About Obama’s Approval Ratings…

Despite the President’s B+ self- assessment, the American people are giving the him a failing grade. Ed Morissey reports:

…the biggest news is that 57% of adults — adults, not registered or likely voters — give Obama poor marks for his first year in office:

The poll attempted to gauge Americans’ political mood more generally by asking them to describe their feelings about the progress the Obama administration has made in its first year. Thirty-nine percent of Americans say they are pleased with the progress President Obama has made in addressing the problems facing the country, but nearly as many, 37%, say they are upset because they believe his policies are moving the country in the wrong direction. That leaves a middle group of 20% of Americans who describe themselves as disappointed with Obama’s progress because they thought he would have achieved more by now.

Given Obama’s job approval rating of roughly 50%, clearly some Americans who express disappointment with the president’s lack of progress still generally approve of the job he is doing.

The difference probably reflects the personal likability of Obama, but it shows considerable weakness.

Morrissey goes on to say:

Without his personal charm and charisma, Obama would likely already be in Bush territory on job approval, or close to it, even among the general adult population.

Let’s talk about Obama’s personal likability for a moment…because that confounds me. What is charming about being a bold-faced liar? What’s charming about extreme political corruption?  Obama’s  “charisma”, has all but disappeared since he was elected and now has to govern. His most recent speeches and statements, especially the ones having to do with national security, have in fact,  been noted for their cold aloofness.

I noticed very early on in the ’08 campaign, that Obama was a very dishonest, cynical person. He is a man of the far left, after all. These people cannot be honest about their ideology and ultimate goals. Look, I understand that a lot of people were blinded by the hope and change rhetoric…they heard and saw what they wanted to hear and see. But after a year of being constantly lied to?…Why are not more people, even liberals, where….well, Mort Zuckerman is?

50% are still not up to speed with what we’re dealing with here?

You know that feeling you get when a person lies to your face? Not some dumb kid, but a grown up who doesn’t realize that you know the truth, and they’re just spouting a lie right to your face? You don’t know if you should call them out on it (which would be socially awkward) or just nod your head and say….okay….It’s a very unsettling feeling, isn’t it? Well, that’s how I feel every time Obama gets in front of the cameras to talk about, well, just about anything. I think Joe Wilson gets what I’m talking about…

A man who was raised and mentored by communists, sought out the Marxists in college,  befriended and worked with them as a community organizer and state legislator, listened to and accepted the rabid anti-American sermons of  one Rev. Wright for 20 years, and was the most liberal Senator in the US Congress,  cannot be open and honest to the American people about what he’s really thinking.

George W. Bush’s approval rating didn’t go into the tank because he was a cynical, dishonest, and corrupt person. George Bush remains as he’s always been: An imperfect but ultimately honest, decent, and well meaning  person. His approval ratings went into the tank because of the constant pummeling he received from the liberal media which was motivated by vengeance. Vengeance for the impeachment of the genuinely corrupt President who came before him, and vengeance for the “stolen” 2000 election, which the left believed was rightfully theirs, no matter how many recounts in FL proved otherwise.

Anyway, in case you’re wondering why I never trumpet the latest approval ratings for the President, like other conservative bloggers do, as in – *Whoa! Look at this! Obama dipped below 50% in today’s (whatever)  tracking poll!* – it’s because I’m not impressed. At all. I watched a good and decent man get demonized to the point that the vast majority of the fickle masses hated and reviled him. Bush’s approval ratings at the end of his presidency were a disgrace, not on him, but on the American people who were so easily led, and rejected him so thoroughly.

I find it all very dispiriting.

I understand that there is a certain percentage of  hardcore lefties, and low info voters who will always support Obama no matter what he does, but the awakening of the rest of the public to the truth about this current President is happening far too slowly, as far as this girl is concerned.

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I continue to be  amused by the already over-exposed President’s assessment that what he needs to to do is get out there more and speak directly to the American people about our “core values” and whatnot:

Pundette: Obama assesses Obama

Linda Chavez: Fine Tuning the Message

Top of the Ticket: Obama’s batting 0-7 in campaign rallies, but he’s got big stats in other areas

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Introducing Jacob Turk, Republican Candidate For MO 5th District

Lee’s Summit conservative, and Marine vet, Jacob Turk is gunning for liberal  single- payer advocate, Emanuel Cleaver’s Congressional seat. Hopefully he will be able to benefit from the anti-big government mood the country is in right now, and ride to victory in November. But he needs fund-raising support to get his campaign started.

Starting today, and ending  Saturday, February 6th, he’s raising funds online for his campaign. You can donate, here.

Third time’s a charm according to Turk on his Facebook page:

Thirty years ago, a college professor from Georgia named Newt Gingrich ran three times before he won a seat in Congress in 1978. In fact, between the two elections in 1974 (the Watergate year) and 1976 (the Jimmy Carter year) the former speaker LOST voter share before he was finally victorious.

Flash forward to 2010: A similar political wind is blowing our way …..with all the makings of an historic victory here in Missouri’s 5th Congressional District.

In 2006, when Republicans lost control the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, I received 32.5% of the vote. Undeterred, I pledged to work harder – and actually increased my vote percentage in 2008 to nearly 36% — in the “Year of Obama.”

Victory is in the air. And I need your help to win in 2010.

There’s an old saying that the third time is the charm – and just like Newt Gingrich three decades ago, I am positioned for a major upset in my race against Democrat Emanuel Cleaver. Cleaver receives failing grade after failing grade for his policies against businesses that create jobs for American workers, including just a 25% rating from the National Association of Manufacturers.

We need “real change” in Congress. But I can’t make it happen without your help.

Americans are questioning – and rejecting the Obama Administration’s
version of “Change.”

I’m so excited by the possibilities of the Senate race in Massachusetts where Scott Brown has scored an historic victory in such a Democratic stronghold! As the people’s choice, Scott Brown has had an amazing impact raising conservative solutions in a state where a Republican has not held the Senate seat in MA in almost six decades.

Add that to the major Republican victories in New Jersey and Virginia and it becomes clear the political winds are changing.

Can I count on your help? With your contribution we can put up the sails and head towards a victory in November:

Your contribution for $550 will pay for the billboard on I-70 for one month;
A $200 contribution will enable us place ads in newspapers across the district;
Or agree to become one of our “1000 for a $100” by writing a check for $100 so we can print palm cards for our door-to-door campaign efforts.

Momentum is building for sweeping gains for conservatism across the country. We must stop the insanity: pork instead of stimulus, taxpayer-funded bailouts for irresponsible business practices and the latest march to government-rationed health-care.

We must change direction to revitalize our economy and create jobs for millions of suffering Americans. We must enact common-sense, conservative solutions to allow businesses to create the jobs you and your neighbors need.

Every liberal, left wing special interest has a seat at the Obama-Cleaver table…but folks like us don’t. I’ll make sure our friends and neighbors have a strong, conservative voice as your new Congressman from the 5th District.

To implement conservative solutions, we need conservatives in Congress who will vote our values. The best ideas are only ideas unless someone has the courage to implement them. It’s a new decade, a new day, a new race. Time to get in the boat, the sail is going up!

I believe in “Jobs Here, Jobs Now.”

Our businesses, especially small businesses, must have incentives to create job…and our government must support free enterprise.

But I can’t do this alone. Please join my campaign and contribute today. You can mail your contribution for $550, $200 or become a member of the “1000 for $100” today to Jacob Turk for Congress, P.O. Box 2097, Lee’s Summit, MO 64063. I would be so grateful for your support.

Sincerely,

Jacob Turk
Republican Candidate,
Missouri’s 5th District

Linked by Ace of Spades HQ: For Congress: Jacob Turk MO-5

Ann Coulter On The Dem Smackdown In MA

Courtesy of Nate Beeler Cartoons, Washington Examiner

I’ve been waiting for Ann to write this column. This is one of her favorite themes – (voter revulsion of liberal policies), so this was only a matter of time:

…when Republicans win political power, they hold onto it long enough to govern. The Democrats keep being smacked down by the voters immediately after being elected and revealing their heinous agenda.

As a result, for the past four decades, American politics has consisted of Republicans controlling Washington for eight to 14 years — either from the White House or Capitol Hill — thus allowing Americans to forget what it was they didn’t like about Democrats, whom they then carelessly vote back in. The Democrats immediately remind Americans what they didn’t like about Democrats, and their power is revoked at the voters’ first possible opportunity.

Obama has cut the remembering-what-we-don’t-like-about-Democrats stage of this process down from two to four years to about 10 months. Folks, I’m convinced that if we all work really hard, we can get it down to three months.

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years — and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

Two years of Bill Clinton gave us a historic Republican sweep of Congress, which killed the entire Clinton agenda (with the exception of partial-birth abortion and felony obstruction of justice) — and also gave us two terms for George W. Bush.

And now, merely one year of Obama and a Democratic Congress has given us the first Republican senator from Massachusetts in 31 years.

In other recent news, last November, New Jersey voters, who haven’t voted for a Republican for president since 1988, threw out their incumbent Democratic governor, Jon Corzine. In Virginia, which Obama carried by 6 points a year earlier, a religious-right Republican won the governor’s office by 17 points.

Sen. Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, won his last election in 2006 by 28 points — the largest margin for a Democratic Senate candidate in that state in a quarter-century.

Since voting for the Senate health care bill last Christmas, the once-bulletproof Sen. Nelson not only gets booed out of Omaha pizzerias, but he has also seen his job approval rating fall to 42 percent and his disapproval rating soar to 48 percent. (Meanwhile, the junior senator from Nebraska, Mike Johanns, who voted against the bill, has a job approval rating of 63 percent.)

The Democrats have no natural majority because they have no fundamental principles — at least none that they are willing to state out loud. They are like a drunken vagrant who emerges from the alley to cause havoc every few years. They are the perpetual toothache of American politics.

To be sure, the fact that 52 percent of Massachusetts voters are racist, sexist tea-baggers — i.e., voted for a Republican — means only that the Democrats just went from having the largest congressional majority in a generation to the second largest. But this was “Teddy Kennedy’s seat.” And it was in Massachusetts.

Now, no Democrat is safe.

But the country just got a lot safer.

(You have to hit the link to read the first portion)

Part of the blame goes to the stupid party for being so weak and  feckless, but still…I’m always colossally disappointed in the American people when the let a travesty like an Obama Presidency happen. Such short memories!

Related:

One Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Heartache: Nancy Pelosi Bails on Senate Health Bill; “I don’t see the votes for it at this time”

Breaking: Pelosi announces that she can’t pass Senate ObamaCare bill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she does not have the votes needed to pass the Senate version of the health care bill.

“I don’t see the votes for it at this time,” Pelosi told reporters in a briefing.

UPDATE:

Report: Dems Are Going the Reconciliation Route

Hold on:

Oops: Did Pelosi’s Later Statement Trump This Report?

Yes…nice going Ace!

Phew!

UPDATE II:

Er…nope!

Reconciliation is still on the table..

She will not be denied!

Video: Marc Thiessen Schools Christiane Amanpour and Guest On Waterboarding

The left continues to be pushed back on their heels in the enhanced interrogation debate.  Last week it was John Stewart, sadly, unable to match wits with his guest, John Yoo, a former Bush DOJ official on the subject of waterboarding.

Last night, former White House and Pentagon Speechwriter, Marc Thiessen was outmatched two to one on CNN,  but managed to mop the floor with both of them. Amanpour was supposed to be moderating the debate between Thiessen and UK lefty, Phillipe Sands, but Thiessen dragged her into the debate early on when he quoted her own false words. What follows is a pleasure to watch.

Part one:

Part two:

Thiessen’s new book, just out, is  Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack.

See also:

In: Enhanced Interrogations Out: Giving A Hoot What The “International Community” Thinks About It

Linked by Michelle Malkin’s Buzzworthy, thanks!

Why The Backlash?

Victor David Hanson counts the reasons; BUYING JOBS?,  PROPHETS CAN’T MISLEAD?, A CESSATION OF CORRUPTION, BUSH REALLY, REALLY, REALLY DID DO IT, WALL STREET POPULISTS, LIKED BY ALL, RESPECTED BY NONE, and my favorite:

ELMER GANTRY
Devotees turn on false prophets with a special vengeance. Obama is beginning to grate. His flip-the-switch-on, evangelical cadences at rallies sound more like a Harvard nerd doing blues imitations than Martin Luther King Jr. Purple-state presidents don’t appoint Van Joneses and Anita Dunns, or turn the NEA into a quid pro quo Ministry of Approved Culture. A healer doesn’t start in on the “rich,” “Wall Street,” the “big” oil companies, drug companies, insurance companies, or “fat-cat bankers” — especially when he has done his best to shake them all down for campaign money, hire as many of them as he can in his own administration, and arrange cut-rate loans, insider deals, bailouts, and guarantees for all of them.

Obama’s populism is beginning to sound more like a bought boxer who belatedly has second thoughts about throwing the fight he previously contracted. In short, Obama’s ideological presidency hinged on his post-racial, post-national mesmerizing presence that reassured reluctant Democrats to vote against their local constituencies.

If cap-and-trade or health care reform polled below 50 percent, a worried congressional supporter could always call in Him to charm bolting voters. But now? We have in a blink gone from Obama as the bankable 10 percent edge, to Obama as a non-factor, to Obama as a real liability. In short, why vote for an agenda as unpopular as its albatross author?

My only quibble with all that is: “beginning to grate”. Please. Obama’s been grating on my nerves since 1/08. This backlash has been a long time coming.

Poor Mort Zuckerman voted for Obama, though, and clearly Obama is starting to grate on his nerves:

This health-care plan is going to be a fiscal disaster for the country. Most of the country wanted to deal with costs, not expansion of coverage. This is going to raise costs dramatically.

In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual. He did change them. It’s now worse than it was. I’ve now seen the kind of buying off of politicians that I’ve never seen before. It’s politically corrupt and it’s starting at the top. It’s revolting.

Five states got deals on health care—one of them was Harry Reid’s. It is disgusting, just disgusting. I’ve never seen anything like it. The unions just got them to drop the tax on Cadillac plans in the health-care bill. It was pure union politics. They just went along with it. It’s a bizarre form of political corruption. It’s bribery. I suppose they could say, that’s the system. He was supposed to change it or try to change it.

Even that is not the worst part. He could have said, “I know. I promised these things, but let me try to do them one at a time.” You want to deal with health care? Fine. Issue No. 1 with health care was the cost. You know I think it was 37 percent or 33 who were worried about coverage. Fine, I wrote an editorial to this effect. Focus on cost-containment first. But he’s trying to boil the ocean, trying to do too much. This is not leadership.

Read the whole thing. Ace thought the piece reeked of “first draft anger”, but that’s what makes it such a great read.

Even liberals can’t turn a blind eye to the egregious corruption in Obama’s administration.

Yet behold:

President Obama perceives the biggest mistake he’s made so far is that he’s just too dang awesome. He’s an overachiever!:

“If there’s one thing that I regret this year is that we were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values,” Obama told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in an exclusive interview at the White House.

*Groan*

Whenever Obama starts talking about our “core values”, my stomach turns. What core values do we share? Name one. A woman’s right to choose an abortion even after the baby’s born? “queerizing” elementary schools?, politicizing the arts?  Black liberation theology? admiration for Chairman Mao? giving terrorists the same rights as American citizens?, disdain for the Constitution?, expanding the government, “spreading the wealth”, power through any means necessary, a la Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals?, etc, etc, etc…

The next few days/weeks/months should be interesting to watch. They won’t be as stomach-churning as the early days of  the age of Obama, because most people are on to him, now. But it will be interesting to see if he pivots towards the center, or if he doubles down on his far left course. I think it will be the latter because that’s the only thing he knows, but it will at least be somewhat entertaining to watch him go on about “our core values” and such, fooling nobody,  while he  tries to run the country into the ground.

More photoshop fun at America Is An Obamanation:

Great Moments in Fine Art: Napole-One Crossing the Voters

Red Alert!

Linked by Michelle Malkin, Buzzworthy, thanks!

In: Enhanced Interrogations Out: Giving A Hoot What The “International Community” Thinks About It

Much of the post-election analysis on Scott Browns triumph in MA, (the first Republican sent to the US Senate in that deep blue state in thirty years), has focused on his 41st vote in the Senate, ending the Dem super-majority, his opposition to ObamaCare, and Martha Coakly’s weak, gaffe-prone campaign. But another important factor was Brown’s stance on  national security. As Robert Costa reported in NRO, according to Brown’s top strategist, Eric Fehrnstrom, “from our own internal polling, the more potent issue here in Massachusetts was terrorism and the treatment of enemy combatants.”

Scott Brown campaigned as an unabashed supporter of enhanced interrogation, what Obama and his minions, call “torture”.

Marc Thiessen, former speechwriter for President Bush, and author of, Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack, thinks there’s an important lesson for beltway Republicans, here.

If an outspoken supporter of waterboarding can run this strongly in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, imagine how the issue will play in the rest of America.

The fact is President Obama has placed our country in grave danger by dismantling the CIA’s program to interrogate senior terrorist leaders like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. By limiting all terrorist interrogations to the techniques in the Army Field Manual, Obama is actually requiring that captured terrorists receive better treatment in the interrogation room than common criminals being questioned at your local police precinct. Not only has he eliminated lawful interrogation techniques, under his administration the United States is no longer trying to capture the leaders of al Qaeda alive, and bring them in for interrogation so they can tell us their plans for future attacks.

Despite these facts, some in the GOP have been hesitant to speak out about President Obama’s elimination of the CIA program, for fear of being branded as supporters of torture. They have nothing to fear. The label is false and it will not stick. As I make clear in my book, Courting Disaster, Scott Brown has it right: The CIA’s interrogation of senior al Qaeda terrorists was not torture. Moreover, these interrogations were responsible for helping the CIA breaking up a number of terrorist attacks – including plots to blow up the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, the U.S. Marine camp in Djibouti, and to fly hijacked airplanes into buildings in London and Los Angeles. This is a strong record to run on – and dismantling the CIA program that foiled these plots is a major vulnerability for Obama and the Democrats.

Polls show that the more the public learns about the CIA’s interrogation program, the more Americans support it. A recent Rasmussen poll found that 58% of Americans say waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques should be used to gain information from the terrorist who attempted to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day. Just 30% were opposed. There are few issues on which conservatives have a more disparate advantage.

Andrew McCarthy concurs in his NRO piece, It’s The Enemy, Stupid:

Scott Brown went out and made the case for enhanced interrogation, for denying terrorists the rights of criminal defendants, for detaining them without trial, and for trying them by military commission. It worked. It will work for other candidates willing to get out of their Beltway bubbles.

Yes, the Left will say you are making a mockery of our commitment to “the rule of law.” MSNBC will run segments on your dark conspiracies to “shred the privacy rights of Americans.” The New York Times will wail that you’re heedless of the damage you’ll do to “America’s reputation in the international community.”

The answer is: So what? The people making these claims don’t speak for Americans — they speak at Americans, in ever shrinking amounts. If you’re going to cower from a fight with them, we don’t need you. Get us a Scott Brown who’ll take them on in their own backyard. And he’ll take them on with confidence because he knows their contentions are frivolous — and he knows that Americans know this, too.

The laws of war are the rule of law. They are not a suspension of the Constitution. They are the Constitution operating in wartime. The Framers understood that there would be wars against enemies of the United States — it is stated explicitly in the Constitution’s treason clause (Art. III, Sec. 3). The American people understand that we have enemies, even if Washington sees them as political “engagement” partners waiting to happen. Americans also grasp that war is a political and military challenge that the nation has to win, not a judicial proceeding in which your enemies are presumed innocent. The rule of law is not and has never been the rule of lawyers — especially lawyers we can’t vote out of office when they say we must let trained terrorists move in next door.

One of his biggest applause lines in last night’s acceptance speech, and what The Weekly Standard’s Matthew Continetti thought was the quote of the day:

“And let me say this, with respect to those who wish to harm us, I believe that our Constitution and laws exist to protect this nation – they do not grant rights and privileges to enemies in wartime. In dealing with terrorists, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them.”

Take heed, Republicans. It’s safe to run on “torture”.

See also:

Jennifer Rubin: Reversing Obama’s Worst Decision Yet?

Linked by Michelle Malkin’s Buzzworthy, thanks!

Video: Scott Brown’s Victory Speech + Political Fallout Round-up

“The independent voice of Massachusetts has spoken”!

The Fallout:

Hot Air: House Dems already starting to run from ObamaCare

American Spectator: Barney Frank Deals Potential Death Blow to Obamacare

Ace-O-Spades: Cool Facts About Scott Brown and Jimmy Carter Part II: Democrats Moving Away Sprinting from Obama and Happy Anniversary Mr. President!

Founding Bloggers: Schadenfreude – Media Matters In Desperate Denial Over Brown Win

Red State: Obama’s Unicorn of Hope and Change Died Under the Weight of Ted Kennedy’s Ego

Must read: Ericksons’s ten things to take away from Scott Brown’s victory, plus this bonus:

A year ago today, Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States. Today, he wakes up rejected by the independents who elected him and a social pariah within the Democrat Party. Outside of the Congressional Black Caucus and a handful of far left seats in Congress, it is hard, this morning, to imagine any Democrat wanting Barack Obama to go out on the campaign trail. Every statewide candidate for whom Obama has campaigned since his election has lost.

Michelle Malkin: SEIU president Andy Stern clings to the blame-GOP card and Democrat Sen. Jim Webb on gov’t health care takeover: Whoa, Nelly!

Brent Bozell: The Meanness of Martha Coakley

The American Thinker: The Coming Democrat Counteroffensive

iOWNTHEWORLD: Thelma and Louise Redux and Note To Obama, Pelosi and Reid

Forbes: Brownout For Obama’s Agenda

The Hill: Dem leaders scramble to save healthcare reform after Brown win

Doug Ross: Yo Tanenhaus! Hows That ‘Conservatism Is Dead’ Meme Workin’ Out?

Sarah Palin on Greta Van Susteren:

Sore Loser Olbermann: Doubling Down On Yesterday’s Anti- Brown Idiocy

I probably shouldn’t even be giving this D-bagger the time of day, but I can’t help myself. I  always criticize people who slow down and crane their necks to gawk at horrific wrecks, and here I am doing it:

I think the burden of proof for these unhinged, nonsensical charges would be on the person making them. Otherwise, they’re what we might call “smears”.

Sore Loser Olbermann: Brown Win A “Euphemism” For Racism or Something

Dude? You guys wore out the race card 12 months ago, already. It just doesn’t fly, okay?

I swear, these MSNBCer’s won’t be happy until they’ve driven away every sentient being from their audience.

Video: Out-of-State Union Thugs Throw Reporter Out Of Coakley Office

These Coakley staffers flogged Godwin’s law to a bloody pulp, today, as they refused to allow a reporter into the office, citing private property and civil rights, “which we still have despite Nazis like you”.

Q: So, what did the Nazis think of a free and open press?

A: Nazi Germany (1933-1945)

The dictatorship of Adolf Hitler largely suppressed freedom of the press through Joseph Goebbels‘ Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. As the Ministry’s name implies, propaganda did not carry the negative connotations that it does today (or did in the Allied countries); how-to manuals were openly distributed by that same ministry explaining the craft of effective propaganda. The Ministry also acted as a central control-point for all media, issuing orders as to what stories could be run and what stories would be suppressed. Anyone involved in the film industry—from directors to the lowliest assistant—had to sign an oath of loyalty to the Nazi Party, due to opinion-changing power Goebbels perceived movies to have. (Goebbels himself maintained some personal control over every single film made in Nazi Europe.) Journalists who crossed the Propaganda Ministry were routinely imprisoned or shot as traitors.

Oh. Well played, libtards.

Hat tip: Snarky Basterd, who makes note of the “UFCW, Local One, ” the OUT OF STATE United Food & Commercial Workers Union local 1, Utica New York letters on the bearded thug’s jacket.

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Ruby Slippers found John Stewart’s befuddlement of the MA race on last night’s show amusing. I think the guy needs to step out of his lib cocoon once in awhile to see what real Americans think.

Anybody who can say Teddy Kennedy was the “most beloved Senator in the history of the Senate” with a straight face is wildly out of touch with what most Americans really think.

Well, Well, Scott Brown Wasn’t Stiffed By The Republican Party, After All

But you knew that, already, right? Because I reported as much on December 30, when everyone else was saying that the Republican party was not giving him adequate support.  Hey, I heard it from the horse’s mouth.

FYI: I listened in on a conference call with Brown, yesterday, and was surprised to learn that those rumors about the GOP leaving him in the cold were greatly exaggerated. In fact, “Don’t believe everything you read” is a direct quote from Brown. He wanted us to know that the GOP wasn’t stiffing him. But he is being greatly outspent by his well connected opponent, MA Atty Gen Martha Coakley, who has special interest, and  union $$$ backing her.

Now Ed Morressey is reporting:

NRSC, RNC quietly moved money into Massachusetts last two weeks

This was a brilliant move by both the NRSC and the RNC.  They didn’t fall into a Democratic trap by trumpeting their involvement with Brown, who wanted to show as much independence as possible.  Coakley and Obama spent Sunday making Brown look like a tool of the Tea Party movement and the GOP national machine, but it was Coakley getting bailed out by Democratic heavyweights from outside Massachusetts.

Incidentally, in that post, I also linked to that hunky Cosmo spread of Brown, which I found whilst googling, the first blogger to notice it, (it was from a Sept. issue), not that I got any hat tips out of the deal. Hmmmph.

Linked by Michelle Malkin’s Buzzworthy, thanks!

Video:Keith Olberman Goes Off On Subway Sammiches

Okay, it’s not really KO, but it’s a damn good impersonation of him:

Q: So who was that?

A: Funnyman, Michael Terry, website, here.

He says at the Youtube site, that it was one of the impressions he submitted as part of his SNL demo.

It’s old, but particularly relevant, today.

Hat tip: The Powers That Be

Via: Doug Ross @Journal

Video: MA Voter Registration fraud?

Why is this woman handing out absentee ballots, today? This video is going viral:

Jim Geraghty says she’s a Dem. community activist who ran for mayor in 2001.

RELATED:

Matthew Vadum at Newsreel blog says:

If It’s Close In Massachusetts, Expect ACORN To Lead Vote Fraud Effort:

… there’s always the possibility of massive electoral fraud by ACORN. Note that ACORN national president Maude Hurd herself resides in Dorchester, Mass., and ACORN is actively involved in the get out the vote effort in the Bay State.

I’m starting to get a bad feeling about this…

See Election Journal on YouTube for MA election videos throughout the day.

Michelle Malkin is also keeping tabs on voter fraud reports.

UPDATE:

Good news (really) from John Fund:

Absentee ballots (the preferred method of voter fraud) had to be submitted by last Friday, “providing little opportunity for those with ill intent to organize such an effort once they realized the race had tightened up”:

Both parties have concerns about vote fraud or intimidation in today’s election. Hundreds of lawyers and observers have been deployed at key polling places. But it’s likely to be a relatively quiet election from a litigation angle unless the final margin is razor-thin. The Brown surge came so suddenly there was no time to plan anything devious beyond the usual negative commercials — which in this race ran everywhere, including, for the first time in anyone’s memory, The Weather Channel.

Linked by Michelle Malkin’s Buzzworthy, thanks!

Olbermann: Scott Brown Is “Irresponsible, Homophobic, Racist, Reactionary, Ex-Swimsuit Nude Model, Teabagging, Supporter Of Violence Against Women and Against Politicians with whom He Disagrees”

I wanted to use the full quote in the header, and not the shortened, “Homophobic Racist” quote others are using because that doesn’t do full justice to how unhinged and maniacal this rant is. Bathtub boy is off his meds:

Video via Legal Insurrection

Olby was a little off his game, there…He left out the lynchings, freakish kitten-hating, dolphin chainsaw massacre, book burnings, etc…and he didn’t even mention the dreaded pick up truck.

Honestly, the substance, or rather content of his rant (there was no substance) isn’t worth anyone’s time to refute. To call Brown a supporter of violence against women, for instance, because a supporter hollered out something stupid at one of his appearances, when Olby’s candidate actually, provably, unarguably, just look at the record for crying out loud, did call for leniency in a case where a man had raped a toddler with a hot curling iron…(so if you wanted to be a D-bagger like Olby, you could say she’s a “supporter of violence against children”), is  stark raving psycho. Who takes this lunatic seriously?

Actually, it would almost be worth tuning into MSNBC tonight to see his spittle-flecked meltdown when Scott Brown wins.

Almost.

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From Jay Nordlinger at The Corner:

I thought a reader had something quite interesting — even novel — to say. See if you agree:

Have you thought about the implications of a Brown victory for the Democrats’ rhetoric? For their politics of personal destruction? Over the past year, they have been calling tea-partiers and townhall protesters racists, rednecks, knuckle-draggers, homophobes, etc. And now the “machine” is turning its verbal guns on working-class voters in Massachusetts. Keith Olbermann and other pundits are insulting them constantly — same old epithets. Even Democratic politicians appear all over the airwaves implying that Scott Brown voters are too stupid to understand their magnificent health-reform agenda.

It will be wonderful if Brown voters realize that, like them, “flyover country” conservatives are not racists. Or stupid. Or violence-prone. We should welcome them with open arms. Massachusetts people were coddled by liberal media and the Democratic machine, told that they were superior to their bumpkin fellow citizens. Now they’re being lumped in with Redneck Nation, simply for bucking the machine.

If they recognize that the lies told about them in this election were also lies when told about others — when told about tea-partiers and townhall protesters: Well, we could be looking at political realignment.

Michelle Malkin points out the breathtaking hypocrisy of Olberman’s words:

Clown who called me “big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick” says Scott Brown hates women