If there are any betting men and women here, I am taking bets
that New York will not elect a senator who is a Merrill Lynch millionaire from Tennessee
who likes a good pedicure and has had more changed positions than Madonna in “Truth
or Dare.” Anyone who wants to bet Ford will be elected, please get in touch with
me, ASAP.
I rise to second the
comments from my dear friend Peter Fenn, who points out that in the case of an
explosive victory by Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race, any
attempt by the state's Democrats to slow-walk his swearing-in to try
to squeeze one last healthcare vote in would be tantamount to theft.
Such a move would come back to haunt the party in other House and Senate
races this fall and possibly cost it the majority in either or both
chambers.
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Let’s get real. This should not even be a close race. Not just because of the politics of the state but because of the clear comparison between the qualifications and views of the two candidates. Nevertheless, I am not even going to go there.
I am going to surprise some of my friends on the right by arguing that should disaster strike the Democrats and Brown emerge victorious next Tuesday, delaying seating him for a month or more would be a big mistake. No, I will go further — I will say that such a move would carry with it consequences that could undermine the Democratic Party, our candidates in 2010 and beyond, and destroy our credibility.
The Chicago Gang’s strategy of taxing the unborn of future generations is a clever variation of the old-school tactic of reaching out to the dead when getting out the vote. It was standard practice generations back in Southie, where half of my family is from. It worked in Chicago too, no doubt. The Irish elders say that these practices stopped when Jack Kennedy came along. It was a moment of transcendence for us. Jack Kennedy had determined that we, the Boston Irish, were actually ready for democracy, and some of us actually were.
What a load of crap this jobs summit is. Every time the president wants to highlight a subject, he invites people down to the White House to talk it out.
I wouldn’t be surprised if at the end of the “jobs summit” he asks everyone to embrace in one big group hug.
But the American people don’t need any seminars. They don’t need a group hug. They need jobs. And the president’s agenda doesn’t have much about job creation, and never really had had much about job creation.
A Zogby Poll this week illustrates the stark choice facing
Senate Democrats as they have to decide whether or not to vote for ObamaCare. The
poll shows that Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln, high up on the list of
vulnerable Senate Democrats seeking reelection in 2010, literally faces a
choice between being reelected and voting for the bill.
You are comparing Obama to
the Marxist playbook? That post is total, complete and unadulterated baloney and
should placed in Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum as an example of why books are written
about "The Death of Conservatism.”
The post does not deserve
and will not receive from me a serious answer. Is this your best intellectual contribution
to American political discourse? I suspect Obama has learned little, so far, from
Virginia and New Jersey. I know you have learned nothing from New York congressional
district 23.
Keep that Beck-Limbaugh pap
coming and you will nationalize what happened to your candidate in the 23rd district
in New York.
Sarah Palin couldn't
deliver New York's 23rd district for Republicans with her endorsement of Conservative third-party candidate Doug Hoffman, but candidates across the
country are still scared of the power of Palin, Tea Parties and the Club
for Growth combined.
The morning after
Hoffman went down and a Democrat was elected in NY-23 for the first time since
1870, Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) got to work soliciting an endorsement from Palin
for his campaign to win President Barack Obama's old Senate seat next year.
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The GOP’s sweep of gubernatorial elections in Virginia and
New Jersey yesterday sent clear signs of fermenting discontent with the Obama
administration.
In New Jersey, the Republicans recaptured a seat that has
been Democratic for over a decade. The GOP sweep of statewide races in Virginia
represented a sharp departure from a year ago when the state voted for a
Democratic president for the first time since 1964.
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