The Lefts Excuses For Coakley Loss

[red states rule]

There will be many excuses for the Dems losing in MA. Here are a few of the ones by the lefts most loyal at MSNBC

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[AFbombloader]

I guess only racists drive pick-ups. Interesting.

[red states rule]

I guess only racists drive pick-ups. Interesting.

It is amazing. 3 election losses in a row, even after Obama goes in and campaigns for the Dems

They still do not get it

People are opposed to Obama and his policies - and the Dems still tell the voters they are going to go against the wishes of the voters

BTW, you are only a racist in MA if you voted for Brown. You have to be a racist because only racists are opposed to Obama's policies

[HogTrash]

I guess only racists drive pick-ups. Interesting.Uh-Ohhh! :scared:

[red states rule]

Angry and scared people caused the rise of Scott Brown

Damn, this is going to get even better in the coming days


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[SassyLady]

I guess only racists drive pick-ups. Interesting.

:eek:

Well, crap, I am a triple racist - we have three!!! One for the dump runs, one with a camper on it and one for pulling the trailer and picking up materials for the property!

[sgtdmski]

Lets look at the facts and after review them tell me which party was more racists.

During the vote of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, in the House 61% of Democrats voted in favor of the Act and 80% of Republicans.

In the Senate, 66% of Democrats voted in favor of the Act, 82% of Republicans.

You tell me, which was the racist party???????

dmk

[sgtdmski]

Please put me on Olbermann's show!!!!! SO I can tell the world the truth!!!! DEMOCRATS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RACIST AND REMAIN SO TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any doubts?????? Rmember Reid's recent statement!!!!

dmk

[red states rule]

Please put me on Olbermann's show!!!!! SO I can tell the world the truth!!!! DEMOCRATS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN RACIST AND REMAIN SO TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Any doubts?????? Rmember Reid's recent statement!!!!

dmk

Talk about being a sore loser






Olbermann Renews 'Teabagging' Attack on Scott Brown, Cuts His Victory Speech

By Brad Wilmouth
January 20, 2010 - 05:56 ET

While it is well known that MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann is the most viciously liberal voice to host a news program within the mainstream media, even he normally tones down his anti-conservative, anti-Republican vitriol when anchoring special events like election results. But during MSNBC’s coverage of the Massachusetts special Senate election, Olbermann’s presentation was more rabidly partisan than if the Democratic National Committee itself were producing the show. As he anchored a special 10:00 p.m. edition of his Countdown show, Olbermann not only used one of his "Quick Comment" segments to repeat his infamous attack from the day before on Republican Senator-elect Scott Brown, but he also impatiently interrupted Brown’s victory speech, and, while Brown was still speaking, went on to give a second "Quick Comment" blaming tea party protesters and Fox News for applying the vulgar "tea bagger" term to the Tea Party movement.

At 10:19 p.m., Olbermann delivered a "Quick Comment" in which he sarcastically pretended that he would apologize for his attack on Senator-elect Scott Brown from the previous day in which he had called Brown an "irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea bagging, supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees." But instead, the MSNBC host renewed the attack and added the word "sexist" because Brown did not respond to an attack on his opponent, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, which Senator-elect Brown may not even have heard the comment uttered by an audience member at an event. Olbermann began his "Quick Comment":

I wanted to apologize for calling Senator-elect Scott Brown an "irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, tea bagging, supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees." I’m sorry, I left out the word "sexist."


Olbermann went on to call Brown "horrifically unqualified" for the Senate and challenged conservative critics to prove him wrong in his attacks on the Massachusetts Republican.

At about 10:41 p.m., after Brown had spent 10 minutes on his victory speech, Olbermann grew impatient as the Massachusetts Republican started teasing his daughters and joking about his conversation with President Obama, as the MSNBC jumped in and cracked: "Before we get to the chowder recipes of the family, we’re going to take a pause to discuss this."

FNC notably showed all 27 minutes of Brown’s victory speech, as well as all eight minutes of Coakley’s concession speech, with the exception of a brief interruption at 10:00 p.m. when Greta Van Susteren cut in to take over the reins from Sean Hannity and introduce the 10:00 p.m. hour of FNC coverage. CNN only showed about the first seven minutes of each speech.

At 10:50 p.m., while Senator-elect Brown was still speaking, Olbermann returned from a commercial break and exclaimed, "My God, he’s still talking!" before delivering his second "Quick Comment" of the hour blaming Tea Party activists and FNC’s Griff Jenkins for first using the term "tea bag" as a verb, a word which Olbermann and other MSNBC hosts later picked up on to mock Tea Party activists by referring to the vulgar sexual meaning of the term. Olbermann began his comment by again indirectly calling Brown a "tea bagger":

My God, he’s still talking! Senator-elect Brown is still giving his victory speech tonight in Boston. Howard Fineman will help me wrap it up if he wraps it up in a moment. First, the second of tonight’s "Quick Comments." The tea baggers have elected their first guy tonight, and, thus, they will expecting legislation by tomorrow making it a death penalty offense to call them "tea baggers."


After recounting one of the earlier uses of the term "tea bag" used as a verb by a Tea Party activist and by FNC’s Griff Jenkins, Olbermann concluded: "Thus, the verb to ‘tea bag’ was invented by the tea baggers themselves. And the correspondent who put it on TV was one Griff Jenkins of Fox News. Send your complaints to him."



Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2010/01/20/olbermann-renews-attack-horrifically-unqualified-scott-brown-cuts-his#ixzz0d9N3jBno

[glockmail]

I keep confusing Olberman with John Stewart. :lol:

[red states rule]

I keep confusing Olberman with John Stewart. :lol:

Others are confusing Obama with a competent politican

[glockmail]

Others are confusing Obama with a competent politican Future schoolkids will confuse him with Jiminy Carter. :lol:

[red states rule]

Amazing how Dems STILL do not get it





Hoyer: Voters upset about GOP obstructionism, not Dem agenda

By Jordan Fabian - 01/19/10 12:27 PM ET

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday said that angst voters have expressed early this election year is the result of GOP obstructionism, not the Democrats agenda.

Hoyer's remarks come as Republican state Sen. Scott Brown has surged in the Massachusetts special Senate election in part due to his pledge to be the GOP's 41st vote to filibuster healthcare reform legislation.

"I think what the public is angry about is they see, first of all, an opposition for opposition's sake," Hoyer told reporters.

Meanwhile, Brown has taken the lead over state Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) in some polls tracking the election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D). Coakley has campaigned on her support of the Democrats' healthcare bill, appealing to Kennedy's role in trumpeting the issue through Congress for years.

But the issue seems to have fallen out of favor with Massachusetts voters who will go to the polls Tuesday night. A recent Suffolk University poll showed that 51 percent of voters oppose the “national near-universal health-care package” and 61 percent say it is too costly.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/76803-hoyer-voters-upset-about-gop-obstructionism-not-dem-agenda

[CSM]

Well, I guess some folks managed to get their voice heard despite being busy clinging to their religion and their guns. I predict a lot more of that happening in the near future and you can bet that when it does, guys like Olbermann will become so shrill that they will soon be above human's hearing range.

[red states rule]

Well, I guess some folks managed to get their voice heard despite being busy clinging to their religion and their guns. I predict a lot more of that happening in the near future and you can bet that when it does, guys like Olbermann will become so shrill that they will soon be above human's hearing range.

I am watching MSNBC this morning and they are so glum

The music they are playing at commercial breaks sounds like what you would hear at a funeral

Only fitting since they are clearly in mourning, and the reporters in MA are in a state of disbelief

[CSM]

I am watching MSNBC this morning and they are so glum

The music they are playing at commercial breaks sounds like what you would hear at a funeral

Only fitting since they are clearly in mourning, and the reporters in MA are in a state of disbelief

heh ... post partum depression!

[red states rule]

heh ... post partum depression!

Now Barney Frank says, "Ok we lost, so now we have to change the rules"



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[CSM]

Now Barney Frank says, "Ok we lost, so now we have to change the rules"



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Well, I bet yesterdays results got Barney's attention! If a Kennedy can lose in the Bay State, the Honorable Mr. Frank just might be a little vulnerable.

[red states rule]

Well, I bet yesterdays results got Barney's attention! If a Kennedy can lose in the Bay State, the Honorable Mr. Frank just might be a little vulnerable.

One of the best headlines I saw this morning - I think it was the Boston Herald

"One Big Mass Kicking"

I doubt if hard core lefties like Reid, Pelosi, and Frank will get it. I hope the voters in their states also send them a message as well as a pink slip

[CSM]

One of the best headlines I saw this morning - I think it was the Boston Herald

"One Big Mass Kicking"

I doubt if hard core lefties like Reid, Pelosi, and Frank will get it. I hope the voters in their states also send them a message as well as a pink slip

Just my opinion but I think that the Dems will delude themselves into thinking that the loss can be blamed on just about anything except their own party platform. They will not change a damned thing except try to get a bit less "transparent". You can look for a lot of wolves in sheeps clothing in the Dems running for re-election.

[red states rule]

Just my opinion but I think that the Dems will delude themselves into thinking that the loss can be blamed on just about anything except their own party platform. They will not change a damned thing except try to get a bit less "transparent". You can look for a lot of wolves in sheeps clothing in the Dems running for re-election.

Correct me if I am wrong, but have Dems ever admitted they were wrong on the issues when voters reject them?

After the 1984 election, Reagan won 49 states, and Dems said the voters did not reject thier policies - but rather the voters "bought into slick marketing and packaging"

They cried how the 2000 and 2004 election was stolen. Or how talk radion and Fox News drowned out the Dems message

But when they when, oh, the voters have spoken, they made their choice, they gave the Democrats a mandate, the voters were informed

[CSM]

Correct me if I am wrong, but have Dems ever admitted they were wrong on the issues when voters reject them?

After the 1984 election, Reagan won 49 states, and Dems said the voters did not reject thier policies - but rather the voters "bought into slick marketing and packaging"

They cried how the 2000 and 2004 election was stolen. Or how talk radion and Fox News drowned out the Dems message

But when they when, oh, the voters have spoken, they made their choice, they gave the Democrats a mandate, the voters were informed

I guess that is human nature particularly when arrogance overides logic.

[red states rule]

I guess that is human nature particularly when arrogance overides logic.

Here is another lib who does not get it

All that matters to liberals is POWER and CONTROL





Begala Tells Obama to 'Throw an Elbow Under the Hoop' at Scott Brown
By Tim Graham

January 20, 2010 - 07:38 ET

CNN analyst Paul Begala stuck to his Democrat guns, or elbows on Tuesday night's Anderson Cooper 360. He urged Obama to keep pushing a liberal agenda and challenge Scott Brown: "Let's see if the president can throw him an elbow under the hoop." Brown made a pledge to get along and work together, and Begala said lay him out:

BEGALA: The one thing I might counsel them, though, if I was still working there, would be, you know, you show your character in defeat sometimes a lot more than you do in victory. And this is a moment, I think, perhaps the president can show his character. Does he really believe in this stuff, or does he just sort of folds his tent and go home? Watching him in the campaign, I think there's a lot more steel in that spine than perhaps Mr. Obama's critics think.

I saw senator-elect Brown saying he wants to play basketball with the president. The first thing I thought of it, yes, good, and let's see if the president can throw him an elbow under the hoop. Barack Obama is going to have to shift into a much more tough-minded fighting mode there as a populist mode. If he wants to sort of answer this very strident [Brown] speech we saw...

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/01/20/begala-tells-obama-throw-elbow-under-hoop-scott-brown#ixzz0d9uzlXs4

[glockmail]

Now Barney Frank says, "Ok we lost, so now we have to change the rules"



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The vids on this site don't work for me and I tried yesterday as well.

[red states rule]

The vids on this site don't work for me and I tried yesterday as well.

Works for me, sorry about that Glock

You can tell by Frank's smile he is not a happy camper

[glockmail]

Works for me, sorry about that Glock

You can tell by Frank's smile he is not a happy camper

I went to the site as well. Maybe I don't have a thingy downloaded for it. Youtube works fine though.

I don't see a smile all I see is a cock washer.

[CSM]

Here is another lib who does not get it

All that matters to liberals is POWER and CONTROL

What is it with Dems? They can't play a fair, clean game in any arena? "elbow under the hoop"??????

[red states rule]

What is it with Dems? They can't play a fair, clean game in any arena? "elbow under the hoop"??????

It is the liberal way of showing tolerance. You can feel the "love" coming from the left this morning :laugh2:

I hope they keep doing what they are doing, and saying, all the way to November

[red states rule]

Now it is sexism that caused Coakley lost





Women ponder Mass. glass ceiling



Before the votes were even counted, her fellow Democrats had compiled a list of reasons why Martha Coakley had struggled: anemic retail politics, a blind-eye to shifting momentum and an inexplicable appearance on a sports talk radio show that led her to misidentify a Red Sox star.


There was truth to them all. But they also glossed over an obstacle that received far less attention in her losing bid for the Senate: a glass ceiling that remains almost impenetrable, even in the blue state of Massachusetts.


To get an idea of how mind-bending the gender dynamics in this campaign were, consider this:


If a male attorney general and former prosecutor had been running against a woman who’d posed nude for Cosmopolitan magazine and whose law practice consisted mainly of real estate closings, would he have been the one reduced to praying for a squeaker victory? Would she have even gotten elected to the state Senate?


No and no are the probable answers. But it is an illustration of the kind of double standard voters apply to female candidates — a double standard that some longtime women’s advocates see in the success of Republican Scott Brown, whose college-aged centerfold and lesser professional success didn’t prevent him from capturing Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat from the Democrats.


The lack of success of female candidates in Massachusetts compared with, say, nearby Maine, where both senators are women, is striking.


“It took 222 years for Massachusetts to elect its first woman, running in her own right, to statewide office, and that was Shannon O’Brien as treasurer in 1998. Martha Coakley is only the second one. Welcome to liberal Massachusetts,” said Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic strategist based in Boston.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31680.html#ixzz0dAOcZ5EN

[glockmail]

I'm sure that Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic strategist based in Boston, is a staunch Palin supporter. LOL

[DragonStryk72]

Lets look at the facts and after review them tell me which party was more racists.

During the vote of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, in the House 61% of Democrats voted in favor of the Act and 80% of Republicans.

In the Senate, 66% of Democrats voted in favor of the Act, 82% of Republicans.

You tell me, which was the racist party???????

dmk

Neither one, actually. These days it is simply the thing to do, and trust me, had it been Hilary as president, instead of Obama, then we would be looking at them trying to pin it on the republicans being sexist instead of racist. they could have looked at it and said, "Well, yeah, Coakley lost, look how badly mishandled her campaign was," and it would have in fact improved the look of the Dems.

But no, the party just doesn't get it, they really don't see how this ends up hurting them. If the republicans lose a close election, they certainly don't take any time to hose the opponent, actually, if anything, they say nothing at all, and just start going for the next election.

[Nukeman]

Watching Rachel Maddow last night she interviewd Howard Dean and he actually said..................................



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"it is Bushes fault"

What a dumb shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[red states rule]

The left keeps trying to ignore why they lost is MA, and insist to try and blame someone else

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and from LSDMSNBC





MSNBC's Deutsch: Mass. Voters Opted for 'Visceral Comfort' of a White Guy
By Mike Sargent (Bio | Archive)
January 20, 2010 - 14:40 ET

There are times when speaking in a stream of consciousness is a good and wholesome thing. None occur in front of a camera, as evidenced by the public escapades of MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch.

The former ad-man took to today’s “Morning Joe” set yesterday morning to offer the following wisdom in reference to the impending Massachusetts electorate:


He is a traditional-looking middle-aged white male. We’re going back to basics, we’ve obviously had our first African American president we’ve had the female candidates and what-not – you look at him, he looks like the candidate, the traditional view of the candidate, and is there a visceral comfort in that for people? I’m just curious from real kind of sociological point of view.

Obvious questions abound, of course.

First of all, this view of the Massachusetts electorate stipulates that a woman would have a harder time winning the Massachusetts Senate election than a man. This is absurd, because Vicki Kennedy would most likely have blown out Scott Brown (or really, any other candidate), simply by reason of her family affiliation. Her femininity would not have been the slightest hindrance.

This also assumes that Coakley would not have won, had she actually campaigned – which is even more absurd, because she had a thirty point lead over Brown shortly after the primary.

Secondly, this was said in the context of voter anger over myriad issues – mostly local issues, interestingly enough. Deutsch’s view discounts all of these issues out of hand, and focuses on whether a woman or a black man can win in Massachusetts. Deval Patrick would be somewhat surprised.

Third, and most importantly, is the Massachusetts vote for President Obama in 2008. He was the candidate of Hope, the Son of Camelot (whatever that is), the incarnation of visceral comfort. And he won Massachusetts by a gigantic margin. And let us not forget, this is after losing the Massachusetts primary to a woman – Hillary Clinton, by a 16-percentage point margin (despite Ted Kennedy’s endorsement).

Donny Deutsch may be an advertising guru, but he’s greatly overselling the effect of visuals – and insulting the intellect of the Massachusetts electorate.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-sargent/2010/01/20/msnbcs-deutsch-mass-voters-opted-visceral-comfort-white-guy

[PostmodernProphet]

Watching Rachel Maddow last night she interviewd Howard Dean and he actually said..................................
"it is Bushes fault"

What a dumb shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol....they should make him head of the DNC....oh, wait......I forgot......

[red states rule]

and now the NY Times offers his excuses




snip

Mr. Obama has done many important things on the environment, and in foreign affairs, and in preventing the nation’s banking system from collapsing in the face of a financial crisis he inherited. But he seems to have lost touch with two core issues for Americans: their jobs and their homes.

Mr. Obama’s challenge is that most Americans are not seeing a recovery. They are seeing 10 percent unemployment and a continuing crisis in the housing market. They have watched as the federal government rescued banks, financial firms and auto companies, but they themselves feel adrift, still awaiting the kind of decisive leadership on jobs and housing — in terms of both style and substance — that Mr. Obama promised in 2008.

Mr. Obama was right to press for health care reform. But he spent too much time talking to reluctant Democrats and Republicans who never had the slightest intention of supporting him. He sat on the sidelines while the Republicans bombarded Americans with false but effective talk of death panels and a government takeover of their doctors’ offices. And he did not make the case strongly enough that the health care system and the economy are deeply interconnected or explain why Americans should care about this huge issue in the midst of a recession: If they lose their jobs, they lose their health insurance.

Mr. Obama has not said or done the right thing often enough when it comes to job creation and housing. He appointed an economics team that was entwined with the people and policies that nearly destroyed the economy. He made compromises that resulted in a stimulus bill that wasn’t big enough or properly targeted. Even now, despite a new, rather awkward populist tone, serious relief for homeowners is lacking and financial regulatory reform is in danger of being hijacked by banking lobbyists and partisan politics.

The victory by Mr. Brown, a Republican, should be setting off alarms in the White House. Most immediately, it jeopardizes passage of the reform that the nation desperately needs. The Democrats could try to get the House to pass the Senate’s bill, although their chances seem dim, or as Mr. Obama seemed to suggest on Wednesday, they could seek a stripped-down measure that could win bipartisan support. They certainly should not try to ram a combined House-Senate bill through the Senate before Mr. Brown is sworn in.

The Democrats had an exceptionally weak candidate in Massachusetts, but the results call into question their tactical political competence. The party now has less than 10 months to get it right before the midterm elections, when they are in danger of losing more seats in the House and the Senate. It is indisputable that the Republicans have settled on a tactic of obstruction, disinformation and fear-mongering, but it is equally indisputable that the Democrats have not countered it well.

Mr. Obama has three years to show the kind of vision and leadership on the economy that got him elected — not just because his chances of a second term are at stake, but because the nation needs to get a handle on joblessness and mortgages or the nascent economic recovery could turn into a lost decade or a double-dip recession, or both.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/opinion/21thur1.html?ref=opinion

[CSM]

"It is indisputable that the Republicans have settled on a tactic of obstruction, disinformation and fear-mongering, but it is equally indisputable that the Democrats have not countered it well."

This more than anything else shows me that they still don't get it and probably never will. These folks and the talkinf heads who support them are so out of touch with the average citizen it isn't funny.


It wasn't "the Republicans" of the Bay State that got Brown elected (they are after all the vast minority there!). You can bet your last penny that those who voted for Brown were NOT voting for "obstruction, disinformation and fear mongering"; they get enough of that from the current crop of political idiots in Washington.

[red states rule]

"It is indisputable that the Republicans have settled on a tactic of obstruction, disinformation and fear-mongering, but it is equally indisputable that the Democrats have not countered it well."

This more than anything else shows me that they still don't get it and probably never will. These folks and the talkinf heads who support them are so out of touch with the average citizen it isn't funny.


It wasn't "the Republicans" of the Bay State that got Brown elected (they are after all the vast minority there!). You can bet your last penny that those who voted for Brown were NOT voting for "obstruction, disinformation and fear mongering"; they get enough of that from the current crop of political idiots in Washington.

I keep asking my liberal co-worker how Republicans are blocking Obamacare

I point out to him Dems have a 40 seat majority in the House and all they need is asimple majority to pass ANYTHING

I point out how Dems HAD 60 Dems in the Senate, and again, Dems could pass ANYTHING

Obama never needed a SINGLE Republican vote to pass ANYTHING

This is the big lie, the left and the liberal media, keep pushing

They have a serious issue with admitting it is DEMOCRATS that have prevented Obamacare from passing

Some Dems are actually listening to what their voters are saying.

They are saying "We do NOT want Obamacare"

[red states rule]

A liberal op-ed writer flips out




By Brian McGrory, Globe Staff

McGrory: Seduced by our new senator

I’m going to need some Advil and a cold compress, please. I’m the Massachusetts Electorate, and I have what is bar none the absolute worst hangover of my entire voting life.

Seriously, I was so drunk on power, so caught up in the moment, so free of any of my usual inhibitions, I can’t remember what’s gone on these last two weeks. Think, Electorate, think. What did I do?

This much I’m starting to remember. Martha and I walked into the party and everything seemed to be going fine. She wasn’t talking much, but she never really does, and she wasn’t exactly pushing me to bare my soul, either. That’s what I’ve always liked about Martha: She’s a low-maintenance politician.

And now I’m vaguely recalling that stranger across the room, the one in the barn jacket who kept smiling at me and seemed to know my name. Martha vanished for a while, and – is it bad that I’m saying this? -- I didn’t really care.

Suddenly, that tall, handsome man was standing at my side doing something that Martha rarely did – offering to pay for drinks, chatting me up, curious what was on my mind.

Every time I ever tried telling Martha about my day, my hopes, my dreams, she shushed me up and said she was preparing a legal brief or watching Law & Order. And now there’s a stranger telling me he could change my entire world.

Scott! That was his name. Lived near the outlet stores. Talked a lot about being smarter with money. I know, not like Martha, who always had some expensive home renovation project up her sleeve.

And then, I remember that time itself seemed to stop. The mundanity of everyday events gave way to the exhilaration of my suddenly unpredictable existence. No more Martha taking me for granted. No more Martha calling all the shots. I was living the moment, immersed in the life I always wanted before caution overwhelmed desire.

We were on the dance floor, Scott and I, moving to the music, his hands all over my body politic. Everyone was watching, and I mean everyone – fellow partygoers, bartenders, passersby staring in the windows. Look at me, the Massachusetts Electorate, the bellwether of America!

I think I took my shirt off. I think I didn’t care. I remember something about Scott in a pair of Calvin Klein jockey shorts, but it may have been a picture he showed me from his wallet.

Out of nowhere, there were video cameras filming us from every angle. Analysts were describing the events. Scott’s important friends were texting and calling my cell. Get this: Curt Schilling, talking to a regular old Electorate like me.

Then, above the din and the music and the cheering, I distinctly heard someone ask, “How’s Martha going to feel about this?’’

And just like that, there she was, back at the bar, giving me that aloof prosecutorial look I knew all too well. I went back to her, sweaty and out of breath. Amazingly, she didn’t seem angry. She didn’t really show any emotion at all. She just pretended like nothing ever happened and tried to continue on.

Oh, but something did happen. I knew it, she knew it, and so did Scott, who was still beckoning from the other end of the bar, asking me to take a walk outside. And now it’s coming clear: I did.

He was talking nonstop, but I noticed he was repeating himself over and over again – 41st vote, and drawing boards, and being a “Scott Brown Republican.’’ He was starting to lose me until we were standing in front of a GMC pickup and he said, “This is my truck.’’

Oh, you bad boy. You bad, bad boy.

I remember catching my breath. I remember pulling a curtain shut. I remember having to make a really important choice.

I needed to send a message. I don't know much about Scott, and I have no idea how long he'll be in my life, but I do know that nobody will ever take me for granted again.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/mcgrory_seduced.html

[glockmail]

I'm thoroughly enjoying watching liberals everywhere flip out over this Massachusetts thing. I emailed a liberal friend of mine yesterday morning with one sentence about it and he returned a four or five paragraph tirade that had nothing to do with the election return.

LOL!

[red states rule]

I'm thoroughly enjoying watching liberals everywhere flip out over this Massachusetts thing. I emailed a liberal friend of mine yesterday morning with one sentence about it and he returned a four or five paragraph tirade that had nothing to do with the election return.

LOL!

My liberal buddy said the same thing. The election had nothing to do with Obama, that voters are mad at BOTH parties

He can't explain how Republicans are to blame since they have ZERO power to stop anything Dems want to pass

Facts are a pesky thing to libs

[glockmail]

I long for them to pass health care by using the nuclear option, or better yet while delaying Brown's seat. It will make the Mass special election return look like chicken soup compared to November 2010 and 12. :laugh2:

[DragonStryk72]

I keep asking my liberal co-worker how Republicans are blocking Obamacare

I point out to him Dems have a 40 seat majority in the House and all they need is asimple majority to pass ANYTHING

I point out how Dems HAD 60 Dems in the Senate, and again, Dems could pass ANYTHING

Obama never needed a SINGLE Republican vote to pass ANYTHING

This is the big lie, the left and the liberal media, keep pushing

They have a serious issue with admitting it is DEMOCRATS that have prevented Obamacare from passing

Some Dems are actually listening to what their voters are saying.

They are saying "We do NOT want Obamacare"

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[red states rule]

Classic comments on the spin and excuses being "reported" by the liberal media

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[sgtdmski]

Now it is sexism that caused Coakley lost

It has nothing to do with sexism. If you are from Massachusetts and do not know that Curt Shilling is a A BASEBALL GOD; you are not even competent enough to be elected a METER MAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!

dmk

[sgtdmski]

Correct me if I am wrong, but have Dems ever admitted they were wrong on the issues when voters reject them?



The Dems have never in their life given an apology for being wrong.

They have not apologized for being wrong about Slavery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They have not apologized for being wrong about the Jim Crow Laws!!!!!!!!!!

They have not apologized for being wrong about Taxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They have not apologized for being wrong about Welfare to Work Reform!!!!

They have not apologized for being wrong about how to deal with the Soviet Union in regards to the Cold War!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!

How many other failures do I have to bring up?????????????????????????????

dmk

[red states rule]

Now the NY Times tries to offer comfort to the masses





Democratic Silver Linings

By GAIL COLLINS
Published: January 20, 2010
Poor Democrats, cheer up. There’s always a bright side.

On the one hand, the Republicans have a new superstar, Scott Brown, the senator-elect from Massachusetts. On the other, he’s already beginning to come off as a little strange.

During Tuesday night’s victory speech, Brown veered off-script and offered up his college-student daughters to the crowd. (“Yes, they’re both available!”) As his girls laughed with embarrassment and his wife yelled at him to stop, Brown just dug deeper. (“Arianna’s definitely not available, but Ayla is.”)

By the end, even Glenn Beck was weirded out. However, in a spirit of even-handedness, let us say that Beck may have gone overboard when urged that Brown be equipped with a chastity belt and announced: “This one could end with a dead intern.”

For some Democrats, particularly the ones in Washington, looking on the bright side came down to blaming the Massachusetts Massacre on the party nominee, Martha Coakley. (“Political malpractice,” sniped one Obamaite.)

True, she seemed to have the public persona of a flounder. But if warmth and charisma were a requisite for being in the Senate, three-quarters of the members would have to go home immediately. A body where Arlen Specter can be courted by both parties is not a place that puts much premium on personal charm.

The White House would really rather not see the vote as a commentary on Obama. In this they are in accord with Scott Brown, who when asked whether his victory was a referendum on the president, said cheerfully: “It’s much bigger than that.”

Gradually, we are reaching a consensus that Coakley lost because the irritable voters wanted to send a message. Which was: change.

Change all over the place! Except apparently not in beating up the bankers, since the Democrat favored a tax on big banks to pay for the bailout and the Republican opposed it.

And not change that involves getting out of Afghanistan. That was Coakley’s idea. Brown wants to stay the course.

Stay the course, for sure. But stop spending so much money on the course. Cut the budget! Except when it comes to the troops, who need all the support we can give them. As Scott Brown kept pointing out.

Scott Brown has a truck. Maybe there could be more trucks.

Health care! The voters were definitely sending a message, which was that Obama should have pushed harder, or else been more bipartisan. Many of the morning-after advocates of bipartisanship said Obama’s big error was failing to appease the Republican desire for doing something about malpractice insurance and torts. The people hate torts. Except the creamy chocolate kind.

The voters of Massachusetts were definitely angry about taxes, although the ones they seemed most ticked off about were in the state. Everyone was really, really angry about the state government. This is a national theme. Vitriol also abounded last November in New Jersey and Virginia. And payback is coming soon in Illinois, which is going to have its primaries in a couple of weeks.

So many states are knee-deep in debt, and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it since no matter how hard the various governors try to change things, the recalcitrant, entrenched state legislators always resist.

That drives people crazy, causing them to express their ire by voting out the governors. Or Martha Coakley. The only officials who never get voted out are the legislators. Because they are entrenched.

for the complete article

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/opinion/21collins.html?ref=opinion

[red states rule]

now not talking about waterboarding was a factor in the Dems loss in MA

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[namvet]

Dc_-L4fyLUo

[SassyLady]

Well, I guess some folks managed to get their voice heard despite being busy clinging to their religion and their guns. I predict a lot more of that happening in the near future and you can bet that when it does, guys like Olbermann will become so shrill that they will soon be above human's hearing range.

My poor doggies!!!

[SassyLady]

A liberal op-ed writer flips out

what a great parable about how it happened!!!!

[red states rule]

and yet some on the left say to hell with the voters, this was not a vote on Obama's policies, and go full speed ahead with Obamacare

Damn, I hope the Dems listen to deaf, dumb, and blind liberals like Frank Rich






After the Massachusetts Massacre

By FRANK RICH
Published: January 23, 2010


It was not a referendum on Barack Obama, who in every poll remains one of the most popular politicians in America. It was not a rejection of universal health care, which Massachusetts mandated (with Scott Brown’s State Senate vote) in 2006. It was not a harbinger of a resurgent G.O.P., whose numbers remain in the toilet. Brown had the good sense not to identify himself as a Republican in either his campaign advertising or his victory speech.

And yet Tuesday’s special election was a dire omen for this White House. If the administration sticks to this trajectory, all bets are off for the political future of a president who rode into office blessed with more high hopes, good will and serious promise than any in modern memory. It’s time for him to stop deluding himself. Yes, last week’s political obituaries were ludicrously premature. Obama’s 50-ish percent first-anniversary approval rating matches not just Carter’s but Reagan’s. (Bushes 41 and 43 both skyrocketed in Year One.) Still, minor adjustments can’t right what’s wrong.

Obama’s plight has been unchanged for months. Neither in action nor in message is he in front of the anger roiling a country where high unemployment remains unchecked and spiraling foreclosures are demolishing the bedrock American dream of home ownership. The president is no longer seen as a savior but as a captive of the interests who ginned up the mess and still profit, hugely, from it.

That’s no place for any politician of any party or ideology to be. There’s a reason why the otherwise antithetical Leno and Conan camps are united in their derision of NBC’s titans. A TV network has become a handy proxy for every mismanaged, greedy, disloyal and unaccountable corporation in our dysfunctional economy. It’s a business culture where the rich and well-connected get richer while the employees, shareholders and customers get the shaft. And the conviction that the game is fixed is nonpartisan. If the tea party right and populist left agree on anything, it’s that big bailed-out banks have and will get away with murder while we pay the bill on credit cards — with ever-rising fees.

Politically, no other issue counts. In last weekend’s Washington Post/ABC News poll, 42 percent of Americans chose the economy as the country’s most pressing concern. Only 5 percent picked terrorism, and 2 percent Afghanistan. Obama’s highest approval ratings are now on foreign policy and national security issues — despite the relentless hammering from the Cheney right — but voters don’t care.

for the complete article

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/opinion/24Rich.html?ref=opinion