at the polls on health care and right track/wrong track at realclearpolitics. The Dems are in big trouble and you know it.
BTW, please humor me with an explanation of a Bush mess that Obama is struggling with. The more time the faithful spends dwelling on the past, the less time they’ll spend preparing for what’s coming.

The pathetic attack and smear campaign from the right and the Republicans – trying to cover up what a complete mess they made of things when they were in government.
Why don’t the Republicans run on their record? Because it was a disaster.

Maybe it’s news to you, but Bush isn’t running for anything. Brown is running on his own beliefs, not some prior politicians.

Brown is running on his own beliefs, not some prior politicians.
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Brown is a Republican – with the same failed Republican policies as the Bush administration.
Why don’t Republicans run on their record? Because it is a disaster.

That’s right. Stay focused on Bush and the Republicans “failed” policies.
Meanwhile, America will move on without you. Massachuetts’ voters will vote Scott Brown in as Senator tomorrow.
Try not to get too wee-weeded up about it.
Lol.

You crack me up. Look at Pelosi,Reid, Frank et al. Poster children for “characteristics I don’t want in a politician.” Democrats have their own problems. You sound quite out of touch with reality.
I am grateful Republicans are running against the democrats plans. Monstrous government plans are just that. Inefficient, bureaucratic, monsters, that suck up resources and spit out waste.

Well I know very clearly which party got us into the mess we are in. I haven’t seen any republicans daring to raise their head up and stand for anything other than more of the same that Bush admin gave us.

Posted by: seriously? | Jan 18, 2010 10:45:16 PM
Same problem seriously, you offer nothing positive about the Republicans – only criticism of the Democrats.
Why is it the Republicans only run on attacking and smearing the Democrats?
Because their own recent record is a complete disaster and they have nothing to offer.

You offer nothing positive about the democrats – only criticism of the Republicans.
Why is it the democrats only run on attacking and smearing the Republicans?
Because their own recent record is a complete disaster and they have nothing to offer but tax and spend policies that will bankrupt our country at an exponential pace.

Posted by: seriously? | Jan 18, 2010 11:28:28 PM
Despite your clever evasion, you still nothing positive as to what the Republicans have to offer?
Nothing at all? Haven’t seen a post in weeks outlining what the Republicans have to offer. Just attacks and smears on the Democrats.
It’s the only tactic the Republicans have had for years – attack and smear.
When the Republicans run on their record – they fail dismally.

Obama owns this economy! To blame Bush is childish.
Similar to blaming Clinton or Al-Qaeda for what Bush inherited.
Remember the stock crash and then the plane crashes.
“Cap and Trade”, “Health Bill” are a power grab for more control.
What you lefties do not understand is that the government is not God.
The government can not make people nice or happy even if they make
laws that demand such. Why does the Government need a union?
The Tea Party is a true grass roots attempt by ordinary people trying to
gain control of a runaway Government. Obama wanted the job so, quit crying

Oh people, I can’t believe what I’m reading. Are you democrats that stupid to still blame it on Bush without looking at what THE ONE is doing to your country? I don’t know…. I’m at a loss. We are all screwed beyond hope.

Tiera,
Who’s a disaster??? Obama’s a disaster.
You can’t blame anyone but him. He’s been in office a whole year, and he’s had the majority in Congress the whole year.
You got a problem with how things are going? You blame Obama because he’s responsible for it and has been all year.

Obama owns this economy! To blame Bush is childish.
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Nonsense. Obama is responsible for trying to fix the mess left by the last administration, but he is not responsible fore creating that mess.

When the Republicans run on their record – they fail dismally.
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This is absolutely true. I notice that rather than talking about their record, they spout the propagandist ideology they’ve memorized, never noting that once they get to Washington they never deliver strong fiscal policy or a smaller government– and they never address domestic issues.
The party of no gets us nowhere.

It’s a great mystery.
Posted by: Woody | Jan 18, 2010 9:55:19 PM
Is it really? Not only are many Americans ignorant about essential scientific, civic and cultural knowledge, but they also don’t think it matters. They’re looking for those deeply personal connections you mentioned– you know, cheering on the same baseball time and fellow truck drivers.

People are making multiple posts on a news blog?
lol
You guys are worried, really worried.
hahahahaha

Obama owns this economy! To blame Bush is childish.
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Nonsense. Obama is responsible for trying to fix the mess left by the last administration, but he is not responsible fore creating that mess.
Posted by: tierra | Jan 19, 2010 1:54:44 AM
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Wrong again. Not only has obama NOT fixed this mess utilizing a few trillion of taxpayer’s money, he is the most polarizing figure in American political history.
That’s gotta hurt. Can’t use “polarize” in the next election without it being associated with OBAMA. You’ll have to come up with something else.

Wrong again. Not only has obama NOT fixed this mess utilizing a few trillion of taxpayer’s money, he is the most polarizing figure in American political history.
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More smear campaign from the Republicans. You seem to forget how the last Republican administration tore the country apart and left it in tatters.
If Republicans have to run on their record . .. they lose. So, they use attack and smear campaigns.

If Republicans have to run on their record . .. they lose. So, they use attack and smear campaigns.
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The Republicans didn’t have to smear anything in this campaign – she did it to herself. She ran a bad campaign and assumed she was going to win.
Based on the information on cable news (since I am clearly not from Massachusetts)a big part of her loss of credibility with the voters has to do with a questionable record. The Republicans may have brought this to light but if they didn’t have something to work with it would have never gotten any traction.

Attacking and smearing is the Democrat way.
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You won’t be able to find a single Republican post on this site that isn’t an attack against the President, his family or the Democrats.
It doesn’t matter what the President does – take his kids for ice cream, improve benefits for returning soldiers, visit troops at the military hospital, celebrate Christmas holidays – the right wing attacks and smear. Over and over again, repeatedly.
It’s the tactic – the only tactic.
Attack and smear. Check out the posts on these blogs. It’s appalling.

Win or lose the Brown campaign has showed this Administration that they do not have a blanket approval to do anything that darn well please.
Obama won the election and he did a convincing and, frankly, masterful job in doing so. His supporters took the win and the President’s popularity in general to force feed a hard left legislative agenda on the American public. This is clearly not what the majority had in mind. Obama won by 2 Million votes which was a convincing and clear win but this is not landslide material. It was and is a start, best case.
New Jersey was considered by the DNC and the Obama administration to be a fluke of nature, bad timing, questionable candidates. Regardless what happens today I hope the leadership of the Democratic Party gets the message that the majority they have enjoyed is a fragile thing. They need to take this seriously and respond accordingly.

Posted by: Lone Star Rules | Jan 19, 2010 8:08:01 AM
It’s a single congressional seat. Parties win or lose individual seats all the time.
The Democrats just won 2 in the fall.

Tierra wrote, several times: “Because their (Republican’s) own recent record is a complete disaster and they have nothing to offer.”
Yet she, and the rest of the Left, conveniently forget that the Republican’s had control of both Houses of Congress during President Clinton’s last six years. You remember 23 million jobs created…budget surpluses!
She, and the rest of the Left, also forget that the Democrats had control of the Senate for 3 1/2 years and the House for 2 years during the Bush Administration. That it was while the Democrats had control of BOTH Houses of Congress that the economy tanked!
BUT she, and the rest of the Left, ALSO forget that the states have a huge impact on what happens to the nation’s economy. During the Bush years most states had either Democratic governors and or Democratic controlled state legislatures. The Democrats ran their respective states to the ground!
It’s actually the Democrats who have a complete disaster of a record!

This is the Republican record. Attack and smear is sleazy and lowers the bar for behavior, and it appears to be pretty much all the Republicans have.
Posted by: tierra | Jan 19, 2010 8:11:21 AM
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Didn’t Corzine (DEM) call Chris Christy fat? (REP)?

How did Scott Brown smear Martha Coakley? We know how Coakley’s campaign smeared Brown over the rape treatment lie( and even her website reported the truth) but is there a single example of Brown doing something even remotely similar?As far as running on records,it appears that a fair number of Democrats are heading for the hills rather than running on THEIR records.

it appears that a fair number of Democrats are heading for the hills rather than running on THEIR records.
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Not at all. Democrats won 2 congressional seats in the fall – on their record. People have not forgotten what it was like under the Republicans and Bush. That is the record the Republicans have – other than constant attacks on the President.
It’s the Rove campaign – no matter what the President does – attack him. It’s the only tactic the Republicans have used. The record of the Republicans under Bush is abysmal – every American knows that if they think back. The reason things seem bad under Obama is because it’s only been a short year since the Bush administration was in place.

There is no great depression.There never was going to be a Great Depression.We had a banking crises brought about by lax lending practices encouraged,nay mandated by Barney Frank,Maxine waters et. al. who thought it would be “fair” to grant credit to people who could never meet their obligations.The banking problem was fixed by the TARP program,which was conceived,set up and executed entirely by the Bush administration.By January 19 it was working and had “saved” the industry.All Obama had to do with it was to vote for the bill.Since taking office Obama has done nothing to improve the economy-no saved jobs,no rational fiscal policy,no economic expansion,a massive expansion of debt that dwarfs that of all previous presidents.Actually,all of “his” agenda has been set by Reid and Pelosi, who have done all of the work. He is lazy,out of touch and completely lost.

“Every other western industrialized country has a national health care plan where citizens are required to contribute through taxes or assessed fees.
“That’s the way its done.”
Posted by: tierra | Jan 19, 2010 7:27:35 AM
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We are NOT LIKE every other western industrialized country.
We are the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness are not the cornerstone of the other western industrialized countries. That pursuit of Happiness–the American Dream–flourishes because of Capitalism and Individual Freedom. Just because the rest of the western industrialized countries appear willing to ditch Capitalism and Individual Freedom to become Socialistic doesn’t mean we have to do the same.

If Republicans run on their record . .. they fail miserably. Hence all the distraction and the attacks.
The last Republican administration was the Bush administration – and nobody wants that again. Not the way they left the country – no thanks. That was only a short year ago.

Posted by: Nephron | Jan 19, 2010 9:05:20 AM
From the moment the President was elected the right wing and the Republicans have been repeatedly calling him a Muslim, a communist, a foreigner, anti-American, a terrorist, a terrorist sympathizer, a traitor .. . you name it.
A constant barrage of smear tactics. Dragging his name through the mud over and over.
That’s been the tactic. We’ve all seen it. Sleazy.

The fact that you cannot give an example proves that your charges are baseless.
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I just provided you with a whole handful of examples . ..
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From the moment the President was elected the right wing and the Republicans have been repeatedly calling him a Muslim, a communist, a foreigner, anti-American, a terrorist, a terrorist sympathizer, a traitor .. . you name it.
A constant barrage of smear tactics. Dragging his name through the mud over and over.
That’s been the tactic. We’ve all seen it. Sleazy.
Nephron it’s been non-stop from the moment the President was elected – a smear and fear campaign. You can’t deny it.