Health Care: That's Scott Brown's ticket

Article 12-28-09

Special Election centered on health care reform


by Howie Carr
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Dec. 28, 2009

Merry Christmas, Scott Brown, and boy have the Democrats in Congress handed you the perfect gift - health-care “reform.”

Between now and election day, Jan. 19, there is no other issue.

This is what the Senate fight is all about. If the voter likes his or her health care - or at least doesn’t believe that the federal government is going to improve it - then they should vote for you, Scott Brown.

If they really, truly believe that Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi know more about their health-care needs than the voter himself and his physician, then by all means vote for Martha Coakley.

It’s that simple.

Every other issue is . . . extraneous. Afghanistan, abortion, the crushing state tax increases, even illegal aliens. Don’t worry about Joe Kennedy either. He’s not going to be a factor, not if you keep hammering Martha on the half-trillion dollar cut in Medicare.

Not 500 billion, but a half-trillion, because it sounds even more ominous when you say “trillion.” Hey, those are the Democrats’ own numbers. You know, Harry Reid’s and Martha Coakley’s.

The Democrats are asking you to believe they’re from the government and they’re here to help you. If you liked the Big Dig and Barney Frank’s sub-prime mortgage schemes, you’ll love health-care reform.

Who cares who’s running Hamas? The only question is, will you be able to get a mammogram that might save your life? This is a scam to charge more money - a lot more money - for a vastly inferior health-care system.

These politicians don’t care about your health care, let alone your health. They care only about power.

And Martha Coakley is one of them. Period.

You need a colonoscopy? Call your congressman. No, call your congressman’s campaign-finance chairman. These people don’t dream of a summer cottage, they want a dacha.

The only issue in this campaign is the wrecking ball the Democrats have vowed to take to your health care. They want you to be totally dependent on them and, I repeat, Martha Coakley is one of them.

Nothing else matters. Ted Kennedy is dead and Sarah Palin is irrelevant.

What happens if your doctor decides to open a boutique “practice,” like they’re already doing in New York? Why do you suppose the Beautiful People don’t care about this? Because they’re planning to buy their way out of the impending fiasco, just like they always do.

It’s always the working people who are left holding the bag, while the swells from Goldman Sachs jet off in their Gulfstreams to Hobe Sound.

Scott Brown shouldn’t sweat the debates. Whatever the question is, this is Scott’s answer:

“That’s an important issue, but right now, this disastrous so-called health-care legislation is in conference committee, and if it isn’t out by Jan. 19, I pledge to you that if I can, I will cast the 41st vote to kill it, and if I can’t, then at least my election, in this bluest of states, will send a thunderous message that any Democrat who votes to allow Barack Obama to do to health care what he has already done to our economy will pay the ultimate price at the polls.”

Sen. Scott Brown speaks on how bad health
care reform would be for the working citizen.
(DNN Staff photo)


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Article 12-21-09

My experience at White House Christmas bash



by Bill O'Reilly
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Dec. 21, 2009

One of the good things about being a media loudmouth is that occasionally you get invited somewhere you actually want to go. This year, I was lucky enough to get an invitation to the White House media holiday party, which would have been called a Christmas party if U.S. Grant were still president.

Anyway, this is the fourth time I’ve attended the annual event, and I count myself very fortunate. I love the White House - it symbolizes the greatness of America. The courage and goodness that have been displayed inside this residence ever since John Adams moved in have dramatically changed the world for the better.

Last year, President and Mrs. Bush hosted their final party, and it was fairly extravagant. This year, the crowd was much smaller and the atmosphere was toned down a bit, perhaps because of the government-spending controversy and the recession.

My brief meeting with President and Mrs. Obama went well. Even though I have challenged the president on a number of occasions, I believe I have been fair to him. We chatted briefly, and he said that I looked to be in better shape than the last time we saw each other. I said that’s because he’s keeping me on my toes.

Michelle Obama, whom I had never met, was stunning. She was warm and kind to my 10-year-old daughter and gracious to me. My quick assessment of her: strong, charismatic and beautiful.

After greeting the Obamas, I ran into the president’s cadre of advisers and gave them some jazz about the war on Fox News.

At Christmastime, we should all put politics aside. And that’s what the Obamas did. There were a number of Republicans at the party, and everybody I talked with had a great time. I was pleased with the event and, again, feel privileged to have the vantage point.

I wish everybody could visit the White House in December. There is something about viewing all the portraits of past presidents, hearing the Marine Corps choir sing Christmas songs and seeing each White House room perfectly decorated for the season that is invigorating, even thrilling.

So, I received my Christmas present early. Thanks for the party, Mr. President.

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Hey Mumbles, you were always a scrooge, too

Article 12-14-09

Menino hoses own voters with hefty prop. tax hike

by Donnie Boston
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Dec. 14, 2009

Here's some questions I got for the Beautiful People:

When will you ever come to your senses that you've been getting hosed by the people you keep electing into office? Wasn't it just a year ago when they promised you that if you didn't do away with the income tax that you would be relieved from any further tax increases? And just before Deval Patrick got elected, didn't he promise you that he would give you property tax relief?

What bull!

Ever since, they have significantly taxed anything they have gotten their hands on, causing many hardships in your lives. This includes small businesses being taxed to the brink, causing the unemployment rate to sore to 9 percent here. And guess what? With the next property tax increase that was imposed by the mayor, small businesses especially are going to be hammered again. Oh, that soaring unemployment rate!

Don't say I didn't warn you on how dangerous it would be to have a one-party rule of liberals govern this state. When Romney chose not to run again, I told you what would happen if you didn't elect Muffy to the Corner Office. You see, there has been no opposition to debate the issues at stake because a governing one-party will always agree on most things, even if their policies are deranged. Sound familiar?

So recently the Beautiful People gave Menino another term, his fifth. In return he thanks them by upping the property tax to a whopping 6.3 percent, effective Jan. 1. Who else would ring in the New Year of being the first loon to raise taxes?

No, his new meals' tax wasn't nearly enough, so in came the mayor with his whopping $173. a month increase to basically all them Beautiful Homeowners who voted for him. In case you're wondering, your residential tax rate will rise from $10.63 per thousand dollars in 2009 fiscal year to $11.88, causing the tax bill for the average home valued at $372,138 and declaring an exemption to climb from $2,762 to $2,935. As for business properties, the tax rate will increase from $27.11/$1,000 valuation to $29.38/$1,000 valuation.

What's even more outrageous is that the value of your property is not expected to increase for at least the foreseeable future. It kind of reminds you on how liberals have been running things since you've elected them: Pay more get less.

Did I tell you what a woman told me after I bumped in to her? She is worried about how her tenants are going to afford their rents after Jan 1 since they can't afford them now. I asked her who she voted for. She said Menino fooled me again. I told her she gets the government she deserves for voting him in again and walked away.

But come to think of it, even if Mumbles told voters of his property tax increase during his campaign, them Beautiful People would have still elected him. You see, we live in an area where people continue to enjoy donating their hard-earned money to irresponsible and corrupt government. And these are the same individuals who back the mayor's latest tax hike on properties.

They say that property taxes for Boston homeowners remain 30 percent below the statewide average. But little do they know that when you combine payrolls, other taxes, rent, utilities, travel costs and other expenses, Boston is considered to be up there with the most expensive cities in the country.

It's leaders like Menino who continue to feed the problem we got today. For instance, when your only alternative is to keep raising taxes, promoting illegal aliens and rewarding people who don't work, this state will always finish in the red because there will be a lot less revenue to collect. This has been the approach by the Democrats ever since they have taken full control of this state from day one.

In fact, the Boston Municipal Research Bureau is already projecting a $3 billion state revenue shortfall next fiscal year and deep cuts in state aide. And guess what? Thanks to the voters, we will have another four years of “Tommy Taxes,” and another full year ahead of the brain-dead Deval Patrick. Now how dangerous is that? Actually, it's terrifying!

So keep electing the same type of government like we got today, and they will continue to fool you just like Menino has done once again.

Just maybe someday it will sink in. But then again, looking into the very near future it may be just a little too late.

Merry Christmas!

In a Scrooge-like move, hefty tax and spender,
Mayor Tom Menino, as seen above in this staff
illustration, hosed the voters who recently elected
him for a fifth term by hiking the city's property tax
6.3 percent.



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One question in senate race: Is it over yet?

Article 12-7-09

Senate race nearing finish line for Dems


by Howie Carr
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Dec. 7, 2009

This Democrat Senate primary is accomplishing the impossible. It’s making the Mumbles-Flats fight for mayor of Boston seem downright exciting.

It all comes down to the moonbat turnout. They’re depressed, demoralized, Devaled - and by the way, if Deval were a chicken in the oven, his little white temperature button would have popped up by now. Stick a fork in him, he’s done. But that’s next year’s story.

Let’s look at the Senate candidates with a mere one day to go, not that we’re counting the days until it’s over.

Martha Coakley: Have you seen a male in her TV ads, other than the dog I mean? If you want to know which men in your neighborhood are henpecked, check out the houses with the Coakley yard signs out front.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say if her name were Martin Coakley, her candidacy would be a joke. But what exactly is the rationale here, other than payback for Shannon O’Brien? Take that, Mitt! And never forget what John Silber did to Evelyn Murphy. Or was it Frank Bellotti?

She is woman, hear her roar, or is it purr? But she does have male supporters - every lawyer in the Legislature who wants to succeed her as attorney general.

Steve Pagliuca: Is the frontrunner for this year’s Chris Gabrieli Lifetime Achievement Award. He’s finding out the hard way that the male sports fan is a mighty small caucus in the Democratic primary electorate.

One problem is that the handful of people (okay, men) who might be inclined to vote for Pags now have to convince themselves that he’s been lying to them in all those TV spots in which he claims to be a moonbat. Oh, and by the way, Pags has apparently never heard of DVR. Most of the people in his campaign’s target demos don’t watch TV ads anymore. They fast-forward through them.

If I were one of Pags’ consultants, I’d want my last paycheck wired directly to the bank. Before the results start coming in Tuesday night.

Mike Capuano: The only candidate who’s running against Dick Cheney. Has full-blown Potomac fever, boring everyone with committee-assignment talk and his votes. Endorsement from Barney Frank should be good for at least a dozen votes.

Mumbles’ organization is behind him in Boston, apparently as payback for Martha’s zeal in going after the Mumbles e-mail “scandal,” except of course in reality she did everything but personally deliver Mike Kineavy’s City Hall hard-drive to a trash compactor.

Alan Khazei: His theory of victory, such as it is: If you give Democrats a choice between a moonbat and a moonbat, they’ll pick the moonbat every time. That steady 4 or 5 percent he gets in the polls was most likely going to drift off in the final days to Capuano. But now the Globe has endorsed him, and it could sway as many votes his way as that big Barney Frank nod for Capuano.

Three guys, one woman = woman wins.

The deranged field of Democrats: Clockwise from left,
Senate candidates Martha Coakley, Alan Khazei, Michael
Capuano and Stephen Pagliuca. (File photo)


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No compass to Coakley

Article 11-30-09


Martha Coakley lacks conviction


by Michael Graham
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Nov. 30, 2009

Does Attorney General Martha Coakley really believe in “magic rooms”? And if she does, should Bay Staters believe in her?

I realize it’s now gauche to bring up a candidate’s resume and experience. So what if we’re sending an untested leader to Washington to face war and recession? It’s not like they’re going to do something really stupid - like spend millions to “save or create” nonexistent jobs in fictional congressional districts, or give the 9/11 terrorists a trial with all the rights of U.S. citizens.

Right, Mr. President?

Still, I’m old fashioned on these matters, so I spent a few hours reviewing Coakley’s list of legislative and leadership accomplishments. Remember the pamphlet “Great Jewish Sports Legends” from the movie “Airplane”? It’s about that long.

And I ran into a name I hadn’t heard in awhile: Amirault.

The current controversy is over Coakley’s mishandling of the Rev. John Geoghan case. But her fight to keep the Amiraults in jail shows something worse than bad judgment - it shows she’s willing to put party loyalty over people’s lives.

If you lived in Massachusetts in the ’80s, you remember the case. A grandmother and her two adult children who ran a day care were convicted of sexually assaulting very young children. The accusations were incredible in every sense of the word. As Dorothy Rabinowitz recounted in The Wall Street Journal:

“Children had supposedly been raped with knives - which miraculously failed to leave any signs of wounding or other injury - and been assaulted by a clown in a ‘magic room.’ Some children told - after interrogations by investigators - of being forced to drink urine, of watching the Amiraults slaughter blue birds, of meeting robots with flashing lights . . a child also testified he was tied naked to a tree in the schoolyard, in front of all the teachers and children, while ‘Miss Cheryl’ cut the leg off a squirrel.”

Uh-huh. Naked kids and squirrel mutilation in front of an audience, but then-Middlesex District Attorney Scott Harshbarger couldn’t find one witness. There was also no DNA evidence nor a motive. Lead prosecutor Lawrence Hardoon suggested child pornography, but nobody could find even one photo.

Hardoon’s answer: “Just because no evidence of photographs was found doesn’t mean that there were none.”

The Amirault case today is almost universally viewed as a a blot on the Massachusetts legal system. Almost. One holdout is Coakley.

In a statement to Blue Mass Group, Coakley said “I believe the conviction was sound and [Gerald Amirault] received a fair trial.”

Succeeding Harshbarger as district attorney, Coakley went even further. In 2001 when the parole board voted 5-0 to release Gerald Amirault, in part due to “the real and substantial doubt,” about his guilt, Coakley opposed it. In an unusual parole agreement with Coakley, Gerald’s sister Cheryl had to stop all challenges to her conviction and was banned from giving TV interviews.

What little courage it would have taken for Coakley to admit the error of the district attorney’s office. But she claims to believe in magic rape rooms and secret clowns.

Why? Because Coakley’s biggest resume item (other then her gender) is her party loyalty. Whether she’s protecting her fellow courthouse cronies, or letting the big fish wiggle off the Big Dig hook, Coakley is always carrying water for the Democratic establishment.

All she’s going to do if you send her to Washington is get a bigger bucket.

Senate candidate, Martha Coakley explains to a
group of voters why she's best for the job.
(DNN Staff photo)

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Workers worked over

Article 11-23-09

Enterprise doesn't pay in Massachusetts



by Michael Graham
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Nov. 23, 2009

According to my dad, when I was just 10 years old and he was trying to get me to help with some household chore, I (allegedly) told him: “Father, I was not put on this earth for manual labor.”

Now I’m not sure I trust my father’s recollections, but if it’s true all I can say is that I came to the right place. Massachusetts is a great place to live - unless you have to work for a living.

Did you read the Herald story about state senators proposing “Prius-only” parking zones on Massachusetts streets? Advocates of “green parking” are obsessed with climate-change kookery (they’re also getting it wrong - more Hummers circling the block looking for parking is hardly eco-friendly).

But my first thought wasn’t about global warming, it was about local workers. You know who’s not parking their hybrids outside trendy coffee joints? People with real jobs. Plumbers, contractors, delivery guys, electricians. I talked to one self-described “green nut” who is a personal trainer and carries a small gym’s worth of equipment to every gig. “I need a big truck to do my job.”

A “job,” did you say? As in “the private sector”? Gee, I thought Gov. Deval Patrick had gotten rid of all those by now.

Sorry, but this is Massachusetts. Self-righteous, Prius-driving government bureaucrats in the front. Hard-working, tax-producing citizens in the back. Way back.

The green-parking issue is largely symbolic. But it is also symptomatic of the backhanded treatment blue-collar workers get from the current residents of Beacon Hill. When a carpenter is forced to park his Tahoe down the block in deference to the moral superiority of some Cambridge tree-hugger’s hybrid, it’s annoying. But when that carpenter is sitting at home because illegal immigrants are doing a job he would otherwise have, that’s absolutely outrageous.

And yet in the middle of this recession, Patrick is trying to make it easier for the illegal immigrant to work and tougher for the working American to compete.

Advocating driver’s licenses and taxpayer-subsidized college tuition for illegal immigrants would be a lousy deal for working Bay Staters any time. But it’s almost a form of political abuse for Patrick to do it at a time when our unemployment is almost 10 percent, manufacturing jobs are fleeing the state and he’s already hit blue-collar families with $1 billion in higher sales and other taxes.

Does Patrick realize who’s paying his new double-tax on beer? His pals in the pate-and-pinot crowd don’t feel it. But working guys who are out scrounging work to feed their families get it right in the wallet. Again.

Patrick knows that the issues of driver’s licenses and tuition breaks for illegals “drive everyone’s blood pressure up,” as he put it. He says we should look past those two items and at his administration’s “New Americans Agenda” as a whole.

Well I have. It involves massive government spending that would reward people for breaking the rules, coming to our state illegally and taking jobs from legal residents who desperately need them. If driver’s licenses and tuition drive up our blood pressure, the details of this government giveaway would put most Massachusetts wage earners in the ICU.

It’s easy for our liberal elites to preen and posture on the issue of illegal immigration. The only real life encounters they have with it are when they’re paying their landscapers - in cash, of course.

Regular working guys don’t have the luxury of being PC. While Massachusetts pols are debating preferred parking, these guys are out trying to make the car payment.

Your average commuter, Judy Reilly, above, is against
a plan to provide preferred parking statewide
to non-gas-guzzling cars. (DNN Staff photo)

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Deval Patrick's history if Tim Cahill, Charlie Baker tango

Article 11-16-09

An early glance at Governor's race


by Howie Carr
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE
Monday, Nov. 16, 2009

Can we talk, Tim Cahill and Charlie Baker?

It’s time to flip a coin. I’m serious. Heads or tails. The winner runs for governor, and the loser gets to be the other guy’s running-mate on the Republican ticket. If both of you get together right now, you can begin planning the transition in January 2011.

Not even ACORN will be able to pull it out for Deval. Or even the Globe - assuming there still is a Globe next November, that is, after all the layoffs next January.

No way Deval Patrick can be reelected in 2010. Let me rephrase that - no way he can get over 50 percent of the vote. But if two candidates are on the ballot against him, then he only needs 34 percent of the vote. Sadly, despite his disastrous term, he could still conceivably get 33 percent-plus-one. There are that many moonbats infesting this benighted Commonwealth, that overly medicated, guilt-ridden, non-working trust-fund crowd living off the monthly check from either their parents or their uncle (Sam, that is).

Which brings us to Charlie Baker, Republican, and Tim Cahill, the former Democrat who is now an independent. Both of them are running for governor. They’re making Deval’s day.

The only shot the Together-We-Con governor has is if he can split the 60 percent anti vote. Divide and conquer - the oldest story in the book.

Even then, it’s not a sure thing. Look at New Jersey last week - bustout Democat Gov. Jon Corzine, a slimy Goldman Sachs moneychanger, almost pulled it out over his GOP challenger. He came close only because of an “independent” candidate who was endorsed by the state’s largest dying broadsheet, a wretched Democrat organ called the Star-Ledger (a sort of the Globe of Newark).

The Republican was elected when the “independent” faded at the end. This is what usually happens to third-party candidates - are you listening, Tim Cahill? Nobody wants to waste his vote.

Now, you can’t blame Cahill for being offended by the fact that Charlie Baker wants him to become his number 2. After all, what is the highest office Baker has ever been elected to? Selectman, in Swampscott.

Cahill, on the other hand, has run, and won, statewide, twice. The first time, in 2002, he was one of two guys named Cahill in the Democratic primary. That’s impressive, but as Tim knows better than anyone else, he won because one of his daughters came up with a catchy slogan, “Tim for Treasurer.”

Still, he won. As the old saying goes, I’d rather be lucky than good.

But in the Dreaded Private Sector, it’s another story. Charlie Baker turned around Harvard Pilgrim. Then there’s Cahill, who in his days on the Quincy City Council owned a coffee shop named Handshakes, which was more commonly known as Fisticuffs, due to the lack of brotherly love at the joint.

So you can understand why Charlie is as adamant about Cahill stepping aside.

Meanwhile, Deval has had a hip replacement. What he also needed, as his dithering over the UMass terrorist proved, was a spine transfusion. The state can’t afford four more years of this buffoon.

Heads or tails? Your call, Tim.

Since the first day Gov. Deval Patrick (above) took
the Corner Office, he still doesn't get it.
(File Photo)

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Obama's edge not so sharp

Article 11-9-09

Post election results hint change


by Michael Graham
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Nov. 9, 2009

How’s that “hope and change” working out for you? I can’t speak for the Democrats, but Republicans - particularly New England ones - are loving it.

After a year of defeat and dire predictions, Massachusetts conservatives have renewed hope for 2010. There’s definitely change on the way, and in a state whose legislators are about 90 percent Democrat, change can only be good for Republicans.

And who can we thank for this new conservative spirit of hopeful-changeyness? The Republican Party’s new hero: Barack Obama.

One year ago today, pundits were writing off the American right for the next election cycle, the next decade - some even said the next generation was lost to the Republicans. And now, just 10 months into the Obama presidency, what’s really been lost?

Virginia (Obama, plus five in 2008), New Jersey (Obama, plus 15) and probably the massive health reform bill (Obama, plus 28 speeches, press conferences and town halls, to no effect).

How quickly we’ve gone from “Obama - how can he lose?” to “Is there anything he can win, other than the (snicker) Nobel Peace Prize?”

Tuesday’s election proved that one of the other things Obama can’t win is another term in the corner office for Deval Patrick. Instead, it looks like New Jersey deja vu all over again.

You remember New Jersey - where an unpopular and largely inept governor was relying on Obama’s star power and his state’s solid Democratic majority to get him re-elected. That, and Gov. Jon Corzine’s ability to spend $30 million - $12 million more than his opponent.

And if all that didn’t work, Corzine had an independent candidate pulling votes away from his challenger, too.

Sound familiar? If you work in the Massachusetts governor’s office, it should. Except Deval Patrick doesn’t have Corzine’s millions, and Obama won’t be able to spend as much time in Massachusetts during the national 2010 midterms as he was able to in New Jersey.

Then again, given the results on Tuesday, that may not be such bad news.

Obama is a problem for Patrick because the president has pushed so far left so fast, he’s washing away the bad taste of the Bush years from the mouths of New Englanders. Republicans, who were anathema to Massachusetts independents only a year ago, are now viewed as just the other group of incompetent politicians.

Andy Smith at the New Hampshire Survey Center believes both of that state’s congressional seats could go Republican and the GOP could retain the seat of retiring Sen. Judd Gregg. Sen. Chris Dodd (D) is in real trouble in Connecticut.

And Patrick? Or as he’ll be known during campaign season, “Tax-raising, toll-hiking, job-killing, drapery-loving, pals-get-a-$100k pay-day” Patrick?

Nah, you’re probably right, Democrats: He’s a shoo-in.

Republican Charlie Baker is an electable candidate. His voters will be energized. There will be a tea-party-powered slew of Republican and independent challengers taking on Democratic incumbents across the state. The national GOP will have reason to send resources to New England.

And all these newfound benefits to the Baker campaign were locked in thanks to Tuesday’s election results.

The White House insists that the election had nothing to do with Barack Obama. It appears a significant portion of the electorate wants nothing to do with him, either.

Change: Republican Governor-elect Bob McDonnell
waves to the crowd at his victory party in Richmond,
Va., Tuesday. (DNN Staff photo)

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