Thursday Morning Musings 1-21-2010

I need some fresh left wing rhetoric on the "recovery." Can someone call Carol or Paul and ask them how many jobs the stimulus 'funded' in New Hampshire last month?  Unemployment in the Granite state appears to have gone from 6.7% to 7.0%.   I would expect the national numbers to do something similar come February fifth as part time workers go back to the well for unemployment benefits so there must already a talking point on the books to explain it.

Wait, I know.  It's George Bush's fault.

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In the aftermath of the Scott Brown victory, Carol Shea Porter is being portrayed as having attained her victory in a similar fashion.  Back in 2006 she campaigned as a grass-roots outsider who would fight for New Hampshire against the entrenched establishment.

But since arriving in Washington all Carol has done is negotiate our terms of surrender.  Her legislative record is a long parade of government growth and spending programs instituted without any regard for the ability of the tax payers to support it with their earnings.  Put simply--the minute Carol put her big toe in the swamp she became the very thing she ran against and has not looked back.

We don't expect her to admit to the obvious hypocrisy though because it's quite clear that she has no sense of it herself.  In this mornings Union Leader she is quoted as saying...

"I've stayed close to the ground and listened to the people.  Every politician needs to make sure they hear regular people who have a regular message and concerns."

Bwahahahahahaha!

Talk about self contradiction.  "Regular people?"  "Regular message and concerns?"  Don't strain your back when you bend down to listen M'Lady.

(With snooty British accent)

"Pardon me Nancy darling, but have you some suggestions on how I might engage in public discourse with the 'regular people.'  I think I used to be one, but I can't for the life of me recall why?"

The only people Carol has stayed close too are left wing insiders, unions and the abortion industry.  She only engages with the regular people when failing to do so looks like political suicide--and someone else has the sense to tell her as much.

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Closer to home we still have a budget problem (that's a revenue problem for my left wing readers) because of a lack of leadership in the governor’s office.  John Lynch has managed to wander through the lazy summer days of incumbency without much care for the consequences, having let the democrat run legislature (note the parallels to the national majority) fiscally gang rape the taxpayers of New Hampshire.  Now we are confronted with the daily litany of 'tough choices' (unlike the national democrats who simply act like innocent bystanders who point at George Bush and cry " he did it.)

Mr. Lynch, real leaders make tough choices every day, not just after years of mismanagement force their hand.  So with all due respect, maybe it's time you accepted responsibility for letting the democrat day-care legislature dig a hole so big we can't even see a way out of it, and gut the state government until it is of a size and scope well within the means of the taxpayers to support it.  Then maybe promise not to run for elected political office again in New Hampshire.

Coakley Concedes

It's about 9:20 pm and AP has called the race for Brown with just over 70% reporting.  Brown has 53% of the vote at this point, and may well do better, but that hardly matters.  Martha Coakley has conceded the race.

To say this is amazing is an understatement.

What will perhaps be more interesting is to see how the democrats respond.  I know Blue Hampshire was all worked up this morning about having some 2000 democrats from NH down in Massachusetts, working for Coakley.  And they were certainly not the only ones, or the only party making the effort.  But at the end of the day, independents and Democrats in Massachusetts had to vote for Brown for him to win by any margin.  Democrats and independents who voted for Obama just over one year ago.  Something made them change their mind.  It wasn't the "failed policies" of George Bush.  It was the failed agenda of the democrat party.

So what seems obvious must now be spun by the left, to defend their blessed Obama, and the scared agenda no one else wants, and THAT will be a far more interesting story to follow.  And follow it we will.

Congratulations to the Brown campaign, and everyone who helped make this victory possible.  It is historic in many ways, as will be how the liberal progressives try to make it appear anything but.

The Virgin Connie Swale

In the movie adaptation of the TV show Dragnet, Joe Friday referred to the female lead in the movie--who was a virgin (which seemed surprising)--as the virgin Connie Swale.  His obsession with detail defined people in a two dimensional context which in the movie was funny.  In the real world, Martha Coakley tried to do the same thing.  To her, Scott Brown was a Republican.   He was the ‘Republican’ Scott Brown.  In her mind, that was enough to win an election. But that didn’t work.  In Massachusetts, of all places running against someone simply on the basis of their party affiliation did not work. 

Chaos ensued.  

Does this demonstrate just how out of touch liberals are with the current opposition to their agenda?  It does.

What's worse is they still really beleive that people more than an arm’s length from the punch bowl will vote for democrats simply by invoking George Bush. That either of these campaign "standards" would  rally independents to the cause.  But that ship has sailed.   Without the shadow of George W. Bush to hide their obsession with central planning and the confiscation of other peoples earnings, those who blindly or blandly elected Mr. Obama—those pesky independents in particular—can actually see what the hypocrats have always stood for.  And better yet, many who were disconnected from the process previously are no longer willing to take any politician at their word.  And the democrats have themselves, and Mr. Obama to blame for that. 

So I would like to thank Mr. Obama for the favor.  Candidate Obama ran on rhetoric and populist pap, and the party followed.  At the time the people thought, what the hell.  But they didn't expect this kind of hell.     So Barack Obama has done what decades have failed to do—energize voters, not just to vote blindly for the next ‘change agent’ to come along, but to engage in the process and its consequences, and maybe even hold their elected officials (of any party) accountable. 

We see it in the tightness of the race in Massachusetts.  We see it in local activism everywhere.  And in the end it will not only engage more people in the process of defending the republic, it will encourage them to keep the Republicans in line as well. 

This is particularly advantageous because what the people seem to want is a more fiscally conservative government.  And democrats have no idea how to get there from anywhere on their platform.

So whatever happens today, left wing democrats everywhere will have to accept just how bad things will be for them.  That won't stop them from seeking a Pyrrhic victory on the left wing agenda.  But they know now just how badly they may have to pay for it at the polls.

Cling-Ons

The one trick donkeys are still working the “clinging to” mantra down in Massachusetts.  They’d like you to think that a guy who has gotten all of his support from individuals and the grass roots is a Republican insider.  That’s the pitch.  But if being a Republican insider now means  that the majority of your support comes from the grass roots, and the people, and not from some DC fundraiser crowd full of pharmaceutical CEO’s and Insurance big wigs, from politicized unions and corrupt groups like ACORN, then I’m more than willing to embrace that new definition.  Being a republican insider—from this point forward—means you are connected to the voters and not the machine in Washington. 

What else?  Well, Scott Brown is a bit moderate on social issues compared to the average “Republican Insider.”  But he’s still awfully popular with those uncompromising right wingers who are trying to “run all the moderates out of the party.” Since the left can't acknowledge that they have to sell Brown as some far right social conservative, and he's not.

Then there is what is open and obvious about the self righteous elitist left.  We have Ed Schultz who announced that he is willing to commit voter fraud to elect Coakley.  He’d vote ten times if he could get away with it to keep (Scott Brown) from winning.  Martha is off fundraising in DC with Unions, big medical, and DC insiders.  Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Inc, came to Massachusetts to support Coakley.   

And the Hypocrats are still calling the republican the insider? 

What we’ve got here is the democrats clinging to their hypocrisy.  They are clinging to their excessive spending, to their taxes and big government.  They are still clinging to George W. Bush because they know no one is comfortable with their agenda, and it has come to the fore in Massachusetts, the Bluest State in the Nation. 

Whether Brown wins or not, this entire election has elevated that fact to a national stage.  The left is everything they claim their opponents to be.  They are hypocrats, and the people are beginning to take notice by the millions.

Ad's And 'E's And Bill Binnie's

Democrats are mad at Bill Binnie who appears in a new ad campaign (in Massachusetts) funded by an outside group.  They claim the ad is illegal because the group, Americans for Responsible Health Care, is funded or supported by Binnie, and federal law apparently prohibits such things.

The Binnie connection comes from an article in the Union leader in which he is quoted as having helped form the group.  [Boston.com]

The Ad buy is only 200,000.00 which pales in comparison to the 750,000 Coakley's campaign just dropped for the weekend.

As to the legality, I'm not familiar with the law, but Scott Brown has long asked outside groups to stay out of his race.  He's done quite well without them, and that alone is indicative of a sea-change in opinion.  Democrats are scared because the race is far too close for the Peoples Republik of Massachusetts (No 'e' at the end of Massachusetts just like there is no 'e' at the end of Potato.)

It will be interesting to see how this all works out.  Maybe it's a 'living' law, and subject to wild interpretation.  Perhaps there are shadows of penumbras.  In any case, Brown didn't buy them, so he's off the hook.

As for Binnie.  He can probably defend himself just fine, but he'd best make sure he's on the right side of the law.