In a huge victory for 1st Amendment rights, one day after Vietnamese communists sentenced five political dissidents to 16 years in prison, the United States Supreme Court has overturned a decades-old U.S.-government ban on political speech by corporations. [click to continue…]
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Somewhere along the road to the White House, Barack Obama lost sight of the true nature of his employment relationship with American people. He works for them, not the other way around. The attitude du jour was brilliantly captured by Obama’s declaration, in January 2009, “I won!” and Nancy Pelosi’s inimitable, partisan echo, “Yes, we won the election!” Kind of like, “Mission accomplished!” (Flashback video below.)
Obama’s oversight came home to roost, Tuesday, in Massachusetts, where the country’s most blue state told Obama in essence, “You and your cronies can go to hell.” So much for “I won.” For thinking Democrats — Jim Webb, Evan Bayh and Barney Frank come to mind — Tuesday was a wake-up call. Not so for Mr. Obama who made it clear Wednesday night that he still doesn’t get it.
His interview with George Stephanopolous was remarkable for its arrogance and tone-deafness. Strangely, Mr. Obama expressed “regret” that during his first year, he and his staff were
… so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values.
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Howard Dean has had a nutjob reputation for a long time. In the aftermath of Scott Brown’s Massachusetts win, Dean is living up to his reputation. Observe:
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With a bit of help from an old pickup truck and a Hail Martha campaign visit by Mr. Hopenchange himself, Scott Brown has brought change to Massachusetts and Washington that we can all believe in. Where to begin breaking down this astounding political revolt? We could start with the proposition that Martha Coakley epitomizes today’s Washington Democrats. Intellectually shallow, arrogant, out-of-touch with real people and supremely confident that socialism, high taxes and a spineless foreign-policy will somehow magically add up to economic recovery and peace in our time. [click to continue…]
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Part of me really wants Martha Coakley to win Tuesday in Massaschusetts just to expose — yet again — the complete intellectual vacuity of the Democrat Party. This woman is a total dunce. How she functions as Massachusetts Attorney General is way beyond my pay grade. Check out this audio recording of Coakley insisting that legendary Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is a Yankee fan. Oh, and ObamaCare will be good for Amerika! As if. Too funny!
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Scott Brown should invite Barack Obama to Boston to campaign for Brown’s rival, Martha “Hammer” Coakley. Why? As a general rule — at least since Obama’s inauguration in January 2009 — when the big “O” touches down with Air Force One and/or his presidential entourage, his cause or candidate loses.
Obama’s Chicago Olympics sales job was stuffed (apologies to my Aussie friends) in Copenhagen, last October. A month later, Obama campaigned in person and revved up his campaign operation, Organising for Amerika, in Virginia (for Creigh Deeds) and New Jersey (for Jon Corzine). Both candidates lost convincingly.
One month after that, in December, Obama jetted off to Copenhagen where the much hyped climate change conclave disintegrated without an agreement despite (because of?) Obama’s involvement. If I’m Scott Brown, I’m thinking, “Why not fund an Obama-Coakley event?” Maybe in Copenhagen?
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With Republican Scott Brown surging in the race for Massachusetts’ open U.S. Senate seat, TWS reports Democrat candidate Martha Coakley — apparently incapable of winning the seat through civil discourse — has called out her brown shirts to intimidate and physically attack reporters who dare ask her direct questions.
After a Washington, D.C. fundraising event last night, John McCormack reports he was assaulted and shoved against a metal railing, while Coakley looked on, by an individual who has since been tentatively identified by a tipster as Democrat Senate Campaign Committee operative Michael Meehan, pictured above. Ironically, Meehan was reportedly hired to help Coakley camp with “messaging”. Get the message?
More of the action can be seen in this YouTube video. Massachusetts voters might ask themselves whether Coakley, who apparently sees no need to issue an apology for such Stalinist brutality, could possibly represent them in the United States Senate better than down-to-Earth, personable Scott Brown who appears along with Doug Flutie in the video below.
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If the Berlin Wall could come crashing down (it did), isn’t it also possible that Massachusetts voters could replace Ted Kennedy with a clear-thinking, no-nonsense Republican? I think so. Watch this video to learn why Scott Brown can win one week from today with a little help from Americans who, like Scott, believe in free enterprise, limited government and accountability. Click here to contribute to Scott’s campaign.
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Finally, a bit of climate candor from a top global warming alarmist. Pressed to rationalize the U.K. Met Office’s woeful failure to predict 2010’s cold January, John Hirst admits not even the Met Office — which he nevertheless insists is the best weather predicting organization in the world — can say what will happen to weather over the long-haul:
Thank you, Mr. Hirst. Now if we can just get Al Gore to answer a few questions…
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Like George H.W. Bush who once fatefully declared, “No new taxes,” Barack Obama promised repeatedly during his 2008 campaign to conduct health care reform negotiations in the open and to broadcast them on C-SPAN. “These negotiations will be on C-SPAN … so the public will be part of the conversation.” Those were his words in ‘08, eight times over:
Now, with congressional Dems planning closed-door meetings to hammer out a back-room House-Senate compromise and C-SPAN daring them to come out of the closet, Mr. Obama has the perfect opportunity to show America what he’s made of. My gut — and the evasive, nasty response by Obama’s own spokesman today — suggest he’ll do just that.
Will he, against all odds, deliver on even the most basic of his campaign promises? Is he capable, after telling so many fibs to so many people, of keeping his word on an issue of such visceral importance to the entire country? To paraphrase the Sundance Kid, “I’d bet no, but who’d bet yes?”
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