We, hope that you enjoyed your honeymoon first year as Potus. What happened January 19, 2010 in former Kennedy Land was just the beginning as we take back our country.
Posted on 01/20/2010 4:57:31 AM PST by Kaslin
Republican Scott Brown has won the Massachusetts special Senate election. Early returns showed an 52 percent lead for the low-key Republican, with Democrat Martha Coakley falling behind at 47 percent.
Brown outperformed analysts expectations and took unexpected leads in areas such as Dartmouth, Massachusetts, where Brown was projected to need 49 percent of the vote to win, but got 53 percent. Sixty-three percent of the heavily liberal Boston area swung for Coakley — an astonishingly low margin.
"You can't underscore how big a victory this is," said Mitt Romney, speaking on Fox News.
Brown's daughter, Ayla, a former American Idol contestant, performed live on the stage of Brown's returns party in a short brown dress, waving her arms above her head. The mood was jubilant. Democrats spent the evening blaming Coakley's campaign strategy, Obama's influence, and rowdy tea party protesters.
It was the first time a Republican has been elected to the United States Congress in Massachusetts since 1973. The victory came despite President Obama’s eleventh-hour appeal, massive funding from liberal interest groups, and frantic appeals from Washington Democrats. The Republican effort simply overwhelmed what many saw to be an untouchable Democratic seat.
"[Brown] has done it by sticking to the issues and not running a negative campaign," said Romney. "Its a referendum on the Obama agenda.... [Obama] has delivered something very different than what he promised."
The big question is what Democrats will do on the health care issue, given that the election has shifted the balance of the Senate from an untouchable 60-vote majority to a 59-vote majority.
House Leader Steny Hoyer has indicated that he will proceed with health care despite the Republican victory, which wrecks the Senate supermajority. Hoyer might have a little time to work with; early reports say that a certification of the results could happen no sooner than January 29. That’s because federal law allows for ten days to pass before states officiate the results, so that absentee and military ballots can be received. Then, five days are given for the governor to certify the results.
Certification could be delayed past February; the Senate retains the ultimate authority to decide how to certify its Members, and they could potentially employ some tricks to stop things up.
If they allow the certification to proceed, a vote in February could mean a couple of things. The Senate bill has been passed, and doesn’t need to be reconciled with the House. But that means the House must expedite it’s passage of the Senate bill before Brown is installed.
That will probably mean that unions don’t get their sweetheart exemption from the tax on Cadillac insurance plans; it could mean the way the health care is paid for is still in limbo; and, it probably means that abortion will be funded in some way by the federal government.
Another option exists for Democrats: the nuclear option. They could attempt to pass the bill via reconciliation, by ruling that only a simple majority (50 Senators) instead of a supermajority (60) are needed. This move is widely unpopular.
Many pundits view the defeat as a condemnation of Obama’s policy agenda, reflecting widespread public disapproval of his health care plan. It will significantly alter the Democrats political approach as they head into the main 2010 mid-term elections.
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“Brown wins, Obama loses.”
Excellent tagline.
Congrtulations, Senator Brown!
Now let’s paint the rest of New England red.
Not a miracle at all. A strong and clear example. Congrats, Mr. Brown!
Obama:
“You see, that’s why we have to get rid of Foxnews and regulate what’s on the internet.”
So, we can expect Romney and the rest of the progressive republican moles to pretend to become teabaggers now, eh? Ride the wave, return to power and continue the progressive downward spiral. The real battle will be in the primaries. Unless control is wrested from Steele, McCain, Hatch, etc we will continue to decades long course of creeping totalitarianism.
Obamah-Care Kills Camelot ! bump
AMERICA WINS;obama loses.
But they goofed by writing that they were listing the results "by county."
They actually listed the results by "town."
MA has only 14 counties.
‘Democrats spent the evening blaming Coakley’s campaign strategy, Obama’s influence, and rowdy tea party protesters.’
Of Course, the democrats would NEVER blame their ‘progressive’ message of more government control over an individual’s life as the reason behind their defeat in the commonwealth.
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Coakley got “Tea-Partied.” Or maybe she got “Teabagged.” Either way, she wasn’t what the people wanted.
Despite Obama’s campaigning for her, she still came up empty. This is 3 out of 3 losses for the Bama, if you include NJ and Virginia. for a person as narcissistic and ego-driven as the Bama is, it’s got to be giving the ONE severe ulcers and a wake up call. Too bad he is too stupid and arrogant to see this.
I like to include Copenhagen/Climate Change and the Chicago Olympic bid in the list of losses.
The current Health care bill is dead. Incumbent senators and congressmen are out on a limb with no cover. Obama, Reid and Pelosi are now liabilities: NJ, Virginia and now Mass....”Mr. President, please do not come help me in my election.”
The people are angry....Look at how Nelson from Nebraska is getting run out of restaurants in his how state.
Democrats will blame everyone else, but they will run for cover. Browns election gave them the excuse to not pass the bill.
I find it so ironic that the passing of Ted Kennedy, the #1 proponent of National health care for the last 20 years, is the final critical element that killed Obamacare.
It is now essential that we don’t forget those elected congressmen and senators that ever voted for the stimulus or health care.....”I voted for it before I voted against it” We need to vote them gone in 2010, 2012 or 2014!
That is true I was just including actual elections he stumped for the Democrats. Here’s to the ONE losing Obamicare and the rest of the Democrat’s support going into the 2010 mid-term elections.
What in the world will he boast about in the State of the Union address? I’ll have plenty of popcorn and beer for the occasion.
We, hope that you enjoyed your honeymoon first year as Potus. What happened January 19, 2010 in former Kennedy Land was just the beginning as we take back our country.
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