Poor Richard's News

Obama's plan for saving the economy:

1) allow gay soldiers to say they're gay
2) lie about how he has prevented lobbyists from policy-making positions
3) anger members of the supreme court
4) freeze (and save) a whopping .58% of the nation's spending over the next ten years
5) build a train

Yep. That should do it.

So, yeah, the dems have been talking a lot of smack about still trying to pass obamacare by either passing the current senate bill in the house or using the "nuclear" option and cramming a different bill through the senate through reconciliation. Then this happened. Then this happened. Then this happened. And now, it's dead. Officially.

Sincerity
Obama on the campaign trail: Spending freezes are bad (video)
Obama on Wednesday night: What we need are some spending freezes

Humility
“The big difference here and in ‘94 was you’ve got me”

Honesty
Saved or created one zillion jobs

Brown: 1,153,808; 52.29%
Coakley: 1,052,391; 47.70%

Coakley Concedes
"41st no vote"

Dems on Obamacare: uh, maybe we should start over.

Bayh: hmm...this might be catastrophic for dems

Jim Webb: Let's not do any voting 'til Brown gets here.

Blarney Fwank: Yeah, Obamacare's pretty much dead.

Scott Brown: "I’m Scott Brown, I'm from Wrentham, I drive a truck, and I am nobody’s senator but yours."

Text of victory speech
You know. The one that CNN and MSNBC didn't cover.

Here are the latest polls in the Massachusetts senate race:

PPP: Brown 51, Coakley 46
Inside Medford: Brown 51, Coakley 41
Coakley Internal: Brown 47, Coakley 45
American Research Group: Brown 48, Coakley 45
Avg: Brown 49.25, Coakley 44.25

Now, it's important to note that all of these polls were conducted before Obama flew federal tax funded air force one to Boston to stump for Coakley. Furthermore, nearly all of these numbers are within the margin of error for the respective poll and as the race continues to garnish media attention in Massachusetts, it is sure to drive unmotivated democrats to the polls which will certainly help Coakley. But the fact remains that I can't find one poll that shows a lead for Coakley--regardless of how the sampling is interpreted. And this is great news for Brown and America.

With every passing hour, a win becomes more realistic for Brown. Even Coakley's internal poll has Brown up by two (47-45) with only two days left until the election. But while the polls suggest that a GOP victory is squarely within the realm of possibility, history and logic tell us otherwise. But a victory for Brown, while important both symbolically and substantively, should be irrelevant when it comes to stopping Obamacare. Massachusetts, which is about as blue as, well, Boise State's football field, isn't exactly kind to Republicans when it comes to the ballot box. And the fact that Brown is even within an exaggerated striking distance (much less ahead) of a left-wing democrat like Coakley should be enough to scare every blue dog in congress away from this monstrosity. But just look at Obama. He thinks saving the filibuster proof majority in the senate is so important that he is risking his own reputation to go help the flailing candidate. But he should be taking the hint that Americans do not want this. Including the liberal northeast. And regardless of the outcome, the lefties, their heads planted firmly in the sand, will not view this as an indictment on Obamacare or any other part of their radical agenda. In the mean time we can wait impatiently for the results of this close race and hope that enough moderates take notice.

1) Stop Obamacare
2) Help you maintain your Religious freedoms (it's gaffetastic)
3) Help keep you safe through strong national security
4) Allow you to maintain your sanity by not insulting your favorite sports team

Coakley: Catholics 'shouldn't work in the emergency room'
Mass-achusetts

Top things dems want you to forget about Coakley
incriminating

Brown 50, Coakley 46
WHAT?

Rothenberg Political Report
"Toss Up"

Brown raised a million bucks every day this week
wow

Falsely accused Massachusetts man not too happy with Coakley.
Oops.

Isn't it a coincidence that on the same day that SEIU gets involved in the Massachusetts (or "Massachusettes" as Coakley spells it) senate race, reporters get attacked?
New Mafia

Still think that conservatives aren't ready to fight with their wallets?
$1.3 million in one day for Scott Brown

"It's not the Kennedy seat. It's the people's seat"
Go Scott

Coakley's brilliant response: Blame Bush.
And Palin?

Brown: "As the 41st senator, I can stop [ObamaCare]."
Do it.

Coakley's brilliant attack ad:
Yeah, Brown's a Nazi who hates rape victims. Or something like that.
desperation

For those of us who know and love the constitution and the unprecedented freedom that it guarantees, it is unbelievably frustrating to hear politicians, whose job it is know know and uphold said constitution, try to pass something so blatantly unconstitutional as this so-called health care bill. But there is hope. Not only is the Senate race in Massachusetts looking like it might be in play (a Republican victory would shatter the Democrats' current filibuster-proof senate) but Greg Abbott, the Attorney General from the great state of Texas, is prepared to challenge the constitutionality of the greatest government over reach in American history. Read his letter here.

Not sure if you've been paying attention, but the race for Kennedy's seat is getting closer every day. But this seat's importance goes way beyond the state of Massachusetts. It affects every American. A Scott Brown win would force the Democrats to either end the tyrannical health-care push or commit political suicide by pushing budget reconciliation. A loss for Brown, however, would ensure a filibuster-proof senate which would virtually guarantee the 60 vote majority needed to pass this unconstitutional monstrosity.
Have friends in Mass? Call them and tell them to vote for Brown.
Also, you can help by making official campaign calls for Brown. Sign up here.
brownforsenate.com

Let's be honest, partisan politics has been bad for America. And lately, it seems like there has been nowhere to go for true conservatives and libertarians. But with the understanding that, generally speaking, Republicans have been more likely to vote for smaller government while Dems have traditionally wanted more, graphs like these come as no shock:

Now just imagine this chart if true freedom were allowed to prevail.

Like Robert Gibbs desperately trying to explain away Obama's lies about C-Span, MSNBC tries its best to explain how record cold temperatures means global warming is still happening.
See?

UPDATE: Obama allows obamacare reconciliation coverage on C-Span...for an hour

I guess we'll watch them debate who should be taxed
Talk about hypocrisy. Remember this?
And why, in America, you will be punished for getting married

Oooo, Geitner's in trouble...but not for tax evasion, purjury or just being an all around idiot.
Shady

And just because I love Thomas Sowell

Like rats instincitvely jumping off a sinking ship, the lib-dems can't seem find the exits fast enough. Apparently they see the writing on the wall.

Govenor Bill Ritter
Senator Byron Dorgan
And...Senator Chris Dodd?

The following letter was written by one of our readers to her congressman.

I was one of the unfortunate ones stranded at the Newark airport for hours yesterday. The abysmal state of ouir TSA system is a topic for another day, though. I wanted to tell you about Charles and Hazel From England. I met them during our exile outside security. They are an active couple in their 80s visiting family in the states. Hazel told me she got her swine flu vaccination while here because she could not get one in Britain. An 80-something woman who did not qualify. Yet here she paid $10 at a clinic and received one right away.Please don't jeopardize the greatest healthcare in the world by injecting more beuracracy. Sure there are problems, but none of them are solved by the legislation before Congress today. Your mantra of "doing something" even if it's not right is illogical and foolhardy. Vote no. Do what's best for Tennessee and the nation. Vote no.

GLOBAL WARMING ALERT!!!
Arctic Weather throughout the world
And it's here to stay
For a while
Longest cold streak in 9 years for...Florida
And records for parts of Texas
-20 Wind chill in the midwest

And since you're most likely snowed in anyway, take this opportunity to make some hot chocolate (with an energy inefficient electric stove of course), turn your heater up to 85 and call your senators and congressmen and tell them to vote no on the tyrannical obamacare bill.

On the day after it was made public that the Obama administration had been "briefed" (snicker) about the underwear bomber in October, we have yet another airport security breach. This time in Newark. After an unidentified man somehow managed to skip the security checkpoint, chaos ensued. People were being herded like cattle back through the checkpoints while all flights out of the C terminal were grounded. But the poor souls stuck in the airport made the most of their down time as a group of singers and songwriters from Nashville livened it up a bit with some music. Check it out.