Coakley Has Conceded More than an Election
It’s not like we didn’t see this coming.
Three weeks ago, the idea of a Brown victory was ludicrous, but by last week, Michael Graham was getting a sinking feeling that Coakley had well and truly blown it.
Several videos showing one of Coakley’s staffers behaving like a garden-variety thug shoving The Weekly Standard's John McCormack to the ground, then shoving him again and again while Coakley breezed on past popped up all over YouTube, and garnering comments such as ’Thank you Marsha [sic] for being so lame and lazy,’ and ‘We can no longer say that John McCain ran the worst campaign in the history of politics, that distinction now belongs to Marsha [sic] Coakley!’
Worse, was where Coakley was at the time – instead of being in Massachusetts and working to get out the vote, as her opponent was doing, she was in Washington DC… at a lobbyist fundraiser, taking money from corporate and pharmaceutical interests.
McCormack had asked Coakley a question on Afghanistan which she simply ignored, asking the crowd of reporters, ‘Does anyone else have a question?’ Either she didn’t have a rehearsed response for such a question or, worse, she didn’t bother formulating one, exposing both an ignorance and an arrogance on a par with Sarah Palin.
I genuinely hate to say this: Coakley so justly deserved to lose this election and the people of Massachusetts are better off without her. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Unfortunately, they’re not better off with what they’ve now got as an alternative.
Other bloggers will examine the imminent disaster that is Scott Brown, and the damage that he and his teabagging followers will inflict on the state of Massachusetts. But that’s not what I’m focusing on today – and it’s not really what progressive voters and politicians should be focusing on, either. Not yet.
Coakley and this election is a wake-up call for the left and for the Democratic party. No, actually, it’s an ear-shattering warning siren going off, and if the DNC doesn’t dig the crap out of their ears and start listening to the very people who voted them into power a year ago, every hard won victory they’ve had is in jeopardy.
Just because the Democrats won the White House and Congress doesn’t mean the rightwing and its hordes of wingnut teabagging loonies have magically been defeated and sent back to the netherworld to languish for all eternity. They’re watching and waiting for the DNC to screw up badly enough that the tide of anger and disappointment that swept the right out of power will sweep them back in again. We, the voters, know that the only power we have is our vote – we also understand that all too often our choices are limited to ‘bad’ and ‘worse’.
So when a bad candidate like Coakley treats her constituents like indentured peons, acting as if the election were a foregone conclusion and behaving in such an arrogant and offensive manner and not even pretending to pay the slightest attention to her own base, she very quickly becomes ‘worse’. The people of Massachusetts have sent the only F*ck You they can to a truly dreadful politician. The problem is, of course, that in sending that particular message to Coakley and the DNC, they get… Scott Brown. God help the people of Massachusetts.
We’ve had a year of the Democrats in power. And they’ve done… not a hell of a lot. Voters came out in record numbers in 2008, drawn to a message being hammered home by the Democratic twin mantras of HOPE and CHANGE. We’ve seen precious little of the latter and are rapidly losing the former. If Democrats have any hope of winning elections this coming fall, they need to start doing what they were elected to do – their goddamned jobs.
I’m not the only one trying to tell you this, The right had over eight years to screw up this country with an unjust war, a devastated economy, and an incompetency that buggered belief in the face of natural disasters and man-made ones alike before the voters had finally had enough of it and got rid of them – with the only other option available – our guys. Don’t you believe for a second that by defeating them in the last election that they can’t come back to inflict more of the same on us. They’re still in the water, hungry, circling our leaky boat. And all they care about is winning. At any cost.
Our guys, the Democrats, with the popular backing of the country and complete control of the House, the Senate and the White house have blown it… in only a year. And if the voters finally have enough of you, they will get rid of you with the only other option available – their guys.
You’re being told: when Democrats ‘fail to govern based on a morally sound, well-articulated, solidly-grounded set of ideals, you look weak.’ And the sharks are out, smelling blood in the water. Stop trying to appease the right wing, whose only interest is in defeating the left. Man up and start taking a few risks and pissing off the monied special interest groups. Stop sitting on the fence and playing it ‘safe’ with vague promises and ‘feel-good’ rhetoric. Start doing more than talking, talking, talking, compromise here, bipartisanship there, and live up to the campaign pledges we, the voters, elected you to honor: produce some real, tangible results on health care, financial regulation, labor laws, the economy, unemployment relief and job creation, restoring civil liberties, ending the war in Iraq and Afghanistan – all those desperately needed reforms this country is literally – literally – dying for.
I don’t know how to make this any louder, any simpler, any clearer. You’ve had a year. Pull your thumbs out and get it done. Before it’s too late. We, the people, who put you in office, are jumping up and down and screaming our heads off – DO YOUR JOBS. Because Massachusetts just proved that if you don’t start listening to us when we’re trying to speak to you with words, all we, the voters, will have left is the ballot, and some very, very bad choices.
A dead goldfish? That fits, too, actually.
(FYI, I know it's a teabag)
Isn't it a sailboat leaving a trail of blood for the sharks to rally behind?
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
it's a clever little tea infuser, and since I'm using their photo, I don't mind giving them a boost:
http://gizmodo.com/5145402/shark-tea-infuser-...
... they just made a sale ;-)
...nonny sent cha...
get it? Cha...?
oh nevermind...
Sorry, I already had completed the order :(
I am not much of a tea person (more of a coffee guy as my screen name indicates), but my fiancee who is a marine biologist and a tea fiend is going to go bananas over this!!!!
more independent than republican against an old time insider that was flat and out of touch...The independent does not care what party --no more straight party tickets- and get the old guys out along with the hardliners..The Peoples needs come first---
Coakley was too much like the mccains, mcconnells, Nelson, Reid, Boneher, Conrads...It is time they get paid for performance not party affiliation!
Bring on the center and the populist candidates...Ideology is one thing but obstruction because of stupidity is quite another..Get rid of them--bring on the new!
Oh, see I hate tea, so I'd be clueless. No blood? Really?
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
... not Marsha.
Just asking.
Marsha Marsha Marsha
(correct spelling at link)
I should have put [sic] beside that - it's a verbatim quote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAIYOntogJs&fe...
If they had simply run a PICTURE of Ted Kennedy, Coakley would have never been the candidate.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
and they still won't get it!!!
Bet your last dollar on it. That is, before they promise it to a lobbyist for the banks or insurance.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Obama Finally Gets His Victory For Bipartisanship
You can blame a bad candidate, bad organization, bad timing of a vacation -- choose your rationalization. But the reality is that voters in Massachusetts were reacting to the same foul mist coming off Boston Harbor that New Jersey Voters smelled coming off the Hudson and Virginia voters off the Chesapeake.
What they all understood was that the source lay on the shores of the Potomac.
It is a truly remarkable feat, in just one year's time, to turn the fear and anger voters felt in 2006 and 2008 at a Republican Party that had destroyed the economy, redistributed massive amounts of wealth from the middle class to the richest of the rich and the biggest of big businesses, and waged a trillion-dollar war in the wrong country, into populist rage at whatever Democrat voters can cast their ballot against.
All of this was completely predictable. And it was predicted. I wrote about it for the first time here on the sixth day of Obama's presidency, and many of us have written about it in the intervening year.
The President's steadfast refusal to acknowledge that we have a two-party system, his insistence on making destructive concessions to the same party voters he had sent packing twice in a row in the name of "bipartisanship," and his refusal ever to utter the words "I am a Democrat" and to articulate what that means, are not among his virtues. We have competing ideas in a democracy -- and hence competing parties -- for a reason. To paper them over and pretend they do not exist, particularly when the ideology of one of the parties has proven so devastating to the lives of everyday Americans, is not a virtue. It is an abdication of responsibility.
Some stuff you can't make up!
"But the reality is that voters in Massachusetts were reacting to the same foul mist coming off Boston Harbor that New Jersey Voters smelled coming off the Hudson and Virginia voters off the Chesapeake.
What they all understood was that the source lay on the shores of the Potomac."
?(uh oh...don't tell me!)...another one of those "beached donkeys" with a red white and blue hat?
I say Obama should create a "politcal mascot Czar" and appropriate several million dollars to do a study on why pods of elephants and donkeys have been "beaching" so often recently.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
cuz god knows they have really towed the line
.
... but it requires a "loyal opposition" that would want the country to benefit. Most of the Republicans wouldn't care less if the country went down the tubes if it benefited them politically. So, I don't know why we still hear this crap about bipartisanship.
I caught the tail end of a story on the TV lately where Obama gave himself a B+ and wanted to engage in some bipartisanship to pull the country together. Bipartisanship = dithering.
the time is ripe !
every time you throw a little mud , you lose a little ground .
Aiiieeee! Where to begin? NONE of the elected officials in this country (with the possible partial exception of Dennis K and Grayson) can ever do anything that is earth-shaking and would satisfy lefties.
ALL of them are paid for by lobbyists working for big business and all of them would lose their seats if they voted for and shouted from the rooftops that
(1) the public option universal health care is the ONLY way we'll really have good care for all Americans
(2) The wars (including (partial list) Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. are doing none of the things we're told they're doing. We're not safe, we're not bringing freedom, etc. We are screwing their countries and providing billions for the corps that make the weapons, etc. The military is now privatized.
(3) Our reps CANNOT vote for real change if they want to stay in office. I said it before but it's so important I'll say it again.
(4) We hear over and over on the news that we can't afford this or that important program because taxes will have to be raised or this or that will bankrupt us. We NEVER hear that about tanks and planes and all the other gigantic costs of wars. I have NEVER heard a congressperson say that we can't afford to invade Iraq or Vietnam or to bomb Panama...and I never will. Suggest a plan to build more libraries or better schooles or to provide universal health care and all of a sudden every elected official and pundit screams bloody murder that it'll raise taxes and bankrupt us.
Well, because of all this we're all already morally bankrupt.
Re the Mass election. It makes no sense that people would vote for somebody who'd vote totally against any health care bill because they were mad that the health care bill on the table wasn't strong enough. If they think we need the public option, they (and the rest of us) must GO INTO THE STREETS! Nobody demonstrates anymore except the whackjobs on the right.
How about a Public Option March on Washington? Without massive demonstrations I think we're pretty much lost. Due to the crooked, lobbyist-loving elected officials, even demos would probably not work.
Joan of Oak
, brilliant:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january...
Me thinks Coakley threw the election. Given her behavior during the campaign, it was like she was...taking orders...
Hmmmmm......
NOBODY 2012
Ooh, I like your theory. republicans and democrats work as one. Tis true.
my tinfoil hat out as I type.
;)
Dems have been making pathetic excuses as to why they can't get REAL health care reform done - and now this goes one step in the direction of having yet another excuse.
Would they do it / want it if they had no excuses for why they can't?
at anything anymore.....even the Bush admin behind 9/11 is plausible. So why not the O admin purposely taking a dive on this. I mean we all know that most of these people are bought and paid for. It might even explain why the Rethugs ran such a dumbass Presidential campaign...which was very uncharacteristic. The 2 sides need each other, even though they only represent one side now...big business. And they know that either side can get their people to dance to their respective tunes.
Maybe taking a dive on this is the only way He could get the Senate Dems off their butts to do what we want them to do.
After all... with 60 votes all they did was put on a dog and pony show for a year. Now they're really going to have to pull out the stops and work to get anything passed. Which just mighthave been the plan. (not that I'm privy to his thinking, and could be blowing smoke out my butt).
Maybe the Jedi Master really does believe in things like rules of law, and congress working together for the benifit of all americans.
Just saying...
job of it. It didn't take a lot of effort on her part. We can only be thankful that Brown's truncated term will end in 3 years. Although I hate to think of the damage he and his fellow travelers can do in 3 years, maybe when the people of MA see what damage they have wrought will they come to their senses. However, I do think that we Dems deserve whatever we get. A year ago, I, like millions of others, had so much hope. And it has come to absolutely nothing. Zilch, nada, zero. One of the reasons I had so much hope was that Obama was a constitutional law professor, for Christ's sake. I really thought he revered the Constitution and would undo what the Bush Crime Family had done over the past 8 years. I've been obsessed with politics since the 8th grade (I'm 61) and I have never been so discouraged in my life. Screw "bipartianship." As Grover Norquist said, it's nothing but date rape and the Republicans KNOW it and have no regard for it at all. GAWD! I wish the Dems would grow up, look around, and fight back!
The ship is more than just adrift. This ship requires two (or more) parties to row it and both of the so called viable parties, with few individual representative exceptions, are nothing more than campaigners with no intention of actually leading as long as they can make their overlords happy and secure enough money to run again and again and again.
Make no motto of love that worships war
The ship has one party rowing on each side and they are rowing in opposite directions. . . hence the ship just rotates in place election after election until the great cycle of Washington is broken
Any chance that Coakley was actually a ringer intending to lose?
when it looked like the bill was a sure bet...
but healthcare stocks have not tanked yet...
so (to answer your question) maybe?...
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
"We’ve had a year of the Democrats in power. And they’ve done… not a hell of a lot."
That's exactly what you hear from Obama's enemies on the right - when they aren't, ironically, screaming about the Democrats' highly effective, terrible Maoist/Socialist/Commie/Fascist reforms, or congratulating themselves for preventing same.
A very short, but by no means comprehensive list of Obama's accomplishments since his election:
* Three major health bills (SCHIP, tobacco regulation, and stimulus funds for Medicaid, COBRA subsidies, health information technology and the National Institutes of Health) enacted even before comprehensive reform
* Stimulus contained myriad other individual policy victories, not only preventing a far worse depression but also:
o
Delivered key new funds for education
o
Expanded state energy conservation programs and new transit programs
o
Added new smart grid investments
o
Funded high-speed Internet broadband programs
o
Extended unemployment insurance for up to 99 weeks for the unemployed and modernizing state UI programs to cover more of the unemployed
o
Made large new investments in the safety net, from food stamps (SNAP) to affordable housing to child care
* Clean cars victory to take gas mileage requirements to 35mpg
* Protection of 2 million acres of land against oil and gas drilling and other development
* Executive orders protecting labor rights, from project labor agreements to protecting rights of contractor employees on federal jobs
* Stopping pay discrimination through Lilly Ledbetter and Equal Pay laws
* Making it easier for airline and railway workers to unionize, while appointing NLRB and other labor officials who will strengthen freedom to form unions
* Reversing Bush ban on funding overseas family planning clinics
* Passing hate crimes protections for gays and lesbians
* Protecting stem cell research research
* Strengthening state authority and restricting federal preemption to protect state consumer, environmental and labor laws
* Financial reforms to protect homeowners and credit card holder
* Bailing out the auto industry and protecting unionized retirees and workers
This list is but a shorthand version to November 30, 2009. Many of the items above include multiple, major pieces of legislation, and vitally important shifts away from the corrupt, unaccountable, partisan and outright unconstitutional policies of Bush/Cheney. For details, go to:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/...
Obama has arguably accomplished more in domestic policy in a year than any president in at least 30 years.
What had Bush accomplished by the end of his first year? Ignoring the signs that led directly to 9/11; the unforgiveable, purposeful decision not to go after Bin Laden at Tora Bora; the policy of fear-mongering and lies about WMD and yellowcake uranium that led directly to the insane invasion of Iraq; tax cuts and spending increases that destroyed the Clinton surpluses, appointment of hundreds of unqualified conservative fundamentalist staffers to important jobs in government agencies, including FEMA; "faith-based" initiatives throughout the government; the gutting and politicizing of federally funded science institutions and programs; and so on, and on, and on . . .
This should never, ever be forgotten.
Don't perpertuate the circular firing squad. It's exactly what the other side wants. They're still the enemy.
It helps.....not as much as I would like....but it does.
for a ruptured appendix.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
"Its the economy, stupid."
It's the renditions, dude!
It's the lobbyists, s**t for brains!
It's the lack of accountability, a**wipe!
It's more of those signing statements, d**kead!
It's guantanamo, dingleberry!
It's Geithner and Rubin, butthole!
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
as long as their jobs and mortgages were secured.
But there isn't a hell of a lot any president can do about the economy in the short term (define 'short term' however you will, but it's at least 2 years).
Under Saint Ronny Reagan, unemployment kept rising for more than 2 years after he took office. Carter was blamed, not Reagan.
The difference is that Reagan was white and didn't have Roger Ailes, the tea baggers, Palin, Cheney and the vast right-wing hate machine sneering at everything he did.
needs to be turned all the way around. This list represents a slight turn of the rudder.
I think the thing that's got everyone pissed off - from the TeaBaggers to the Progressive Blogosphere - is the untold sums of Public Funds poured unquestioned and unaccounted for into the coffers of the Titans Of Finances who had just Crashed the World Economy, pushed tens of millions in 3rd world countries into starvation from higher food prices, and sent tens of millions of middle class americans into bankruptcy and in many cases homelessness .. and in the past few weeks have heard again and again about the BILLIONS these few thousand Banksters will be paying themselves .. and all the time knowing that Obama and his administration COULD have enforced accountability .. but did not ..
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
basically because the hole bush dug was soooo frackin deep that its gonna take years to crawl out
people with empty pockets dont like the gov in power...and the stimulus isnt creating the jobs that are needed....but i will
tear up all the trade agreements and start fresh....and why>?>??
did you know that companies are now outsourcing even more???
india is making a bundle off our economic woes....and that should not be the case
tax the frackers who outsource jobs
bring back manufacturing
>>>>>That's exactly what you hear from Obama's enemies on the right - when they aren't, ironically, screaming about the Democrats' highly effective, terrible Maoist/Socialist/Commie/Fascist reforms, or congratulating themselves for preventing same.
A very short, but by no means comprehensive list of Obama's accomplishments since his election:<<<<<<
Perhaps the poster you replied to should have said that Obama has not accomplished a lot THAT HE WAS ELECTED TO ACCOMPLISH.
Anyone can come up with a list of things any president does which may be useful and good things from any party or politician.
The statement is about doing what was promised and accomplishing what you say your are going to accomplish. That is a different standard to measure to.
I can understand the disgust if political enemies are right about something and I can see how it is tempting to argue against them no matter what they say. . . but this is a logical fallacy. Even our enemies can speak the truth in a way that is useful to us. It just depends on our willingness to use it productively rather than arguing against it unproductively.
The truth is what it is no matter who says it.
After one year of Democratic rule, Obama and his party’s major achievements have been, in no particular order:
—Making the extremely popular cause of health care extremely unpopular.
—Electing a conservative Republican from the bluest state in the country to the senate.
—Reviving the corpse that was the Republican Party.
—Demoralizing the Democratic base.
—And yes, even enhancing the image of George W. Bush, by putting him in the spotlight on Haiti (which is particularly ironic given his administration’s support for the overthrow of that country’s elected leader in 1994).
At this rate, Dick Cheney may be a viable presidential candidate in another year.
Every time a republican gets elected, an angel is tied down and shot.
owe me a new keyboard.
;)
ROFLMAO! Now that is some true wisdom to pass along.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
a handy wipe!
Some stuff you can't make up!
here is my virtual +5 points for you sir (or ma'am)
...has truly become a damned if you do and damned if you don't proposition.
I've had it with this country. I'm packing my bags. This is the last straw. After all these months of letting health care reform slip away by degrees, the dems give away the supermajority! What a clusterf*ck. I have no confidence that this nation can be governed by its career politicians. All politics has become wink, wink, nod, nod. They stack up the dollars from lobbyists in their offices, while the people have to wait in the hall... forever. We are slipping inexorably into a corporate fascist state. If the teabaggers want a corporate oligarchy, they can have it. I'm outta here. Americans have become too stupid to maintain a democracy, and the congress has become too rich to care.
I'm close to packing my bags too unless things truly change. Not Obama "change", REAL change.
Any room left in Canada?
NOBODY 2012
At least if you don't like how things are going you can always get stoned! LOL!
I'm not a smoker but I can learn :-)
NOBODY 2012
sure-if you wash my car and cut my grass you can crash on my couch.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
given that 90% of Canadians live within 150 miles of the US border...
except.....hmm..
8 months of winter....
and 4 months of not very good snowshoeing....
Really, it's not that bad.
;)
Coming from the southern tip (a zone 6 growing region), it's actually very nice, with hot summers. We're further south than some states, and the Great Lakes have a moderating affect.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
and it's never humid.
Crazy thunderstorms and hail, though! Good times ;)
In Sechelt (B.C.) I sat on my lawn chair reading about the snow in Florida. If you come up (and you will) get versed on Celsius. It's much easier than that antiquated system you use.
ever heard of British Columbia with it's mild Pacific breezes? el Nino? Global warming?
Come and enjoy before it gets too hot here.
Forgot to mention. We don't all carry guns.
Come on up, Johnny B!
Alright!!! :-D
NOBODY 2012
but it is not only that Democrats should get things done, they should be SEEN to be getting things done.
And for those things that have been done, much too little of it has 'trickled down' far enough to those who so desperately need it. There is huge anger building among the Democratic base, it is justified and the DNC had better start paying attention or the Republicans will get their wish - the Democrats will fail and the entire country will fail along with them.
This isn't a comparison about how much Obama has done compared to what Bush did in the same length of time - it's that the Democrats, all of them, not just Obama, must stop being obstructionist, defeatist, and concessionary to the party that not only lost the election, but deserved to.
The alternative to the Democrats is so much worse. But they are learning from their mistakes while we are not...
The so-called democratic party is made up of 15-20% conservatives. These people have got to go. It's hard to identify the enemy and call them out, when significant numbers of your own are just as bad or worse.
Unfortunately, president clueless threw in his lot we these DLC losers - like Rahm and Larry.
I saw Howard Dean today and he said the people of Massachusetts have said they would rather have no health care bill, than this piece of lobbyist written corporate welfare garbage. 100% dead on, and I am sure Obama has never heard that from Rahm.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
since the people of Massachusetts already have health care legislation in place (say thank you, Teddy!) than what is being proposed in Congress, they can afford to turn their noses up at it. It is a piece of bipartisan, watered-down crap, but at the moment, it's more than the likes of Brown and his teabag brigade are willing to offer.
about health care reform. He's now got a Cadillac health care plan that fully covers treatment for venereal diseases.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
I know your heart is in the right place, but Dr. Dean was right.
If this piece of corporate welfare crap - dressed up as health care reform - were put on the ballot in all 50 states, I doubt it would pass in more than 3 or 4. Maybe none?
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
The corporate shilling AIPAC conservadem Emanuel is too close to my president. Barack's natural instincts are centrist enough without that blue-dogging pit bull spending all his time making sure Obama's spine doesn't show.
What does the Massachusetts election mean?
Jan. 20: Msnbc’s Dylan Ratigan argues the special election of Scott Brown should be a wake-up call to all incumbents.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/349611...
Some stuff you can't make up!
Let's hope this is a much-needed wake up call to the Dems. People are pissed. Got it?
I sometimes wonder if they have any clue. The GOP is not your friend, never will be, will never co-operate with you, and will sabotage you at every chance. We out here get it, why don't you?
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
"Coakley and this election is a wake-up call for the left and for the Democratic party."
What does the left have to do with this? What has the Obama Administration put on the table for the left? No single player, expanded war in Afghanistan, no bank reform.
This is about Democrats and how the politically we're being asked to choose between dumber and dumberer. The national media wants Democrats to govern more right, but going right means people pretty much get the same thing between a Democrat and a Republican and it becomes a choice of character.
It's true. The mood of the country is souring fast.
The independents have been pissed off and left.
The left is pissed off and will likely stay at home. At least a considerable amount of them.
This is a warning. If they don't heed it. We'll get back to what Bush/Cheney gave us. And probably worse.
The right needed only 1 year of obstruction.
What was 59. Is now 54. I swear, sometimes it amazes me that some people can't see the forest because of the trees.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Here's a theme to go with your picture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCI-gNK_y4
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"the people of Massachusetts are better off without her"
How's that?
She is still the Attorney General of the Commonwealth.
Jan. 19: Salon.com's Joan Walsh talks with Rachel Maddow about the role of gender in the Massachusetts special election and in Democratic politics nationwide.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/34947...
Some stuff you can't make up!
the only state more liberal than mass is cali
gender had nothing to do with coakly losing
she was a bad candidate
oh, and hillary didnt lose cuz she is a woman either
Is that what kids are calling "doing a real shitty job at governing" these days?
Of course, I assume that sexism has more pizzaz than having to point the obvious fact that: betraying, abusing, and taking for granted your base nationally in order to cater voting blocks which are never going to vote for you no matter what, while conducting a complete clusterfuck of a campaign locally.... is not the most politically astute of approaches to win votes.
...coakley who??
After all he did to help the common person.
And we get this ignorant, selfish fool.
Coakley may have run a lousy campaign, but I doubt that is the reason she lost. I think a major problem is the proposed healthcare bill. I mean, here's a bill that is going to force people to buy healthcare insurance, with some sort of subsidy which probably won't cover the entire cost, or fine you $10,000. It will also tax so-called "Cadillac" plans whcih have been characterized as an additional tax burden on working people. http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/26052
So, in effect, two new taxes imposed on working people which are little more than handouts to insurance companies. How many voters would want to vote for this? This is shaping to be a major vote-loser and the Dems would probably be wise to scrap this so-called healthcare plan before it does any more damage.
I have a feeling that when the Senate is passing out committee seats, brown will be given the position of hall monitor.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Then they aren't better off without her. It was a binary choice, you see, between her and Cosmo boy. And he sucks a whole bag of dicks. She was still better than him, and it was a striclty binary choice. Not that hard to get.
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