Posted on 01/16/2010 10:24:25 AM PST by maggief
BOSTON — There may be no better place to measure the shifting fortunes of President Obama and the Democratic Party than in the race being fought here this weekend for the Senate seat that had been held by Edward M. Kennedy.
When Mr. Obama was inaugurated one year ago this week, he and his party had big majorities in the Senate and House, enjoyed the backing of much of the country and were confidently preparing to enact an ambitious legislative agenda. Republicans seemed directionless and the conservative movement exhausted.
This weekend, Democrats are struggling to hang on to a seat held by Mr. Kennedy for 46 years in one of the most enthusiastically Democratic states in the country. Conservatives are enjoying a grass-roots resurgence, and Republicans are talking about taking back the House in November.
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BOSTON — There may be no better place to measure the shifting fortunes of President Obama and the Democratic Party than in the race being fought here this weekend for the Senate seat that had been held by Edward M. Kennedy.
Well, they did a "Man on the Street" interviews to see what people thought about Obama coming out to help Coakley....
Obama is going to do what?!!
"Enraged" is more accurate because we are being incapacitated by a dictatorship intent on taking life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness away from citizens.
The NY Times continues to be clueless about these matters. The country is not as liberal or "progressive" as the vote was in 2008.
Didn't the NYT realize the public was more than "dissatisfied" when the tea parties were roaring last summer over socialized medicine?
Read SEIU.
We've gotten them shaken. Causing them to spend money that they never planned to spend. This is great
Go Scott!
With this special election, the Democrats are getting some bad Karma thrown their way.
Think about the fact that they changed the law in Mass. regarding filling Senate vacancies. They changed it so that Mitt Romney couldn’t appoint a Republican replacement for John Kerry if Kerry had been elected president in ‘04. Then this year, with Kennedy’s death, they decided that a governor should appoint a replacement until the special election is held. But now, that special election could end up sending a Republican to the Senate.
To make a long story short, if the Democrats had not changed the Senate vacancy law in the first place, they wouldn’t be in this predicament today. In that case, the governor could simply have appointed the replacement to serve until the next scheduled election. Instead, the Dems. are stuck with this special election, which came about because they had to tinker with the established law on filling a Senate vacancy.
And we’re loving every minute of watching Dems. squirm over this.
Yep you are rigth Americans are more than angry and if the Dems continue to have a deaf ear towards their voters then I would not be surprised if there was an armed rebellion. I think some of these Congress critters have no idea how much danger they might be in going home during breaks with the votes they have cast against us! Nelson got a taste of it in a resturant about a week ago, it will get worse!
Oh wouldn’t that be lovely! I can just envision what the dems meme will be if Coakley only get 35% of the vote and Brown ends up with 63%-65%! There will be lots of long faces next Wednsday when they realize that no one loves them anymore!
He is referring to "higher taxes, higher deficits and a more intrusive government". He thinks it is a "perception". Incredible, just incredible. These people in Washington with government jobs (elected & non-elected) are SO ISOLATED FROM REALITY that it is absolutely frightening. And he thinks that "he" is perceptive???? - Shows you just how far out the rest of them are.
HELP SCOTT DEFEAT THE OBAMA SOCK PUPPET!!
(stole this from another FReeper, but bears repeating)
•People in ANY state can volunteer for the phone bank! http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topics/phone-calls-for-freedom-call-1?commentId=2600775%3AComment%3A1891491&xg_source=activity
•Anyone… Anywhere… Contribute! https://www.icontribute.us/scottbrown
•Live in or near MA? Volunteers still needed at many regional offices. If you can help, please email Laura@brownforussenate.com and she will tell you how.
•If you live in Massachusetts, become an election judge. In Boston they pay $135-$185 and they NEED Republican monitors.
Needed; military and retired law enforcement VFW and police organizations etc to monitor polls- prevent the voter fraud they’re plotting right now. Video tape everything; document everything; prosecute the perpetrators. http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?id=3599
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I'd caution against being overly optimistic. Democrats have a way of twisting elections' outcomes.
It is time for those elected to public office to understand for whom they work, and to whom they are accountable under the provisions, limits and restraints of "We, the People's" Constitution!
Here is the conclusion of Justice Story's "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States":
CHAPTER XLV. CONCLUDING REMARKS.
§ 1903. We have now reviewed all the provisions of the original constitution of the United States, and all the amendments, which have been incorporated into it. And, here, the task originally proposed in these Commentaries is brought to a close. Many reflections naturally crowd upon the mind at such a moment; many grateful recollections of the past; and many anxious thoughts of the future. The past is secure. It is unalterable. The seal of eternity is upon it. The wisdom, which it has displayed, and the blessings, which it has bestowed, cannot be obscured; neither can they be debased by human folly, or human infirmity. The future is that, which may well awaken the most earnest solicitude, both for the virtue and the permanence of our republic. The fate of other republics, their rise, their progress, their decline, and their fall, are written but too legibly on the pages of history, if indeed they were not continually before us in the startling fragments of their ruins. They have perished; and perished by their own hands. Prosperity has enervated them, corruption has debased them, and a venal populace has consummated their destruction. Alternately the prey of military chieftains at home, and of ambitious invaders from abroad, they have been sometimes cheated out of their liberties by servile demagogues; sometimes betrayed into a surrender of them by false patriots; and sometimes they have willingly sold them for a price to the despot, who has bidden highest for his victims. They have disregarded the warning voice of their best statesmen; and have persecuted, and driven from office their truest friends. They have listened to the fawning sycophant, and the base calumniator of the wise and the good. They have reverenced power more in its high abuses and summary movements, than in its calm and constitutional energy, when it dispensed blessings with an unseen, but liberal hand. They have surrendered to faction, what belonged to the country. Patronage and party, the triumph of a leader, and the discontents of a day, have outweighed all solid principles and institutions of government. Such are the melancholy lessons of the past history of republics down to our own.
. . . .
§ 1905. In the first place, it cannot escape our notice, how exceedingly difficult it is to settle the foundations of any government upon principles, which do not admit of controversy or question. The, very elements, out of which it is to be built, are susceptible of infinite modifications; and theory too often deludes us by the attractive simplicity of its plans, and imagination by the visionary perfection of its speculations. In theory, a government may promise the most perfect harmony of operations in all its various combinations. In practice, the whole machinery may be perpetually retarded, or thrown out of order by accidental mal-adjustments. In theory, a government may seem deficient in unity of design and symmetry of parts; and yet, in practice, it may work with astonishing accuracy and force for the general welfare. Whatever, then, has been found to work well in experience, should be rarely hazarded upon conjectural improvements. Time, and long and steady operation are indispensable to the perfection of all social institutions. To be of any value they must become cemented with the habits, the feelings, and the pursuits of the people. Every change discomposes for a while the whole arrangements of the system. What is safe is not always expedient; what is new is often pregnant with unforeseen evils, and imaginary good.
1906. . . . . Let the history of the Grecian and Italian republics warn us of our dangers. The national constitution is our last, and our only security. United we stand; divided we fall.
§ 1907. If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the Union, then they will have accomplished all, that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of fife, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful, as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
Riiight! And the designer of the butterfly ballot was a Dhimmi also.
Leftism is a dangerous ideology - we are fortunate that so many of its advocates are utterly brainless.
I can’t imagine moose-face John sKerry’s face getting much longer!
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