Ted Kennedy's seat

[Peter]

From yesterday’s The Intellectual Activist Daily

Democrats Against Democracy

The Democratic Party's Contempt for the Governed

by Robert Tracinski

A new poll over the weekend shows Republican senatorial candidate Scott Brown actually pulling ahead of Democrat Martha Coakley by a narrow margin, 48-47, for the January 19 special election in Massachusetts. Note particularly that this poll shows an energized right, a demoralized left, and a two-to-one lead for Brown among independents—all similar to what we saw last November in Virginia and New Jersey, with the result of a clear victory for the Republican candidate.

Maybe this poll is inaccurate—another poll shows a strong lead, 53-36, for Coakley, and there is some controversy over which is more accurate. But the fact that there is any question of this race being competitive means that the public is deeply dissatisfied with the Democrats in general and with Obamacare in particular; Brown is surging in the polls because he has promised to deprive congressional Democrats of the 60th Senate vote they need to pass the final health care bill.

The Democrats' response has been to do something that will make the American people so livid they will resolve to cast the Democratic Party into political exile for at least another decade.

In response to the surge for Brown, the state-level official whose job is to certify the election results declared that he would refuse to certify Brown until February 20—fully a month after the special election, and more to the point, after the deadline the Democrats have set for a final congressional vote on Obamacare.

According to the Boston Herald,

Today, a spokesman for Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, who is overseeing the election but did not respond to a call seeking comment, said certification of the Jan. 19 election by the Governor's Council would take a while…. Another source told the Herald that Galvin's office has said the election won't be certified until Feb. 20….

Since the US Senate doesn't meet again in formal session until Jan. 20, Bay State voters will have made their decision before a vote on health-care reform could be held. But [interim Senator Paul] Kirk and Galvin's office said today a victorious Brown would be left in limbo.

In contrast, Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell) was sworn in at the US House of Representatives on Oct. 18, 2007, just two days after winning a special election to replace Martin Meehan. In that case, Tsongas made it to Capitol Hill in time to override a presidential veto of the expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

[Selene]

Peter:

Maybe this poll is inaccurate—another poll shows a strong lead, 53-36, for Coakley, and there is some controversy over which is more accurate. But the fact that there is any question of this race being competitive means that the public is deeply dissatisfied with the Democrats in general and with Obamacare in particular; Brown is surging in the polls because he has promised to deprive congressional Democrats of the 60th Senate vote they need to pass the final health care bill.

This is the Boston Globe poll that I covered in the Call to arms Massachusetts thread.

I called the Globe and they admitted that the poll was taken 14 days ago. Moreover, the registered "independents" comprise, by far, the largest percentage of the electorate.

Moreover, they were under selected in the sample which only surveyed under 100 "independents."

Finally, this is a special election which has very unique turnouts and cannot be treated, like the Globe did as a general election.

Adam

[Robert Campbell]

Back in the 1970s, I used to hear charges that the Globe frequently employed biased surveys or tampered with the numbers in the polls it conducted.

Some things apparently haven't changed.

Robert Campbell

[Selene]

Back in the 1970s, I used to hear charges that the Globe frequently employed biased surveys or tampered with the numbers in the polls it conducted.

Some things apparently haven't changed.

Robert Campbell

Robert:

They have actually gotten worse. Additionally, I called both polling companies yesterday. The 48-47 latter poll was extremely forthcoming whereas the Globes pollsters could not even comfortably answer some technical questions.

Adam

Edited January 12, 2010 by Selene

[Chris Grieb]

As Scott Brown in the Senate debate pointed out it not Ted Kennedy's seat. It is the people's seat. Objectivists should be ashamed to buy this left wing garbage. Just because the scum left refers to it in those terms Objectivists shouldn't.

Edited January 13, 2010 by Chris Grieb

[Selene]

As Scott Brown in the Senate debate pointed out it not Ted Kennedy's seat. It is the people's seat. Objectivists should be ashamed to buy this left wing garbage. Just because the scum left refers to it in those terms Objectivists shouldn't.

Chris here is the video:

<<<the video

[Chris Grieb]

As Scott Brown in the Senate debate pointed out it not Ted Kennedy's seat. It is the people's seat. Objectivists should be ashamed to buy this left wing garbage. Just because the scum left refers to it in those terms Objectivists shouldn't.

Chris here is the video:

<<<the video

My point is stop calling it Ted Kennedy's seat. As Brown pointed out it's the people's seat. Don't accept the Left's language!

[BaalChatzaf]

As Scott Brown in the Senate debate pointed out it not Ted Kennedy's seat. It is the people's seat. Objectivists should be ashamed to buy this left wing garbage. Just because the scum left refers to it in those terms Objectivists shouldn't.

Chris here is the video:

<<<the video

My point is stop calling it Ted Kennedy's seat. As Brown pointed out it's the people's seat. Don't accept the Left's language!

People's seat sounds very left wing. Like the people's republic.

Ted Kennedy's seat sounds very propertarian.

How about the Senate Seat formerly occupied by Mighty Jabba.

Ba'al Chatzaf

Edited January 13, 2010 by BaalChatzaf

[Peter]

Fox was just saying, the dem will win in Mass. but it will be a wake up call. A better wake up call would be for them to be booted out of office.

To arms, Tea Party goers. The British are coming! To Virginia. If you can think of some good questions, Robert would like to hear from you.

Semper cogitans fidele,

Peter Taylor

From The Intellectual Activist Daily

Editor's Note: Below is Wednesday's edition of TIA Daily. Sorry for the back-dating, but this issue got delayed because of some administrative work I had to do on our database, and also because of a very exciting new development. On Friday, January 22, Jefferson Area Tea Party—Charlottesville's local tea party group—will be hosting a debate among the seven candidates for the Republican nomination for Virginia's fifth congressional district, and they have asked me to be the moderator. So I've been working on firming up the arrangements and helping to set up the format for the debate.

I'll offer some more details as the date gets closer, but for now, I'd like your suggestions for some good questions to ask the candidates to draw out their basic philosophical principles. Given the number of candidates, we won't be able to ask them a large number of questions, and in the spirit of the tea party movement, we'll be giving a lot of weight to questions sent it to us by citizens across the district. But I will get the chance to insert a few questions of my own, and I want to really make them count.

I'm very excited about this because I think this is exactly the direction the tea party movement needs to go. We need to use our influence to make sure that the Republican Party nominates staunch small-government candidates.

That's particularly true in Charlottesville, given the recent history of the fifth district. The fifth district's current congressman, Democrat Tom Perriello, unseated a long-time Republican incumbent in 2008. But in the best year for Democrats in three decades, Perriello won by only 700 votes. Given the country's swing back to the right, he is almost certain to lose this fall—so we have to make sure that the Republican who takes his place is worth voting for as something better than the lesser of two evils.—RWT

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Robert Tracinski

[Selene]

Peter:

Did they cite any poll or data?

The internal trending polls show the non marxist, gender feminisit, fascist "Coked Uppity Oakley", who never met a child molester with a curling iron that she did not love, is trialing by 4 and dropping.

O'biwan's folks clearly thing it is savable because they are, once again, commiting Presidential political time and capital which is very prescious.

It might even be a ploy by Fox to increase turnout against the maliscious bitch.

Unfortunately, four percent (4%) is well within the "stealability section" of Boston vote counting.

Adam

[Chris Grieb]

Peter:

Did they cite any poll or data?

The internal trending polls show the non marxist, gender feminisit, fascist "Coked Uppity Oakley", who never met a child molester with a curling iron that she did not love, is trialing by 4 and dropping.

O'biwan's folks clearly thing it is savable because they are, once again, commiting Presidential political time and capital which is very prescious.

It might even be a ploy by Fox to increase turnout against the malicious bitch.

Unfortunately, four percent (4%) is well within the "stealability section" of Boston vote counting.

Adam

Adam; One of the reasons I would vote against Cokley is her disgusting performance in the Fells Acre case. See Dorothy Robowitz's excellent article in Friday's Wall Street Journal. It wasn't a curling iron but a butcher knife that inserting in the boy's rectum with no blood.

Let's hope for change.

[Selene]

Peter:

Did they cite any poll or data?

The internal trending polls show the non marxist, gender feminisit, fascist "Coked Uppity Oakley", who never met a child molester with a curling iron that she did not love, is trialing by 4 and dropping.

O'biwan's folks clearly thing it is savable because they are, once again, commiting Presidential political time and capital which is very prescious.

It might even be a ploy by Fox to increase turnout against the malicious bitch.

Unfortunately, four percent (4%) is well within the "stealability section" of Boston vote counting.

Adam

Adam; One of the reasons I would vote against Cokley is her disgusting performance in the Fells Acre case. See Dorothy Robowitz's excellent article in Friday's Wall Street Journal. It wasn't a curling iron but a butcher knife that inserting in the boy's rectum with no blood.

Let's hope for change.

Chris:

I did read it and was familiar with that case, which was despicable prosecution by agenda. The curling iron was a plice offeicer who raped his 3 or 4 year old niece and was RORed [Released on his own recognizance]. Politics was alleged. He was convicted.

However, she did prosecute an American who I believe found his son being molested by an illegal immigrant in a men's room in a public store after he punched the guy and allegedly broke up the act.

The illegal was not charged.

Additionally, she allegedly refused to prosecute a priest even though the family begged her to and were prepared to have both their boys testify.

Adam

[Chris Grieb]

Peter:

Did they cite any poll or data?

The internal trending polls show the non marxist, gender feminisit, fascist "Coked Uppity Oakley", who never met a child molester with a curling iron that she did not love, is trialing by 4 and dropping.

O'biwan's folks clearly thing it is savable because they are, once again, commiting Presidential political time and capital which is very precious.

It might even be a ploy by Fox to increase turnout against the malicious bitch.

Unfortunately, four percent (4%) is well within the "stealability section" of Boston vote counting.

Adam

Adam; One of the reasons I would vote against Cokley is her disgusting performance in the Fells Acre case. See Dorothy Robowitz's excellent article in Friday's Wall Street Journal. It wasn't a curling iron but a butcher knife that inserting in the boy's rectum with no blood.

Let's hope for change.

Chris:

I did read it and was familiar with that case, which was despicable prosecution by agenda. The curling iron was a police officer who raped his 3 or 4 year old niece and was RORed [Released on his own recognizance]. Politics was alleged. He was convicted.

However, she did prosecute an American who I believe found his son being molested by an illegal immigrant in a men's room in a public store after he punched the guy and allegedly broke up the act.

The illegal was not charged.

Additionally, she allegedly refused to prosecute a priest even though the family begged her to and were prepared to have both their boys testify.

Adam

Adam; Sorry! I did not realize that Cokeley screwed up several real child molestation case. She's just wrong.

[Peter]

Adam wrote:

Did they cite any poll or data?

end quote.

Maybe the lopsided poll by Fox was a ploy. I am really feeling optimistic. So goes Mass, goes the nation? Huurrah!

Peter

TIA Daily • January 15, 2010 COMMENTARY Dishonor and Defeat

Every good writer loves quoting or paraphrasing Winston Churchill, and I love it more than most. So I concluded a recent article on the health care bill's cesspool of corruption by saying that "Democrats in Congress had to choose between legislative defeat and dishonor. They chose dishonor. They will get defeat."

That is still the big story leading into the Massachusetts special election on Tuesday.

First, the dishonor. The Obama administration's latest brainwave—its version of a populist appeal—is to impose a special "crisis tax" on the nation's largest banks, with the supposed goal of recouping government bailout money from the Wall Street fat cats. Except that this tax would also be imposed on banks that have already paid back the bailout funds, and which often did not want those funds to begin with.

So whose bailout money is really being recouped from the banks? Answer: the bailout money taken by firms that have not and will not pay it back. That includes the government-sponsored entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as well as GM and Chrysler, which have been universally written off as black holes from which federal bailout money will never return. These companies will not be required to pay the tax.

So Obama's plan is to tax healthy banks in order to make them pay back the money the government lost on failed firms.

As Larry Kudlow asks:

Who's being rewarded? Obama's bank-tax penalty is being used to finance the failed government takeovers of GM, GMAC, and Fannie and Freddie. And let's not forget the $75 billion failure of the so-called foreclosure loan-modification program. To this day, no one knows where that money went. But the big banks are going to be forced to finance this through a tax that will damage lending, stockholders, and consumers.

This is sheer political favoritism. Crony capitalism at its worst, with a sub-theme of bailing out Obama's Big Labor political allies. It's just like his bailout of the unions by exempting them from the so-called Cadillac insurance tax until 2018, all while the rest of us may have to suffer under that tax.

That brings us to the latest on the health care bill. The unions had objected that an excise tax on generous health insurance plans would hit some of their workers. So the Obama administration agreed to eliminate the tax—for the unions. According to reports on the compromise, "In a significant victory for unions, the 40 percent excise tax would not apply to policies covering workers in collective bargaining agreements, state and local workers and members of voluntary employee benefit associations through Dec. 31, 2017."

This is the key to the economic system President Obama wants to create: a system in which economic benefits go only to those with the right political connections—which is always the real meaning and end result of a socialist economy, anyway.

In less than a year in power, the Democrats have exposed themselves to the public as the party of massive, open, brazen corruption. In return, I suspect that they are about to be dealt a string of devastating political defeats.

The latest poll on the special election in Massachusetts shows Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown ahead by 50-46. This is significant, not just because of Brown's numbers, but because it is the first poll showing Democrat Martha Coakley below 50%. For the incumbent, or in this case the presumptive leader in the race, to slip below 50% is usually an indication that voters are inclined to take a chance on the challenger.

A few weeks ago, nearly everyone—myself included—described Scott Brown's candidacy as a shot in the dark, with nearly impossible odds of succeeding. He is quickly becoming the favorite.

Brown has been helped by a series of unforced errors by the Coakley campaign, including an ad denouncing Wall Street greed—which includes an image of that hated Wall Street icon, the World Trade Center.

By now, even a left-leaning Boston Globe columnist is describing the race as a "spinout" and blaming Coakley for taking Massachusetts voters for granted.

If Brown wins, Democrats have discussed various parliamentary maneuvers to push the health care bill through before he can be seated, or even to prevent him from being seated for weeks after the election. Some of the horse-race guys over at RealClearPolitics recently posted a note on Senate election procedures that seemed to give credence to the idea that such a delay might be legally required. Now they're back with a historical review showing that the winners of previous Senate special elections have been seated in as little as two days. So there goes that excuse.

I don't think any such maneuver will save the health care bill. Even far-left Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank is admitting that "If Scott Brown wins, it'll kill the health bill."

By the way, some time ago I mistakenly referred to Rep. Frank as a senator. The reason for the slip of the pen is that Barney Frank has all the pompous self-regard you would expect from a senator. But I should be able to remember the difference, because he has none of the gravitas of a senator. Instead, he projects the shrill, cynical shrewdness of a ward heeler. And that means that he is a man who knows how to count votes, so I take his verdict in this case seriously.

A Brown victory would have a shattering effect on congressional Democrats. In fact, it can be argued that this effect is already being felt. Another Democratic congressman from a right-leaning district has just announced his retirement, and a new poll shows California Senator Barbara Boxer below 50%. She still beats her potential Republican challengers, but as I mentioned above, 50% approval is generally considered a sign of enormous weakness on the part of an incumbent. And if a Republican has a shot at winning a Senate seat in Massachusetts, maybe one will have a chance at winning in California, too.

And just to make matters worse for the administration, Barack Obama has pledged to go up to Massachusetts and campaign for Coakley. This is a man whose personal intervention couldn't save Governor Corzine in New Jersey, couldn't get the 2016 Olympics for Chicago, couldn't rally the public behind Obamacare, and couldn't negotiate a breakthrough deal in Copenhagen. One more defeat, and Obama will be assigned to the ash heap of political irrelevance.

As if through some weird death instinct—perhaps they have just seen Avatar too many times—everything the Democrats have done in the past year has seemingly been calibrated to cause them the maximum political damage. If they lose the battle over the health care bill, they will lose it in the most unscrupulous, corrupt, and dishonest way possible, causing voters to want to keep them out of power forever. And they will lose after putting on the line the final remaining political credibility of their most charismatic national leader.

I believe in the operation of moral law in the real world—that the irrational and dishonest always reap the whirlwind sooner or later. For the Democrats, it looks like it's coming sooner.—RWT

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[Chris Grieb]

Powerline had a discussion of the final two rallies. Brown sounded much stronger. Brown's speech was very good touching all the right bases.

We maybe see the beginning of the end of our national nightmare. Everybody say one termer Obama.

[Peter]

Chris Grieb wrote:

We maybe see the beginning of the end of our national nightmare. Everybody say one termer Obama.

end quote

I will be watching closely Tuesday night. The Intellectual Activist was saying twenty percent of the Democrats will vote for Brown and it may turn into a landslide, but then I saw something elsewhere showing the vote is fifty-fifty. And the vote may be stolen, or put into controversy as in Minnesota, and they will keep recounting until it comes out 'right.'

Then there may be a deliberate delay in seating Brown. Team Obama does not consider anything they can get away with, as too extreme. The State run media no longer has any Woodward and Bersteins. Graft is going unreported. Vote buying, is yawn, just business as usual according to MessNBC.

On the bright side, in Haiti, Harry Smith on CBS, only had a power bar saved up for lunch and dinner. The camera crew's food must have been confiscated by those misguided, machete wielding, disaster victims. The surviving, (machete wielding, male gang members and) victims don't seem to be helping pull little kids out of the rubble, like that Australian news crew just did.

Disaster writers quip that Americans are just three missed meals away from anarchy, but I do not believe it. In the land of the free, we organize and work together. And we pay a bigger percent of our 'owed' taxes than other industrialized nations. Generally, we are exceptional 8-)

Semper cogitans fidele,

Peter Taylor

[Selene]

Peter:

What do you think your neighborhood would look like if the grid [internet] went down for one week starting tomorrow?

In most cases, fresh, clean water would not be coming out of your tap. A family of 5 would need approximately 18.00-21.5 gallons of clean water to survive. No prescriptions could be filled. No cash could be accessed.

As to the election. It is trending significantly towards Brown. The key Congressional districts are:

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cispdf/ma_uscongress.pdf

7,8, and 9th.

This is where turnout is critical for them and this is where they can steal it clean if it is under 4-5 % after that they would have to come with their A game to steal it.

Adam

[Selene]

7th - 2008 - 301,210 total votes - 212,304 for Democrat 67,978 for Republican 400 All others and 20,528 Blanks

8th - 244,013 185, 530 00000 2,722 55,761 Blanks

9th - 317,420 242,166 00000 3,128 72,126 Blanks

I for the life of me, have no clue what the blank votes are, if anyone knows, I would appreciate it.

Two of the latest have Brown +7 and + 9 and trending higher.

Please vote or call someone to vote.

Adam

[Christopher]

That brings us to the latest on the health care bill. The unions had objected that an excise tax on generous health insurance plans would hit some of their workers. So the Obama administration agreed to eliminate the tax—for the unions. According to reports on the compromise, "In a significant victory for unions, the 40 percent excise tax would not apply to policies covering workers in collective bargaining agreements, state and local workers and members of voluntary employee benefit associations through Dec. 31, 2017."

As the Huffington Post says it, let's hope that if this happens the rest of the country will lose all remaining respect for unions.

[Selene]

Get out the vote - special elections are about turnout - holding theirs down and delivering yours. It is that simple.

Intrade money is moving to Scott also - that is real real world

http://twitter.com/k...atus/7885476675

Adam

Post Script:

http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2010/jan/16/ed-schultz-id-cheat-keep-brown-winning/

And this is expected. It is a major effort to slow down the cheating, but it can be done. Our teams are well trained in this area, but it is still going to take place to some degree.

What cracks me up is he is stating that he would commit a federal felony since this is a federal election.

I once arrested a District Leader for taking a blind voter into the booth without an inspector from both sides as observers. You should have seen her face as she was threatening to politically destroy me, she almost did it to, lol.

Edited January 19, 2010 by Selene

[Selene]

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/18/suffolks-bellwether-areas-showing-double-digit-lead-for-brown-on-final-day/

Some bell weather counties to watch as the returns come in.

Adam

[Peter]

Adam, can you tell me what that music was that was playing in the video?

That was excellent. I still remember when the anti-Goldwater video played. A little girl was playing in a field when an atom bomb went off behind her. Powerfull. They showed it, then pulled it. Then showed it as news coverage, then pulled it, then showed it. I think it was CBS. Everybody demanded to see this video. Good bye Barry. Hopefully, the other side doesn't resort to this tactic in 2010 because I think they are better at it.

But this video, if you agreed with its basic tenets, was a powerful force to bring out the vote.

Peter

[Selene]

Adam, can you tell me what that music was that was playing in the video?

That was excellent. I still remember when the anti-Goldwater video played. A little girl was playing in a field when an atom bomb went off behind her. Powerfull. They showed it, then pulled it. Then showed it as news coverage, then pulled it, then showed it. I think it was CBS. Everybody demanded to see this video. Good bye Barry. Hopefully, the other side doesn't resort to this tactic in 2010 because I think they are better at it.

But this video, if you agreed with its basic tenets, was a powerful force to bring out the vote.

Peter

Peter:

No clue as to the music. Here is the infamous/famous Daisy Ad - the visual clarity sucks.

Adam

[Selene]

This is a fact, the black turnout is generally suppressed with this type of weather. Is it not amusing that Coked up Oakley refused to stand in the cold and shake hands with fans outside Boston Garden where a hockey game was going on!

http://forecast.weat...d2=-71.0603&e=0

Ahh, omens upon omens.

http://www.julescrittenden.com/2010/01/18/perfect-storm-2/

Adam

Edited January 19, 2010 by Selene

[Selene]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/senate/what-to-watch-for-in-the-massa.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics

There are also 113,000 + dead people in Massachusetts that are still unpurged from the voting rolls.

Adam