Just wanted to let everyone know that I have a new piece over at The Daily Caller today. 

Surprise, surprise! It’s about the Massachusetts election.  I know you guys just can’t get enough of the East Coast spectacle, so why not head on over and check it out?

As Wilford Brimley once said, “It’s the right thing to do.”

CLICK HERE to read!

- Robert Laurie

There are a lot of conservative pundits hailing a potential Brown victory as the end of health care.  For a while, I’ve been saying it doesn’t matter.  Dems will not give this up unless they are absolutely forced to.  They don’t give a damn what the American people want, or who they vote for.  In fact, they are now so desperate to “remake America” that they are willing to forfeit their own political lives.

Democrats have found a way to dismantle this country, have come tantilizingly close to acheiving it and, like a donkey charging for the barn door, are not going to stop now.

As if desperate to prove my point, Nancy Pelosi said Monday: “Let’s remove all doubt, we will have healthcare one way or another.  Certainly the dynamic would change depending on what happens in Massachusetts. Just the question about how we would proceed. But it doesn’t mean we won’t have a health care bill.”

So if Brown wins tonight, you have it from the donkey’s mouth.  The end of their filibuster-proof majority in no way means the end of their disastrously unpopular health care bill.

Good to know they’re listening, isn’t it?

- Robert Laurie

We hear a lot from the Democrats about the supposed need for “decorum.”   Whether it’s those evil Republicans and their “dirty tricks,” or someone daring to call a lying president a liar, they’re constantly complaining about the alleged lack of civility.  Apparently no one told Martha Coakley.

First, we had the Dems outright lie about Brown wanting emergency rooms to turn away rape victims:

Frankly, this one doesn’t deserve much comment.  Even far left pundits have recognized how absurd it is.   The “rape flier” has drawn far more scorn than support, and its release coincided with a Coakley drop in the polls.  Congrats, Martha. 

By the way, maybe it’s me, but a state that’s been run almost entirely by Democrats for the last 40 years may not want to be bragging about their high number of annual rapes…..just sayin’.

Then, Coakley attacked Brown for not supplying his campaign workers with health care insurance.  She completely ignored the fact that those workers who didn’t already have insurance were paid more, so they could purchase it themselves through the Massachusetts health care exchange – itself a prototype for exactly the kind of system Coakley has been campaigning for.  Chalk up another lie, and another dip in the polls.

Martha continued the “throw every lie possible at the wall and hope something sticks” method of campaigning by bizarrely claiming that Red Sox great Curt Schilling is a Yankees fan.  Schilling is, of course supporting Brown in the race.  Now, in the rest of the country, this might not seem like a big deal, but in Red Sox territory?  This is tantamount to sacrilege.

More trouble, more bad poll numbers.

So, they had to bring in the big guns.  Barack Obama.  “The One.”

Obama spent Sunday running around, yapping about how anyone “can buy a truck,” referring to Brown’s truck-based campaign tour of the state.  I’m not exactly sure what his point was.  Perhaps he thinks Coakley should have bought a truck too, y’know, since anyone can.  Maybe, had Democrats taken the race seriously, and driven around a bit, she might not be getting swamped at the last minute.  Whatever he was trying to say, audiences were not particularly interested.  The President looked tired, off his game, and unsure of himself as the crowds got ugly…

The protesters were mainly angry about abortion, an issue fired up by Coakley’s disasterous comments that Catholics “Can have religious freedom, but probably shouldn’t work in an emergency room.”  That said, maybe some of them were a little ticked off at the notion that the President thinks anyone can buy a truck.  Given the massive level of U.S. unemployment, trucks are clearly out of some people’s reach.  The DNC might do well to remember that increasingly, their policies are seen as the reason why.

Now, in the face of possible defeat, the blame game has started.  The DNC narrative is that Coakley ran a terrible campaign, that she ignored her challenger until it was almost too late.  If she loses, she’ll be thrown under the world’s biggest bus and consigned to the dustbin of history.  While Coakley has definitely managed to screw up at nearly every turn, placing the sole blame upon her shoulders willfully misses a much larger point. 

The Democrats are losing Massachusetts because their national policies are so disastrously unpopular.

Denial of this fact may hold their party together in the short term, but it’s destroying it in the long view.  Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and their congressional allies staunchly refuse to read the writing on the wall.  America doesn’t want what their selling.  The harder they press for it, the worse things are going to get for them.

Welcome to 2010 Dems.  Enjoy it while you can.  This is the easy part.

- Robert Laurie

According to the newest polls, Republican Scott Brown has pulled ahead of Martha Coakley in the Massachusettes Special Election.

Today’s Suffolk University poll has Scott Brown leading by 4 points in the battle for the seat left vacant by the passing of Ted Kennedy.  Brown has been running largely on the promise that he will be the vote that blocks health care reform.

Coakley has been running on a platform that include keeping religious people from working in emergency rooms and beating up reporters.

For whatever reason, that hasn’t been working for her.

Conspicuously absent from the race is President Obama who, perhaps still stinging from his failure to help candidates last November, has chosen to sit this one out.

Rumors persist that the Suffolk poll might actually be good news for Coakley, as whispers about her internal polling paint an even uglier picture.  Who knows how true that is, but the fact that we’re even discussing the possibility of a Republican taking Kennedy’s seat speaks volumes about the shaky ground the Dems are walking.

- Robert Laurie

If Pat Robertson wants to prey on old ladies by convincing them that the almighty wants them to send their Social Security checks to the 700 Club, that’s his business.  However, it would be nice if he’d learn to shut his pie-hole when it comes to international issues.

Case in point are comments he made yesterday, regarding the earthquake in Haiti.  According to Pat, the disaster is “A blessing in disguise” because it will spur massive rebuilding of the nation’s infrastructure.  According to the televangelist, the destruction is just the latest in a long string of problems facing Haiti due to a pact the nation made with the devil in 1791.

According to one of Robertson’s spokespeople, Pat was referring to Voodoo rituals performed to aid a slave rebellion against French colonists.

So, if you happen to be a five year old Haitian who just lost his family, has no where to sleep, and doesn’t know where his next meal is coming from?  Tough nuggies.  You can blame your devil-worshipping forefathers for your current woes because, obviously, geology had nothing to do with it.

Robertson then announced that his “Operation Blessing” organization would be sending millions to the Mestopholes-controlled island, and that he is, as always, willing to accept further donations.

Super.

Someone from the RNC really needs to get Robertson on the phone and tell him to knock off the political B.S., because all he’s doing is reminding the world that the hardcore religious right is completely nuts.  Pat’s past associations with the Republican party are still relatively fresh on people’s minds.  Every time he tosses out one of these crackpot statements, it only serves to damage real conservatives.

So please, if you want to donate, skip the 700 Club and go with the Red Cross….and while you’re praying for the people of Haiti, it might be nice to thank God for keeping Robertson away from the presidency.

- Robert Laurie

Just wanted to let everyone know that a piece I wrote for the The Daily Caller has been posted.

It’s about the economics of facism, so….a little light reading.

Click on over to check it out.

- Robert Laurie

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, Youtube steps up to prove you wrong.

Enjoy this clip of a young Arnold Schwarzenegger on a “fact finding” mission to Brazil.

Evidently, this was shot while he was still deep in training to one day join the Kennedy clan.

- Robert Laurie