January 19, 2010
— Ace Victory Lap:
Americans cheered for Scott BrownÂ’s underdog campaign because they viewed his candidacy as a vote against the DemocratsÂ’ health care bill. You know that thereÂ’s something wrong with this legislation when opposition to it inspired a Republican victory in a state that currently has no Republicans in Congress and last sent a Republican to the Senate nearly 40 years ago.Clearly this victory is a bellwether for the big election night ten months from now. In the spirit of bipartisanship, let me offer some advice to the Democrats on how to stem this populist tide. Scrap your current health care bill and start from scratch. We all want true reform, but government mandated insurance is not it. Scott Brown campaigned against this top-down bureaucratic mess. We need common sense solutions like reforming malpractice laws, allowing people to purchase insurance across state lines, giving individual purchasers the same tax benefits as those who get coverage through their employers, and letting small businesses pool together to provide insurance for their employees. Focus your efforts on jobs, not on job-killing legislation. Such a change in approach would show Americans that youÂ’re listening.
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Posted by: CoolCzech at January 19, 2010 07:25 PM (QECjC)
For some reason I'm imagining Sarah Palin's giant face on the screen at the MSNBC bar, laughing at the libtards like Shosanna in Inglorious Basterds.
This is the face of conservative vengeance! Ha ha hahahaha!
Posted by: logprof at January 19, 2010 07:25 PM (gJL6J)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 19, 2010 07:25 PM (DPM1U)
Posted by: Bob T at January 19, 2010 07:27 PM (DmlVS)
Posted by: CUS' balls at January 19, 2010 07:27 PM (n56wA)
Palin at point guard, Ayla at forward. They might make Robert Byrd's list of all-time top basketball players (from the archives).
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 19, 2010 07:28 PM (DPM1U)
Posted by: Che Pizza at January 19, 2010 07:28 PM (4iIhs)
They would be the right colour.
Posted by: CUS at January 19, 2010 07:28 PM (n56wA)
Is this a wake up call for President Obama? Yes. Does he need to show that he is listening more? Sure. But should this election kill health care? Don't be ridiculous. Who elected Massachusetts to decide for the rest of the country whether we move forward on the bill?
To say this should wreck the Obama Administration's health care policy is like saying that when Democrats took over Congress after a landslide victory in the 2006 mid-terms they should have killed the Bush Administration's Iraq War. Liberals made that argument, but no Republicans bought it. In fact, the opposite happened, as President Bush moved ahead with a surge over the objections of the Democrats and the will of the public as reflected in polls. The surge turned out better than the critics thought, and health care can, too.
AND IT GOES ON AND ON (at newsweak)
Posted by: Unbelievably Dumb, Even For a Lib, Lib at January 19, 2010 07:29 PM (p9CiG)
Posted by: Fire Marshall Bill at January 19, 2010 07:29 PM (EL+OC)
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy at January 19, 2010 07:29 PM (9JLGX)
Posted by: wherestherum at January 19, 2010 07:30 PM (gofDd)
So the dems will keep doubling down on stupid, and in November they'll see how the rest of the US responds to their agenda.
It's looking good.
Posted by: Intrepid at January 19, 2010 07:30 PM (92zkk)
Mark Steyn is the best
Harry Reid's reluctance to seat Senator Brown (R- Mass) - boy, I enjoyed typing that - until "the proper paperwork has been received" seems awfully finicky for a man who famously declared he wanted to bring "twelve million undocumented Americans out of the shadows".
Why not start by bringing the undocumented Senator out of the shadows? Given the unelected Dems sitting in the Senate as replacements for Obama and his cabinet appointees, it would demonstrate a particular contempt for the people's voice to hold up the one guy who fought and won an election to get in there.
Posted by: toby928 at January 19, 2010 07:31 PM (PD1tk)
--No worse that Coakley, I know that.
Posted by: logprof at January 19, 2010 07:31 PM (gJL6J)
A Republican win in Massachusetts.
A cogent, terse stick-it-in-your-face comment from Sarah Palin.
Who needs a ball dipping at a time like this?
Posted by: Chitown-Jerry at January 19, 2010 07:32 PM (Do528)
Posted by: Michelle
Why punish him more? Hasn't he suffered enough? Have you no heart, woman?
Posted by: the real joe at January 19, 2010 07:32 PM (WjerO)
Posted by: Hatchet Five at January 19, 2010 07:33 PM (n6iqK)
Posted by: Ball D. Cat at January 19, 2010 07:33 PM (a9UO0)
Posted by: 0bama at January 19, 2010 07:34 PM (gJL6J)
Posted by: logprof at January 19, 2010 11:22 PM (gJL6J)
Posted by: Christoph at January 19, 2010 07:34 PM (0fq7b)
Posted by: Ted Kennedy's Ghost (D-Burning In Hell) at January 19, 2010 07:34 PM (CbVPH)
Posted by: Liberal Flower at January 19, 2010 07:35 PM (GfYt/)
Posted by: exceller at January 19, 2010 07:35 PM (Z7Znk)
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 19, 2010 07:35 PM (hoowK)
They will view this election not as a warning or a wake up call that their ideas are unpopular and that they need to rethink things, but as a hinderance to their agenda.
Posted by: Lee at January 19, 2010 07:36 PM (8cnnJ)
I dont know Barry, I dont think thats such a good idea. The last time you told me to send Palin a dead fish wrapped in a newspaper, she sent us back a dead Abe Vigoda wrapped in a newspaper.
What do you think she was tryin' to tell us ?
Posted by: Rahm Emanuel at January 19, 2010 07:36 PM (t72+4)
The Dems will be in denial until they die. It's never their fault. It can't be. Ever.
Posted by: wherestherum at January 19, 2010 07:36 PM (gofDd)
Posted by: CoolCzech at January 19, 2010 07:36 PM (QECjC)
Well, once for sure. We'll see what happens this time.
Posted by: CUS at January 19, 2010 07:36 PM (n56wA)
Posted by: David Axeldouche at January 19, 2010 07:36 PM (n6iqK)
And "victory lap" isn't a ball reference? A little hard to believe after today, Ace.
Posted by: andycanuck at January 19, 2010 07:37 PM (2qU2d)
Posted by: CoolCzech at January 19, 2010 07:37 PM (QECjC)
Beware.
Posted by: ParisParamus at January 19, 2010 07:37 PM (Hv1Cx)
Posted by: CUS at January 19, 2010 07:39 PM (n56wA)
Posted by: Mindy at January 19, 2010 07:39 PM (UnVsw)
i'm gobsmacked! the world is just so unfair sometimes
Posted by: andi sullivan at January 19, 2010 07:40 PM (sYxEE)
Posted by: logprof at January 19, 2010 11:31 PM (gJL6J)
True dat.
Posted by: Fire Marshall Bill at January 19, 2010 07:40 PM (EL+OC)
34 Dave C,
the problem is you have a lot of people who bought into the Brooks beer goggles view of Barry and are not too ashamed to admit the perfect ten they thought they bedded was in reality a perfect ten stone.....
If Barry Soetoro is a moderate Fred Rogers is a bomb throwing reactionary counter-revolutionary
Posted by: sven10077 at January 19, 2010 07:40 PM (Mhn4l)
Posted by: Peaches at January 19, 2010 07:41 PM (9Wv2j)
Posted by: Liberal Flower
Keep crying, honey. Your sweet tears lubricate my balls.
Posted by: Obami Kenobi, weeping. at January 19, 2010 07:41 PM (wgLRl)
Not really relevant. Existing law is up to the task...were it actually enforced by the executive. Congress has little power to compel the executive to enforce specific laws if it doesn't want to, and congress itself has no enforcement powers.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 19, 2010 07:42 PM (GxVdJ)
When's the first '"Hitler's Bunker" remix starring Barak, Rahm, Bagdad Bob and Axelturf. Joe Biden could not be reached.
Posted by: CUS at January 19, 2010 07:42 PM (n56wA)
Why do these gerbils smell like Twix bars?
Posted by: andycanuck at January 19, 2010 07:43 PM (2qU2d)
#52
"Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I think that sums up the dhimmis quite well.
Posted by: Lee at January 19, 2010 07:44 PM (8cnnJ)
Posted by: Permanent Democratice Majority at January 19, 2010 07:45 PM (n56wA)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 19, 2010 07:46 PM (GxVdJ)
Posted by: Huckleberry at January 19, 2010 07:46 PM (F71c5)
Sarah's tone in these remarks reflects her near perfect political pitch. Her missives over the past few months have been timely and exceedingly intelligent. Most importantly they bypass partisan pissing contests and focus on achievable goals.
Posted by: Mr. Peabody at January 19, 2010 07:47 PM (gxVc6)
Posted by: Huckleberry at January 19, 2010 07:48 PM (F71c5)
Posted by: GarandFan at January 19, 2010 07:51 PM (ZQBnQ)
Mrs. Palin's posting gotta hurt. That's like a left hook to body.
Ahhh, the sweet sound of a BCOD*.
Body crumpling on deck*
Posted by: Sean the Maggot at January 19, 2010 07:55 PM (+p38F)
Posted by: Dane Skold at January 19, 2010 07:58 PM (Cd1LY)
Best one since the Hitler-as-a-Vancouver-Canucks-fan.
Still laughing.
Posted by: Waterhouse at January 19, 2010 07:58 PM (OUqZe)
Posted by: Christoph at January 19, 2010 11:34 PM (0fq7b)
Come a little closer and say that again.
Posted by: Todd Palin at January 19, 2010 08:01 PM (gJL6J)
For some reason I'm imagining Sarah Palin's giant face on the screen at the MSNBC bar, laughing at the libtards like Shosanna in Inglorious Basterds.
This is the face of conservative vengeance! Ha ha hahahaha!
Posted by: logprof at January 19, 2010 11:25 PM (gJL6J)
Teaparty to leftists:
"You're gonna want to take off that uniform, aint yeh?"
Posted by: Grimmy at January 19, 2010 08:01 PM (FFYaS)
Palin's indestructible. She takes the worst, most sustained media beating in US political history, smiles through it all and, in the end, she's always right. Always. She is the original ballsy Republican of the new conservative surge.
Posted by: Crusty at January 19, 2010 08:03 PM (qzgbP)
Obama's narcissism literally won't allow this to be anything BUT Coakley's fault. All the dems that aren't 100% koolaid drinkers that will be fleeing from him now will be seen and treated as "traitors" by the Obama apparatus.
There's going to be some pretty heated private conversations and crude threats coming out of the white house in the future, but the dems with any savvy at all will realize Obama would bolster whatever "independent" cred they have left by attacking them in public. They'll also know Obama is grasping at straws with private threats.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 19, 2010 08:03 PM (GxVdJ)
Nope, she is human. That's part of her strength and appeal. If Palin as an executive made a mistake, she would admit it and move on. That's a big difference from Obama and President Bush.
Posted by: Mr. Peabody at January 19, 2010 08:19 PM (gxVc6)
I do not believe Obama is capable of learning from this defeat. Perhaps the "modorate" Dems we here about, but see no trace of in the votes, in Congress might learn but I doubt it.
Is it November yet?
Posted by: Peter at January 19, 2010 08:22 PM (1kwr2)
Posted by: Typical Duplicious DemocRAT at January 19, 2010 08:26 PM (vHADv)
Crimeny - can you imagine a car repair shop guy telling you "Well, we take Farmers and Allstate, but we don't take State Farm. You'll have to pay extra for this insurance claim."?
Stupid! Stupid! STUPID!! C'mon you so-called Republicans - if you're looking to actually do some smart insurance reform, y'all can start right here right now.
Posted by: ss396 at January 19, 2010 08:31 PM (XX7YX)
Damn, THIS is why Palin kicks ass.
I voted for her once, I'll do it again.
Did ya'll hear her spot on Greta Van Susteran? She dropped the word, "wicked."
Fucking adore that lady.
Posted by: TexMex at January 19, 2010 08:32 PM (a/3/z)
Posted by: mesablue at January 19, 2010 08:46 PM (NEWal)
anyone that does not think Palin has political chops understand what she did. She stayed out of the MA elections so that Brown could win. she never mentioned the election except once during Hannity saying she hoped he won. She did not try to be a diva and butt in. she did not try to rally her supporters to his cause. She left her fingerprints off the election and at the same time allowed her surrogates to spread the word. That took humblness and team play. she played ball with the wishes of the GOP leadership.
And then when the votes were counted she raised her head and said a big Fuck you to Obama and the dems. That took a special kind of class.
This woman is a great political animal, a smart team player and she carries a big nightstick.
what more do you people want for President.
Posted by: unseen at January 19, 2010 09:31 PM (aVGmX)
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at January 19, 2010 09:34 PM (dqg46)
Damn Sockpuppet,
It turned out ok. Palin stayed away from Mitt's backyard showing class. She also respected the GOP leadership wishes (i believe the GOP are wrong about her standing in the northeast). So the fact that she stayed out of it when she could have used it to further her political ambitions says alot about her desire to defeat the dems not win the whitehouse.
So as a Palin supporter its a wash for me.
Posted by: unseen at January 19, 2010 09:39 PM (aVGmX)
Scott Brown carefully and explicitly distanced himself from Palin during the campaign, saying that he knew very little about her. Had he pulled her in, the politics would have focused on her rather than Coakley.
Posted by: Mr. Peabody at January 19, 2010 09:42 PM (gxVc6)
Posted by: Doom at January 20, 2010 12:08 AM (mvCvZ)
Posted by: di butler/murderous bitch at January 20, 2010 01:21 AM (S3xX1)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 20, 2010 06:08 AM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: turfmann at January 20, 2010 06:46 AM (ywMlo)
Posted by: Dan at January 20, 2010 06:54 AM (KZraB)
T/4 it will never happen. I'm happy with things as they are rather than some half-assed compromise.
Posted by: PJ at January 20, 2010 07:07 AM (Qpxxz)
Rumor is Gov Palin is backing That trecherous azzhole McNasty in AZ...its the honorable thing to do so I don't slam her for it. BUT That bastard needs to GO!
Her solutions for heath care are right on and NO more from the govorment.
People who think Brown, err Senator Brown is a rino only have to look at snowe, mcnasty, amesty to judge his standing. He is a damn good choice.
Posted by: Serfer62 at January 20, 2010 07:36 AM (HLCnI)
Posted by: TinCan at January 20, 2010 06:19 PM (gKTxM)
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