I just watched a video of a speech by the new Republican Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie. Wow.
This guy gets it. Christie knows why the voters sent him to the Garden State Capital and he’s doing what they wanted/expected him to do.
The video isn’t embeddable but I can point you to it. Click the image below to watch it. It’ll blow your mind.
Is this six minute segment featuring Rep. Paul Ryan who fillets the Democrats’ health bill numbers effortlessly while all Obama & co. can do is sit there and listen.
Things aren’t looking good for Florida Governor Charlie Crist. His rival for the Republican nomination in the Florida senate race, Marco Rubio, is now leading by 18 points. Wow!
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Chamber rolled out its latest poll for members today at their annual Capitol Days meeting, and it’s yet more bad news for Gov. Charlie Crist.
The poll supposedly found Marco Rubio up 48-30 over Crist in the U.S. Senate primary. Back in October, the chamber’s usually trustworthy surveying found Crist leading Rubio 44-30.
This might explain why brain dead talking heads such as MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch are already sharpening their claws for attack. Witness the network which loves to accuse people of racism as they allow a commentator to refer to Marco Rubio as a “coconut” which is a racist term meaning brown on the outside and white on the inside. Classy.
UPDATE: Deutsch apologizes for using the “coconut” slur.
House Minority Leader, John Boehner, made a case for returning control of the House to Republicans next fall. He went well out of his way to speak respectfully to the Tea Party movement, saying he didn’t want to co-opt it but will listen to it.
If you had any doubts about the gravity of the election of Republican Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, you may abandon them now…
President Obama warned Democrats in Congress today not to “jam” a health care reform bill through now that they’ve lost their commanding majority in the Senate, and said they must wait for newly elected Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown to be sworn into office.
The president also said the same voter anger that swept him into office in 2008 carried Brown into office on a stunning upset victory Tuesday night over heavily favored Democrat Martha Coakley.
“Here’s my assessment of not just the vote in Massachusetts, but the mood around the country: the same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office,” the president said in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. “People are angry and they are frustrated. Not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.”
Brown defeated Coakley in the special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.
With his victory, Brown becomes the 41st Republican vote in the Senate — meaning Democrats have lost the 60 seat super-majority they need in the Senate to avoid a Republican filibuster.
Of course, President Obama isn’t the only Democrat currently doing a furious backstroke away from the jaws of the American electorate. The blood was in the water about 15 minutes after Brown declared victory last night when frightened politicians started ringing the emergency bell…
There are ways Democrats can jam through the current health care bill with procedural tricks or legislative creativity. But what seemed a certainty a week ago feels unlikely today. Don’t take the word of Republicans or even reporters on this one. Listen to what Democrats are saying as they appraised the results overnight:
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) told a local reporter, “It’s probably back to the drawing board on health care, which is unfortunate.” Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) told MSNBC this morning he will advise Democratic leaders to scrap the big bill and move small, more popular pieces that can attract Republicans. And Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said his leadership is “whistling past the graveyard” if they think Brown’s win won’t force a rethinking of the health care plan.
Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), who now might draw a challenge from Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), said the party needs to rethink its entire approach to governing.
I can’t wait to hear an update on Cap and Trade. And where does this leave Nancy Pelosi, who up until last night was still promising to rush Obamacare through the system no matter what?
House Speaker John Boehner has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?
Coakley has conceded to Brown! Scott Brown is the new Senator for Massachusetts!
“It’s the people’s seat.”
About 24 hours ago, I uploaded a short video on YouTube of Massachusetts senate candidate Scott Brown, in which he declared to debate moderator David Gergen “With all due respect, it’s not the Kennedy’s seat, it’s not the Democrats’ seat, it’s the people’s seat.” At the time of this writing, just 24 hours later, that video has been viewed over 270,000 times.
Last night and today, the video was embedded or linked on countless blogs and was even featured on the Drudge Report. That moment of the debate was discussed by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show today and the video was embedded on his website.
Scott Brown was able to summarize a national zeitgeist in four simple words, “it’s the people’s seat.”
Those four words confirmed for many Americans, what they have felt for months. That our elected representatives have forgotten that their seats belong to us, not them. A mere 24 hours after Brown uttered these words, they have already become an auto-fill statement on Google.
That Scott Brown was able to articulate this so eloquently, proves that he has not forgotten what it means to serve the people and for that, he deserves the the trust of Massachusetts voters and Americans from every other state.
Scott Brown is what America needs more of in our elected officials. An understanding that they represent the will of the American people. As a libertarian and a resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I will cast my vote for Brown on January 19th for one simple reason.
I trust him.
Scott Brown’s goal today was five-hundred thousand dollars. He raised over a MILLION.
In this video, Scott Brown talks the talk I wish we heard coming from Washington, DC.
FYI – The Scott Brown Money Bomb is today!
Do you think Scott Brown has Democrats worried about the election? You bet he does.
Scott Brown is his own man.
