Comments on: Memo to Barney Frank

By: huxley

huxley — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:26:36 +0000

No way Obama & Co. will give up on their version of health care.

Since last summer Obama has had many opportunities to choose between the center and the bunker. With the possible exception of Afghanistan, he has chosen the bunker every time.

By now I’m convinced that Obama won’t change that approach until after big losses in the mid-terms and maybe not even then.

By: Uh-huh

Uh-huh — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:42:20 +0000

While I hope that Brown wins, and I think he stands a great chance, if he does I firmly expect the democrats and Obama in particular not to give up on their health care plans.

Shenanigans are in the works.

Obama just has a personality that would go into complete denial that he could even possibly be wrong on the issue. He knows best, not us.

He’s gonna double down, and the voters be damned.

By: driver

driver — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:40:46 +0000

Memo to Barney Frank: We’re coming for you next.

By: huxley

huxley — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:20:24 +0000

The Brown campaign is already organizing volunteer lawyers to watch the polling places.

The Republican Party is already lawyered up to challenge any Democratic efforts to delay seating Brown in the Senate should he win.

If the election is close, both sides will be aggressively examining ballots and challenging the recount process.

Won’t get fooled again.

By: armchair pessimist

armchair pessimist — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:09:46 +0000

To my knowledge nobody has polled the dead, who always turn out in great numbers on election day and always vote democratic.

So I’m not smiling yet.

By: Obloodyhell

Obloodyhell — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:27:37 +0000

> Though, to give credit where it’s due, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid have played their hands with great greed and stupidity.

And to think that Carville’s 40-year-Reich is only going to last a nominal two, actually a defacto 14 months…

At that, it’s still twice as long, percentage-wise, as the Nazis, and feels like it in every way.

I’ll repeat myself: I’ve been saying all along that Obama would make us appreciate Jimmy Carter. I still contend that is, and will be recognized as such years from now, true.

By: Obloodyhell

Obloodyhell — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:20:14 +0000

> Memo to Frank: that’s a feature, not a bug.

Indeed.

Nice quip.

By: Wm Lawrence

Wm Lawrence — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:25:22 +0000

Bawney can disagree if he wishes, but I think the real affect will be to defeat an agenda which would kill health care. I’m all for that.

By: betsybounds

betsybounds — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:40:50 +0000

Well here comes the paranoid part, to which I and others occasionally fall prey. These guys are acting like Brown Shirts. And we know what can follow the actions of such people.

http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2010/01/desperation-in-massachusetts-coakley-thugs-assault-cameraman-video/

Plus ACORN. Plus SEIU. I don’t know. But it’s unsettling. The wizards are not interested in constitutional freedoms, and constitutional freedoms do not exercise any control they recognize.

Huxley, these are the things that make me doubt that our system will be enough to stop the game that is, nearly without doubt, afoot. I hope it is, but I’m not going to bet anything I can’t afford to lose on it.

There is ample historical precedent for the employ of such foul means to subvert and overthrow legitimate governance. It has enjoyed some success in the past. We are not immune, and we are fools if we thing we are.

Go, Brown.

And be ready to take a lot on.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:03:55 +0000

I will be delighted with a Brown victory.

However: we also thought that the Dims’ defeat in the Virginia and New Jersey races would be game-changers. The Juggernaut (Jugearnaut?) has rolled on regardless, over the bodies of devotees and opponents alike.

Don’t look for them to stop if they lose in Massachusetts. Even if they lose big, it will only harden their determination to “service” the country in the agricultural fashion.