Every American you know needs to read this
Massachusetts is holding a special election to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. The Democrat Coakley supports the Democrat’s health-care plan. The Republican Brown opposes it.
With Kennedy, the Democrats had 60 seats in the Senate. With 60 YES votes, they can ram through whatever they like. With 59, they can’t. So this Massachusetts election is, in many ways, a referendum on the health-care issue.
And I’m not the only one who sees it this way. MoveOn.org is sending out an email to its members that says, in part,
“In 11 days, we could lose progressive hero Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat — and with it, any hope for passing major progressive legislation this year. … A Republican victory here would be a catastrophe — Democrats would lose their 60th vote in the Senate, health care could die, and the Republicans could block pretty much anything they want.”
The Boston Herald just reported that Democrats have ADMITTED that, if Brown wins, they will do whatever they can to delay his taking the Senate seat, which is currently occupied by a temporary, pro-health-care voter.
The Herald notes, “In contrast, Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell) was sworn in at the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 18, 2007, just two days after winning a special election to replace Martin Meehan.”
In other words, the Democrats’ attitude is “election be damned, we’ll ram this thing through no matter what the people want.”
SOURCE: “Scott Brown swearing-in would be stalled to pass health-care reform” By Frank Quaratiello – January 9, 2010
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/healthcare/view.bg?articleid=1224249
Even if you are a die-hard progressive who thinks Congress is doing a bang-up job with this health-care reform business, you should be opposed to Democrats using sleazy, underhanded means to get it passed. Any corruption in the political process undermines our freedoms and sets a precedent for whoever is in power next. And elections happen every year.
Consider these recent Rasmussen poll results:
Sixty percent (60%) of U.S. voters say it’s at least somewhat likely that the next president will be a Republican. (The question did not specify whether that next president will be elected in 2012 or 2016.)
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of voters now say Congress is doing a poor job. That’s the highest negative finding since Rasmussen Reports began surveying on the question in November 2006.
Fifty-four percent (54%) of likely voters disapprove of Obama’s performance as president and 75% of these STRONGLY disapprove. Forty-six percent (46%) of likely voters approve of Obama’s performance, but only 58% of these STRONGLY approve.
Fifty-two percent (52%) of likely voters oppose the Democrat’s health-care reform plan, while only forty-two (42%) favor it. The remainder are undecided. Rasmussen has been tracking this issue since before Thanksgiving and has found this ten point spread favoring the “against” position to be fairly consistent.
Forty-five percent (45%) of likely U.S. voters now think a group of people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems than the current Congress. Thirty-six percent (36%) disagree. Nineteen percent (19%) are not sure.
Americans are currently divided almost evenly between Democrats, Republicans and Independents.
Only one in three Americans currently feel that America is moving in the right direction.
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SOURCES:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/right_direction_or_wrong_track
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/partisan_trends
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/partisan_politics
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/september_2009/health_care_reform
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/january_2010/45_say_random_group_from_phone_book_better_than_current_congress
Moveon.org By Big Fur Hat – Jan 8, 2010 @ http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=14586
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