Posted on 01/13/2010 6:27:29 PM PST by GOP_Resurrected
People in Massachusetts are understandably frustrated. Next week's special election comes in the midst of a too-long Senate debate on health care, showcasing much of what is offensive about the rules of the Senate. The fact that a final bill hasn't even emerged has left many people ready to toss away the whole thing. Stir in the anxiety that comes with a still-faltering economy, and voters are angry.
Both major-party candidates for Senate reflect something of that mood. Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley, after more than two decades in law enforcement, is no pie-in-the-sky dreamer. Thoughtful and empirical, she views issues like a lawyer building a case. She promises hard work and no illusions. And in some cases, that means scaling back the ambition of government programs to carefully monitor what works and what doesn't. Like the consumer-protection lawyer she is, she looks for measurable results.
Republican State Senator Scott Brown, who drives an old truck, channels voter skepticism more directly. Ignoring signs of improvement in the economy, he casts President Obama as the source of today's problems, and would give the Republicans enough votes to block, under Senate rules, anything Obama wants to do. Affable in person, Brown nonetheless seeks to be a terminator, stopping the Democratic domestic agenda in its tracks.
In Massachusetts, the expected result of a Senate election is a Democratic victory, so Brown wins points for being different. He even entices voters to give him a try, noting that they can toss him out after three years.
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Only plaudit I can give them as they at least admit their decision is thoroughly ideological:
Rarely has a pitch been more misleading. A vote for Brown is hardly a symbolic protest against congressional gridlock and the ways of Washington. It's a vote for gridlock, in the form of endless Republican filibusters, and for the status quo in health care, climate change, and financial regulation. That's what will happen if Brown gives the Republicans the additional vote they need to tie up the Senate.
The status quo in health care, climate change, and financial regulation.
Thats what I am praying for.
Sounds good to me. Go, Brown!!
I think for my choice I'll stick with their first endorsement.
The NY Times (the Globe’s owner) endorsed Dinkins after the Crown Heights pogrom and a year where we averaged 6 murders/day. They’d endorse a side of beef if it had (D) after its name.
It’s a vote for gridlock, in the form of endless Republican filibusters, and for the status quo in health care, climate change, and financial regulation. That’s what will happen if Brown gives the Republicans the additional vote they need to tie up the Senate.
I pray that is what will happen, otherwise a lot of senior citizens will die.
they said the debate was a draw
NO WAY
She said KSM should get death but then states she is against the death penalty
she said no terrorists
we can’t win
her thugs attack a reporter and then is sent to FL away from reporters
she said she never saw the attack and yet a photo puts her there looking at the attack
she had no clue about the issues and even was getting confused about the talking points she was saying
and they endorse her
I just hope the good folks of MA wake up and realise how they are being taken for granted and fools.
we need poll watches with cameras as they are going to cheat big time on this
I’ve sent a video of the attack and a photo of her lying to them asking why are they not reporting this
>She promises hard work and no illusions. And in some cases, that means scaling back the ambition of government programs
What a lying sack of feces. This obama fellatio leftwing
commiecrat will rubber stamp each and every money grabbing socialist whim the rats can offer.
Beyond sad....absolute rubbish!
I’m still amazed at how much it appears to be lost on most people in this country that the economic condition today really began after the 2006 election. What happened as a result of that election? Who took control of Congress? Who is responsible for the failures of the home mortgage crisis? Who is responsible for the crisis of the financial institutions? Who oversaw these areas? Who fought hard to change the lending rules that allowed people to obtain loans they should not have been eligible for nor could they pay back????? So, the Globe wants the status quo rather than a Senator that will help to end the deceit of the liberals destroying this nation.
Reading the comments following the endorsement are great, however!
Gridlock..blessed gridlock. I would campaign on gridlock.
exactly
it went to crap when the Dem took over and the media ignore this.
there is so much to mention about Coakley and her lies in the attack and the debate along with what obama h as done with hsi radicals like Jennings who shows kids how homosexuals put a fist up another mans arse
the list could take an hour to print for others to read as there is so much
Don’t you just love the smell of Democrap in the morning?
This reminds me of the Post-Dispatch years ago when I subscribed. They could run stories with some facts in them about the negative effects of a tax on this or that, or the nefarious doings of a politician, but when endorsement time came around, they were for the tax hike, for the flawed politician, if he was a democrat.
So I, along with many others, won’t buy their newspaper, and they just go on and on. I want to see the crash into the wall in my lifetime.
The Boston Globe is still being printed? </sarc>
When did they ever endorse Brown? I’m a Daily Globe reader and don’t recall that.
Not doubting you but wondering when(and why) they would do that.
Yeah, the comments are all excellent (at least on the first page of comments). On the one hand it's encouraging to see that nobody is buying the Democrat Globe's justification for endorsing Coakley, but on the other hand it is disppointing that so many people have bothered to read the Democrat Globe's endorsement rather than just ignore it or laugh it off.
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