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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Scott Brown is poised to take over the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s long-held seat a week earlier than he had planned, ending the Democrats’ Senate supermajority and giving the GOP 41 votes they can use to block President Barack Obama’s agenda.

A swearing-in ceremony was set for 5 p.m. Thursday for the little-known Massachusetts state senator who shocked the nation with his upset victory last month over a favored Democrat and put the 2010 midterm elections in play for a possible GOP takeover of Congress. Originally, Brown had said he did not want to be sworn in until Feb. 11.

But in response to criticism from conservative radio hosts and newspaper columnists, he pressed Massachusetts officials on Wednesday to certify his election for the hurry-up swearing-in to fill the last two years of Kennedy’s term. One had dubbed his wait a “three-week victory lap” since the Jan. 19 special election in which Brown defeated Democratic state Attorney General Martha Coakley.

The Senate has another controversial Obama nomination to reconsider. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) nominee Craig Becker is the linchpin of BHO's Card Check initiative, that important bit of payback to the Labor Unions for supporting Obama during his campaign was renominated, and his scheduled vote was being hurried by Democrats in hopes of beating the Scott Brown deadline.

Becker is as far-left as, well, any of Obama's nominees: he's been a top counsel for the AFL-CIO the SEIU, and he's  a(nother) radical professor pushing Labor's agenda. Just another enabler who will push for more and more easy access to Unions, and hamper American industry, to the detriment of our economy.

John McCain temporarily scuttled Becker's nomination December 28; but he's been re-nominated by Obama.

More on Becker...

Of Obama’s three NLRB nominees, Becker has garnered the most controversy. Senators Orin Hatch (R-Utah) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) have both strongly expressed their opposition to Becker’s nomination, as have many in the business community. Sen. McCain had stated that he planned to put a hold on Becker’s nomination. Among other criticisms of Becker, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other groups have highlighted an article published in 1993 in the Minnesota Law Review in which Becker claimed that “employers should be stripped of any legally cognizable interest in their employees’ election of representatives.” Others have voiced concern that Becker, who is a proponent of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), would be willing to use Board decisions to effectively institute parts of the proposed act.

This isn't about helping employees get better working conditions or wages. This is about mandatory Union votes with employers unable to speak out against the Union's positions. "Card Check" (the Employee Free Choice Act), strongly opposed by the Chamber of Commerce, would damage our already weakened economy.

We don't need "Card Check"; we don't need Craig Becker or any other far-left Obama nominee or Union minion anywhere near our economy. There's lots of straws on the camel's back right now, and it won't take many more before we see a complete collapse.

Get lost, Becker. Back to your cave of Academia. Go write a book or something.

Stay out of our Businesses.

Why Is Senator Kirk Still Voting on Legislation?
by SusanAnne Hiller

The Senate has voted on three pieces of legislation today that required 60 votes–to raise the debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion, to reduce the deficit by establishing five-year discretionary spending caps, and Ben Bernanke’s confirmation–all of which interim Senator Paul Kirk (D-MA) has voted on. In addition, there have been other Senate votes since Scott Brown was elected as Massachusetts senator that Kirk cast a vote.

Could've sworn there was a major election last week in Massachusetts and Scott Brown decisively beat a Democrat stooge.

Why hasn't Scott Brown been seated? Why is Paul Kirk, pretend-senator, still pretending to be a Senator?

This has to stop. Democrats are out of control, and must be put in their places. Democrats are NOT the end-all of the U.S. Government, and it's time they had that figured out for them.

Get the lawyers. And find a nice railroad tie, some tar and a handful of chicken feathers.

Didn't Obama just ask for some new rail service... ?

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Suck it, Barack Hussein Obama.

"Pelosi politburo emasculation". Those words, how they roll off the tongue! No matter that Pelosi runs the House; a Scott Brown #Masen win would derail these all these leftards, including Obama and his flawed ObamaCare bill. That would be very good news indeed; a subsequent stock market rally would ice the cake.

Even the ongoing and harrowing closeness of it all, and if she should win, the narrowness of Reid's newest lackey dawg Martha Coakley's win will be ample enough incentive to tighten sphincters in both houses of Congress.

The revelations of Martha Coakley's unworthiness to sit in a U.S. Senate seat (even one formerly held by a drunken coward who by inaction  killed a young woman and by 'privilege' got away with it) continues: Ann Coulter weighs in...

In Tuesday's primary election, Massachusetts Democrats chose as their Senate nominee a woman who kept a clearly innocent man in prison in order to advance her political career.

Martha Coakley isn't even fit for the late Teddy Kennedy's old seat. (What is it about this particular Senate seat?)

During the daycare/child molestation hysteria of the '80s, Gerald Amirault, his mother, Violet, and sister, Cheryl, were accused of raping children at the family's preschool in Malden, Mass., in what came to be known as the second-most notorious witch trial in Massachusetts history.

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In the most outrageous miscarriage of justice since the Salem witch trials, in July 1986, Gerald Amirault was convicted of raping and assaulting six girls and three boys and sentenced to 30 to 40 years in prison. The following year, Violet and Cheryl Amirault were convicted of raping and assaulting three girls and a boy and were sentenced to 8 to 20 years.

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Gerald Amirault had already spent 15 years in prison for crimes he no more committed than anyone reading this column did. But Coakley put on a full court press to keep Amirault in prison simply to further her political ambitions.

By then, every sentient person knew that Amirault was innocent. But instead of saying nothing, Coakley frantically lobbied Gov. Jane Swift to keep him in prison to show that she was a take-no-prisoners prosecutor, who stood up for "the children." As a result of Coakley's efforts -- and her contagious ambition -- Gov. Swift denied Amirault's clemency.

Thanks to Martha Coakley, Gerald Amirault sat in prison for another three years.

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Martha Coakley allowed her ambition to trump basic human decency as she campaigned to keep a patently innocent man in prison.

Anyone with the smallest sense of justice cannot vote to put this woman in any office. If you absolutely cannot vote for a Republican on Jan. 19, 2010, write in the name "Gerald Amirault."

Not the first District Attorney to abuse the office, I'm sure. But this one, this Martha Coakley, needs to have a time out. An extra three years as not-Senator would be just fine.

Here's ten good reasons NOT to vote for Martha Coakley...

1. She stated explicitly that pro-life Catholics shouldn’t work in the medical professions; in other words, Catholics have no right to act upon their conscience while performing their jobs. That’s a clear violation of freedom of religion. In Coakley’s words: “You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.”

2. She stated explicitly that she doesn’t believe there are any more terrorists in Afghanistan: “The mission in Afghanistan was to go in because we believed that the Taliban was giving harbor to terrorists… they’re gone. They’re not there any more.”

3. She stated explicitly that obtaining endorsements from Democratic politicos are more important than winning the support from the actual constituents of Massachusetts. Coakley angrily said political endorsements were preferable to “standing outside Fenway Park, in the cold, shaking hands” – precisely what her opponent, Republican Scott Brown, was doing.

4. The same statement revealed that she was unaware of the importance of Fenway Park, and the Boston Red Sox, to the people of Boston, the most important city in the state. Boston is perhaps most well known for the dedication of its fans to both the ballpark and its team.

5. Her campaign aide (an Obama presidential appointee) roughed up a reporter during a campaign event. Coakley claimed to not have seen the incident, despite a photo that was published later on showing that she stared directly at the reporter while he was on the ground. She still refuses to apologize or even condemn the action taken by her staff.

6. While a District Attorney, Coakley lobbied for the conviction of a mother, daughter and son trio on charges of child abuse, despite no actual evidence of the crimes occurring, and using only coerced testimony from young children. She was also more lenient on the mother and daughter, because such crimes are “usually” the result of “a primary male offender."

7. She’s using the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s memory to raise campaign cash, earning over a million dollars by appeals from Kennedy’s widow. Meanwhile, her opponent, Republican Scott Brown, has earned nearly the same amount simply by appealing to the hearts and minds of Republicans in Massachusetts and across the nation.

8. She’s relying on President Obama to campaign for her during the eleventh hour, despite kicking her feet up the other three months of her campaign – apparently because she thought Massachusetts voters would blindly vote for whatever Democrat was thrown in front of their faces.

9. She’s an outspoken advocate of the health reform bill which, in it’s latest iteration, will exclude union members and government workers from taxes on health insurance plans while taxing other classes of Americans; this will further incentivize union membership and funding of Democratic candidates.

10. She will provide the crucial 60th vote for Senate Democrats, allowing them to maintain the Democratic supermajority, and pass health care.

Oh, and don't forget these late-breaking OTHER big reasons: Obama has unleashed his ACORN attack dogs, the SEIU. He's paying purple-shirted thugs that are being bussed in to Massachusetts to sit with signs at Scott Brown rallies.

But it seems even some SEIU members are jumping ship to the Scott Brown campaign!

That, and the smear campaign Martha Coakley and Democrats unleashed against Scott Brown. Complicit in that smear attack: Barack Hussein Obama, who will be in Massachusetts today. Democrats will face criminal charges for that piece of work.

And Barack Hussein Obama's visit today? Too little, too late, says Politico.

Good news for the home team; for real Americans, if Scott Brown can pull this off.

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This is what loyal Democrats are seeing in their mailboxes this morning...

Serr --

There's a crucial Senate election in Massachusetts in just three days. We need your help to win it.

The polls are tightening as right-wing money floods the state, and one even shows the race to be a dead heat between progressive champion Martha Coakley and her extreme opponent. The truth is, special elections often have very low turnout and are notoriously unpredictable.

The stakes are just too high to leave Martha's victory to chance.

If we lose, Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat will be in the hands of someone who opposes everything he fought for. We'll lose a key vote for the President's agenda in the Senate -- and put all the progress we've made toward health reform at risk.

That's why OFA is putting together a massive voter turnout effort to make sure Obama voters get back to the polls this time around -- but we need your help to pay for it. Please donate $5 or more to OFA to help fund our organizing, including our work to elect Martha Coakley.

OFA is going all out in Massachusetts -- we're sending organizers, knocking on doors, and making phone calls by the tens of thousands to make sure that folks know how to participate.

It's a huge effort, it's expensive, and time is short. But with the outcome uncertain and the stakes sky high, I don't want to wake up the morning after the election thinking that we could have done something more. If you feel the same way, please donate $5 or more to help us make Martha Coakley the next senator from Massachusetts:

https://donate.barackobama [dot] com/Coakley

Thanks,

Mitch

Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America

This is how our President wants to bring America together, by allowing under his own name a sniveling little mind-shrimp like Mitch Stewart to rattle the can for a dawg like Martha Coakley. Read that email; see the lies?

"...progressive champion Martha Coakley and her extreme opponent..." Scott Brown (who, you notice, the cowardly lizardoid Stewart never mentions by name) is far from "extreme". Of course, by definition now, ANYONE not toeing the far-left Democrat party line is "extreme". Well, listen here you little pimp Mitch Stewart, I'll be your 'extremist' if that's what's needed to force you and your cabal of leftists from power.

Oh, and 'progressive champion' Martha Coakley? Come on, that power-seeking innocent-convicting former Attorney General Massachusetts Moron doesn't HAVE convictions. She's nothing but a puppet that dances for the likes of Harry Reid. A head full of sawdust, has your 'progressive champion' Martha Coakley.

"Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat" NO, asshole, that seat is NOT TED KENNEDY'S SEAT. Ted Kennedy is rotting in hell for all we know (at least he's not drunk and driving, that much for sure); the seat RETURNED to the PEOPLE of MASSACHUSETTS, who are seemingly full of annoyance at being taken for granted by the far-left Democrats (who mostly reside in the hell-hole overpopulation center of Boston, where the poorest and youngest are attracted by the looters and moochers who give away Other People's Money to secure votes) and the wealthy corridors leading up Cape to Provincetown). There's an anti-Democrat backlash going on, if you would just notice. Doesn't matter: even if Harry Reid's puppet Coakley wins, the tiny percentage by which she wins and the ultimate efforts these leftist goons are putting out just shows how weak it is, this support for Democrats.

If Scott Brown wins, Katy bar the door.

So, do this: donate to Scott Brown. Give a few bucks, 5, 10, 25, 50 or whatever. Let's shake these leftist bastards to the core.

This is a bitch slap...

Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate all the way to the White House, a new poll shows.

Although Brown’s 4-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley is within the Suffolk University/7News survey’s margin of error, the underdog’s position at the top of the results stunned even pollster David Paleologos.

Brings a smile to my stone face, yes it does.

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