Wednesday, January 20, 2010

In Passing

In Passing
THE MORNING AFTER
 Gawd, no loud noises, please

Boston Globe Calls Election For Coakley
Coakley eking out a 50-49 victory.

Barney Frank Deals Potential Death Blow to Obamacare
But since Scott Brown has won and the Republicans now have 41 votes in the Senate, that approach is no longer appropriate.

Reid promises to press ahead on health care
...  despite the loss of a Massachusetts Senate seat to a Republican.
[Aside: If he even runs, Reid will lose his Senate seat this year.  What has he to show for it?  Nada,  Zip. Zilch.  No legacy as Senate Majority Leader but abject failure]

Save the planet from GHG’s – use astroturf?
Now according to this press release from UC Irvine, green spaces in cities are bad for the planet….but wait, what about the UHI offset? Can I buy grass credit certificates?

Rethinking Bush: A Year Later, How the MSM Cracked Up
At times consciously and even triumphally, the media increasingly abused the traditional journalistic standards of independence and neutrality in favor of functioning as a virtual arm of the liberal Democratic Party. They took on, in effect, a new and disturbing identity.

Welcome, Instapundit readers – and I assure you, I don’t ever want to get on Glenn’s bad side.  I heard that he once linked a site in Reno, just to watch it crash…

QOTD
"And the message we need to send in dealing with terrorists: Our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them and not lawyers to defend them." From Scott Brown's victory speech (rough paraphrase):


10 comments:

Spunky Texan said...

In case you have not been here yet:

http://www.mission1accomplished.com/

Anonymous said...

More of a reach under than a roll over.
Tim

Anonymous said...

Rog, do you remember about 1996 or 8 when MD Dems got lazy, didn't turn out to vote and Republican Sauerbrea (sp?) almost won the Goverenorship? The next election they didn't make the same mistake and won easily.

Now with other Dems all over the country vulnerable will that complacency be there and allow the good guys to take some more long-held seats? We may only get one shot. Yesterday may have awakened them and they won't assume anything- or will they still assume themselves to be secure until it's too late like Coakley did?

AWM

JMcD said...

Barney Frank Deals Potential Death Blow to Obamacare........

Yep...I knew he'd blow someone...er something.

JMcD said...

"Geez. Croakley cut the cheese...Anybody got a fan..This shoe ain't gonna do."

Anonymous said...

Not to worry AWM. We won't be catching the D's by surprise. We're going to find enough of them in a state of disaffection with the Kenyan. Brown not only got the lion's share of independents. He pulled D's too in enough numbers to make it hurt. 5% is a landslide anywhere. In Mass it's the splitting of a continent.

Casca

Spunky Texan said...

Look at my Senator: running scared. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31719.html

This is a complete 180. I wonder how long it will last?

Rodger the Real King of France said...

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AWM - RE Ellen Sauerbrey - it had nothing to do with light democrat turnout. See Filthy MD Democrats
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molonlabe28 said...

A tip of the hat to the Boston Globe on its "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment.

Great shoeleather journalism, guys.

Where would we be without you?

Anonymous said...

Educational as ever, Rog. I wasn't paying too much attention to politics at the time.

As I recall Dem turnout was said to be low because Dems just assumed Glendening would win. The "close call" with Sauerbrey spooked them and next election they didn't take it for granted and turned out for a more decisive (and possibly even honest) win.

My point is in long-held places the Dems can be caught off-guard much the way Brown just did it. Coakley didn't consider him dangerous and MD Dems weren't worried about Sauerbrey. Their overconfidence can be used to sneak up and pass them before they realize they are even in danger if it's played right. There were other factors in Brown's win, but Coakley's overconfidence was in the top 3, IMHO. Knowing Dems, even after this many of them still are.

AWM
WV: eragsms. That's when you get a little too excited about certain periods of history.

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