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From Jules Crittenden, it's "Lifestyles of the Rich and Clueless." We learned last week that Masschussets Sen. John Kerry parked his new yacht in Rhode Island to save half a million in Massachussets state taxes - even though his state is cash strapped. Indeed, the entire north east is struggling, including their ship building industry. Yet now we learn that Kerry bypassed the local industry and spent $7 million to have his new yach built by a company in New Zealand. This guy really is clueless. As Instapundit is want to say, our country is in the very best of hands.
Update: John K. exercises his Fifth Amendment right not to answer unwanted questions - for the citizens of Massachussets.
Unfortunately, you know good and well that the citizens of Massachussets will send this arrogant, ethicly and intellectualy challenged Bozo right back to his Senate seat come the next election. No wonder Kerry can be so dismissive.
Showing posts with label massachussets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label massachussets. Show all posts
Monday, July 26, 2010
Not Ready For Duty (Updated With Video)
Monday, January 18, 2010
What Would Mary Jo Do?
From TNOYF, a far more substanitve and apropos endorsement for Brown than the Kennedy clan's for Coakley.
I could think of no more fitting a legacy for Chappaquiddick Ted than to have the people of Massachusett's repudiate his "lifes work" on the eve of health care passage. His life should have been spent making license plates, not legislation. But, as the authors of TNOYF point out to the voters of Massachusetts, "its never too late to right a wrong."
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Hmmmm
Intrade has Brown at 60 to 40 over Coakely . . . . This is all just too good to be true. Indeed, it suggests a win outside the margin of fraud. Update: A poll commisioned by InsideMedford.com puts Brown at a 9.6% lead. Though not from a well known pollster, according to Hot Air, it appears not merely legitimate, but probably more accurate than other polls given that the others oversampled Democrats.
Obama showed up in Mass. today to campaign with Coakley. He pulled in a significantly smaller crowd, about 1500, while on the other side of town, Scott Brown held a competing campaign event that had 3,000 indoors and another 1,000 out on the streets. Instapundit has the report and the pictures. It may well be that, as in NJ, Obama's coattails are short indeed.
The conventional wisdom is that if enough Democrats show up at the polls, Coakley can pull out a win. I wonder how true that is. Yes, Republicans are hyper-energized and independents are breaking strongly against Obama. But Democrats themselves seem none too happy being led by the Obama Pelosi clique. The PPP poll a few days ago showed 17% of Democrats planning to vote for Brown while an ARG poll put the crossover vote at 20%. A poll this evening from InsideMedford.com puts the crossover at 17%. Those are significant numbers anywhere - all the moreso in a state that last voted a Republican to the Senate decades ago. And those are likely voters. How many Dems will show their rancor by simply not showing up to the polls? Suffice it to say, the left is facing an internal revolt on a scale not seen since the fall of the Shah.
Apparently, even the White House is now leaking that they expect Coakley to loose. That makes the President's decision to spend his political capital campaigning for Coakley all the more incomprehensible. Perhaps the stakes were simply too high to keep him from making the attempt, or perhaps this is disinformation by the White House in an attempt to energize more Democrats to come to the polls Tuesday. In either event, after Obama's personal intercesion, if Brown does win by a wide margin, this will seem like Judgment Day for the Democrats. The White House can spin it all they want to - and Coakley did run a horrible campaign - but the facts are that this is true blue Massachussets, Ted Kennedy's seat, its a campaign run on national issues, and the future success of Obama's programs on the line. If Brown wins by a wide margin, there just is not enough spin in the world to stop every elected Democrat in Congress from suddenly suffering immediate onset incontinence.
Shock & Awe At The NYT
Given that Massachusetts is the strongest bastion of the left in America, the revolt of the voters in Massachusetts is the equivalent of an army revolting against its officers in time of war. And the officers, who refused to see the writing on the wall, are now in shock and awe at the slings and arrows aimed their way. In a piece at once realistic, horrified, and still hanging on to the tiniest thread of hope, the NYT gives front page news to reflections on the far left nightmare that is the Senate race in bluest of blue Massachusetts:
There may be no better place to measure the shifting fortunes of President Obama and the Democratic Party than in the race being fought here this weekend for the Senate seat that had been held by Edward M. Kennedy.
When Mr. Obama was inaugurated one year ago this week, he and his party had big majorities in the Senate and House, enjoyed the backing of much of the country and were confidently preparing to enact an ambitious legislative agenda. Republicans seemed directionless and the conservative movement exhausted.
This weekend, Democrats are struggling to hang on to a seat held by Mr. Kennedy for 46 years in one of the most enthusiastically Democratic states in the country. Conservatives are enjoying a grass-roots resurgence, and Republicans are talking about taking back the House in November.
As Mr. Obama prepares to come here on Sunday to campaign for the party’s beleaguered Senate candidate, Martha Coakley, Democrats across the country are starting to wonder aloud if they misjudged the electorate over the last year, with profound ramifications for the midterm elections this year and, potentially, for Mr. Obama’s presidency.
Win or lose in Massachusetts, that a contest between a conservative Republican and a liberal Democrat could appear so close is evidence of what even Democrats say is animosity directed at the administration and Congress. It has been fanned by Republicans who have portrayed Democrats as overreaching and out of touch with ordinary Americans.
Hmmm, wonder why the evil Republicans should be getting any traction out of that. Indeed, it was not the Republicans who did the fanning, it was the grass roots Tea Parties.
Regardless, the far left, for the very first time in America actually being in a position to govern, are suddenly finding reality - and what a cruel mistress it is. Apparently Obama's sinking poll numbers and the polls showing vast discontent with the the health care plan did weren't enough to convince the far left that they might indeed have a problem. This election though is the equivalent of tossing a lit stick of reality TNT into their knickers.
“It comes from the fact that Obama as president has had to deal with all these major crises he inherited: the banks, fiscal stimulus,” said Senator Paul G. Kirk Jr., the Democrat who holds the Massachusetts seat on an interim basis pending the special election. “But for many people it was like, ‘Jeez, how much government are we getting here?’ That might have given them pause.”
If Kirk actually believes what he says, he is still deep in denial. It was not that the Obama had to deal with a lot of inherited issues, its how he dealt with them. Evan Bay gets it,
Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, said the atmosphere was a serious threat to Democrats. “I do think there’s a chance that Congressional elites mistook their mandate,” Mr. Bayh said. “I don’t think the American people last year voted for higher taxes, higher deficits and a more intrusive government. But there’s a perception that that is what they are getting.” . . .
Support for the health care overhaul could grow if it is enacted into law and Americans decide that it has left them better off, as Mr. Obama says will happen. The economy could take a turn for the better by this summer, validating Mr. Obama’s policies in time to influence the midterm elections. . . .
Don't you expect to hear Disney music rise up at this point and the words "they all lived happily ever after" suddenly appear in the sky. This really is denial. Jobs aren't going to suddenly recover given Obama's war on the economy. And as to health care, the author seems to forget that people are going to begin getting taxed for it from the get go, with three years before it kicks in. That is not quite a recipe for a sudden mass epiphany. To the contrary, its the recipe for people with torches and ropes marching on Washington and looking for Democratic lawmakers.
. . . But most ominously for Democrats contemplating the midterm elections, the battle here suggests an emerging dangerous dynamic: that Mr. Obama has energized Republican activists who think he has overstepped with health care and the economic stimulus, while demoralizing Democrats who think he has not lived up to his promise.
Actually quite a good article. Do read the whole thing. The fact that this graces the front page of the NYT suggests the degree to which the shock and awe of reality has hit the far left.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Hope & Change In The Cold, Crisp Bostonian Air
Never did I think Hope n' Change would infect conservatives, but it seems this stuff is more infectious than the H1N1 . . . . .
Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley by 4 points in the latest Suffolk’s Political Research Center of likely voters. In bluest of blue Massachussets? For Chappaquiddick Ted's ancestral seat? The only thing that could make this any better would be if I had an ownership stake in the Depends and Peptobismal kiosk nearest the White House.
I have not blogged this up to now because, so many other people have been doing such a good job of it. But this latest info has infected even me with the hope and change flu. Jules Crittenden, Legal Insurrection and Memorandum are the places to go for updates. This is really fun. If Ted is in heaven, I am sure they are keeping him in a room that doesn't get cable news. Then again, if he is in hell, I have no doubt he is sitting superglued to a chair in front of Fox News in widescreen HD.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Who Could Have Forecast This
Remarkable news from Massachusetts, of all places. Car insurance premiums are going down. For three decades a Bay State regulator has set the price of car insurance, leading to an annual tussle between insurers and consumer groups over the size of the increase. This led to some of the highest insurance rates in the country. Read the entire article.
There has been a very curious turn of events in the People's Republic of Massachussets. Price controls were partially removed on auto insurance. The cost of auto insurance in the state is falling. Socialist politicians and economists have been thrown into confusion and are, at the moment, studying this anamoly. How could this be?
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Karl Marx posited both an unrealistic paradigm by which to interpret history and an equally unrealistic economic scheme of government control, though that has not stopped a large portion of the world's "elite" from mouthing Marx's sophomoric propositions. Ronald Regan once said that communists are those who have read Marx and Lenin and mouth their views, while capitalists are one's who have read Marx and Lenin and understand them. And with that in mind, there is this in the WSJ today:
. . . During this exercise in central planning, the number of insurers dropped to 18 last year, from more than 70 three decades ago. But as of April 1, the state government decided to try a little experiment in the free market. We do mean little – proposed premiums must still be filed with the regulator, who can approve them or not. And many factors used to set rates in other states – such as credit history – are barred.
Even so, this modest experiment in price competition is already working to reduce costs for consumers. Progressive, the third-largest insurer in the country, entered the market May 1 with rates that are on average 18% below the old price-controlled rates. Overall, premiums in the state are due to fall nearly 8% this year as insurers adjust to a world in which they need to compete to attract customers instead of bargaining with their regulator for price hikes. Imagine: When you remove price controls, supply increases and prices fall. . . .
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