The largest Military installation in the world is on lockdown…Fox news is reporting at least two shooters, another one possibly on the loose.
One shooter is in custody, one is surrounded, and another one was reportedly still shooting as of a few minutes ago. The only description of the shooters is that they’re wearing fatigues.
First out of the gate – 8 Protesters backing a universal health care system briefly occupied Sen. Joe Lieberman’s office this morning.
Protesters were arrested, one by one, and dragged out of his office amid chants of “Everyone in and noone out, universal healthcare now!” and “Represent Connecticut, not AETNA!”
The whole affair, from occupation to final arrest, lasted 40 minutes.
“Represent Connecticut, not AETNA!”?
Hm, I wonder which overwraught MSNBC news host might have given them the impressionthat Senator Lieberman was on the take from insurance companies?
Stay tuned for more news on the DC rally.
UPDATE:
Gateway Pundit has the latest: Michele Bachmann Rallies Troops Before Massive DC Protest (Audio-Video)
Michelle Malkin: Battling Pelosicare; Update: Thousands descend on D.C., “You work for us!”
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Rep. Michele Bachmann, Mark Levin, and Jon Voight will join other House Republicans and grass-roots activists from across the country on the Capitol steps at noon today to protest the Democrats’ government health care takeover plans. Be there in spirit for Operation Housecall by melting the phones today.
See Michelle also for The CBO score of the GOP health care reform alternative.
“We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
Benjamin Franklin
If you can’t make it to DC, tomorrow to answer Michele Bachmann’s call, you can still pay a visit your local Congressman’s district offices. You may be surprised to see a multitude of like minded citizens who had the same idea:
Americans for Prosperity – Kansas
Congressional “House Call”
November 5th
Project Name: Congressional “House Calls”
Type: Accountability –there will be a discussion with his office staff and a protest regarding the health care legislation
8417 Santa Fe Drive #101
Overland Park, KS 66212
Phone: (913) 383-2013
FAX: (913) 383-2088
Missouri side:
When: Thursday, Nov. 5 , Noon- 1 p.m. What: Congressional “House Calls” to Sen McCaskill (any all state district offices – see below), Cong Carnahan and Skelton. What to do: Gather with friends outside the district office at noon; ask to speak with a staff member. Explain your concerns about the health care proposals under consideration and deliver your letters, stories, petitions, etc. RSVP:RSVP for Congressional House Call Day What to bring: Bring your home-made signs, your personal story of why you don’t want a Washington takeover of health care, and a hand-written letter for your member of Congress. PatientsFirst, a project of AFP, has a “Rx for Real Reform” prescription available for download. This is a one-pager expressing the type of real reforms we’d like to see, as well as some things to vote NO on. Be sure to check out our Web sites, PatientsFirst and Americans for Prosperity for more information.
You’re making a “House Call” — better bring the right prescription! Also, bring your camera and send us your pictures — we’d love to post them.
Claire McCaskill:
*Kansas City
4141 Pennsylvania, Ste. 101
Kansas City, MO 64111
Phone 816-421-1639
Fax 816-421-2562
Ike Skelton:
* Blue Springs Office
514-B NW Seven Highway
Blue Springs, MO 64014-2733
Telephone: 816-228-4242
UPDATE:
To put you in the mood:
El Marco was on hand when the Tea Party Express rolled into Denver, yesterday, and he took some pictures:
Tonight Miller had some choice bon mots worth sharing: Christy, “the governor who ate NJ”, “Dede Joey Buttafucco”, Obama’s got “coat tails like a naked midget”, Nancy Pelosi’s “sub-reptilian intellect”, etc. And Miller was only getting started on Pelosi….
Enjoy:
Do you ever get the idea Dennis Miller’s none too fond of Nancy Pelosi? I do.
Michele Bachmann appeared on Fox again to repeat her call for “freedom loving Americans” to travel to the Capitol tomorrow, to express their disapproval of the health care bill the House Democrats are trying to pass, this weekend.
Of note: At the 4:53 mark, Judge Napolitano, filling in for Glenn Beck warns Michele that according to a friend in the intelligence community, the possibility exists that Nancy Pelosi will make the security requirements almost impossible for people to make it to the Rally:
House Republican Leaders To Speak at Health Care “House Call” Press Conference Tomorrow
Washington – House Republican Leader John Boehner, Republican Whip Eric Cantor and Conference Chairman Mike Pence, will join their Republican colleagues for a “House Call” on Washington, D.C. on Thursday, November 5, 2009, at 12 :00 p.m. (EST) on the West Front of the Capitol.
Who: House Republican Leader John Boehner
House Republican Whip Eric Cantor
House Republican Conference Chairman, Mike Pence
Additional House Republicans
When:
Thursday, November 5 , 2009
12:00 p.m. – 2:00p.m.
Gateway Pundit reports that Nancy Pelosi rejoiced today saying, “We won last night.” He notes:
They lost the Virginia gubernatorial race by 18 points in a state Barack Obama won by 6 points last year.
They lost the New Jersey gubernatorial race by 4 points in a state Barack Obama won by 15 pointslast year.
And she’s claiming a victory for Dems?
I had to find the video and hear it for myself:
“From our perspective, we won last night,” the California Democrat told reporters during a Wednesday photo op. “We had one race that we were engaged in, it was in northern New York, it was a race where a Republican has held the seat since the Civil War. And we won that seat. So, from our standpoint, no, a candidate was victorious who supports health care reform, and his remarks last night said this was a victory for health care reform and other initiatives for the American people.”
It’s an ominous sign that she sees the NY-23 race as “a victory for health-care reform and other initiatives”, never mind the fact that Democrat Bill Owens campaigned against the public option. This is all the more reason to answer Michelle Bachmann’s call and head out to DC, tomorrow to protest ObamaCare if at all possible. You can also protest at your home state’s capital, *or your member’s district office if a trip to DC is too much.
As for her bogus claim that the Owens win was a first for a Dem in that district “since the Civil War”…Please – are all Democrats using Daily Kos talking points, now?
“If you don’t live in the district, you don’t vote there, your opinion doesn’t matter very much,” Steele said while assessing the intra-party strife that resulted in a Democratic pick up of a seat held by Republicans since the Civil War.
*Groan*
*I added “your member’s district office” as an alternative to going to DC, as that is what Congressional Republicans have been suggesting, today, if you can’t make it to DC.
Protesters marched again today in Tehran against the brutal regime on the 30 Year Anniversary of the siege on the US Embassy in Tehran. Iranian dissidents chanted: “Obama, Obama, Are you with the regime or with us?” :
I feel bad for these folks. The answer to that question was made clear by his lack of support for their cause, last summer.
You probably hear a lot about the stray dogs that servicemembers find in the Middle East. The common theme is that our soldiers just love to kill those strays, because they’re bloodthirsty and mean and evil. It seems like that theme is more based in fiction than in reality, especially for one group of Marines. One dog even made such a connection with a Marine, Maj. Brian Dennis, that he searched the country for him, and Maj. Dennis fought to be able to take the dog he named Nubs home.
Republicans surged to victory in governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday, wresting control from Democrats in both states as independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for the GOP. It was a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year.
Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell’s victory in the Virginia governor’s race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie’s ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was a double-barreled triumph for a party looking to rebuild after being booted from power in national elections in 2006 and 2008.
Dang, Corzine couldn’t squeak one out even with ACORN and teh One’s help?
OUCH!
The New York race is still up in the air. You can follow the results, here.
Ace: Hoffman Results Thread: 11% in, Hoffman Trails by 5% But… Exit Polls Show It 50-47 Hoffman
See also:
The Other McCain for up to the minute election results for the NY-23 race.
The latest:
Reports of voting machine malfunctions in St. Lawrence and Fulton Counties. National Review is a bit worried. The Hoffman campaign is still optimistic, but this long delay is stressful. As the percentage of returns increases an early lead for Democrat Bill Owens is shrinking. Whereas Owens led by 8 points with 21% reporting, it’s now 5 points with 39% reporting. Stay tuned.
More:
Problems are reported with a total of 11 voting machines (4 in St. Lawrence County and 7 in Fulton County). With 63% of precincts reporting, Owens leads 49% to Hoffman’s 44%, a margin of about 3,400 votes, with 5% for Dede Scozzafava. Many military absentee ballots (Fort Drum is in the district) are yet to be counted.
Allahpundit (Eeyore) is uncharacteristically upbeat, putting a positive spin on the loss:
FNC has called it for the Democrat. Points to take away from the loss: (1) PPP’s last poll was way, waaaay off; (2) Scozzafava’s endorsement must have had some impact on her supporters, as it erased the five-point lead Hoffman held in the last Siena poll after she dropped out; (3) third-party challenges, while sometimes warranted, are a very risky proposition (attention Glenn Beck!); (4) the win in New Jersey, where The One staked his own political capital in campaigning for Corzine, was huge compared to the loss here; and (5) as I said over the weekend, the actual result of this race is unimportant. The point in torpedoing Scozzafava and swinging the GOP behind Hoffman was to send a message to the Republican leadership that only fiscal conservatives will be tolerated henceforth, and that message has been sent even with Owens winning a squeaker. The loss is disappointing but it’s a detail on an otherwise great night. So great, in fact, that it deserves something special. This special.
Throughout the morning, EJ has received tips regarding voters who have shown up to the polls today, to find that someone has already cast their ballot through the absentee process.
They were able to catch up with one of those voters – meet Mark Allen:
Tip of the iceberg, most likely.
See alsoDan Riehl for a report on voter intimidation featuring gangbangers and felons in NJ.
Corzine doesn’t care how dirty he wins this thing.
MEANWHILE:
Dems are busy in New York drumming up the usual hollow, and fakey cries of voter intimidation, partially to distract from the genuine instances on their side, partially to distract from the fact that they’re losing:
The aptly named Crooks and Liars howls:
Police called in to NY-23 polling stations because of voter intimidation by teabaggers!
..alleging “overzealous electioneering” by “teabaggers” who are yelling “anti-choice stuff” at voters:
I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O’Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering (O’Neill called it “voter intimidation”) by Doug Hoffman supporters.
“We’ve gotten reports that people are standing there, covered with Hoffman stickers and yelling anti-choice stuff at voters,” said O’Neill, a St. Lawrence native who has been running the party’s GOTV effort for Bill Owens in NY-23.
“Apparently, there’s some woman claiming to be a commissioner,” O’Neill continued. “Commissioner of what, I don’t know. She’s from Texas, I think, and she won’t leave.”
“This is not the way we roll in the North Country.”
What sort of intimidating “anti-choice” stuff do you suppose they were yelling?: “Vote for the pro-life candidate!” or something along those lines? Damn. Scary stuff. I’d be intimidated too.
But what’s this?
An update to the story:
UPDATE: Joy Yearout, spokeswoman for the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life group that has endorsed Hoffman and is providing some 200 volunteers for him today, called in to provide “some additional information.”
Yearout said SBL has people working polling sites at 100 precincts in the 23rd for Hoffman. They’re handing out sample ballots so voters know where to find his name – remember, he’s on the Conservative line, which is Row D.
“At least three of our volunteers have been threatened with police when they’re not doing anything wrong,” Yearout said. “They haven’t seen any Democrats. No one for Owens.” “So, apparently, the poll workers who are Owens supporters are doing the only thing they can do: Intimidate. And they’re doing that by calling the police. Nobody’s been arrested because nobody’s doing anything wrong.”
UPDATE:
This is what real intimidation/suppression looks like:
R.S. McCain issues a chilling report detailing a confrontation he had with one of the electioneering “teabaggers” in Watertown:
The Watertown, N.Y., hotel that has been home of the National Desk for the past two days is across the street from a polling place. I just strolled over this morning and was greeted on the sidewalk by elderly volunteers handing out Hoffman sample ballots.
No such activity on the part of the Bill Owens campaign was evident at this particular polling place. Look at the sample ballot and you can see why this is so important to the Hoffman campaign: Owens is on lines A and E, Dede Scozzafava is on lines B and C, whereas Doug Hoffman’s name appears only on line D.
He doesn’t mention in his report whether any “anti-choice stuff” was shouted at him.
R.S. McCain has an update on the alleged tire slashing:
It was at 3:45 p.m. that Ali Akbar got up his report of tires being slashed in Plattsburgh, via a Blackberry message. It appears, based on closer examination of the tire, that the Hoffman campaign worker ran over a bottle. But whatever the truth of this incident, I was too busy eluding the New York State Police to worry about it.
More than 10,000 people turned out Monday night for a North Houston Tea Party Patriots gathering to protest proposed health care reform and what they called big government spending and overzealous government leadership, according to preliminary attendance figures.
Under clear skies and a perfect moon, crowds packed the field at the Sam Houston Race Park and cheered loudly as speakers called for the people to take control of the American government. Wearing slogans that said “Don’t Tread on Me” and T-shirts stating, “I am a Tea Party Patriot — I will defend our Constitution,” those attending the event enthusiastically showed support for more constraints on the government and more personal freedom.
“This isn’t about ‘I can’t stand Barack Obama’ — this is about ‘I can’t stand a government that will tread on me,’ ” said Houston radio talk show host and TV anchor Joe “Pags” Pagliarulo to a rousing burst of applause from the audience.
“Taxes are going up because we have to pay for health care for people who are here illegally,” Pagliarulo said. “We have to pay for health care for people who don’t want health care … We’ve got a government that’s run amok — we’ve got a government that doesn’t care about you or me. It cares about power, it cares about control.”
Fox News was there to capture the event. Check out Lord Monckton in the cowboy hat. He’s still pretty worried about that climate change treaty in Copenhagen.
Brett Coomer Chronicle
