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Scott Brown(R) leads Martha Coakley(D) in MASS race for Kennedy’s Senate Seat – Dems poised to deny him a seat if he wins.

The people over at Public Policy Polling have the latest rundown on the race for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat.

Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley at 48-47. That may not seem like a huge deal, but Massachusetts is a solid Dem state, with the Kennedy’s running that state since forever.

The Massachusetts Senate race is now a toss up.

Buoyed by a huge advantage with independents and relative disinterest from Democratic voters in the state, Republican Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 48-47.

Here are the major factors leading to this surprising state of affairs:

-As was the case in the Gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia last year, it looks like the electorate in Massachusetts will be considerably more conservative than the one that showed up in 2008. Obama took the state by 26 points then, but those planning to vote next week only report having voted for him by 16.

-Republicans are considerably more enthusiastic about turning out to vote than Democrats are. 66% of GOP voters say they are ‘very excited’ about casting their votes, while only 48% of Democrats express that sentiment- and that’s among the Democrats who are

-Brown has eye popping numbers with independents, sporting a 70/16 favorability rating with them and holding a 63-31 lead in the horse race with Coakley. Health care may be hurting Democratic fortunes with that group, as only 27% of independents express support for Obama’s plan with 59% opposed.

-In a trend that’s going to cause Democrats trouble all year, voters disgusted with both parties are planning to vote for the one out of power. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Brown’s standing is that only 21% of Massachusetts voters have a favorable opinion of Congressional Republicans…but at the same time only 33% view Congressional Democrats favorably. And among voters who have a negative take on both parties, who account for more than 20% of the electorate, Brown leads 74-21.

-Because he’s basically been untouched so far, Brown’s favorability spread is a remarkable +32, at 57/25. For some perspective on how good those numbers are, Bob McDonnell was at a +20 spread with Virginia voters in our final poll there before going on to a 17 point victory.

Scott Brown has the potential to be the vote that stops the healthcare reform legislation in its tracks.  The Democrats, fearing a Brown win are already talking of not seating him until after the healthcare vote has been made.  They want their majority in tact so that the will of the people (over 57% of the population does NOT want this bill to pass) can be ignored and the democratic house and senate can ram this thing through. The democrats want to stall the swearing in of Scott Brown yet to get the Al Franken vote, a dem who would vote like they wanted him to, give them 60 votes they needed, they swore Franken in fast.  Minnesota’s resident clown, Al Franken, powered by Acorn’s fraudulent voter registrations, along with SEIU’s thuggery at the polls, was declared the winner on June 30th, 2009 after Norm Coleman conceded.

As soon as the Senate returned from their July 4th break, the dems immediately swore in Al Franken on July 7th, 2009 and were relieved to have the full majority vote.

Yeah, way to go ‘progressive’ (read socialist) liberal democrats.  Threaten to delay seating a republican winner, yet rush through seating the sexist, misogynist clown Franken from Minnesota who thinks rape is funny. 

Anyone see what I see?  The Democrats are not about the people, they are about the Democrats, power, control and transforming America into G_d knows what.  With the majority of America telling the democrats that we do NOT want their version of healthcare takeover, they proceed to do just the opposite, even to the point of interrupting the swearing in of an elected official who happens to be a republican, so that they can shove this healthcare bill up our collective whatevah.

Pay attention to who is now swarming the area, trying to help Martha Coakley, none other than the democratic thugs called MoveOn who are backed by socialist George Soros who in turn has a history of using his wealth to purchase political seats for the democratic party.

One Nerve Left 10 January 2010 Healthcare, Politics , , , , , No Comments

Senator Evan Bayh in Trouble in Indiana – Fundraisers Try to Save His Seat

While reading over at Hillbuzz I came across this article which tells of their associations in Chicago and the word is that the Dems are doing some serious fundraising knowing that Evan Bayh’s numbers in the polls have tanked. Evan Bayh is in some deep trouble in Indiana and the Dems are worried he may lose his seat.  You see, Chicago plays a role in Indiana politics, especially northwest Indiana, Lake County in particular with that deep money pit of a city called Gary being the recipient of a lot of Chicago/Democratic payola.

Mind you that Evan Bayh represents the entire state of Indiana, but the Chicago connection seeps into Indiana from the northern border. So for the thugs in Chicago to be campaigning and fundraising for an Indiana Senator is no big news.

According to Hillbuzz:

More on this later when we have time to tell you the whole story, but here in Chicago there’s a push going out from big donors we know from Hillary Clinton’s campaign.  Evan Bayh seems to be in a lot of trouble in Indiana.

All it took was one Democrat — JUST ONE — to tell Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the White House that more time was needed for the public, let alone the Senators voting, to understand what was really in the Healthcare Rationing Bill before voting on it.

Evan Bayh had the chance to stand up, courageously, and tell Democrats they were operating in the dead of night, in secret, contrary to all their promises they would handle healthcare in the open following  the wishes of the people.

Bayh could have ground everything to a halt and FORCED Democrats to behave responsibly, sensibly, and in the manner they promised in 2008.

He didn’t.

That was his choice.

Though it pains us to side against Evan Bayh, we feel Evan Bayh sided against us in the Nightmare Before Christmas.

How much trouble do you think he’s really in in Indiana?  The talk we hear is that, as of the latest internal polls this week, he’s going to lose his seat.

Read the entire article here.

One Nerve Left 9 January 2010 Evan Bayh, Healthcare, Indiana, Northwest Indiana Politics , , , 2 Comments

Indiana Attorney General to review Constitutionality of Federal Health Care Overhaul Senate Bill

Finally, someone in Indiana is starting to act like a representative of the people and ask that the Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller take a look into the constitutionality of the healthcare bill. The GOPs are doing what they were hired to do and that is to protect the people of Indiana. Interesting that not a single democrat has stood up and demanded accountability from the federal government, demanding that all legislation, especially this push by the feds to control the entire population through this power grab called healthcare reform, be held up to the light and read for its constitutionality.

Every person elected to office has to swear on oath to uphold the constitution. No politician should have any problem with a review of any legislation to make sure that the federal government is not overstepping the limited powers granted to them by the people.

Pete Visclosky and Evan Bayh each voted FOR this federal takeover with Bayh voting ‘yes’ twice. Their pal Ben Nelson, the guy who got Nevada a sweet payoff deal in exchange for his yes vote on healthcare reform asked all of the AG’s to ‘call off the dogs‘

Meanwhile, you can add the Indiana’ s AG to the list that Ben Nelson originally complained about. You have the republican party to thank for growing a set and demanding that the federal government and the dems currently in control of America be held accountable for their proposed takeover of 1/6th of our economy via this healthcare legislation.

The entire article can be found here.

A snip is posted below.

WASHINGTON — At the request of some Indiana Republicans, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller is reviewing the constitutionality of the health-care overhaul bill passed by the Senate last month.

Several Republican senators say the bill’s requirement that most people buy insurance or face a penalty violates the Constitution’s ban on taking private property for public purposes without just compensation.
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Republicans also say a provision that could treat some insurance companies in Nebraska and Michigan differently violates the 14th Amendment’s equal-protection clause.

Republicans used those arguments to back procedural challenges to the Senate’s bill but were defeated in party-line votes before the Senate approved the bill on another party-line vote.

In a letter to Zoeller on Tuesday, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., wrote that because votes on procedural challenges took place only five days after the bill’s final language was made public, there was not enough time to study the constitutional issues.

Indiana law allows the attorney general to make “any reasonable or appropriate investigation or study” of federal legislation when asked to do so by a member of the state’s congressional delegation.

“This little-known provision in state law was intended for a circumstance such as this, where proposed federal legislation could have a sweeping impact on state government,” Zoeller said.

Zoeller said he will look at other issues not specifically requested in Lugar’s letter, including a provision added by Democrats to gain the support of Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson. The federal government would pick up all of Nebraska’s share of the cost of a proposed expansion of Medicaid but pay only for most of the expansion in other states.

In that same article it says,

The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, a self-described progressive legal association, has written a brief arguing that the bill’s insurance mandate is constitutional because Congress has the authority to regulate commerce and set taxes.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday that he doesn’t think “that anybody has legitimate constitutional concerns about the legislation.”

When you read the word ‘progressive’ read ’socialist’. The socialist party took on the mantra of ‘progressive’ because it was a politically sexy word that hid who they are and covers up what they really want to do.

I say that there is no way the feds can hide behind the commerce clause in that this healthcare legislation demands and requires the people to purchase something, and that is it’s own right is unconstitutional. What is next? The feds own GM, and GM’s profits are falling, so the feds say ” From now until the end of 2011, the only cars available for your purchase will be GM cars.” ?

One Nerve Left 9 January 2010 Constitution, DICK Lugar, Evan Bayh, Healthcare, Pete Visclosky , , , 1 Comment

Bayh gives Indiana a Lump Of Christmas Coal – Votes Yes for Government Healthcare

Hey Evan Bayh, I hope you are not dreaming of a political victory in 2010 and thinking that the people of Indiana will forget what you did to us when you voted YES, twice, to proceed with the federal government taking over 1/6th of our economy which translates into your desire that we do not lead free lives according to the Constitution, that we instead lead lives that are under federal control. Even the average American now knows that you want a socialistic government.

Your comment here, Evan, says it all. You told the NY Times:

Lawmakers who attended a private meeting between Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats at the White House on Tuesday pointed to remarks there by Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, as providing some new inspiration.

Mr. Bayh said that the health care measure was the kind of public policy he had come to Washington to work on, according to officials who attended the session, and that he did not want to see the satisfied looks on the faces of Republican leaders if they succeeded in blocking the measure.

You lied to us Evan Bayh. You lied to us when you took the oath of office to uphold the constitution. When asked why you are doing this to the people of Indiana, voting to enslave us to federal regulation, voting to add federal expenses to the entire state of Indiana, knowing that the people will be punished via higher taxes to pay for your decisions, you claim to be doing what you always wanted to do, expand ‘public policy’ which is a code word for socialism. We are awake now Evan and we now know what you mean when you said that all along you wanted to expand government control over the people, that you desire the people to be powerless and the the feds have ultimate control over every aspect of our lives.
You did not want to see Republicans have a say in this healthcare legislation, let alone see them have any measure of success?  YOU Evan Bayh are playing partisan politics of the worst kind and you are not fit to represent the people of Indiana.  We did NOT elect the Democratic Party, Evan, we elected a PERSON who would represent us.  You vote according to your democratic party and tell the people to screw off. What kind of representative of the people does that?
Evan, the people of Indiana told you to vote NO on healthcare reform.  The country told you to vote NO on healthcare reform and you threw us the finger and voted according to your Party affiliation, completely ignoring the people you swore to represent.  You no longer represent the people of Indiana Evan Bayh, you have always represented you party over the people and in this critical time in US history, you voted to enslave us to the ‘public policy’.  We see who you are now and there is no amount of dancing that you can do between now and 2010 that will erase what we know you to be.

You no longer represent Indiana Evan Bayh. We know now that you have and will continue to vote along your Democratic Party lines, totally ignoring the will of the people.

Yeah, Nancy Pelosi said that they will now have some legislation come through so that you can pretend to vote according to the benefit of Indiana.  You hope that we forget what you did today, selling the freedoms of the people of Indiana down the river because you never had any intention of representing us, especially when it would take a man to stand up to your Party, when it takes a moral representative to listen to the people.

Come 2010 Evan Bayh, I will do something I have never done before. I will walk out my front door and work for a candidate that will represent the people. I will do everything in my power to get you fired.  You are a disgrace to Indiana and there is no amount of kickbacks, earmarks or sugar coated Senate votes that will change my mind. There is no amount of pork (Pork = stealing from us then giving us a dime back on our dollar and then expecting us to say ‘Thank You’) dressed as ‘gifts’ to Indiana that you can trot out that will ever erase what you did today.  Never will we forget what you not only did to the people of Indiana, but to the entire United States of America.

Here is my gift to you Evan, for your enjoyment over the holidays: 

One Nerve Left 24 December 2009 Evan Bayh, Healthcare No Comments

Anastacia would die of breast cancer if Obama gets his way with the takover of Healthcare.

Listen to Anastacia, a USA gal, a woman, a singer who got breast cancer at age 29.

If Obama had his way with his proposed Healthcare reform, she would be dead by now. Pay attention to the details folks. Obama is going to tax you, tell you when you can get treatment and the bottom line is that he will control your life via governmental bureaucracy. If you think that people on welfare are trash and are stoopid for filling out all those papers and standing in line then wait until it is your turn to stand in line for healthcare.  Do NOT be fooled, this stuff is bad news.

Look it up, take a break from watching CNN, ABC, NBS, CBS, MSNBC and the programs that tell you lies through omission. Have they told you yet that the Climate Change scare is a hoax? If you do not know that fact by now then you should start watching news agencies that actually deliver the news ( Fox anyone?).

Since being diagnosed with breast cancer in January, 2003, singer/songwriter Anastacia has become resolved to channel her energies into raising funds and awareness that will specifically target younger women who are stricken, and who have no family history of the disease.

For this purpose, the Anastacia Fund has been established through The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Anastacia is concerned that women under the age of 40 are not generally targeted for breast cancer screening, self-examination and mammograms, except in situations where there is a family history of breast cancer. She is determined to change these statistics.

‘Freak of Nature’  happens to be my current theme song. You want to lose that voice? Silence her because you think that it is not cost effective to screen for breast cancer before 50? She was 29 for crap’s sake when she got breast cancer.

Anastacia – Freak of Nature

Anastacia – “I ask of You (With Pavarotti)” – Neither one sings with other people on the fly, so for them to sing together is a big deal.  And you want her to be dead already with Obama’s healthcare plan?

Anastacia – I Ask Of You (With Pavarotti)

Yeah, sleep on that and then wake up and call all of your state representatives and tell them to vote NO on this healthcare reform legislation.

One Nerve Left 25 November 2009 Healthcare No Comments

Lugar, Donnelly, Visclosky vote in favor of Socialized Medicine against the People’s Wishes

The American people did not want the Health Care reform bill weeks ago when it was being voted on in Pelosi’s House and they did not want it in Reid’s Senate but the rat basturds voted it through regardless of the people’s wishes.

What does this say for our non-representatives? It says that special interest groups, lobbyists, big business have more clout than the people the representatives are supposed to serve.

Oh You Democrats, Don't Be an Ass

Oh You Democrats, Don't Be an Ass


Pete Visclosky and Joe Donnelly voted yes in the House, Bayh voted yes in the Senate. When Lugar’s office was asked, directly, in person if the NO stack was larger than the YES stack, according to the letters, calls and emails that he received, his minion refused to answer. They do not want us to know that more people in Indiana told him to vote NO and that the majority of people were against this healthcare boondoggle. He has and had no intentions of voting according to the wishes of the people he serves. His vote, along with Vislocky and Donnnelly were based upon calculations of how to swing votes for re-election. They need the unions, ACORN and SEIU, the AFL-CIO to pull votes for them, so it doesn’t matter what the people of Indiana want.

Here are the polls indicating, for all intents and purposes, the way they should have voted and that vote should have been a big fat NO.

Poll: Support for health care plan plummets, Senate Democrats push ahead

A day after the Senate begins debate on health care legislation a new survey from Rasmussen Reports shows the highest level of opposition yet recorded. In a staggering reversal from last week the poll suggests just 38% of American voters now favor the Democratic health care plan against 56% who are opposed. The previous poll taken on November 13-14 showed support had grown to its highest level since mid-September with 47% of voters in favor against 49% in opposition. (Read the rest of the article here.)


Got that? 49% of the people told them to vote NO. Only 47% wanted them to vote yes, as of Nov. 14th.
As of Nov. 22 56% told them to vote NO and only 38% wanted them to vote yes.

Read the Rasmussen Reports here and see for yourself that the American people do not want this push by Obama to control 1/6 of our economy and bring a government employee into our doctor’s office and our homes. There is something very wrong with what they are trying to do in Congress and people are beginning to wake up. Something is very wrong when so many people are telling our hired help (Lugar, Donnelly and Visclosky) to shove this thing where the sun don’t shine and they adopt a cavalier, pompous and condescending attitude and vote Yes anyway. Plus there is something wrong with a Louisiana Senator being paid off to the tune of 300 million dollars to place a ‘yes’ vote for this legislation. What other kind of deals were cut? How much did Lugar, Donnelly, Visclosky and Bayh get to vote yes?

How many more examples does a person require before they realize that politics, as we have it toady, is dirty and that our non-representatives do NOT act upon the best interests of the people, but act upon their own best interest.

Vote them OUT. Contact a Tea Party, a Patriot group, ANY group that places principle before party. We must act in whatever way we can be that calling, writing, emailing, visiting their local offices, protesting,  whatever we are able to do in order to get them to pay attention and let them know that we are watching them, we are taking notes and come 2010 they will face an election period like none other.

Do not expect the Republicans to help you as they are not much different than the Democrats in placing Party before Principle. Find a candidate that resonates with your goals and desires, find a person who place Principle before Party and believes in the Constitution.

One Nerve Left 24 November 2009 DICK Lugar, Evan Bayh, Healthcare, Joe Donnelly, Pete Visclosky , , , , , No Comments

Rationing, Health Care and Mammograms… Signs or Omens of Health Care “Reform”

From Courage to See:

Rationing, Health Care and Mammograms… Signs or Omens of Health Care “Reform”

If you aren’t paying attention, perhaps now you will.  For decades organizations such as the American Cancer Society have recommended  early baseline mammography for women starting at age 40.  In addition for decades feminists have advocated that women learn more about their bodies; encouraging  women  to learn breast self-exam techniques.

Any woman my age should remember the early book “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” which was the first comprehensive book which advocated women learning about their bodies. These groups (Feminists) and organizations (such as The American Cancer Society) care about the well-being of the woman, unlike the US Preventative Services Task Force.

The focus of this governmental agency centers on using a cost analysis, weighing treatment or procedure cost against benefit and outcome.  Welcome to rationing, the government decides who can get which procedures and whether these procedures and treatments are cost effective.

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One Nerve Left 23 November 2009 Healthcare, Women No Comments

New Breast Cancer Guidelines – Have a drink with Bob

Get your fix here. Bob explains it all for the simple minded.

New Breast Cancer Guidelines…

One Nerve Left 21 November 2009 Healthcare No Comments

Congress refuses to allow petitions ignores 1st Amendment

Interesting.

Our congresscritters have blocked petitions from being delivered. This reminds me of the three monkeys, ‘Hear no evil, See no evil, Read  no petitions from the evil citizens’, or something like that.

What this has come to is our representatives are sending a message loud and clear and that message to the people is to STFU. Our non-representatives are making it clear that they do not work for us and that us regular folk are being a pain in that we won’t just shut up and go away.  Those pesky petitions with hundreds of thousands of citizens expressing their views are not important to Congress.

So, the latest ploy from our non-representatives and the current administration is to deny people entrance to deliver the petitions. They claim is is all about protecting the building from Anthrax, but watch this video and you decide.

There is much misinterpretation regarding the 1st Amendment and its meaning, what it is to protect. That is a post for another day. I will say now though that the First Amendment WAS designed to allow us, the common folk, the right to express our views without the Feds banging our heads against rocks for saying whatever it is that we feel like saying to them.

This latest trick pulled by our non-representatives is a direct attempt to erode the 1st Amendment and to silence the people.  Where in the heck are Lugar, Bayh and  Visclosky in this scenario? Why are they not down there at the building entrance telling the watchdogs at the door to back the hell off and let the people have their voices heard? Why are they not demanding to receive their petitions? As our servants, as our employees they should be fighting tooth and nail to get information from their bosses.

Watch this video, hot off the presses and decide for yourself what is going down in DC.

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One Nerve Left 31 October 2009 Healthcare No Comments

Michelle Obama really cares about women and Healthcare. Oh really?

Hypocrite Much Michelle O? What was that again about your deep desire to help the disenfranchised with your Socialized Fascist Liberal Progressive Obama Public Healthcare Plan?

Michelle Obama said women are being “crushed by the current structure of our health care” because they often are responsible for taking care of family illnesses, arranging checkups and monitoring follow-up care.

“Women are the ones to do it,” she said to an audience of 140 people, including representatives from groups such as the Women’s Chamber of Commerce and the National Council of Negro Women. “Mothers are the ones that do it. And many women find themselves doing the same thing for their spouses.”

Let’s not forget that cherry picked job you were given as a gift as part of the Team Obama ruse in Chicago where you worked for University of Chicago Medical Center and were so proud to reduce the number of charity cases, moving the women who were not affluent out of your hospital.

Michelle Maulkin writes about it with details covering Michelle Obama’s scheme for Healthcare. I swear, the more a person actually learns regarding what the Obama’s did while in Chicago, the more you have to be afraid of what they will do with the new found power of the Whitehouse.

Read the entire article: http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/18/one-woman-michelle-obama-will-not-mention/

“While a top executive at the hospital, Mrs. Obama helped engineer the plan to offload low-income patients with non-urgent health needs. Under the Orwellian banner of an “Urban Health Initiative,” Mrs. Obama sold the scheme to outsource low-income care to other facilities as a way to “dramatically improve health care for thousands of South Side residents.” The program guaranteed “free” shuttle rides to and from the outside clinics.

In truth, it was old-fashioned cost-cutting and favor-trading repackaged as minority aid. Clearing out the poor freed up room for insured (i.e., more lucrative) patients.”

One Nerve Left 24 September 2009 Healthcare, Socialism , No Comments
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