Here's a little honor roll of just the House Democrats who have ruled and continue ruling the Democrat roost on the Hill....and appear poised to rule it right back into political oblivion. From the WSJ: The Message of Massachusetts : A crisis is a terrible thing to exploit. George Miller; David Obey • Ed Markey of Massachusetts, first elected in 1976 , helped to ram the cap-and-tax bill through the House and has pushed relentlessly for the EPA to declare carbon a pollutant under the Clean Air Act that didn't mention carbon. • Wisconsin's David Obey, elected in 1969 , is the House Appropriations chairman who steered the $787 billion stimulus to focus on Medicaid expansion and other transfer payments that have done nothing for economic growth. • Henry Waxman, first elected in the Watergate class of 1974 , deposed John Dingell in 2008 as too moderate to run the Energy and Commerce Committee. The Hollywood liberal is co-author of the cap-and-tax vote that will cost

Ahhh, so many people to thank this morning, on this sunny one-year anniversary of the coronation of Him. Where to begin. Of course, Him Himself - Barack. And then there's Harry, Nancy, Joe, Barney....heck, too many to name here.....THANKS(!) to every one of you rabid ideological 20%ers who are leading the Democrat party and its denizens of national statism into defeat after ignominious defeat. Your arrogance, tone-deafness, self-righteousness, smug paternalism, and smoldering megalomania are paying off in droves for the country with every race the voters have a chance to weigh in. My advice to you: FORGE AHEAD! (The cliff awaits.) By all means, force feed the country more of your grandiose schemes to save us all from all those millions and millions of silly misguided fools clinging to their constitution and their quaint out-dated notions that America is the "Great Republic", as President Kennedy once called it, rather than a test tube for the dictatorship of liberal do

From Richard Dunham at the San Francisco Chronicle's politics blog a tidy breakdown of what could be the fallout from tomorrow's election, averted or realized : It's almost impossible to overstate the political significance of tomorrow's Massachusetts Senate election. Here are ten reasons why the election is so important nationally: 1. Massachusetts is one of the most Democratic states in the nation. It's the only state that voted for George McGovern over Richard Nixon in 1972 and it hasn't elected a Republican senator since 1972. Its entire congressional delegation is Democratic. A GOP win would shock the liberal Democratic establishment that dismissed the 2009 gubernatorial setbacks in Virginia and New Jersey as mere flukes. 2. Health-care reform is at stake. A victory for Scott Brown would deprive the Democrats of the 60 votes they need to push their brand of health-care reform through the Senate without any Republican support. That would be a huge defe

(And the week has barely just begun.) #1 "As long as I have served ... I've never seen, as my uncle once said, the constitution stood on its head as they've done. This is the first time every single solitary decisions has required 60 senators. No democracy has survived needing a supermajority." - VP Joe Biden I guess our "constitutional professor" VPOTUS forgets all those supermajorities that, for example, impede tooling with the very document that makes us a constitutional republic and not a democracy based on pure majoritarian tyranny. Clue : Not all majorities have to be just 50% + 1 to be valid and desirable in a careful system of laws, checks, and balances - especially as the stakes get higher and the impact broader and deeper on the most numbers of citizens, especially if ALL citizens. UPDATE : Some follow-up idiocy to Biden's comment comes from the American Prospect (subtitled, oxymoronically, "Liberal Intelligence"). "It would b

Despite certain wishful proclamations of delusional leftists that his "campaign is over" and similar mentally-disjointed tangential attempts to tie him in to their anti-tea party derangement , Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown is actually surging ahead in the polls, with Democrat candidate Coakley's own polls showing a potential upset victory for Brown. Poll shocker: Scott Brown surges ahead in Senate race [Boston Herald] R iding 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. “It’s a Brown-out,” said Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research C

Damn, I already really like this Republican candidate for Senator from Massachusetts, State Senator Scott Brown. “Gurgling” Dave Gergen, empty-suited establishment media gatekeeper, career presidential brown-noser, recent Obamaphile, and otherwise all around elitist jackass, gets put in his place with his hoity-toity attempt at a gotcha question, trying politically to exploit the memory of Senator Ted Kennedy against a Republican. Shoved very skillfully and understatedly back up Gergen's ass (which to his mind, weighs a ton) is Gergen's typical DC inside-the-beltway elitist premise : that public seats of power belong to the personalities and the politicians who hold them (friends of Gergy, of course) rather than the people. If the leftists can't read the writing on the wall about the closeness of the race for U.S. Senator from Massachusetts they are in for major shocks with every election ahead. I am gathering that the left is just plain functionally illiterate or purposefu

Two paragons of leftist statism comment on the first black president in our history (before he was elected, of course) : "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee." - Bill Clinton (as recounted by Ted Kennedy) Here's one from the man who just days ago characterized opposition to socialized health care as akin to support for slavery. Speaking of our (now) President, he assessed Obama's positives as a candidate by saying Obama is : "[L]ight-skinned'...with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." - Harry Reid - Democrat Leader of the U.S. Senate And, of course for good measure, let's not forget the Human Gaffe Machine cum VPOTUS, speaking of candidate Obama during the campaign: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." - Joe Biden Do I think any of these elitist power-lusting buffoons is racist? No, I don't. Incredibly smug paternalist

A writer for The Daily Beast, also a research fellow at (that oh so crazy, nutbag, racist) Hoover Institution at Stanford, writes a very balanced and incisive response to the superficial rantings of those whose neo-liberal politics of demonize-belittle-and-hate-thy-political-opponent blind them to the reality that the Tea Party movement is a broad grass roots example of "community organizing" at its finest....and a huge threat to their burning desire for control and power over everything and everyone under the sun. With a dose of cold hard reality Tunku Varadarajan puts in their places the hate-filled and self-deluding leftists spewing incessant childish-if-not-so-vulgar-at-times invective against the nationwide storm of gathering protest against unfettered government power, control, corruption, and profligacy. Varadarajan takes head-on the inherent elitism and self-importance of the media's legion fellow travelers to the hateful anti-populist left. Varadarajan also hand

I hope they are just two of many many more in a building wave of departures from Congress (voluntary or otherwise) of big corporate/big government Democrats. Harry Reid is likely to be at the top of that list (involuntarily of course), joining Tom Daschle as the 2nd consecutive Senate Democrat Leader to be tossed from office by the constituents he so blithely betrayed term-after-term in Congress. Clearly, the heat is on and many smarmy Democrat government lifers (in Dodd's case also a political family dynasty beneficiary) are beginning to see the writing all over the wall. We saw such (forced) retirements with plenty of big government corporatist Republicans these last several years. (Good riddance, too.). Now it's the Democrats' turn. All of the above-mentioned are likely to leave new Republican U.S. Senators in the wake of their careers of destruction from on high. Of course, there will always be the last holdouts in the bunker to the bitter end. One can only hope they

Well, once again we have an example of how blogging, once it gets into your system, appears nearly impossible to put down...for very long. There are certainly examples of local bloggers who (at times, comically) bid adieu forever to their blogging, only to return within months if not weeks. I am glad to see Dana Garrett has returned to the scene, with Delaware Watch back in force. Now if we can just eventually get my erstwhile blog-colleague Steve Newton to reconsider his moratorium on blogging, things might actually get interesting again in the Delaware blogosphere. Admittedly it has become quite two-dimensional and rote lately...and certainly I can't claim doing anything to remedy that. Such feats require the heavyweights... Welcome back, Dana!