The People of Massachusetts Are Taking Back Their Seats

The Scott Brown revolution is alive and well in Massachusetts.

Tuesday night, January 26th at 7:00 when most people would like to be home relaxing after work, almost 500 average citizens from Massachusetts packed a convention hall in the Boston suburb of Braintree. They shared some common interests. They’re either running for office or helping someone else run for office. Some of them are running for federal or state offices, some for seats in local towns and cities and some for school boards. The one sentiment they share is clear: They’ve had enough.

A capacity crowd!

The event they showed up for was a “candidate school” offered by Boston talk radio host Michael Graham of 96.9 WTKK, a man the Boston Phoenix dubbed “Boston’s maestro of conservative controversies.” In between his tenure at WTKK and a career in stand-up comedy, Graham ran political campaigns. Today, he is sharing his knowledge with the citizens of the Bay State and encouraging them to participate in the system.

Attendees included people like Francis McLaughlin, a retired Boston fire fighter and registered Republican since 1975. McLaughlin is running for the Massachusetts House of Representatives for specific reasons:

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Posted Feb 3rd 2010 at 7:27 am in Exclusives, News, Politics, State Politics, Tea Party | 6825055 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/mlachance/2010/02/03/the-people-of-massachusetts-are-taking-back-their-seats/The+People+of+Massachusetts+Are+Taking+Back+Their+Seats2010-02-03+15%3A27%3A27Mike+LaChance

Claire McCaskill: Yes on C-Span Conference, Yes on Fines

Friday morning Jamie Allman and I interviewed Claire McCaskill who gave further signs of Democrat infighting as she agreed to issue a press release saying that she supports having a broadcasted conference committee on the fauxcare negotiations. She was challenged as to why, whenever on the Sunday morning talk shows or making other media rounds, she had not taken the opportunity to voice dissent against the actions of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to make the deliberations private.

She also acknowledged that the legislation does enforce penalties for Americans who do not choose government-run fauxcare.

McCaskill also singled me out by saying my calling her out on her fauxcare vote (because the majority of Americans and Missourians do not support it and her approval rating is sliding as a result) was “politicizing the issue.” I’d say not making yourself available to your constituents (her staff was nice but callers rarely get through and the senator obviously disregards the polling data) and voting for an unconstitutional bill which abuses the commerce clause for the sake of giving Democrats a win under the guise of providing real reform while not actually providing real reform – is real politicizing.

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Posted Jan 9th 2010 at 5:05 pm in Healthcare, News, Politics | 57690121 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dloesch/2010/01/09/claire-mccaskill-yes-on-c-span-conference-yes-on-fines/Claire+McCaskill%3A+Yes+on+C-Span+Conference%2C+Yes+on+Fines2010-01-10+01%3A05%3A27Dana+Loesch

Its a Wrap: The Most Underreported Stories of 2009

This year saw the birth of the tea party movement, the rise of administrative radicalism, and a suppression of information unlike ever before seen. Were it not for the new penny presses, blogs and the investigative citizens who author them, much of this information would be six feet under. When the media goes state and becomes nothing more than an echo chamber for the government, the task of sharing truth falls to the original keepers of liberty: the American people.

These are the most Underreported Stories of 2009:

1. CLIMATEGATE
Al Gore needs something to sustain him and his big pimpin’ life down at his ginormous, energy-sucking mansion in Tennessee. Thus the green market was born, a made-up market chock full of products like carbon credits and other Willy Wonka (but not as cool) ish items for people to buy as a way to feel good about themselves and their contribution to the planet without having to actually do anything. They don’t need a God! They need a Prius!

Celebrities Botoxed within an inch of their lives began popping up in PSA’s about global warming, about how we need to drive inefficient clown cars that run on electricity (which is still produced in coal-powered plants but hey, whatever) to save the planet. Musicians like Sheryl Crow crowed about using just a square of toilet paper to remove waste that has a greater street value than her latest album. All the hubris manifested in regulations handed down from Congress upon the automobile industry, the coal industry, et al., until finally! Cap’n Trade appeared in the House.

Cap’n Trade will rape and pillage your energy bills and even boss you around when it comes to remodeling or rehabbing a home. It’s almost like … congress has nothing better to do.

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Tags: ACORN, Al Gore, Andy Stern, climategate, Democrats
Posted Jan 1st 2010 at 6:34 am in ACORN, Big Labor, Congress, Economics, Education, Environment, Featured Story, Healthcare, Justice/Legal, Media Criticism, News, Obama, Politics, Tea Party | 54262147 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dloesch/2010/01/01/the-most-underreported-stories-of-2009/Its+a+Wrap%3A+The+Most+Underreported+Stories+of+20092010-01-01+14%3A34%3A55Dana+Loesch

Study Shows Partisan Influence On Stimulus Spending

Democrats are feeling stimulated these days.  In a recent study, Jerry Brito and Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center tracked stimulus spending in all 435 congressional districts plus the District of Columbia.  They found that the amount of stimulus money received by a district was influenced by its partisan representation, rather than economic need. Districts with a Democratic congressman received almost twice as many dollars as those with Republican representation, whereas there was no relationship between a district’s unemployment level and the amount of stimulus money it received.

Barack Obama has broken many campaign promises since taking office, but when it comes to the comparisons to Franklin Delano Roosevelt saddled on him by his adorning followers in the media, he has worked hard to live up to the hype.  We already knew that both dishonestly campaigned against the excessive spending of their predecessors before breaking the bank on their own watch.  Now we also know that President Obama, like FDR, has abused a crisis atmosphere to direct economic relief funds for partisan purposes.

Patronage was instrumental in protecting the incumbent Democratic Party in the first mid-term election under FDR, despite an unemployment rate that surpassed 20 percent.  His administration targeted swing districts for infusions of federal dollars – spending money not to increase employment, but to maximize electoral gains.  He succeeded.  Democrats expanded their majorities by nine seats in both chambers.

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Tags: Barack Obama, Democrats, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, political corruption
Posted Dec 21st 2009 at 10:23 am in Congress, Economics, Politics | 4988262 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/bgarst/2009/12/21/study-shows-partisan-influence-on-stimulus-spending/Study+Shows+Partisan+Influence+On+Stimulus+Spending2009-12-21+18%3A23%3A58Brian+Garst

Scare Tactics: Obama Says USA Will ‘Go Bankrupt’ if Senate Bill Not Passed

You mean if we don’t add a trillion dollars to the deficit then the country will … go … bankrupt?

Is it Opposite Day?

President Obama told ABC News’ Charles Gibson in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government “will go bankrupt.”

The president laid out a dire scenario of what will happen if his health care reform effort fails.

“If we don’t pass it, here’s the guarantee….your premiums will go up, your employers are going to load up more costs on you,” he said. “Potentially they’re going to drop your coverage, because they just can’t afford an increase of 25 percent, 30 percent in terms of the costs of providing health care to employees each and every year. “

The president said that the costs of Medicare and Medicaid are on an “unsustainable” trajectory and if there is no action taken to bring them down, “the federal government will go bankrupt.”

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Posted Dec 16th 2009 at 5:01 pm in Healthcare, Obama | 47718164 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dloesch/2009/12/16/scare-tactics-obama-says-usa-will-go-bankrupt-if-senate-bill-not-passed/Scare+Tactics%3A+Obama+Says+USA+Will+%27Go+Bankrupt%27+if+Senate+Bill+Not+Passed2009-12-17+01%3A01%3A19Dana+Loesch

Obama is No Captain Jean-Luc-Picard — USS Enterprise

“Make It So!” Jean-Luc Picard, the intrepid, clever and compassionate leader of the USS Enterprise, often issued this directive to his loyal crew to execute a plan, to save the ship, themselves, or entire worlds.  And, the Enterprise crew got it done.  Consider President Barack Obama, worlds to appease, a nation to cajole, and a Congress with more plans to assimilate than the Borg. With jobless numbers at 10.2%, Obama is likely wondering: what went wrong?

Picard’s introspective and analytical nature bluntly assessed his actions, refusing excuses, with a plan to improve his performance.  Obama may spend time on the White House holodeck, envisioning “what if” scenarios, but an assessment of the year since his election, shows that few of Obama’s campaign promises have come to fruition.

The deficit of $459 billion, which President Obama inherited from George Bush has grown to $1.4 trillion, while the economy has shrunk.  The 3.5-million-jobs-created campaign promise has been watered down to claim 600,000 jobs “saved” .

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Tags: Borg, Cash for Clunkers, Congress, continuing resolution, Czars
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 2:37 pm in Congress, Economics, Obama, Politics | 2666254 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/ldoan/2009/11/06/obama-is-no-captain-jean-luc-picard-uss-enterprise/Obama+is+No+Captain+Jean-Luc-Picard+--+USS+Enterprise+2009-11-06+21%3A37%3A51Lurita+Doan

The Real Meaning of New Jersey, and Virginia and New York 23

A message was sent to both the Republican and Democrat parties yesterday at polling stations across America, especially on the east coast. The perennially blue New Jersey now has a Republican Governor-elect. In Virginia, Republicans swept the top three spots in state office with Bob McDonnell winning that state’s gubernatorial race. Virginia was the coveted swing state last time around, a state that Keith Olberman cited as an example of permanent change. Interestingly enough, in exit poll questions asking voters why they chose the folks they chose were answered with one word: “change.”

New York’s hotly contested 23rd district was of epic soap opera proportions, a problem which is the direct result of party loyalists inability to see past their own navels. On October 16th I launched DumpDede.com and together with Bill Hennessy, held a last-minute presser (drive-bys and party hacks ignored that it was given on six hours’ notice and tried to use the crowd size as a way to neutralize the scope and power of the movement) and called on the GOP to dump the RINOs and support conservative Doug Hoffman. I heard “politics is local.” Absolutely – and when it is a federal congressional seat, a seat with a vote that could be the tiebreaker on legislation that could affect us all, the boundaries that separate districts and states fade away.

If you insert “conservatism” whenever you hear Doug Hoffman’s name, you get the point.

That’s not what the race was about.

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Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 1:02 pm in Featured Story, State Politics, Tea Party | 25594163 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dloesch/2009/11/04/the-real-meaning-of-new-jersey-and-virginia-and-new-york-23/The+Real+Meaning+of+New+Jersey%2C+and+Virginia+and+New+York+232009-11-04+20%3A02%3A57Dana+Loesch

And You Thought This Was All About Health Care…

The all-consuming debate over health care has effectively sucked all of the oxygen out of the policy world leaving little room for discussion, let alone action on other major elements of the progressive agenda—or so it would seem.

The mammoth bills winding their way through Congress will certainly upend our health care sector, if they are enacted. Little known, however, are several provisions that will provide an enormous pay-off to one of the Democrat parties most loyal constituency—Big Labor.

The Obama campaign spent much of 2008 writing checks to various left-leaning interest groups who saw the opportunity to cash in on long-standing priorities that would finally be achievable with a Democratic Congress and a liberal president.  Now, these groups are finding that no one is available to cash these checks as long as the administration is laser focused on reconfiguring one sixth of the American economy.

But organized labor has sought to turn this situation into a new opportunity. By throwing themselves into the health care debate and mobilizing their resources behind passage of the Democrat proposal, labor has been rewarded with the ability to shape the content of the health care legislation and to begin to collect on its political debt. (more…)

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Tags: AFL-CIO, Card Check, collective bargaining, Democrats, EFCA
Posted Sep 10th 2009 at 12:08 am in Healthcare, News, Politics | 206103 Commentshttp://biggovernment.com/dobrien/2009/09/10/and-you-thought-this-was-all-about-health-care/And+You+Thought+This+Was+All+About+Health+Care...2009-09-10+07%3A08%3A15Doug+O%26%2339%3BBrien