But Democrats have already said they’ll block his seating until after the compromised HCR bill is safely through the Senate.

Is anyone mounting a legal challenge to that tactic? What can be done to force them to seat Brown immediately?

As you say, Kennedy was legendary for constituent services. It’s what kept him popular in Mass despite all the antics that made those of us outside the state scratch our heads and wonder how they kept electing him. It’s a lesson we can learn from our adversaries.

Tip O’Neil wrote a book on politics which has some great guidelines for how to win elections. The most important lesson he learned (and teaches) is to listen to the people who vote for you and ask them for their vote at EVERY election. Don’t assume that people who know you will vote for you. People like to be asked.

I highly recommend everyone here read his book “Man of the House”. Many of the things he did to win elections are illegal and I don’t recommend them, but other things are both basic politics and common sense. Two things that are sadly lacking these days. Warning: O’Neil had no love for Reagan or Republicans in general and it shows in his books, but the smallball rules of politics he talks about are worth overlooking his quirks.

Hotair linked it last night too. Local talk radio hosts are talking about it.

It touches the real rage people here feel. As much as conservatives would like to believe that all this anger is about national politics and conservative principles. Its also about the transparency, the arrogance, the entitlements… that’s what hitting with independents and Democrats that are coming his way.

But I don’t care.
This is the only chance we have to grab a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts in the next twenty years and I’ll go broke if that is what it takes.
Scott Brown smoked Martha Coakley last night and made her look like your typical tax and spend liberal.(Which she is) She also came across as clueless on national security.
If the voters of Massachusetts pick Coakley over Brown then they are friggin’ losers who deserve higher taxes and crappy health care.

Honestly…those are the choices.
Vote for a shred of sanity or vote to become a servant of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
Martha Coakley is absolutely awful and I just can’t imagine anyone saying “Yeah Coakley…I like her. I’m voting Coakley” after the drubbing she took standing next to Scott Brown and that Rick Moranis fellow.

http://www.lowellsun.com/editorials/ci_14171401

A clear and stunning statement to every incumbent.

I pray every Legislature and Senator gets this into their heads today.

I hope something happens that he can have an effect on the Health Care Bill – but as the 41st vote he will be a mighty brake on the train that is bankrupting our country.

When the Bible says “turn the other cheek” – it means that it would cause your abuser to use their open hand ( as opposed to the back of their hand) to slap you. Something considered dishonorable in that time – The Democrats will show their dishonor as they try once again to manipulate the health care vote through State Legislation. We present our other cheek as a temporary pain compared to their peril of showing their true hand.

I believe the people of the great state of Massachusetts are Americans first and democrats second. They will present their other cheek, but remember the sting.

It’s a reminder that we threw off the yoke of royalty back in 1776, and should not volunteer to return to such vile entitlements.

Anyone reverently referring to the “Kennedy seat” needs to be slapped. Repeatedly. Ok, metaphorically, if you insist.

You can’t really prepare for that type of truly extemporaneous remark.

Where is that attitude with every member of Congress?

Brown just continues to impress me.

Oh,my…that poor,dear,sweet lady. She never even saw it coming. Anyway..7…8…9…

Scott Brown is the real deal. It is the People’s seat. It was a great line and put David Gergen right in his elitist place. Coakley is an empty suit who is just being sent up there to do the bidding of the Dem machine, the country be damned.

You can stand up for our entire country and say, “This BS stops NOW!”

POLL: Who Won Tonight’s Debate? Scott Brown vs Martha Coakley vs Joseph Kennedy: http://mittromneycentral.com/2010/01/11/poll-who-won-tonights-debate-scott-brown-vs-martha-coakley/

…on any mention of the Liberal Lion:

“Ted Kennedy must be spinning in his grave”…

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

I have to like seeing this. Matt Drudge always looks for the best news story out of any situation; and there is no denying that Brown hit a home run on that question. There’s certainly nothing like having your best moment highlighted in general news coverage of the debate.

Of course 92% say that Brown won the debate… but I’m just going to assume that Mitt Romney central might not have the most accurate polling sample. I will instead take the $1.3 M raised yesterday as a good sign for the Brown campaign.

I had expressed my belief earlier that national attention on the campaign could only harm it with the vast advantages the left generally has in Massachusetts. I still fear that it could harm us, but I am very happy to see that the Brown campaign seems well able to adapt with the direction that this is taking. He ran a strong quiet campaign over the holidays to get this far, and now he is standing strong under the national spotlight. I can only hope that the remaining week sees his cause advanced.

Even if just getting it close is a victory; I’d really like to see him get the win. Brown seems to me like somebody worth having in the Senate on his own merits – not just to deny the left their 60th seat. I hope the people of Massachusetts are able to see that on the 19th.

If he loses then the state is most likely shown to be fully bought and paid for by the Democrat national machine to those who haven’t figured it out yet with the full nasty national socialist propaganda machine in full display for everyone else to see.

If he somehow* wins… goodbye Dem Congressional supermajority and goodbye to many more of them in November – everywhere they are running for office/re-election/retention.

*such as people voting for him in more numbers than can be fraudulently fixed by Dems running the polling stations or cheating the recounts as in the disgraceful Franken election fraud (or something odd like that)…