…weren’t we told that the November Republican turnaround victory in Virginia and the stunning upset in New Jersey weren’t referenda on Obama’s first year?
If that were true, then wouldn’t this story just, like, totally not exist?
Coming off stinging election losses in Virginia and New Jersey — not to mention Copenhagen, where he failed to win the 2018 Olympics for his hometown of Chicago — President Obama is staying away from what could become another painful loss.
Even though the campaign of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has been making quiet entreaties, the president has no plans to visit her in the last week of the special election to fill the Senate seat once held by the late Edward M. Kennedy.
“It’s not on our schedule to go to next week,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said matter-of-factly.
Huh.
Damn tea partiers.
‘Cause there’s no way a wingnut Rethuglican could even come close to winning the Teddy Kennedy Memorial Senate Seat. Right?
National Review Online is covering this race quite closely. Many interesting things going on. Basically the Democrat is a personalityless empty suit (pantsuit?) who is running a bad campaign (“yeah, like I’m going to stand out in the cold at Fenway Park to shake {commoners} hands”). The thought is that this is a Democrat seat. It doesn’t matter who is running, that person is just a warm body and will be a Harry Ried yeswoman.
Zoyks, I just went to NRO to get updates. Democrat Coakly, running for US Senate in Catholic Boston/Mass, said in a radio interview yesterday that if you have religous objections to abortion, you shouldn’t work in a hospital. Wonder how that will go over in the Catholic hospitals of Boston. Wow, it’s hard to believe the Democrats found someone this stupid to lose this race.
If Brown wins that means the Dems will attempt to pass Obamacare against the wishes of the American people as expressed in polls, with no GOP support in the senate, and one bogus senate vote. I wonder why they call themselves “Democrats”? “Obamacrat” is more like it.
Well, it’s not as if the seat is important or anything, like say, you needed a 60th vote for kind of legislation.
If Brown does win, and they withhold seating him until after the “ObamaCare vote”, it can rightly be said that they denied the state of Massachusettes their rightful legislative input. That could bring up a whole new opportunity for challenging the constitutionality of it.
UNlike the efforts by republicans, inside AND outside Minnesota, to delay seating Franken as long as possible?
Yeah, that didn’t deny Minnesotans their legislative input, did it?
If Brown does win, his vote ‘No’ — assuming he comes to heel for the GoP instead of voting the way Massachusetts polls indicate the greatest preference, in favor of health care reform, would hardly do much to prevent anything…so why would the Dems try to sabotage his being seated?
And, from this afternoon’s STrib….”Obama taped a campaign plea that will be telephoned to Massachusetts voters, and he will campaign personally for Coakley this weekend.”
Yes, the Obama magic worked wonders in New Jersey, Virginia, Copenhagen,,,
Yeah, that didn’t deny Minnesotans their legislative input, did it?
Yeah, terribly sorry about that. Just wanted to make sure our electoral system had some integrity.
And given that there probably aren’t 5,000 people in this state that can coherently and correctly explain exactly how a 200+ vote Coleman margin turned into a 200+ vote Franken victory, I’d say everyone lost.
If Brown does win, his vote ‘No’ — assuming he comes to heel for the GoP instead of voting the way Massachusetts polls indicate the greatest preference, in favor of health care reform, would hardly do much to prevent anything…
Oh, about those public opinion polls? They don’t matter. The only poll that matters in any real long-term sense is the one taking place on Tuesday. And if a plurality of Massachusetts voters choose Brown, that’s all that matters. Until Secretary of Love Emanuel orders the Army in to take control
so why would the Dems try to sabotage his being seated?
To protect their supermajority – and in a bigger sense, to get their way. Pretty simple.
.”Obama taped a campaign plea that will be telephoned to Massachusetts voters, and he will campaign personally for Coakley this weekend.”
Perhaps you don’t follow these things so much – but the actions and timing pretty well prove my point.
If Obama were invested in this campaign (or perhaps if his investment were desired), he’d have been up there this week, before the end of the weekly news cycle. He’d be using his bully pulpit to push for Coakely – not recording phone messages and slipping into Boston after the 5PM Friday newscasts are over.
I know those aren’t the talking points people like you and Pen are being given – just like with NY23 and the other November election resuts – but that is how it works.