MiddleCoast Notes

Local story: North Dakota would suffer under cap-and-trade

The only state in the country that has been a job-creating success story and the Obamabots want to kill it. Some feet to the fire prairie fire sentiment even there though, for the current governor, now new GOP (takeover) Senate candidate:

Hoeven: I Didn’t Attend Any Tea Parties Because I Wasn’t Invited

The Firing Of Keith Gladney. If you don't remember the name Gladney, his brother was the vendor knocked down and beaten by the SEIU at a St. Louis Tea Party presence at a Carnahan townhall meeting. The attackers were given a slap on the wrist.

Recalling Some Sense. Mary Landrieu's Louisiana Purchase in bad odor among some at home.

Dem AG Joins Fight Against ‘Cornhusker Kickback’ Bipartisan revulsion.

UPDATE: More from Shreveport. Protests.

Dems Stuck on It's the Economy Stupid

You know, unemployment would be a lot lower if all you people would just stop looking for work (part ii).

Oh yeah, we're the stupid ones.

In Defense of Tea Parties

A small businesswoman in California, FED UP at a town meeting. (Video below). Tunku Varadarajan, The Daily Beast. I am a Tea Partier. Millions of Americans are, shocked into demonstrating and speaking up at town meetings as never before. We are often derided as rabble and slurred, when we are among the most productive and informed citizens out there.

We the People are the genesis of the Tea Parties.

And we won't shut up no matter what.

Watch: Saturday, February 28, 2009
Don't Mortgage Their Future

I don't recognize my country any more. Don't mortgage (steal) my grandchildren's future.

These women stood right in front. I saw them and spoke up about it, one took notes she was so intent, and came up to me afterwards. They were so worried. So I zoomed in on the picture. Don't mortgage my children's future Mr. President. Nancy Pelosi. Dick Durbin. This is wrong. This is so wrong. This is the legacy we leave them? Everlasting debt? What will they call our generation?

--crossposted at BackyardConservative

Another Coast

Dems Could Lose the House

Via IBD. The non-partisan Cook Political Report broaches the subject and backs it up with numbers. The Massachusetts special election Senate race will be another key indicator, after GOP gubernatorial wins in purple Virginia and blue New Jersey this fall.

9 reasons why the Dec. jobs report is bad news for Dems. James Pethokoukis:

8. Combine a weak labor market – which may appear to be getting worse to voters – with the moribund housing market and rising gas prices, and you got a toxic triple threat that will be poisonous to Democratic incumbents and further drain Obama’s political capital.

But maybe they will steal the election the Chicago Way. Ed Lasky, The American Thinker. Maybe Rahmbo will have a new under the radar job. SEIU, ACORN, perhaps with new names. HT Steve Bartin.

We have to fight back so it's not close.

More. WaPo:

Gone is the bravado of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who a year ago in his farewell address to his House Democratic colleagues predicted that 2010 would resemble 1934. That year, for the third consecutive cycle, Democrats picked up seats as the public rallied behind President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal."

Instead, the Rothenberg Political Report is predicting that "substantial Republican gains now look almost inevitable." In the House, Rothenberg, an independent handicapper, considers 47 Democratic seats and just 14 GOP seats as competitive. Republicans need a net gain of 40 to take the majority.

We have to fight so they can't steal it.

--crossposted at BackyardConservative

America Rising

Watch. Powerful stuff.

Dorgan Out

Feeling the Tea Party heat? in frigid North Dakota, the Dem Dorgan bows out:

Dorgan's decision stunned members of his party, who control the Senate but are facing spirited challenges from Republicans in several states. Democrats were confident heading into the new year that Dorgan would run for re-election even as rumors intensified that Republican Gov. John Hoeven would challenge him in November.

Early polling showed Dorgan trailing Hoeven in a hypothetical contest, and Democrats expected a competitive race if the matchup materialized.

Will his fellow Dem and lone Rep. Earl Pomeroy step up?

Good luck keeping those open seats in RedState NoDak.

I still remember Pomeroy's 14 year old nephew calling Rush, at home sick, but a fan, and reading one of his books despite his mom's (Pomeroy's sister's) horror...maybe he's old enough to run these days. It was during the Clinton administration. He didn't have coattails either.

At least four Democrats, including Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and five-term Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, are in serious trouble. Dorgan's decision means Democrats now will have to defend open seats in three states. The others are Delaware and Illinois, where Sens. Ted Kaufman, who has Vice President Joe Biden's old seat, and Roland Burris, who has President Barack Obama's old seat, aren't running for full terms.

Ha.

P.S. Say Anything on a Pomeroy challenger. And another abrupt Dem announcement in swing state Colorado. Keep 'em coming:)

...Michigan:

Cherry's decision to drop out makes Dillon the favorite for the Democratic nomination, Ferguson said. Ferguson acknowledged Dillon isn't a favorite son of organized labor, a major player in the Democratic Party, but said party factions will unite behind the eventual nominee, whoever it is.

"Democrats are not suicidal, just combative," he said.

Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, who himself considered and then decided against running for governor in 2010, said Cherry's ties to Granholm and her record would have made a campaign difficult.

"Had he run, he would have to run on Jennifer Granholm's record," Patterson said this morning. "And that's an indefensible record. He would have been held accountable."

An indefensible record.

...Dem Sen. Chris Dodd hangs it up. The Dems' year of living dangerously. And David Brooks thinks we are the ones who don't know what the hell is going on. We need him to give us an "educated" imprimatur.