Time to Enjoy the Effects of Brown’s Victory


For conservatives and Republicans, the next few days and weeks will be ones to savor. Scott Brown’s win yesterday will force Democrats to consider just how many seats they’re willing to lose to complete a health care bill. Jim Webb, Brad Ellsworth, Evan Bayh, Joe Lieberman, and Anthony Weiner were all willing to come out and call for a rethink yesterday – before the results in Massachusetts were really clear. No less a liberal leader than Barney Frank thinks it’s time to sue for peace.

It will be almost impossible for Democrats to continue with health care as if nothing happened.

Beyond the effect on the policy debate, the Massachusetts result really does show that there’s no such thing as an unwinnable race this year. Republican candidates who had made decisions not to tilt at windmills, are now reconsidering. According to the Politico, that may lead one of the House’s best-known and most trusted conservative leaders to challenge one of the Senate’s safer Democrats:

At least one Republican might do more than cheer for Massachusetts: House GOP Conference Chairman Mike Pence is now considering a campaign of his own against Sen. Evan Bayh.

The outspoken conservative could effectively clear the Republican primary field and give his party a top-tier opponent for one of the best funded Democratic incumbents in 2010.

Pence issued a statement on the Massachusetts race, saying the “American people are telling Washington, DC enough is enough. In this special election in Massachusetts they have sent a deafening message to the political class.”

If Pence gets into this race, Bayh will have a top-notch opponent who can raise money, and who’s in tune with the mood of the voters. In a state that looks likely to be deep-red again, Bayh will face all he can handle.

And in the next few weeks, we’ll likely see many more top-notch GOP challengers emerge for many races.


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Perhaps the title should read "No time"

Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 7:09AM EST (link)

Every assessment and analysis up to Jan 19 became invalid last night.

Every player, in Congress, the White House, the central Parties, changed.

The dynamic has all changed, so needs to be thought. Back to Square One, only we’re starting from the 40 yard line insteda of out own goal line.

First down and 5 (delay of game) at the 41 yard line, that is...

Chemical Sam (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:03AM EST (link)

n/t

Criterion Chemical was in the black for FY2010!
Not bad considering the forces arrayed against small business these days.
Let’s see about actually making some serious profit this year. Shameless capitalism, by:
www.criterionchemical.com

(Encroachment would mean the D's have control of the football. They don't. Not anymore.)

Chemical Sam (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:06AM EST (link)

That’s my football analogy for the season!

Criterion Chemical was in the black for FY2010!
Not bad considering the forces arrayed against small business these days.
Let’s see about actually making some serious profit this year. Shameless capitalism, by:
www.criterionchemical.com

If there was a penalty on Scott Brown last night,

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:17AM EST (link)

it was this. WooHoo!!!

 
 
 

Like this?

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:08AM EST (link)

George, you're showing your age :D

louisiana (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:16AM EST (link)

Don’t think I’ve ever listened to the Who as early as 7:13 AM, but it is so appropriate this morning. Ted…Who?

Yep, I'm getting up there

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:22AM EST (link)

But this geezer is feelin’ rather spry this morning :)

 

The song is by the Canadian band

Achance (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 10:06AM EST (link)

Guess Who, the first Canadian band to have a #1 hit in the US. The Who are a British band which until CSI came along had been relegated to the misty-eyed memories of aging boomers. I hope they acquit themselves better at this year’s Super Bowl than the equally aged Rolling Stones did a couple of years ago.

In Vino Veritas

 
 
 
 

Pence doesn't even have to run

bkeyser Wednesday, January 20th at 7:25AM EST (link)

all he has to do is say he’s considering it, and Democrats will have to rethink where they’re spending their money. This could be the case all over the country. Think the DNC wants to put money in Boxer’s campaign? Well, they’ll have to now.

We should pay very close attention to where the new DNC money is coming from over the summer. With so many folks out of work, those $10 contributions won’t likely be the norm…

they can reconsider

proudgop (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 7:42AM EST (link)

but as far as I am concerned the likes of Bayh, Lieberman, Ellsworth etc all already voted yes for this health care bill multiple times

they can try to spin and spin all they want. The simple fact is they must all go down!

It is all well and good getting rid of liberal dems

benko Wednesday, January 20th at 8:15AM EST (link)

But if we replace them with spendthrift republicans we gain nothing and repeat Bush’s mistakes.

How do we avoid this?

Start by running for precinct...

audax (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:47AM EST (link)

…delegate/committeeman/captain….get on the candidate selection committee, rules, platform and executive committee. Run for County chairman….get your conservative (noun) friends to come with you. Vote for each other to district/State and National Conventions. take over the Republican party…run for school board, local office….

Audeamus pro audere est facere

 

icaucus

karenmartin (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 11:12AM EST (link)

http://icaucus.ning.com/

these folks have a very sophisticated system of vetting local and national candidates with 80 item questionnaire. check our site, watch their vids. and sign on to begin vetting candidates in your state/district

http://twitter.com/karmartin
www.spartanburgteaparty.org

 
 
 
 

On Senator Webb

abbynormal Wednesday, January 20th at 7:49AM EST (link)

I have to wonder if he’s playing both sides of the fence. He voted in favor of the Senate Health Care Bill, a fact that has not been well receied by the Virginia Pilot reading public. Perhaps he hopes if it dies, we’ll forget his vote in favor of his Progressive Party, and against America.

I won’t forget.

I will follow through on my promise to dedicate every waking moment of my Navy-retiree-stay-at-home-Mom time campaigning for his conservative opponent, whoever that may be.

Same goes for Senator Warner.

abby- Webb is absolutely playing both sides

Scope (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:51AM EST (link)

Before the vote, he came out with statements that the Obama admin. was going about Obamacare the wrong way. He gave some hope that he would be the one to stand up against it. Not so. He voted for it like a good little Progressive.

For him to speak to sitting Brown before any more votes shows the agnst he is feeling about his re-election. It also doesn’t help him that VA has overwhelmingly voted for the 3 top spots to be filled by not only Republicans, but, conservative Republicans. The VA house also added more Republicans. I believe all but 1 county election also went to Republicans.

 
 

I talked to some friends

cari Wednesday, January 20th at 7:55AM EST (link)

from Indiana. They’re more than ready to see Bayh go. According to them, they will never forgive or forget his vote for the healthcare deform bill.

Mike Pence said at the 9/12 rally: “Some would describe you as an angry mob, but you look more like the cavalry to me!” I’m sure Pence will look like the cavalry to Indiana voters if he gets in this race.

I hope the GOP establishment

DerKrieger (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 7:58AM EST (link)

…finally gets the message that limited government conservatism resonates with We the People.

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison

Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” — John Locke, 1690

Amen, DerKrieger. That is why the Rubio race,

eburke (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:04AM EST (link)

among all the worthy causes out there this year, is the #1 recipient of my ‘Obama’s gonna get it all anyway’ fund. There is no clearer example of the establishment mindset than the NRSC ‘annointing’ Crist a year before the primary, and no clearer contrast between a RINO and a principaled conservative.

When it comes to the ‘we’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore” message, Florida is the establishment GOP’s Massachusetts.

“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

Unified Patriots

 
 
 

election

sammyc Wednesday, January 20th at 7:57AM EST (link)

I have already written to Rob Simmons (CT) after reading some of his votes on partial birth abortion, amnesty and card check. I had thought he was my guy, but when informed he voted yes to all these things needs to get clarification from him or he will NOT be my guy. I think we need to be very careful as has been said before to not just vote them all out, but to get the right candidates in.

 

The key is that we can duplicate the 50 State Strategy.

Section9 Wednesday, January 20th at 8:33AM EST (link)

The “Regional Party” meme was designed to dissuade us from doing this kind of thing.

Now we can wage a campaign of annihilation against the so called “Blue Dogs” that Rahm foisted on the nation in 2006.

Con men, all of them.

“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”-Winston Churchill

 

Kill off the Blue Dogs and draw distinctions with Liberals.

Section9 Wednesday, January 20th at 8:37AM EST (link)

The D’s don’t survive as a Governing Party if they are NOT able to draw distincitons with us. The Blue Dogs were key to giving Pelosi and Reid the power of the Purse and the judiciary.

Destroy them and you begin, just begin to destroy the disease of progressive National Socialism that the Democrats have imported from Europe.

As Levin has insisted, restoring Constitutional Government as the Framers intended will be the work of decades. The Progressives have been at this game since 1896, at least.

“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”-Winston Churchill

 

Will the Establishment Republicans Learn From This??.....

Blue_State_Refugee Wednesday, January 20th at 8:38AM EST (link)

….I think this election was also about an indictment on the methods the libs were using to force their agenda through under cover of darkness and with the background deals, along with overspending. Do you think the establishmnet Republicans will get it?

Blue State by Birth, Red State by Choice

 

Broken Arrow

makemyday (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:41AM EST (link)

What started with the snipers in NY-23 and Marco Rubio in FL grew into concentrated fire in VA and NJ and finally the artillery in MA.

The dems will publically be finger pointing in the papers and as talking heads in the commentaries on cable news. In the background the true powers that be will be diagnosing what went wrong and how to effectively combat the artillery.

This is the time the squishies on both sides of the aisle run to the middle ground. How do you defeat artillery? By getting in close to your enemy, so close that his artillery can’t be used.

This is where Broken Arrow comes in. This is a fight for our lives and the lives of our families and communities. As the artillery continues to pound them and they move closer to our lines to avoid the shelling, we must be willing to continue the artillery even if it means calling it in on our own positions.

These progressives must be shelled out of existence and their footsteps in the sand made to disappear

When all else fails…….. Shoot!

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” –American author Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.” –George Washington, letter to Philip Schuyler, 1777

The Dems and MSM still don't...

audax (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:52AM EST (link)

…get it…listening to American radio news this morning…it was 5:00 AM EST and they were discussing strategy to cram health care through before Scott Brown takes his seat….

Audeamus pro audere est facere

Keep up the shelling

makemyday (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 9:00AM EST (link)

The noise of the shelling is just as effective at demoralizing troops as are the hits.

When all else fails…….. Shoot!

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” –American author Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.” –George Washington, letter to Philip Schuyler, 1777

Ever see a Civil War artillery piece?

Achance (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 10:23AM EST (link)

The most common CW artillery piece was the 12 pound smooth bore Napoleon. It’s most lethal use was as a short-range “super shotgun” firing canister shot with which it could tear great holes in approaching infantry lines. Unfortunately, for cannons and cannoneer, the 12# had about the same or less range as a rifled musket. Confederate infantry began to specifically attack the artillery with musketry. Rather than bringing the skirmishers into the main line at the beginning of an infantry attack, the skirmishers went forward and attacked the artillery killing gun servers and horses and leaving the artillery piece both unable to fire and unable to move. Many surviving artillery pieces that actually saw CW service look like they had a case of smallpox from all the scars on the barrel and furnishings from musket fire. There are many documented examples of the wheel spokes being cut through by musketry and of the caissons being exploded.

So the moral of the story is you don’t put your head down when the artillery shows up, you attack it.

In Vino Veritas

A 12 pounder????

audax (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 11:13AM EST (link)

He is probably not thinking of using CW artillery, but this artillery:

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/paladin/
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/ufh/

or maybe this one:

http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/abrams.htm

Audeamus pro audere est facere

 

Hence the evolution of artillery

makemyday (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 2:39PM EST (link)

into pieces that can throw rounds out to 20 miles or futher.

The VC were very aware that if they could get close to the wire or even inside the wire, they could curtail artillery and airstrikes unless a commander declared “Broken Arrow”.

No musket fire involved.

When all else fails…….. Shoot!

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.” –American author Mark Twain (1835-1910)

“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.” –George Washington, letter to Philip Schuyler, 1777

Micheal Yon on "Arty"

audax (Diary) Friday, January 22nd at 11:40AM EST (link)

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/spitting-cobra.htm

Audeamus pro audere est facere

 
 
 
 
 
 

I agree

10ksnooker (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 9:21AM EST (link)

No such thing as un-winnable race.

So let’s win them all!!!!

 

The citizens spoke loudly!

ztruth (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 10:03AM EST (link)

Congratulations goes out to the citizens of Massachusetts on this major victory!

 

The Presidency itself is in play in 2010

jccbin (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 10:46AM EST (link)

Should the blind miscreants in the White House continue their mad Progressive march into every wall of the Constitution, they may well find themselves carrying a box of evidence of Nixonian proportions.
Forced resignation sounds lovely to me. Along with subsequent prosecution and maybe a public hanging or two.

 

But don't savor it to long...

theillinoisguy (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 11:31AM EST (link)

Now is the time to double down on OUR efforts to elect more conservatives to Congress and the Senate. While the people have spoken, it is not time to get complacent. The perfect storm of war fatigue and a wounded economy, mostly brought on by democrats is the only reason for the election results of 2006 and 2008. November 2, 2010 will mark the death of progressivism – permanently. They people have seen it, and not only don’t like it, they are fearful of it. This is not how the founding fathers envisioned America. They founded America to get away from the socialism of Europe. They don’t want to live in a welfare state. They want accountability from their politicians. They want a fair value for their tax dollars, not bribes, pork, and payoffs.
http://theillinoisguy.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/obama-the-best-president-ever/

 

Hotline reporting it now too

Mayhem (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:19PM EST (link)

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/01/pence_to_meet_w.php

I have been clamoring for Mike Pence to jump into this race for couple months. We have several nice men running for Bayh’s seat right now, but nobody in this State has the fire-power that Mike Pence does (nor the fundraising capacity). NRSC’s poll may have him down a few points right now, but I guarantee that Pence will become the darling of the conservative media if he jumps in, and his poll numbers will quickly jump when activists begin pumping money and attention into this race.

If Pence gets in, the race will have to be considered a toss up, if not a lean GOP. Indiana is ripe for the taking, folks. Trust me on this.

James Madison, Jim DeMint, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan… You get the picture.

 

Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass)

reaganiterepublicanresistance Wednesday, January 20th at 12:42PM EST (link)

We might be surprised at just how significant a moment this turns-out to be… for Scott Brown, as well as the nation. Like Reagan’s 1984 campaign commercial- “It’s Morning in America”-

Great post here, FYI it’s linked at the Reaganite Republican… l

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/2010/01/senator-scott-brown-r-mass.html

 

Leave if to NRO and Ponnuru to dampen the Brown victory

The_Rebel (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:05PM EST (link)

with this piece of crap from some moonbat professor at the University of Chicago:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzJkYmQ3ZTU0YWE2YjM0NTI1M2QyNWM5MTZiMzMzZmU=

You can put Ponnuru in with the likes of David Frum and David Brooks, people who really don’t have our best interests at heart.

 

What's funny...

D.T. Dickinson (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 2:50PM EST (link)

…is that I’m reading more and more comments from leftist posters in various sites how this election was a message that not enough ultra-left-wing policies are being pushed, and Dems aren’t strongly forwarding a progressive agenda.

Right.

- D.T. Dickinson

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

C.S. Lewis

 

What We Need is Top Tier Candidates

gemimail Thursday, January 21st at 12:44PM EST (link)

in Washington against Patty Murray and in Wisconsin against Russ Feingold. We could take these seats if we had the right candidates but you cannot beat somebody with nobody.

 

Who has spoken?

lightfootletters Thursday, January 21st at 5:16PM EST (link)

The people who have spoken seem to have been Independents. Which I believe will increase in numbers in most states. Based on my research Independents are mostly non-partisans, true liberals( former Republicans), libertarians (also former Republicans).