UPDATE (10:09 pm): The cracks begin, starting with Virginia’s Jim Webb: “In many ways the campaign in Massachusetts became a referendum not only on health care reform but also on the openness and integrity of our government process,” Webb said in a statement. “To that end, I believe it would only be fair and prudent [...]
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Is Scott Brown a ‘Hunk’ or a ‘Homophobic Racist’
–updated– A Democratic operative familiar with the get-out-the-vote push by Martha Coakley’s team and boosted late in the game by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, says that outreach workers in and around Boston have been stunned by the number of Democrats and Obama supporters who are waving them off, saying they’ll vote for Scott Brown. [...]
Critical Mass
Once upon a time… Martha Coakley said she would not have voted for the House health care bill with Stupak in it. If the Democratic leadership had followed the lead of many liberals and progressives in the party we wouldn’t be in this mess in Massachusetts. Democratic arrogance in not listening has compounded the problem. [...]
Hey, Good Luck With Tuesday
The Boston Globe has a late story on election eve reality. Via Nate Silver, it’s 3 to 1, Brown favored. Markos’s analysis via Twitter earlier today: We’re about to learn whether Obama can deliver electoral votes. I don’t agree. It’s been talked about for some time that Coakley took several weeks off after she won [...]
Wrong Track Number A Killer
updated Obama needs to stop playing inside games with bankers and insurance lobbyists, and start being a fighter for regular Americans. Otherwise, he can kiss it all goodbye. – Robert Kuttner (Robert Kuttner is Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect, from Massachusetts) No one ever said what Kuttner wrote about Obama above about Martin [...]
PPP: Brown by 5 Over Coakley
PPP’s final poll has Coakley down by 5; another poll down by 9.6%. Many people ignored the warnings of NY-23, scoffing at the outcome, not sensing the foreshadowing. I was not one of them. We are now seeing the further manifestation of what didn’t quite happen then amass now. This time in a much more [...]
Obama to Boston Crowd: ‘Fired Up!’
Obama comes to the rescue of Martha Coakley in Boston. Will it work? Ben Smith tweets what I’ve been hearing. Charlie Cook’s predictable pronouncement, via Mike Allen: “This past Thursday, Jan. 14, The Cook Political Report moved the open Massachusetts Senate seat rating from lean Democrat to toss-up, having moved it from solid Democrat to [...]
Scott Brown Chuckles
updated The Democrats in Massachusetts, led by Martha Coakley, have run an embarrassing campaign. That said, when Scott Brown says “I’m not sure about that,” when referring to whether Barack Obama’s mother was married or if she had him out of wedlock, it makes the case for voting against this ignorant cretin. Besides, who cares [...]
Karl Rove on Steroids
I am disgusted and I thought they couldn’t top the World Trade Center gaffe. Into this Pres. Obama will walk tomorrow. Like I said yesterday, it’s just too raw for the President to put himself in the middle of this mix. It diminishes him, especially with the latest from Greg Sargent. It is the same [...]
The Hold Your Nose To Vote For Them Democratic Party
Joining a lot of voices from lurkers sending me emails, as well as commenters, a TPM reader throws me further into the time machine. When Reagan was king and Democrats running for national office had me holding my nose to vote for them: Reader SD “will vote for her while holding my nose.” Christina Bellantoni [...]
With Help Like This…
Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse in Massachusetts. Via Ben Smith, Democrats cut an ad attacking Scott Brown for saying he’s against attacking Wall Street. The trouble is that pictured in the ad, which comes from the DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee), are the World Trade Center and the Marriott that was destroyed [...]
Dems Should Be Winning in a Walk in Massachusetts
Nate Silver weighs in, also the provider of the graph here. Democrats should be asking themselves how they let this happen, because it’s turned into a run away train. Just take a look at Memeorandum this morning. With the right energized and moving into Massachusetts because they smell political blue blood. At stake is health [...]
R&B Soulman Salute
So long, Teddy. Thanks for the sounds of soul. Teddy Pendergrass was one of the best, until a car crash landed him in a wheelchair. It takes a whole body for a chirp to be able to make full sounds. Here’s to Teddy. Consider this a topic free for all. Of course, the big news [...]
The Stupid of Harry Reid
I’m sorry about the headline, but I’ve just had it. It’s hard to know what to do with the daily embarrassment that has become Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid’s misadventures. But this week we’ve got multiple mishaps from which to choose. Reid says Joe Lieberman “double-crossed” him on health care. From the New York Times [...]
AP: Gov. Officials Fear 500,000 Dead
What word hasn’t been used for the awful aftermath in Haiti? The usual suspect, Pat Robertson, waded in with his signatured insulting, tone deaf rantings of a mad old man (video), this time invoking some Satanic pact, who even with Joe Scarborough’s compassionate tweets, couldn’t be saved from himself. However, Robertson got company when Rush [...]
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