Election day jitters
It’s election day and there’s light snow in New England, but certainly not enough to keep the hardy and the motivated citizens of Massachusetts away from the polls.
Just three short weeks ago I didn’t think Scott Brown had a chance to win this thing. Then I started thinking he might, or that he at least might do well enough to put the scare into the Democrats who are pushing the execrable health care reform bill.
Then the polls started to tighten, and I thought it had become—not just a possibility, but a good possibility that he’d be competitive. Maybe, if there wasn’t a lot of cheating, if the protest voter turnout was good, if the stars aligned just right, he could even (gulp) win.
Now most of the polls have shown Brown as ahead, some by a little and some by a lot. But no one really knows who will turn out today; we’re in uncharted waters. And no one really knows how many votes the Democrats could manufacture, and how willing and able they are to do so.
And so I’m nervous. In some paradoxical way, the recent encouraging polls have made me more nervous, not less. Have they been manipulated to help the Coakley turnout and give Brown voters a false sense of confidence? I think Brown voters are tremendously motivated and Coakley voters much less so, but who knows how this all will go down.
All I know is that by tonight we’ll probably know who won, unless it’s really close.
And then, if the winner just happens to be Brown, the real fun would begin. What do I mean by “fun?” Every piece I’ve read indicates that the Democratic leaders have absolutely no intention of pulling back and heeding the message that the public is trying to send them.
No, apparently it will be full speed ahead with the health care bill; the only question is which one of the many convoluted machinations being considered will be the strategy de jour.
This is not a moment that causes the president or anybody who works for him to express any doubt,” a senior administration official said. “It more reinforces the conviction to fight hard.”
I’m not sure what form that hard fight will take ((see this for a list of possibilities). But the Brown campaign has made me think that there are an awful lot of foot soldiers on our side (which I like to think of as the people’s side—it’s Obama, Pelosi, & Reid v. The People). This is the sort of thing many of us are worried about:
If Obama were a liberal he would be advancing his agenda in terms of “the possible.” He would give and take with the opposition so as to get the maximum of what he wants while still building national consensus. But he is not a liberal at all. He does not recognize the opposition as “the honorable opposition.”
For him there appears to be no middle. And as I often am reminded, Freud said, “Every exaggeration carries within it the seeds of its own destruction.” But is the Scott Brown election going to be the start of a counter movement or is it the last stand of the opposition that is only going to be crushed by the full force of an Obama offensive.
Sadly, I no longer see any limit on the use of every means Obama and his allies are willing to engage in. SEIU thugs, limitless quasi-bribes to Senators, outright voter fraud, court rulings that ignore fairness and the law for the sake of partisan advancement. I suspect that Congress will ignore its precedents or make ad hoc changes in procedural rules to force passage of their agenda. And I have no faith in the Supreme Court to rule in other than partisan ways.
As I said, I will be nervous today, and fervently hoping that Brown will emerge victorious. A great deal is riding on this; perhaps more than has ridden on any other state election in history.
But whatever the outcome, the groundswell for Brown in a place like Massachusetts has shown how powerful this movement could become. Remember, whatever today’s outcome, this is just the beginning of our fight.
[NOTE: I moved this post to keep it at the top of the page.]
This is exciting — does anyone know were one can go to see how the numbers are adding up?
I really dont care since such loud noises that mean little tend to hide other things. (like maybe nationalizing 401k)
nyo,
The Campaign Spot at National Review Online is a good place to get info:
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGM0OWZhNTY4YTgzY2EwN2VhYmIwNjUwOGRiODk2OWI=
Mostly a lurker here, but had to comment – JUST AS ANXIOUS! And trust me, I’ll “Remember, whatever today’s outcome, this is just the beginning of our fight.”
Happen to come across talking heads on some news channel yesterday (not Fox, the difference among all the rest is negligible). An observer was summarizing her view of the upcoming Brown election, and ended up with: whatever the outcome, this election should be a waking call for Obama administration if only regarding the response in people of Administration’s public policies.” And then there fell a whole minute of uncomfortable silence! I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears – they all frantically searched what to say, you could see it on their distressed faces, but could come up with nothing!
Ditto qualms here.
Possible consequence of the election: the liberals and the rest of the left become more hardened in their thought that Americans are not qualified to govern themselves.
After all, what is the (twisted) rationale for cheating, fraud and intimidation? Answer: their supposed superior insight and morality justifies whatever means.
But why just be sneaky about it, when you can also cast aside the Constitution and employ whatever legal-seeming means to succeed?
One possible consequence of the election: the left becomes more outspoken in its support of an authoritarian elite, even as it continues to stack every possible card against interference by the will of the little people.
If Brown wins, and if health care reform fails, there is still plenty of time left to fix the structural impediments of representative government. The leftist mentality is nothing if not the adoration of government.
And as an aside, we thus see the importance of laws like McCain-Feingold and the disgraceful Supreme Court acceptance of that monstrosity.
“Remember, whatever today’s outcome, this is just the beginning of our fight.”
Like the Skald, I’ll remember this. It puts me in mind of John Paul Jones – I have not yet begun to fight! We’ve already begun to fight, of course, but this is the first skirmish.
We need better leaders on our side – that’s my main concern. But I’m inspired by the number of foot soldiers we can field.
Hell, I’m nervous, and I live within a mile of the Pacific Ocean. This is going to be a historic election, and therefore day, regardless of outcome.
Good post Tonawanda, Obamacare really is about elitist control of us untermenschen who are not qualified to make our own decisions. I recall that Huey Long supposedly said that if fascism comes to the US it will be called anti-fascism. Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t fascist is one of the terms being throw at the anti-Obama resistance?
Perhaps “a shot heard across the country.”
And, I too am nervous, although I live a scant thousand yards from the Pacific Ocean.
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This is the second time ‘dgr has declared that he doesn’t care about the Brown bid for the Senate.
Methinks he doth protest too much.
If Brown wins and stops ObamaCare, there is not much left to all the scary talk about how America is being fiendishly and inevitably sucked down the tubes into fascism.
huxley: actually, huxley, I don’t think the scary talk will end, nor should it. We must be vigilant; do you really think the forces on that side would fold up their tents and slip away so easily? They have many arrows in their quiver.
But clearly, I care very much about this election, because I think it matters. But as I said, it’s the beginning of the fight, not the end.
The House plans to ram it through come hell or high water, as quoted by Nancy P. “Let’s remove all doubt that we will have health care one way or another” AND then try and sell us on the “good” points later, as quoted by Bill Clinton, “Put the corn where the hogs can get it.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/ap_on_an/us_massachusetts_senate_health_care_analysis
Despicable.
We must be vigilant; do you really think the forces on that side would fold up their tents and slip away so easily? They have many arrows in their quiver.
True enough, but a major arrow is conformity and social pressure, the need to be accepted and considered cool/ hip/ avant garde (the “Hollywood effect”). The Reds have gone to great lengths to cultivate their image as cool. If Brown wins – and perhaps even if he doesn’t – the coolness factor for liberalism has just been scuppered, if not reversed in polarity.
If so, from here on out liberals/ leftists/ progressives/ whatevers will have to campaign on policies rather than glitz and stampeding the herd. And on policies, they lose.
As to vote fraud — I’m sure there will be some.
But vote fraud doesn’t magically happen. It must be planned and organized ahead of time, and the Brown campaign got dangerous only a week ago — after the bulk of absentee ballots were received.
It’s clear by their panic over weekend the Coakley campaign and the Democratic leadership have been caught napping.
According to the polls, as well as all the anecdotal reports, this isn’t going to be a close election. Plus the Brown people are watching.
Maybe for the midterms the Dems will be ready with some serious fraud threats, but this time, not so much.
Huxley, I’d thought the same thing. It’s good news for this election, but bad news for November. We can be damned sure that they’ll be working overtime between now and then to Franken any election that they might conceivably lose.
didn’t take, retry — what is this?
http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/talkingpolitics/archive/2010/01/19/boston-globe-calls-election-for-martha-coakley.aspx
I’m also excited and a little worried about the results of the elections like most of you are. With the news that Obama and the Dems are not giving up on pushing for the health care bill, it seems like anything can be possible. I just hope that the administration will realize what people want especially after the results come out.
“This is not a moment that causes the president or anybody who works for him to express any doubt”
Well, that’s the problem right there, isn’t it? This is the precise moment when a little bit of doubt should be creeping in.
Huxley, you’re correct to a point, but then again the Dems have experienced fraudsters to call on, so the ramp-up time might not be as long as you thought.
Perhaps Winston said it best;
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
If I don’t find a xanax, I’ll be starting my daily scotch on the early side.
I heard an update at around 1:15pm EST that Boston voting was significantly down–so far–and that suburban voting was energized and way up.
May it truly be so.
Johnnie Walker Black?
Hell, I’d drink brake fluid at this point.
Nervous is good. I expect to see from the Dems something similar to the Soviet’s merciless tactic of driving their own un- and badly armed troops into the attack at the point of the bayonet and shooting any who failed to advance. It ain’t pretty, but it can work.
Hell, I’d drink brake fluid at this point.
Well, if you want to drink rot-gut, be my guest. I’ve got a nice little bourbon called Buffalo Trace that I’ll probably take sip or two of this evening…
That, or enjoy Keefums D’olberman’s sweet, sweet tears.
nyo Says:
No. Everyday scotch is Famous Grouse. “Special Occasions”: a single malt.
Damn! I didn’t realize I could hold my breath this long!
(still waiting hopefully for the outcome….)
In a Honduras on the Charles move, the Boston Globe has already posted the results. But someone decided it was unseemly to post the final results 7 hours before the polls close so they pulled the map. It was all a tool testing mistake. Yeah, yeah that’s it, they were testing a tool and chose a fake winner rather than have each candidate get 1/3rd of the vote.
Not to worry. We in Massachusetts are once again leading the country in a revolution. (As someone else coined, very cleverly) “The Red Votes Are Coming” and we are ready with our bayonets — I mean ballots.
Interesting post over at the Belmont Club regarding todays election and its ramifications.
A small bit below.
The scary thing is that I think he’s correct about the fundamental differences that now divide the country. Fundamental differences don’t go away. They are resolved either by elimination of one side or the merging of the two into one. Either way is a politically exothermic reaction. Lots of heat, perhaps lots of blood.
These fundamental differences have been a plague on our politics for most of the 20th century and took a turn for the worse in the 60’s. These fundamental differences have since then become ever more divisive.
Looking at the chain of events and comparing today’s events with those that led up to the civil war, you see some scary parallels in the buildup of frequency and intensity. The scariest parallel is an out of control and corrupt congress coupled with a weak, executive. Though today’s executive may be more of a corrupt inflexible and bankrupt ideologue.
Just as the country could have taken different paths before 1860, so can the country today. That’s why a “recovery of the center or … wilder maneuvers” is a toss up.
If Brown does manage to win and Congress changes procedural rules to thwart any check on healthcare, rest assured we are on a dark, more violent and potentially bloody road. If that road is chosen, it will be the left who chose it.
Here’s the civil war timeline link. Sorry about that.
Some good news.
The only thing i can think sweeter than this would be Thomas Sowell in Ruth Ginsberg’s seat 🙂
Reading about the chicago thievery in the 1960 election up to the minnesota theft I have been trying to wrap my head around the idea that decent people can knowingly support a party steeped in a history of cheating at the ballot box and still be decent people. I can not.
Here are some personal predictions for 2010.
None of these predictions are certain, all are, I believe increasingly likely.
Brown will decisively win the election.
Obama, Reid & Pelosi will try and fail, to pass the health care ‘reform’ bill. Brown’s election means they cannot offer a bill that will provide the ‘cover’ moderate democrats now know they need and which leftist radicals in Congress will support.
They will continue to flail about accomplishing little, other than to further convince the public of their basic incompetence and mendacity.
Unemployment will remain high and inflation will start to rear its head.
The Tea Party movement will continue to gain strength and will start to heavily influence the Republican party.
Israel will attack Iranian nuclear facilities but fail to derail Iranian efforts.
In retaliation, Obama will impose sanctions upon Israel both out of personal animosity and in an effort to derail Iranian seizure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran will get the bomb.
Al Qaeda will succeed in 2010 with a terrorist attack upon US citizens.
In November, the democratic party will suffer the single greatest loss of seats ever, and the Republican party will regain control of the House and Senate.
Obama will instantly become a lame duck, one-term President. Hillary Clinton will resign in preparation for her run in 2012.
Sarah Palin will announce her 2012 candidacy.
The handwriting is on the wall, the tea leaves are there to be read and the shifting political winds will only strengthen.
The democrats can do nothing to soften those winds.
Events such as a moribund economy, proposed legislation judged at best impractical and resurgent Islamic terrorism shall conspire to expose the Democrat’s elite as dangerously out of touch with both reality and common sense.
You lost me at Sarah Palin will announce her 2012 candidacy. Lady, don’t.
G.B.
Pretty gutsy to be putting your predictions in writing. I hope you are right about Brown. The rest, particularly Iran getting the bomb and a terrorists attack, not so much. These are interesting times!
Three more hours til the polls close in Mass.
The Democrats are doing an incredible job of pretending that they are totally bummed while quietly launching their GOTV and fraud bombs, and marching towards victory!
We haven’t witnessed a deception so astonishingly effective since 1944 when the Allies surprised the Germans at Normandy.
I R A Darth Aggie said:
“That, or enjoy Keefums D’olberman’s sweet, sweet tears.”
I don’t enjoy beer or liquor. But Keith Olbermann’s tears? Now that’s a toast I can take part in.
Meanwhile in the upper right of Daily Kos today is a Jon Stewart video titled “How could a Dem lose a Senate race in Massachusetts?!?!”
It’s actually fun. Hux Bob says check it out.
“I’ll be starting my daily scotch on the early side.”
Go with the early scotch — it’s way better than Xanax, anyhow.
Btw, are you a bourbon fan? If so, I cannot recommend highly enough Eagle Rare — it is delicious and, at around $27 for a 750 ml bottle, a very good buy.
For the vodka drinkers out there, I recommend Bong Vodka and Tito’s Handmade Vodka. Both are way, way better than anything like Grey Goose or Kettle One — and way better buys. Also, for those who like to buy domestic whenever possible, Tito’s is made in Texas — yep, that’s right, Texas vodka. Yee-haw!
Huxley – I reposted it after AlarmingNews; starting on 7th min, approx, it gets interesting
“It’s not that Republicans are playing chess and Democrats are playing checkers. It’s that Republicans are playing chess, while Democrats are at the nurses station because once again they glued their balls to their thighs.”
— Jon Stewart
Strange how Obama’s famed 3-dimensional chess playing ability is no longer remarked upon.
Google says Chivas and Soda was Teddy’s favourite. I’ll have one of those!
Huxley,
That is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long while. The money quote:
“It’s not that the democrats are playing checkers and the republicans are playing chess, it’s that the republicans are playing chess and the democrats are in the nurse’s office with their balls glued to their thigh.”
That is made of awesome. And I typically loathe Jon Stewart.
Chivas and Soda it is, then! I guess ‘ol Ted didn’t much care for it with water. 😉
And now Powerline reports:
The Dow, NASDAQ, and the S&P 500 were all up by more than 1 percent today, with healthcare stocks leading the way. Plainly, as my friend Bill Otis says, the reason is that the market thinks Brown will win and that Obamacare will fail as a result.
The Coakley campaign and the DSCC are in full finger-pointing; blame placing mode now. Each placing the responsibility on the other.
That is very encouraging!
huxley: actually, huxley, I don’t think the scary talk will end, nor should it. We must be vigilant; do you really think the forces on that side would fold up their tents and slip away so easily? They have many arrows in their quiver.
neo: I disagree. Vigilance is one thing; paranoia is another. Some of what I’ve read on this blog, including some of your posts, I consider the latter.
The opposing forces will always be with us and they will always have arrows in their quiver.
But to underestimate the strengths of the American people and the strengths of the American system, proven for over two centuries as perhaps the greatest success in human history, while ruminating exclusively on possible threats and past disasters, is to live in faithless fear and to act with one hand tied behind one’s back.
Consider the positive, uplifting way Scott Brown campaigned. Thank God he wasn’t using material from this website for his speeches.
Whisky in Celebration and Consolation; Weddings and Wakes; Close calls and Sure things; Victory and Defeat; Disaster and Success; Genesis and Armageddon.
huxley: I think if Brown spoke in a way this blog does, maybe the gap would be 30% – have you considered that?
Living myself in a Dem State, I know how much resentment is underneath everybody’s PC camouflage.
“Thank God he wasn’t using material from this website for his speeches.”
Clearly, you can’t handle the truth!
Brown didn’t run as a conservative in Mass. even though he is one.
Mass. independents distrust both parties extremes, what they define as an extreme viewpoint however is influenced by their exposure to information, which is primarily the propaganda organ of the democratic party, the MSM.
Leaving aside the comments section, which posts of neo-neocon’s would you challenge as extreme? What premises and assertions would you challenge as extreme?
is to live in faithless fear and to act with one hand tied behind one’s back.
Indeed, what we don’t know can’t hurt us.
A threat ignored is a threat already met.
A stitch in time saves none.
A head in the sand is the price of freedom.
Our motto:
“Oh, I’m sure everything will be OK.”
Apropos my comment above re: liberals and “coolness;”
Pollster Frank Luntz having difficulty finding Coakley supporters for focus group on election night of Massachusetts senate race. “They don’t want to be on television defending Martha Coakley. It’s passé. It’s socially unacceptable. I never dreamed I’d see Democrats in Massachusetts embarrassed to admit they’re Democrats.”
From Instapundit. This is the best news I’ve seen in a long time. Democrats: party of sensible shoes, flossing, minivans, and watching 60 Minutes. I love it.
huxley Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
If that is what’s happening in this race, then I would expect the Democrats to be saying something like, “We got caught with our pants down this time. We better make damn sure that doesn’t happen in November.”
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Part of me actually hopes that the Dems try to litigate, recount, and steal this election. That kind of brazen, in-your-face fraud might just get the attention of independents and moderates, and provide a sort of inoculation against it come November.
Neo: Good job linking to that excellent Belmont Club thread. I was going to do it if you hadn’t.
Geoffrey Britain Says:
“Brown didn’t run as a conservative in Mass. even though he is one.”
Depends on your definition of conservative. He ran against the healthcare bill and cap and trade. No, he is not against first trimester abortion but is against third. So… not a conservative?
Personally I’m against Roe V. Wade as a bad court decision more than I want first trimester abortion outlawed (hate third trimester though, should be illegal and hell yeah, in a better world anyone involved should be prosecuted)… and I’m a conservative. Anyway, I’d work with pro life groups but shoot myself before working with NARAL et all. So anyway, I think he fits pleanty of people’s definitions of being conservative.
Huxley has stated that he is unhappy with what he sees as paranoia amongst conservatives here (and elsewhere), not simply extremism–implying a kind of disorder. The problem, though, as Henry Kissinger once mused, is that “even a paranoid has some real enemies.” I think it’s nearly undeniable that the left, and the left-liberal power structure in our government, comprise an enemy that threatens not just the allegedly paranoid. These people are a real, active, deliberate, organized, and determined enemy that threatens the self-governing roots of this country. They have spent decades infiltrating the academy and K-12 education, the media, and the bureaucracy, and they have an agenda. Whether they will succeed in implementing that agenda is presently an open question–but they have worked long and hard and are now obviously, and openly–even brazenly–prepared to ignore or circumvent the clear opposition of the majority of the American people. They have contempt for us conservatives. They try to ignore us. They call us belittling names with abandon. They intend to break us to their will. Given these circumstances, I don’t think it’s accurate to refer to us as “paranoid.” We do, in fact, have real enemies, who are working hard to be our rulers.
Now, it’s entirely possible–maybe even likely–that they will fail. This is, after all and as Huxley points out again and again, a great nation. But I do not see their failure as any more certain than their success. Great nations with impressive histories have fallen as a result of the work of enemies within before; the next time it happens will not be the first. If we are not prepared to fight them–and that includes maintaining a constant awareness of their moves–they will succeed in their awful intentions. Fighting them at the ballot box may be enough, I don’t know; I hope it is. But anyone paying any attention during these last days cannot help noticing that these wizards are more than prepared to take whatever measures they can (and they are being inventive) to nullify a valid election in an American state. These measures include intimidation and fraud in the voting, twisting media coverage of the occasion, manipulating the installation rules to prevent a legitimate election winner from assuming his seat in the Senate, and manipulating congressional voting rules to nullify the probable effect of a new, legitimate Senator’s vote on a matter of enormous national importance.
I speak only for myself, of course, and I have sometimes teased myself with Huxley’s notion that we’re being unduly paranoid: No harm done. But the truth is, I deny that I’m being paranoid, and I don’t think other like-minded people here are, either. I’m in my mid-60s, and I have not seen anything like what’s becoming of my government and, consequently, my country, during my lifetime. I’d really rather just read, write, cook, and knit. But you know, I love this country. I think just about everyone who ever posts here at neo’s loves this country. We’re watching now, knowing that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. We have faith in our country, but it’s a faith that has to rely on our country’s citizens, for no country is self-sustaining. We will fight at the ballot box to preserve our freedoms. And if it takes more than that, we will give more than that.
Rope. Pitchforks. Tar. Feathers. Rails. And, um, other stuff.
He does fit plenty of people’s definition of a conservative. And I stated that I believe him to be one. He’s not a straight down the line, conservative’s conservative however.
What I said is that he’s run as a moderate, semi-independent republican not as a conservative.
He hasn’t emphasized his conservative positions and Coakley was too complacent and incompetent to point out that his record as a Mass. State Senator is one of 96% voting with the republicans, that’s a very conservative voting record.
Good comment, betsybounds. I’m in my early 50s but I never thought I’d have to spend my time worrying about my country turning Communist.
Oh, and you just gave me my new signature over at GCP. Thanks!
straight down the line, conservative’s conservative that’s the last thing we need, good for Scott.
Nervous nervous nervous. I’m from Mass – this guy is conservative there.
Huxley,
I always give your comments consideration, whether I agree with them or not. Though I usually do more or less.
However, regarding paranoia, I disagree. You would do well to remember that in the 30’s Churchill was considered a paranoid crank.
Pointing out the potential downside, especially given the record of voter fraud and stolen elections by the democrats, not to mention the far left positions and agenda of this present administration and many of the democrat leaders in Congress is hardly paranoia. Fact, in 200 the dems tried to steal an election through the courts and numerous recounts. They did succeed in washington in 2004 and Minnesota in 2008. I won’t bother to go back further. The destabilizing nature of de-legitimizing our electoral system can hardly be overstated.
If that’s paranoia, count me in!
I’ll admit i’m paranoid of the articulately retarded with the reigns of so much power. I call that normal.
AP is quoting David Axelrod as saying that Brown ran a “very clever” campaign. That tells me that these wizards think we are all not much more than dupes, rubes, suckers for a good trick. If that’s emblematic of what the rest of the Democrat party thinks of us, and I’m pretty sure it is, then we have a fight on our hands that has only just begun. They are not going to throw it in. They are going to try slamming us. It’s going to get worse before it gets better, and it could get ugly indeed.
Go ahead, call me paranoid.
No, betsy, they will never quit. Neither should we.
All: Given that neo’s topics have a shelf-life of less than 36 hours and that I’ve had more than a few shots of Johnny Walker Black to celebrate Brown’s victory, I’ll just pose the musical question:
Why have I called the shots more accurately than anyone else here?
See you in the funny papers.
Why have I called the shots more accurately than anyone else here?
‘Cuz even a stopped ostrich is right twice a day?
Huxley: I hope you’re wrong in your predictionthis?
The Democrats are doing an incredible job of pretending that they are totally bummed while quietly launching their GOTV and fraud bombs, and marching towards victory!
Tatyana: I hope you’re laughing with me as opposed to my laughing near you.
Gray: You’re not right once a day.
Well my first three predictions are well on their way to confirmation: though I hope I’m wrong on some of the others.
“Brown will decisively win the election.” DONE!
“Obama, Reid & Pelosi will try and fail, to pass the health care ‘reform’ bill. Brown’s election means they cannot offer a bill that will provide the ‘cover’ moderate democrats now know they need and which leftist radicals in Congress will support.”
My reasoning is confirmed by reality: tonight I turned on MSNBC and Olberman (gasp!) just to watch the green faces:-) Norah O’Donnel! (sp?) relayed that she had talked to a democrat in the House, who shared that in private conversations many House democrats were balking at just passing the Senate version…and in the Senate, Lieberman, Byah and others are talking retreat. They can hear the mob coming for them with pitchforks, tar and feathers and a rail.
ObamaCare is dead, stick a fork in it, they just won’t admit it until they have too and even then they’ll simply move on to other legislation.
“They will continue to flail about accomplishing little, other than to further convince the public of their basic incompetence and mendacity.”
The Rubicon has been passed, democrats can no longer deny that the ‘middle’ is ROYALLY pissed, that blaming Bush no longer cuts it and that democrats are on the spot. They asked for power, got it and are NOT delivering anything but more pain. Getting a super majority to pass anything the republicans oppose is from this point forward a non-starter.
First SNL, and now even Jon Stewart is lampooning the democratic elite. And when your own supporters start to laugh at and ridicule you…it’s over.
Gray: You’re not right once a day.
Perhaps not….
I was wrong about how far Obama would go so fast.
I simply couldn’t imagine he would run the deficit up so far, so fast; nationalize GM and Chrystler; go to Copenhagen; push socialized medicine; bow to the Saudi King and Japanese Emperor; apologize to the Muslim Ummah in Cairo; half-ass the war in Afghanistan and respond so half-assed and ineptly to the undie-bomber….
I’ve had to re-calculate my idea of “paranoia”.
I would have never imagined that a (R) would win Teddy Kennedy’s seat!
Truthfully, I’ve been kinda off balance since about 1993.
When I left for deployment to the Korean DMZ in 1992, Papa Bush was president, we had just won Desert Storm and all was right with the world.
When I came back 1993, it was all Universal Healthcare, Co-presidency, gun control, gays in the military and middle class tax increases.
All I could think was: “What the hell have you done to my country while I was out?!”
So, no; I cannot accurately predict the egregious power-grabs, excoriating America oversease and governing against the people.
The mind, it boggles….
However, even in light of my poor predictive ability, I will make a prediction: The Prius is the new Pet Rock and Global Warming is the new Global Cooling!
However, I am pleased to agree with huxley on something (actually many things): any talk of revolution insurrection is loopy and unproductive. This is a great country where votes are more powerful than guns.
Now let’s stay vigilant, vote, complain, and stay little “paranoid” to keep it that way.
Huxley, I thought you had been warning us of the coming months before November election…that is not a laughing matter.
But looking at Olbermann’s face I AM laughing.
At least tonight we got a break in a long, long road towards normalcy.
My next crappy prediction:
Obama will suffer his own Carter-like “Marielito Boat-lift”, but with Haitians.
What makes this victory so impressive is that Brown had very little in the way of a reliable get-out-the-vote mechanism. A few of my liberal friends were practically rousting people from their homes and throwing them over their shoulders like four-pood sacks.