Posted on 01/14/2010 1:03:02 PM PST by Edisto Joe
The recent incident where an aide to Martha Coakley was caught on tape shoving a reporter from "The Weekly Standard" as he tried to ask her questions is exactly why the race for the Massachusetts Senate seat, left vacant from the death of Ted Kennedy, has become a hotly contested race with Scott Brown, the Republican, in a virtual tie with Coakley, the Democrat. Recent polling shows a virtual tie.
What viewers across the country were treated to was another glaring example of how Liberal Democrats are willing to shove aside the voice of opposition and move ahead with their agenda, no matter how unpopular it is with the citizens of this country. Shoving that reporter is representative of everything the Democrats have done since they acquired power. Just recall the town halls and the tea party rallies that were arrogantly dismissed by these people, shoved aside while they pressed forward with their plans. They've intentionally ignored calls for less spending, controlling our rising debt, and ending government bailouts. Instead of addressing the issues of the people publicly they insult them and then lock themselves behind doors to conduct the peoples business in private, assuming they know what's best for the country.
They shoved aside any sense of bi-partisanship with health care and then shoved aside calls for transparency by shutting out CSPAN to closed door meetings. The race in Massachusetts has become a glaring example of how desperate they are to shove a disastrous health care bill down the throats of a country that overwhelmingly rejects what they propose. The race in Massachusetts should not even be close, but it is, and yet the Democrats still press on. Even if Scott Brown wins the race, and I hope he does, they are working on ways to keep him from taking his seat until after the vote on health care is a done deal. Never have I seen a political party so obsessed with passing bad legislation that they would ignore the truth before their very eyes. There is a reason the Coakley/Brown race is so close, a reason a Democratic strong-hold would vote Republican but the Democrats shove it aside. Even if they achieve a victory the message is already sent and it doesn't read well for any of them in 2010.
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I think that if we look at why they don’t really seem to care what America thinks or wants it becomes clear they expect it not to matter in the near future. That is scary
SHOVE IT, RADICAL LEFT!
that’s what I’m thinkin
My prediction ... we have 5 years at the most till the lead starts flying
Three at most, depending upon what happens in 2012.
Yeah, shove it flea baggers.
Bob is such a dense weeny
I think it depends on what happens this year actually. Though the repercussions might wait till spring 2011.
I don’t know what will happen, mostly it’s happening as we speak and not a shot fired so far.
The majority of the American people are so numbed by the syrupy speech laced with opiate of the left they can no longer think straight, let alone act.
It saddens me to think it, but I suspect there won’t be any shots fired either.
ooopppsssy - wrong thread - lol
I don’t think most people know the largest voting block for the Rats is not blacks, it’s women.
Almost everything “accomplished” in 1910-1920 is screwing our country beyond belief.
One name: Woodrow Wilson
It’s almost a historical fact, may be one soon, that this clown had a stroke as president.
Income taxes were imposed only on the top 2% of earners way back then. Where are we now?
During WW2 some waste product came up with withholding from paychecks instead of paying taxes. That was so people didn’t recognize how much was taken.
I’m not sure the women of this country know how much their lack of knowledge has cost this country. Tax the rich, guess what we’re all rich now.
Vote for Rats and be compassionate, give more money to welfare progams. Guess what, that’s someone else’s money, not yours. Really helped those poor ‘tards on welfare.
I don’t like to rag on women, I love when they’re on the bottom, but GD they have screwed this country upside and down.
C’mon girls, bring out the Sarah Palin in you.
This woman can’t disagree with you. I’m ashamed of so many of my fellow females. Heck, I’d give up the vote to get my country back.
When in the course of human events. Time to start enacting the rights guaranteed under the second amendment.
Milton Freidman repented of his lapse into Socialism to his dying day.
Reckless totalitarians.... Watch for the gulags coming to a neighborhood near you.
Reminds me of Terroista Heinz Kerry when she told a conservative reporter to shove it. Time fore the majority of us to tell the radical left to shove it up their *** and if they don’t like things, Venezuela has a place for them.
Hillary knows. And to get them, for twenty years she's ripped them from society by becoming the anti-mom, the anti-woman, the anti-nurturer, and held her own hate-filled, lying, vicious self up for legions of women to imitate with every cell in their bodies in behavior, clothes, hair, voice, cruelty, depravity and malice - or be excluded from the group. Aided by massive media support and antidepressants and regular group meetings, the malignant Beast's plan has done damage we won't recover from for generations. Hillary is the worst enemy women ever had - she rewards them for murdering their own femininity for her - and yet they still throw themselves at her feet and beg for approval. None of them has a clue as to how much contempt she holds them in. What staggering fools they all are!
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.
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