The Man Who Can Stop Obamacare

National Review Online ^ | Jan. 7, 2009 | NRO Editors

[libstripper]

The Democrats have gotten to the precipice — to borrow President Obama’s word — of victory on health-care reform for one reason above all others: 60 votes.

Their supermajority in the Senate empowered them to muscle through a sprawling mess of a bill by partisan fiat. If the ball had bounced the other way in a close race or two (or if Arlen Specter had felt more loyalty to his party of decades), the Democrats wouldn’t have gotten to 60. Once there, they were willing to resort to any expedient to stay at the magic number. After Ted Kennedy’s death last summer, the Massachusetts legislature rushed to change state election law to allow for an interim replacement in advance of a special election, explicitly to keep the Democrats at 60.

[Chuck54]

Thank you! I feel the same way.

[altura]

I am optimistic as well, but I want to see a real victory at the polls.

I know one thing—blacks and obama-bots are not going to bother to turn out when He is not running, that’s an upside.

[Mike Darancette]

Losing the Swimmers old seat over healthcare would be a real wake up call for the rest of the RATs

[turfmann]

I was so damned pumped up last night that I sent NRO an email about volunteering for Brown.

And what do you know, she published it!

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2QzNDJiYzIxNWQ1MzUyNTQ4ZjVjYjc1OTg3MmJiMzk=

turfmann: published conservative author (insert smug dance and sarcasm tag here :) )

[imskylark]

I AM praying for a win. With God, anything is possible!

[Mobties]

“Someone please tell me the RNC is supporting Mr. Brown to the hilt.”

To my knowledge, neither the RNC nor the Republican Senate Campaign Committee actively supports Scott Brown.

Each time I receive one of those RNC or Senate campaign committee “polling” letters asking for a contribution I write a message on the enclosed letter saying, “Sorry, this month I’m sending my support directly to ____________” and return it in the postage paid envelope. In November the name was Doug Hoffman (NY-23), this month it’s Scott Brown.

[pepperdog]

Those doing the phone work should be able to say “Scott Brown has promnised to vote against taxing your health benefits”, when it gets into their personal pockets it may be that the union members will understand what is about to happen to many of them.

[oldm60grunt]

Just matched your $100!

[stockpirate]

And this shiows why the republicans should have done everything they could have done instead of following their plan of doing nothing!

Thanks Mitch.

[12chachacha]

I contributed last night. Everybody who can afford $35.00 should do so. This is a biggie!

[RCFlyer]

$50 just now from me.
Go Scott!!

[surrey]

I think that a lot of the young folks who couldn’t wait to vote for Obama will sit this one out. My very liberal daughter-in-law was/is a big Obama supporter and holds all of Coakley’s beliefs but i doubt she’ll bother to vote for her. My very Conservative daughter, on the other hand, will be at the polls as soon as the kids are off to school.

[Pastelsbywelz]

By the January 11th deadline recommended by the Scott Brown Campaign,I sent last drop of $35 from my credit card
http://www.brownforussenate.com

Take back Faneuil Hall -Freedom Trail & Boston Harbor-TeaParty of OUR NATION’S FOUNDING FATHERS

http://www.brownforussenate.com

NO more Kennedy Corruption and Party Pay Offs. Ted is dead for us!
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[WyPatriot]

I just sent 100.00. More importantly, I will send up prayers for Scott Brown’s victory.

[TStro]

Just sent 35.00. Not much, but every bit helps.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Not trying to be a wet blanket, but Brown only helps us if they try to go through the Senate again.

They have another option.

The House can vote on the Senate bill AS IS.

If they approve it without changes, then the Senate is irrelevant !!!

[docbnj]

Dear Friend,

Thank you for donating to Scott Brown for U.S. Senate. Please join our Mobile Army by texting brown to xxxxx! Also, be sure to email your friends this link and ask them to support State Senator Scott Brown: www.BrownForUSSenate.com

Dont’ forget, Election Day is JANUARY 19th and be sure to bring friends to the polls that day to vote for Scott Brown!

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[Venturer]

I got one from Cornyn and another from Hatch, and I couldnt repeat what I put on them before sending them back.

I never intend to vote for another RINO. If they arent Conservative they and the party can KMA.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

Feeling blue? Take a second look at Scott Brown
Boston Herald ^ | 01/08/10 | Howie Carr
Posted on January 8, 2010 5:14:36 PM GMT+09:00 by raccoonradio

You may be a Scott Brown voter if:

* You’re in a union, and you’re going to have to pay a 40 percent tax on your “Cadillac” health-care plan if Martha Coakley gets a chance to vote for Obama’s health-care rationing bill.

* You’re still waiting for that property-tax relief that Deval Patrick promised you in 2006.

* You’re on kidney dialysis and you have to pay for your treatment . . . but illegal aliens don’t.

* You’ve been rear-ended by a drunken state senator.

* You’ve been groped in Lowell by a state senator who, when arrested, gave police the name of a state rep.

* You lost your appetite for lunch one day when you observed a female state senator in a restaurant stuffing FBI cash bribes into her bra.

* You watch this crime wave emanating from the State House and wonder why the attorney general can’t seem to find one single solon to arrest, when the feds have no difficulty whatsoever nailing House speaker after speaker after speaker on serious felonies - not the technicalities Martha Coakley’s gone after Sal DiMasi for.

* You own a package store in the Merrimack Valley, and you’re getting killed by the hacks’ new 6.25 percent sales tax on alcohol, on top of the 37 percent excise tax.

* You believe that if someone rapes his 23-month-old niece with a hot curling iron, the district attorney should go after the rapist even before the child’s mother files a complaint - even if the perp is a politically wired cop and the DA is running for higher office.

* You believe that if the governor’s appointees rubberstamp a $44 million utility-rate increase, and then the next week Deval pockets $7,000 in contributions from that same power company’s executives (and spouses) at their lobbyist’s office, perhaps the attorney general should at least have . . . a comment.

* You don’t have a big problem with making county jailbirds pay $5 a day room and board at the House of Correction, even if the SJC does.

* You do, however, have a problem with Billy Bulger’s $198,205.92 state pension (with survivor’s benefits).

* Your local property-tax bill is rising almost as fast as the value of your home is dropping.

* You wonder why Martha Coakley never apologized to Tookie Amirault.

* You’ve had to wait hours in line at a Registry office to renew your driver’s license after they shut down your local branch because of the state’s alleged fiscal crisis - but they still want to give free tuition at state colleges to illegal aliens.

# You’re a veteran, and you wonder why you’re supposed to vote for an ardent supporter of the administration whose Homeland Security secretary refuses to call real terrorists terrorists, but who last spring issued a memo to local cops warning that “the return of military veterans . . . could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups.”

# You can’t figure out why you’re supposed to care about the endorsement of Martha Coakley by some woman from Louisiana whose father did his own bit at Club Fed, and by some guy who put a woman in a wheelchair for life back on Nantucket.

# You did at least some of your Christmas shopping in New Hampshire to beat the 25 percent sales tax increase the Democrats imposed on working people to pay for the corrupt hackerama that Martha Coakley so proudly endorses.

# Your federal income taxes are going through the roof in 2011 when the Bush tax cuts expire - and Martha Coakley thinks that’s just wonderful.

# You’d like to send a message to the limousine liberals who are driving this state and this country off a cliff.

Wow

Everyone, please contribute !!!!!!!!!!!

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

or if Arlen Specter had felt more loyalty to his party of decades

Huh? Specter was voting with the Dems before he switched parties (again).