Martha Coakley: The voice for Fat Cats and Corruptocrats
Raise your hand if you stand for Business as Usual.
My column today shines light on Democrat Mass. Attorney General/Senate candidate Martha Coakley’s career tolerance for the culture of corruption.
While she cracks down on little gardening clubs, she has turned a blind eye to far bigger, dirtier, rotten scoundrels. The Big Labor spigots are flowing. And Big Pharma’s got her back. She’ll be a reliable rubber-stamper for Harry Reid’s Demcare bribery schemes, the SEIU’s power grabs, and Chicago-on-the-Potomac.
No wonder she’s lost the votes of the rank-and-file union workers being paid to hold up her signs.
Coakley: She treats ladies’ gardening clubs like crooks — and crooks like ladies’ gardening clubs.
One more item: Last night, I linked to the photo of Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack on the ground after being pushed by one of Coakley’s thugs. Where was Martha? Standing on the sidelines, doing nothing. As usual. McCormack has more.
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Martha Coakley: The voice for Fat Cats and Corruptocrats
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
Democrat Martha Coakley is the voice of the “little people” the way Ted Kennedy was the voice of sobriety. If Massachusetts voters want another privileged liberal who talks a good “social justice” game while ignoring public corruption, pocketing gobs of money from Beltway fat cats, and pandering to corporate special interests, Coakley’s the one.
Coakley, the Bay State’s attorney general, has campaigned to replace the late Sen. Kennedy on a law-and-order platform. But she has consistently turned a blind eye to both. When a top aide to Boston Mayor Tom Menino was caught deleting thousands of e-mails in violation of public records law last fall, Coakley punted. Democrat Menino was in the middle of a re-election bid; Coakley was wrapped up in her own senatorial bid.
Instead of expressing any concern about the City Hall information black hole, Coakley refused to investigate. She accused her critics of playing politics: “[W]e get lots of complaints from folks who are adversaries who have a particular agenda.”
But who’s got the agenda? After undertaking Herculean technical efforts to recover the trashed e-mails, Boston city officials discovered e-mail fragments related to an ongoing federal probe of former state senator Dianne Wilkerson. Wilkerson attained national infamy as the lawmaker caught on film stuffing thousands of dollars of bribes from an FBI informant down her bra in exchange for her help securing a liquor license for a nightclub. She is currently awaiting federal trial.
Coakley cut a blanket immunity deal with Wilkerson last year protecting her from prosecution for campaign finance violations. But according to the Boston Herald, the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance reported last month that Wilkerson had failed to comply or only partially complied with 11 of 51 conditions. Coakley allowed Wilkerson to pay a measly $10,000 fine to avoid any legal action. She has failed to make those payments, failed to file ordered paperwork, and failed to answer information requests from state campaign finance officials.
Coakley’s response? Meh. Instead, she used the power of her office to herald her new, taxpayer-funded $750,000 cybercrime lab initiative – a picture-perfect, campaign-ready moment — without an ironic pause and has launched a crackdown on ladies’ gardening clubs for failing to file financial disclosure forms related to their dues and plant sales.
Perhaps if they were in the lingerie business, they might have gotten a pass. Or if they had volunteered for Coakley’s campaign. While she’s a stickler with the gardeners, Coakley has been mighty sloppy practicing what she selectively enforces. She has siphoned $25,000 out of her state campaign fund for a poll on her federal Senate bid; used another $24,000 from her state account to pay Beltway political consultants advising her on the Senate campaign; and reportedly used a secret asset sale pact between her state and federal campaign committees to use state campaign funds to purchase a fundraising database, redesign her website, and obtain $6,000 worth of campaign paraphernalia with her Senate logo. Her senatorial ambitions have been almost pornographically transparent — but not her campaign finance operations.
Then there’s Coakley’s relationship with Massachusett’s corrupt former House Speaker Sal DiMasi. Bay State records show that Coakley sent annual donations to the beleaguered Democrat over the past three years worth just under $1,000. But the obeisance Coakley has paid to the Democrat machine has been priceless. Last June, di Masi was indicted on seven counts of mail and wire fraud related to pay-for-play schemes worth tens of thousands of dollars in monthly payments. “Where’s Martha?” asked Republican lawmakers.
Coakley let the feds take on the powerful di Masi. Only after months of foot-dragging did Coakley’s AG office initiate an investigation into and indictments of one of di Masi’s top cronies, Richard Vitale, on lobbying and campaign finance crimes.
More recently, Coakley’s GOP opponent Scott Brown blew the whistle on campaign finance shenanigans involving her deep-pocketed supporters at the SEIU. The radical labor organization, saddled with nationwide embezzlement scandals and political thuggery, is “pulling out all the stops” for Coakley and has dumped more than $200,000 into her campaign for radio ads (plus another $685,000 on the way for TV ads). In mid-December, SEIU Local 509, which represents public employees, sent two e-mails to 7,500 state government employee at their government e-mail address over public computers endorsing Coakley and urging union members to vote for her. The use of state resources for politicking is forbidden under state ethics laws and subject to both civil and criminal penalties.
Coakley’s office has not responded to the complaint. She’s probably too busy writing thank-you notes to all the fatcat lobbyists and donors who threw her a high-priced fundraiser in Washington, D.C. this week. Host committee members raised $10,000 or more for her coffers. They included representatives from drug companies, health insurers, and hospitals who joined the Demcare protection racket. (And Coakley has the nerve to attack “shadowy out-of-state organizations” for running ads supporting Brown.)
Washington is already teeming with Democrat foxes guarding the Cash for Corruptocrats henhouse. Isn’t there a nice gardening club in Massachusetts that can take Coakley in?
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Howie Carr’s latest column on Coakley:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1225238
He is really piling on her insipid record on his radio show (www.howiecarr.com) on after Rush from 3-7pm. Usually the first hour or two he goes after local pols.
Good piece. I’d rather focus on Coakley’s weaknesses at this point instead of putting Brown on a pedastal.
I think that the people of Mass. will reject outside interference. If the groundswell focuses on what a fantastic person Brown may or may not be, it might be a turn off if it comes from outside of the state.
Hammer home the rubber stamp and the national help she’s getting directly from the White House and Unions outside of MA. I don’t think Brown can win, but I think Coakley can lose.
Here is a gem from the Boston Globe of all places:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/06/some_saw_coakley_as_lax_on_05_rape_case/
Definitely worth a read…
Do any Google search on “Martha Coakley” and “Gerald Amirault” and you’ll find out how despicable this woman really is.
Basically, she lobbied to keep an innocent man in prison for years in order to further her political ambitions.
The biggest question this brings to my mind is why didn’t Brown hit her with this when he had a chance to ask her a question last night in the debate?
Why didn’t he dump this on the audience and have her spend the rest of the campaign wasting SEIU cash explaining it?
Nice. Put the innocent with integrity in jail and let the guilty, dirty, disgusting go free. Pure, transparent corruption. Lets see if that is what Massachusetts’ citizens? want or are? If they vote for this “person” then they are truly disgusting, even worse than those racist voters near the Duke University hoax.
According to your research Michelle, Coakley is a shoe-in or could be the next trasparency czarina.
Normally Dem Pols can get away with murder in MA but even that takes some skills to pull off. Martha is so poor in her campaign that her hypocrisy comes across as almost child-like. She goes to DC to get lobbyist money and complains Rush is supporting Brown. Her latest ad attacks Brown as being a “Republican”, I thought everyone already knew that.
When Kennedy was alive, both he and Kerry were referred to as the senators from Massa2sh#%s.
If Coakley is elected, I guess the moniker can still be used.
http://michaelgraham.com/archives/tired-of-being-pushed-around/
WATCH THIS VIDEO
…were there not any home Bible study groups she could have gone after as well?
She will win. We are talking the NE. Here election would be a lock if she would just show up some place drunk and kill someone driving home.
She ain’t no Massa
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/video-someone-coakley-campaign-pushes-me-metal-railing
I thought there were campaign limits on what 3 parties could give to elections? How is it the Unions are able to get around campaign spending limits?
Agreed. Some voters know not what they do.
IS THERE AN HONEST, DECENT DEMOCRAT POLITICIAN OUT THERE? i know there are tons of sleazy crooked republican politicians out there, but because the press is so left biased it watches republicans like a hawk and brings their foibles immediately to the fore, whereas it actively covers up democrat sleaze and ignores democrat corruption.
Maximum contribution per union member (even if an individual member does not agree).
No. They all pick and choose their battles, but nothing involving integrity.
Well, this article explains a lot. Coakley is the kind of “shovel-ready” Democrat that Harry Reid needs in “his Senate.”
Given her resume, she will be able to effectively interact with her fellow Democrats upon arrival with the appropriate level of sleaze. In their world she’s a perfect fit.
Great column, Michelle. Unfortunately, many will vote (D) because they are told to.
.oO how many purple trucks full of votes for Coakley will show up IF Brown wins? Of course, Brown has no chance in the state of Mass-o-corruption. Mass-o-corruption is trying to keep pace with Detroit.
Dimsdale, thanks for posting that; that was the other story I was trying to find a link for when I was posting about Martha’s claims that she’s the ‘protector of families and children.’
Michelle M. has covered the political corruption rather well, don’t you think? Watching Fox last evening I caught the short on the street interview FOX”s Griff Jenkins managed to get – little realizing the thuggery occurring nearby – and dear Martha was in a huff about how her record is being distorted. Imagine that.
Truth be told, it’s Martha and her thugs who are distorting her record, as Michelle has amply illustrated.
Don’t forget Father John Geoghan, another of the guilty who got a pass from Martha ‘law and order‘ Coakley.
Will she win? I do not konw. The Mass voters are a strange breed, I remember when Uncle Teddy went off of a little bridge and walked away leaving a young lady to drown, getting before the Mass voters and crying while saying, “I want to continue being your Senator.” The Mass voters bought it.
The Democrats are trying to do a Coakley-r implant. Tone deaf, not able to hear as well as a human ear, but the best they can offer.
soap, don’t give her any ideas. I don’t have the link to hand, but does anyone else remember a home Bible study group somewhere in the western part of the US that was targeted for (IIRC) violating zoning laws? It had something to do with the so-called law enforcement claiming the group was a “church” rather than the small group gathering that it was.
Off topic to soap, prayers are with your friends and family in Haiti, and I’m passing along your link(s) to friends from my small group Bible study, and to others at my church.
WayfaringStranger: Thanks for bringing up Father Geoghan, I was just about to.
People outside of MA need to know that this was a KNOWN PEDOPHILE who Coakley gave a free pass to.
She cut him a deal to save the Church’s face and ALLOWED HIM TO CONTINUE RAPING CHILDREN FOR ANOTHER SEVEN YEARS until he was finally stopped.
THAT is all I ever needed to know about Martha Coakley.
If someone in MA pulls the lever for Coakley, I hope they hear the screams of these children from the church basement every day of their lives.
This is insane. There should never be unionization of public employees. The concept is ridiculous and dangerous. Government is a publicly funded service entity only and not a for-profit business. The only reason for government labor unions is for the purpose of entrenching Democrat Party control of large voting blocks. It is patently illegal on it’s face and needs to be challenged in the harshest manner possible.
All state and federal government unions should be decertified immediately.
Thank goodness, that somebody in office has recognized the threat of little old ladies in nursing homes peddling posies!
The idea that just anybody can plant flowers in “traffic islands, town halls, libraries and veterans’ hospitals across the state” should terrify citizens of the Commonwealth and the nation!
Thank goodness Coakley is standing up to these brutes!
I think Brown has a GREAT chance. I know the following evidence is anecdotal only but I find it encouraging — I did calls for Brown’s campaign last night. We were calling unenrolled voters and out of the 100 or so calls I made I only got two negative comments about Brown and about 20 or 30 people that said they were vigrously supporting Brown, calling their friends and neighbors, etc.
Michelle, If Brwon wins can I change my name from Last Massachusetts Conservative to Happy Massachusetts Conservative?
LMC, thank you for what you’re doing. If I could I’d give you a big hug too.
Saw this posted at NRO:
Apparently we’re making inroads in that foreign country called Cambridge.
Ditto.
Thanks you too WS!
Let’s hope that a majority of the voters of the Peoples Republic of Taxachusettes grow a brain by Tuesday.
Yeeeesssss! The Left must go down. They must go down hard. Give us that seat you Kennedy serfs. Give it up now! Bwwwwahhhhhaaaaahahaha!!!!!
More Leinenkugel and Yuengling for everyone!
Has Coakley played the:
“Electing a Republican will dishonor the memory of the late Senator Kennedy” card yet? I only get my news from blogs so I do not know if it has been played yet.
Oh, Dear! Newt seems to be endorsing Brown. I thought Newt only endorsed leftists in New England? I mean, I just want to be sure Newt has all the facts straight after NY-23. Somebody should give him a call…
Is that even possible???
And, if it is…; then, what’s the bad news?
And Obamacare has suddenly run into a solid wall in DC. Does anyone still doubt that the sudden realization that the Dems might lose Ted Kennedy’s old seat is having an impact?
And it looks like somebody on the other side of the aisle reads this blob:
Sorry, that should be blog, not blob. Yeesh!
The only “magic” in the House or Senate is those funny little mushrooms Harry and Nancy are eating…
THEY ALL NEED TO GO!
When the Democrats claimed to be the “party of the people”, they left out the part that they are really the “party (of the rich and well-connected) people”.
From the Boston Herald garden club story:
“Why is the attorney general’s office picking on us? We’re not going to vote Martha Coakley”
Asked & answered…
He’s absolutely right, and if somebody does not make this a KILLER campaign commercial featuring Croakley watching the outlaw assault, they are dropping the ball.
Interesting article and I’m looking forward to hearing your interview on KHOW 630 AM tomorrow morning with Peter Boyles.
Martha Coakley is one of those shining examples of how this country is turning into a banana republic that would embarrass Latin America. It’s not that she’s a liberal, which is bad enough. The problem is she’s CORRUPT. Too many voters in this country accept corruption as par for the course with politics and that’s why the Coakleys, Dodds, Reids, Pelosis, and Obamas of the world are driving us off a cliff.
Please MA voters, do not vote for this corruptocrat. Like Ann Coulter said, if you can’t bring yourself to vote for the Republican, write in “Gerald Amirault” instead.
Soap,
When I heard about the Haiti earthquake I wondered if you were over there. Glad to see you’re OK. Prayers for the victims.
It’s been true for a long time. As I mentioned in a comment here yesterday, and in this post on my blog, take a look at the data from the 2004 Presidential election:
Thanks JSR. Cannot get a flight in. The airport in Port-au-Prince is shut down according to a friend of mine who just emailed me. He is trying to get back to his family and is stuck in Miami.
Coakley has her personal thugs rough up a reporter that dared to ask her about her Afghanistan flub:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8CdfQGlgVw
Excellent work Michelle. Your research staff is first rate.
While so many are struggling to put three squares a day on their families table, I was reading how republicans and dems alike took junkets to Copenhagen, families in tow, for a big party on the public dime.
I am so disgusted with politicians on both sides of the aisle acting like greedy pigs with OUR money, and doing it right under our noses, as if to say, “if you dont like it, too freaking bad”. Its become so common place that the average Joe and Jane cant even muster outrage before the next example of this piggishness comes to light. And after the outrage passes, the story is forgotten. Is there an ounce of integrity left anymore in any politician???? That’s a rhetorical question by the way.
I wonder how many acorn ‘voters’ ballots will be ‘found’ if Brown wins? This race is going to be close and will probably end like the race in MN with franken.
L
Can we please cut the Coakley campaign worker some slack……
He’s just likely trying to build up his “street cred” in hopes of getting a command position when Obama implements his Federal Civilian Security force.
I hear the Democrats have already asked for the ballots to be counted in Minnesota…
For those concerned about a “fair election” in MA, here is a tidbit about William Galvin the Democrat MA Secretary of State:
Galvin, as the Massachusetts’ Secretary of State, was found to have violated the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act passed in 2002, in which he failed to report and collect the number sent and the number returned of absentee ballots from overseas Military personnel registered to vote in Massachusetts. After an investigation by the US Justice Department, a settlement was reached to force Galvin to comply with the law.
Boston Globe coverage of the assault and battery…
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/13/reporter_takes_stumble_chasing_mass_candidate/
Really. No. Kidding.
Never in my adult life have I seen so many corrupt politicians. And people who willingly vote for them. Letting the priest violate children should put off anyone from voting for her. Even a die-hard Dem can stay home rather than side with her.
Where are our resident trolls to denounce corruption – or is always about “our party” winning?
“…woman inexplicably enters Kennedy car while it was underwater.”
A good read at the Green Room over at HA ‘Dissecting the acorn vote fraud scam’. This is really eye opening and somehow acron needs to be stopped. No state or federal election is safe from this group.
L
Just wait until the SEIU muscle moves into MA this weekend. This is what we have to look forward to in Nov 2010 and even more in 2012. Dems like their thugs, ask BHO.
The reporter who was shoved now asserts it was possibly a DSCC staffer named Michael Meehan.
How anybody can watch the video and assert that the reporter tripped is beyond me.
And the campaign says this is all just all just a right wing smear?
It is is horrible that the Tea Party Patriots are called violent extremists in the media while the real aggressors are either ignored or “justified.”
OR
“Wehrmacht rushes aid to Poland in response to government crisis…”
Let me understand…:
For some folks, complying with a law occurs only after a “settlement” is reached?
Is that way of saying – in English, not in lawyerspeak – that complying with a law is for some folks a negotiable item?
That’s either a joke or a rhetorical question, right?
So we now have several instances/examples of SEIU members, or similar, physically assaulting people who oppose the
DemocraticMarxist party, and then no charges being filed over the assaults.When these things take place, openly, blatantly, on camera, and when it is crystal clear that the media, the judicial system, and the government are only going to protect their own, even down to the lowest levels of government, what then?
Conservatives now have no recourse. Our rights are being curtailed and slowly shut off, our like-minded americans are being assaulted, beat up, kicked around. There are so few judges who are not working for the democrats that it’s a snowballs chance in hell that you’ll get a fair trial should you be charged with something.
Conservatives cannot act the same way liberals do, or the judicial system comes down on them full force.
The system is locked, and the marxists hold the keys.
Conservatives are the new slaves. This is what the liberals, especially blacks, have wanted all along.
Best learn to start calling democrats “master”, because it won’t be long before they take it that far (assuming they don’t skip that step and just go straight to genocide based on political viewpoints)
“Your attitude determines your altitude.” — Dennis Fitch UA 232
What is sweet about Brown, even if Coakely wins a majority of the legally cast votes (unlikely) or wins because of Democrap inspired vote fraud, George Soros is having to write checks to defend a seat he never expected to have to defend.
Coakley needs to lose by at least 5%, in my estimation, to avoid the recount with its mysteriously discovered boxes of ballots in Dem poll watchers trunks ala Franken and Gregoire that would send a women who thinks the Taliban is gone from Afghanistan to sit in the DWI Killer’s old seat.
No matter who wins that seat, I hope they sprayed it with Lysol…
The memory of Senator Edward M Kennedy was dishonered by a drunk driving, negligent manslaughtering, waitress groping, Marxist slug who sat in the Senate for five decades supporting legislation designed to weaken the United States. A dishonorable man who accused Robert Bork of favoring segregated lunch counters. A man who cheated on his wife. A man who mocked his supposed Catholic faith by supporting abortion on demand at taxpayers expense.
Rags,
Considering that Joe Kennedy, Sr. was recalled from the UK in 1940 due to his pro-Nazi sympathies, there may be more truth in this than you realized…
I can’t understand why “non-individuals” (corporations, lobbing groups, unions…) are alowed to make Political contributions. If you look at the tax laws and consider that every $1 dollar the donate costs them $1.35 you can see it is nothing but payment for services, in other words a bribe.
Political contributions should be limited to registered voters, $20 per person and only 8 months prior to an election they actually run in. No more advertising by organisations. They can’t vote, corporations can’t vote only registered voters can vote and only registered voters should be allowed to make contributions and it should be limited to an amount the poorest person can make, I think $20 is the most that should be permitted.
However, the corrupt politicians would never allow it, they are getting rich by extorting money from corporations and groups that want them to submit legislation and vote their way. It is clearly illegal, but they can change the laws so it is impossible to prove and convict, and of course the ethics committee is a joke.
Politicians have killed any hope of democracy in the US. And they complain about corruption in other countries. They really disgust me. Every one of them take the oath of office and never even think about what they are swearing to do. Not one considers what is best for the country, but only what will make them the most money.
Now I’ve ruined my dinner, I am too sick to my stomach to eat just thinking about what these, sorry I can’t think of a words bad enough to describe my feelings about politicians.
Al Franken is on his way to Massachusetts with a trunk load of “newly” discovered ballots and, coincidentally, they are all for Coakley.
aloha 61, too funny, but unfortunately too true. we are the propoganda division of socialist america.
Apparently Coakley saw the whole assault and yet claims to not know anything about what happened. Oh, and it’s on tape with her looking on. Can we NOW call her a liar? What does it take for the American people to wake up??? If she wins in MA, it will be a slap in the face to our patriot ancestors who started out in what was once a great state. Send her out into the dungheap of disgraced politicians!!
Oh, and whatever happened to our resident Scott Brown trashing troll, Steve?? Maybe he realized he couldn’t do any harm to Brown here and decided to try some other conservative blog. I smelled a troll a mile away and I’m glad he’s gone.
Cooky aid Meehan, admits to pushing the reporter Mc into the railing. Now Meehan claims that he did not intend to harm McCormack, but appologized for being too aggressive. BIG FAT BULL. The thug refused to identify himself initially and only now tries to put together some excuse after he was identified in photos and on the video. Cooky Coakley was wittness to assault and the assailant was one of her aids. I wonder if she will be a hostile wintess?
Privy: to have knowledge or cognizance.
I do not think that means what she thinks it means.
http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/
Interesting you should bring that up, HS.
Several hours ago, I sent the following email to the Scott Brown campaign:
Money line from Brown commercial I STRONGLY recommend writing…
“Are you tired of being pushed around by Washington insiders?”
I like it, granite. I hope they use it. We have contributed to Brown’s campaign, so I hope some of that money will be used in good campaign ads. The stops must all come out…time is short!
I hope GREATLY he wins. It would be such a portent of better things to come.
That said, I don’t mean in any way to be a downer, but I don’t trust the “machine” in MA to be fair. As Hugh Hewitt is wont to say, “If it isn’t close, they can’t cheat” and in this case, unfortunately, it’s crazy close. We all know what happens each and every time there has been a close election (esp post-Bush/Gore).
Still, prayers are going up!
For Martha Coakley, liberalism, cronyism, bribery, and corruption come first.
Everything else like common sense, citizenship, patriotism, representing the MA voter instead of her own political ambitions, comes second.
Coakley is the perfect Teddy K clone and the many MA voters (especially the liberal ones) would have it no other way.
You’re not being a downer.
You’re simply showing that you have a good number of properly functioning synapses, unlike so many who routinely, reflexively, and repeatedly elect socialists.
Absolutely!
We who live, work, pay taxes, etc., etc. here don’t trust it either.
Which is why all the attention being given to this race is a good thing. The “machine” knows that it is being watched closely, and the least bit of skulduggery this time (don’t get me started about all the other times they’ve totally ignored the voice of the voters)
will [we hope and pray] inspire a new generation of patriots to drive the enemies of freedom from Beacon Hill.
Remember that the Battle of Lexington and Concord, and the Battle of Bunker Hill (actually fought on Breed’s Hill for any other history buffs) were considered victories by the British.
And we all know how that ended.
Try changing your name from “Mostly Annoyed” to “Zen-like Trance” – it might help.
Mostly rhetorical though I was hoping at least one person would come out and say they are far-left leaning but wouldn’t vote for her based on scruples. No, I’m not drunk but need to sit further back from the TV maybe…
Well, it’s third-hand information, but a young lady making calls for Scott Brown today reported that one person said he (or she?) was a Democrat and had intended to vote for Coakley, but after seeing the video of Martha’s thug pushing a reporter around, changed his/her mind and would vote for Scott.
I hope it’s true.
I don’t want to get my hopes up but I do think this candidate is better than Mr. Hoffman in NY. He comes across better, at least. And there is still a few days left. I hear Obama is going to stump for Coakley this weekend. He could be the “kiss of death” for Coakley.
I really think we have a chance! Maybe Glenn Beck is right…the paradigm is shifting.
Is it my imagination, but is the assailant in the picture wearing a purple tie in the photo?
No, the Founders can’t be held responsible for the wickedness and selfishness of their literal and spiritual decendants. The Modern Massachusettsians,should Coakley win, however, deserve to be held responsible…
NOW IS THE TIME. Politicians will not term limit themselves. We will HAVE TO do it for them. NO INCUMBENTS. I’d rather have Joe the Farmer/Plumber/Salesman and see how it goes than any of these professional gubmint thieves and con artists. I’d rather have a group of people who love America and who take seriously their oath, even if they have never held elective office before. If experience as a politician is so critical, why are we in the terrific mess we find ourselves. And, I am not so sure I want to vote for lawyers, be they Republican or conservative. Look what that has gotten us. VOTE THEM OUT
This woman attempted to block the votes of 100,000 military ballots…why should we expect her to be anything less than a thug?
Massachusettsians? Good heavens, I’ve lived here near on six decades and I’ve never been called that!
Encarta says that Massachusettsans is the correct term, though I’ve never heard us called that; for most of us (native born anyway) Bay Stater is considered correct, after the state’s nickname – though I still call it the Bog State. I am hoping after next Tuesday that it will seem less boggy.
Massachusetts is the #2 cranberry producing state in the US (after Wisconsin).
I hand scooped them berries when I was kid, for a dollar a box. Hard summer work.
I have, however, been called a MASSHOLE. I even got the bumper sticker.
On January 13th, 2010 at 4:50 pm, AlohaGuy said:
This isn’t exactly what you were looking for (they are in Chicago, not MA), but are you aware of the guys at Hillbuzz?
As to addressing Coakley’s (lack of) scruples, check this out…
If she wins in MA, it will be a slap in the face to our patriot ancestors who started out in what was once a great state. Send her out into the dungheap of disgraced politicians!!
Don’t get me wrong here, love2rumba! I didn’t say the founders are responsible for this wickedness…I said it was a slap in the face to them. Big difference. The Founders did everything they possibly could to prevent the type of crap that is going on right now.
Aren’t those the craters that eat automobiles every spring?
New video of the shoving incident here….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGyIVstNTa8
Ha! Come springtime, around here, the moon will have a smoother complexion!