…at the twin city tea party on Monday:
I had a lot of trouble uploading video yesterday so a lot of the Monday stuff is coming up today and tomorrow.
Archive for September 1, 2010
Bill Campbell (R) Candidate for Secretary of State Massachusetts speaks to the crowd…
Posted: September 1, 2010 by datechguy in elections, politics, tea partiesTags: 2010 elections, bill campbell, election 2010, massachusetts state elections, secretary of state, tea parties, twin city tea parties
The Beltway Bell has written one of the most important posts you will ever read
Posted: September 1, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: culture, politics
Go over and read it here:
After the inauguration my office was all atwitter about the new BLACK president we had. Praising every inch of him as if he lost a digit of a finger it’d have been worshipped as a holy relic. I wanted to scream “HE’S A SOCIALIST! And what do you really KNOW about him anyway? He is NOT all that! Michelle is NOT pretty! He will RUIN us!” But I put on my iPod, and kept silent.
This post could be a description of conservatives in Massachusetts until the Scott Brown election, people knew that to speak out meant that you were not “one of us”. Republicans, conservatives etc were lesser beings.
One of the most liberating moments for myself was on Election day 2008. I had a McCain/Palin sign that I picked up at a NH rally and went down to the polling place, after voting I stood there. holding that sign. There were gaps of disbelief, there was at least one, “You’ve gotta be kidding”…
…but there were quite a few thumbs up and at least one person who joined me and took my place for a while so I could take a break.
The power of knowing that you were not alone, the knowledge that is was OK to oppose this president, the willingness to say it when everyone else said no can make all the difference. Things changed in a hurry in Massachusetts once that fear was gone.
There are costs but freedoms always cost something.
Michelle Malking finds another ¿Quien sabe? moment
Posted: September 1, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: unions
The protestors – hired by a union, the Mid-Atlantic Region of Carpenters – appeared to not be compensated with the level of wages and benefits that the union itself demands of other employers – the protestors evidently lacked health insurance, for example (see 3:52).
Nor is it clear the protestors were union members (see 2:59). So, how could they even hope to benefit from any prospective wage or benefit concessions won from the business targeted by the protest? No one could (or would?) say what local union chapter they belonged to and seemed to even be confused by the question
If you are surprised it is only because you aren’t paying attention
As you might guess I don’t agree with Jane Hamsher much…
Posted: September 1, 2010 by datechguy in elections, media, politics, tea partiesTags: 2010 elections, election 2010, just deserts, obamacare, reality, scott brown, senator scott brown, tea party
…but when it comes to the health care bill she is one of the few people on the left looking at the political consequences with open eyes:
The DCCC was very good at getting not-so-savvy poll analysts to try and discredit the SurveyUSA polling. (Those same pollsters, ironically, didn’t see anything weird in the Research 2000 polls they were quoting authoritatively at the time, which many now find suspect — though Jerome Armstrong spotted it). Somehow Democratic members of Congress engaged in magical thinking and believed Rahm’s BS about the popularity of the health care bill increasing if it passed.
Rather than focus on jobs creation in a country with climbing unemployment rates, Obama spent the better part of a year focused on passing a health care bill that looks like it will play no small part in the Democratic Party’s upcoming electoral woes.
Well, we warned you.
I’ll go one step farther. The Election of Scott Brown was the real breaking of the dam and the thing that made the Brown Election was the chance to stop the Healthcare bill. Forgetting everything else, the morale factor that the Election of Brown had for the tea parties and the GOP can’t be overestimated. Without the Brown victory you don’t have Miller in Alaska you don’t have the GOP establishment defeats in Utah & NC.
Brown’s election Made the Tea Party and the election climate that we have this fall, and the Healthcare Bill made Brown.
Democrats did this to themselves, Hamsher & Co tried to warn them.
I should point out that legal insurrection dissents:
I’m not buying that spin. It is true that Hamsher had some of the most devastating critiques of Obamacare. But when I wrote my Open Letter in January 2010 to Hamsher asking her to join us in defeating Obamacare, there was no response, either directly or indirectly, in words or in action. Instead, Hamsher and others were focused on improving (e.g. public option) not defeating the legislation, an ultimately futiile quest which required a level of subservience to the Democratic leadership in the hope they would come through for you. They didn’t.
Fair point.
memeorandum thread here
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