Archive for January 9th, 2010
HARRY REID AND DEMOCRATS, MARK OUR WORDS: WE WILL SEAT SENATOR SCOTT BROWN ON THE STEPS OF THE CAPITOL IF WE HAVE TO
H/t our hero Chrissy the Hyphenated
Hear us now Harry Reid.
Mark our words Deval Patrick.
Listen up William Galvin.
Pay attention Martha Coakley.
Tremble at the thought Nancy Pelosi.
If you dare defy the will of the people of the state of Massachusetts and indeed, as threatened, block the seating of Senator Scott Brown should he win the special election on January 19th, in your suicidal and insane quest to ram your unconstitutional and bribe-riddled Healthcare Rationing bill through the United States Senate, WE THE PEOPLE in order to establish a more perfect union shall MARCH UPON WASHINGTON to setup an office for UNITED STATES SENATOR SCOTT BROWN on our own.
On the steps of the Capitol if we have to.
Where Senator Brown will become the 41st vote of reason against your madness, and throngs of Americans of all walks of life will travel to the capital to stand with him as we begin our quest to drive every last Liberal from Congress like the snakes from Ireland.
Your schemes will not work.
Your plot won’t go unchallenged.
Your usurpation of the will of the people will not be tolerated.
If you have any gods, pray to them now, because a reckoning is coming.
We here at HillBuzz are moderate Democrats who want all of your heads on a platter at this point. We can only imagine what people who never liked you to begin with are feeling now that it’s been announced you wish to disregard the Massachusetts election and lock Senator Brown out before he’s even elected.
If you think we’re a pain in your collective ass on the Internets…just wait ’till we come to Washington to scream at you in person.
On the steps of the Capitol if we must…
which will become Senator Brown’s Office in Exile if it needs to be.
YOU’VE GONE TOO FAR THIS TIME.
Awake, slumbering giant!
AWAKE!!!
Class vs. Crass: A History of First Ladies
H/t Chrissy the Hyphenated
First Lady Dolley Madison risked her own life to save historical artifacts from the White House when the British invaded Washington, D.C. in the War of 1812, remarking, “I could hardly leave you for the British to burn up” to the famous painting of George Washington this nation still treasures.
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Current First Lady Michelle Obama only discovered she was proud of her country, at the age of 45, in Wisconsin, when her husband was winning presidential primaries and her family was basking in more attention than they ever dreamed of.
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Class vs. Crass indeed
The Who's Mad At Us Today Report: Saturday Edition
Martha Coakley’s campaign in Massachusetts is imploding.
We know this, because the big guns are getting called in on the national level to come to Massachusetts to save “the Kennedy Seat”. Here in Chicago, that means people we like very much, big money people, are putting the pressure — BIG PRESSURE — on the big Democrat families and donors here to pony up and bail out the Coakley campaign.
We’ve been told to shut our mouths and stop helping Scott Brown. This is now coming from people we actually really like, and not just the Democrats we generally ignore in this town.
This Senate race was a tough call for us because Martha Coakley was a strong Clinton supporter and remains friends with the Clintons, whom we would do just about anything for. We pledged to always support anyone who stood with Hillary Clinton against the DNC’s attacks in 2008, when Dr. Utopia’s campaign, under its “Hope and Change” banner, proved it was really more about Sexism and Misogyny than anything else.
We were, in fact, backing Coakley until Christmas week.
That’s when everything changed for us — because Democrats decided to ram dangerous, unconstitutional legislation through the Senate in the dead of night, racing to force votes on a bill no one read or fully comprehends. That’s treasonous in our opinion — these idiots are jeopardizing the safety and the well-being of the nation for NO GOOD REASON. Not a single Democrat in the Senate can articulate exactly what is in the Healthcare Rationing bill or what financial impact it’s going to have on the country. None of the 60 Democrats in the Senate can explain why this bill needed to be rushed to the point of incompetence…when there was plenty of time for the Whore of the Senate, Ben Nelson, and the shameless Mary Landrieu to pork the bill up with all sorts of personal bribes for themselves.
Shameless.
The very reason we supported Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid is because we trust the woman: she loves this country, believes in restrained fiscal management, carefully studies things before she commits to any long-term nation-changing legislation, and certainly learned her lesson in the 1990s in terms of how to go about healthcare reform. Hillary Clinton, if she was president today, would not be presiding over the disaster that’s befalling us in the Senate.
So, at the end of the day, in the week before Christmas, we decided our love of this country and our concern for America’s future trumped any other allegiances we have. There is nothing we have against Coakley, and we will always appreciate her courageous stand with Clinton when the DNC and Utopia campaign where pummeling her with all they had. That took a lot of guts on her part to stand up for what she believed in when she was under such immense pressure.
And so, it’s now our turn to do just that.
We heard again today that we’ll never work for another Democrat campaign if we keep pushing Scott Brown, which means there’s no future in the political world for any of us. It’s long been our dream to find a way to actually make a living in politics, so we can quit our day jobs (emphasis on plural on that one), and just revel in politics and analysis all day. That would be a dream come true.
And today’s threat is, either back off the Massachusetts race or that won’t ever happen, at least not in Chicago.
And we say BRING IT.
Life’s strange. We never thought we’d be running a website. We never imagined in our wildest dreams thousands of you a day would want to come here and hear our take on things.
We certainly never thought we’d be enough of a threat to anything to have people tell us to shut up, or to have Obots relentlessly attack us in the name of their Lightbringer, oh He of the Hope and the Change and the Unicorns (not to mention the rabid, crazed, cult of personality thronged with those whose first reaction to anything is to swear, hate, and threaten).
We’re all in for Scott Brown in Massachusetts, people.
One of our great heroes in 2008 was Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild — a former Democrat big donor and fundraiser who’s stopped working for the DNC and will most likely never raise money for Democrats again. She’s through with the current incarnation of the Democrat party, which we call the Liberal-Socialist Democrat party.
To paraphrase something Hillary Clinton herself said, back when she was a Goldwater Girl, “we didn’t leave the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left us, and morphed into something we can’t even recognize anymore”.
We’re sad the Coakley-Brown election has burned more bridges for us. It hurts to have women emailing us hateful things for not backing a woman for Senate, when we work so hard to promote good female candidates for everything. We take the same flak whenever we go after terrible Senators, Governors, and Cabinet members, who just happen to be female, such as Claire McCaskill, Kathleen Sebelius, or Janet Napolitano. Just because you’re a woman doesn’t mean we HAVE to like and support you. If you’re terrible, you’re terrible. Just because someone is gay, it doesn’t mean we have to like them, just because we’re gay.
Life is not as black and white, cut and dry, as some of these people would like to pretend it is. It’s more complicated than that, and sometimes it does require sitting down and figuring out which loyalty trumps others.
As much as we love the Clintons, if we think what’s best for the country ever goes against something they want or believe in, we need to follow our hearts and do what’s right for America.
We’d choose country over what’s best for ourselves in a heartbeat, so Hillary and Bill Clinton need to understand that we have to choose America over them, too.
We were terrified by what the Democrats have done with the 60 votes they have in the Senate. They crossed a major line at Christmas…one we won’t forgive them for. America needs the Democrats to lose at least one vote in the Senate so that they cannot ram through legislation that’s going to ruin us all and cripple this nation. They proved they cannot be trusted with that much power.
So, no matter which Democrat would run in that Massachusetts race, we would be backing the Republican to balance those scales.
Fortuitously, the Republicans just so happen to be running Hottie McAwesome for Senate, a guy we actually like (and wish had a younger gay brother who lives in Chicago).
If helping him wipes out job and other opportunities for us in Democrat circles here in Chicago, so be it. Because at least we know there’ll be an America left if Scott Brown is elected.
We’re not so sure that’s true if Democrats get to keep their 60 vote majority through the November elections. Those reckless loons need to be put on a leash IMMEDIATELY, and Scott Brown is the only man at this juncture who can do it.
The Complete Twelve Days of Obamamas
Many thanks to our good friend Chrissy the Hyphenated for the artwork on these, and for taking a concept we had and running with it in such a creative way. We hope to collaborate with her more in the future and know she’d appreciate it if you let her know how much you enjoy her hard work and mad Photoshop skillz. Honestly, one of the best jobs we’ve ever seen and we’re so grateful to her. We’ll get lots of use out of these, we’re sure:
Red, Blue, Green, and Gold: January 9th Edition
Today’s Action Items for Team Members:
Red Team: Get on the phones and make calls into Massachusetts for Scott Brown. Be positive and never say a bad word about his opponent, whatever her name is. Just sell Brown. Tell people how awesome he his. Tell them he’s going to save us from the Healthcare Rationing disaster. Massachusetts residents, chime in and use this thread to tell phone bankers what the voters in your state want to hear about. Call everyone in Massachusetts, every man, woman, cat, dog, drag queen, and fisherman. All of ‘em.
Blue Team: Spread the word to as many Brown supporting sites as possible about the dangers of Eeyorism and concern trolls. Make sure they know what Brown is up against, and how the Liberals are mobilizing their troll and goblin armies to sink morale and demoralize Brown voters. We can’t let them win. Blue Team, take wing and get this article of ours on “Eeyores and Concern Trolls” out there so Brown’s supporters can learn from our experiences on the Clinton and Palin campaigns.
Green Team: Send some cash to Hottie McAwesome if you can. He’s a centerfold with a heart of gold so slip him some Lincolns or Hamiltons if you can. Introduce him to your friend Andrew Jackson or arrange a meet and greet with old Ben Franklin if that’s at all possible.
Gold Team: Here’s an interesting rumor that you can spread far and wide in Liberal circles: that Martha Coakley, upon careful consideration, now believes the Senate seat should stay in the Kennedy family, and that Joe Kennedy should win the race, so now Coakley will be withdrawing. Because of the laws in Massachusetts, she has to remain on the ballot, but she wants her supporters to vote KENNEDY on January 19th. ”I just couldn’t allow myself to take this away from Joe Kennedy. I will continue to serve the people of Massachusetts in the way I know how, but I believe the Kennedy Family Seat in the Senate is sacred, and ask all my most ardent supporters, particularly those who also support the liberal cause, to vote KENNEDY on election day. This is the best decision for our nation.”
Liberals are using every trick in their Alinsky playbooks to sabotage Scott Brown, demoralize his supporters, and steal this election by hook and crook.
For the next ten days, you need to do everything you can to counteract their trolls and goblins. it is not just a chance to help a fine-looking man make it to the Senate. And he is FINE. Hot damn. It’s also a critical opportunity to strike a blow for the Resistance and take a major step towards taking this country back from the insane Liberal lunatics who are driving it into the ground.
Can you join one or more teams above today?
Advice on what to do when Harry Reid refuses to seat a Senator
H/t Chrissy the Hyphenated
Democrats in Massachusetts, with Martha Coakley’s blessing, have announced they will refuse to seat Senator Scott Brown should he win the January 19th special election to fill deceased murderer and womanizer Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. ”Elections don’t matter in Massachusetts,” is apparently what Coakley herself believes. ”I’ve already won and it doesn’t matter what voters say. Scott Brown won’t be acknowledged as Senator. This is the Kennedy Seat and now it’s mine”.
This brings to mind what Harry Reid did to Senator Roland Burris a year ago, when he refused to seat him in the Senate as well. That time, it was because the current president didn’t get his way and then-Governor Rod Blagojevich replaced Dr. Utopia in the Senate not with Valerie Jarrett, Utopia’s crony, but with longtime public servant Burris. Reid howled, and Senate Democrats swore not to acknowledge Burris and bar him from the Senate.
Here is the advice we gave Burris, tinged with theatrics as only the likes of us in Boystown could prescribe:
* If Harry Reid refuses to acknowledge someone who has either won an election or been appointed Senator by a sitting Governor in a state where such appointments are provided for in the state constitution upon vacancy of a seat, that person needs to hightail it to Washington and immediately start calling himself SENATOR. If Scott Brown wins the vote in Massachusetts on January 19th, the moment the race is called he needs to declare victory and start calling himself UNITED STATES SENATOR BROWN.
* We really wish Burris had the guts to do this next part, because it would have made the history books — it’s such a good visual. If Harry Reid claims he won’t acknowledge a Senator such as Brown, then Brown needs to rent a U-Haul truck and office furniture and head to the US Capitol. The day after he’s elected, he needs to come to the Capitol with FOX News crews in tow and demand to be allowed into his new office. If Reid refuses, then Brown needs to setup an office for himself on the steps of the United States Capitol. An area rug draped on one of the ornate landings, a wooden desk, book shelves, chairs for him to receive his constituents, potted plants, a copy of the United States Constitution on an easel, a bowl of red, white, and blue M&Ms, etc. Brown needs to then sit at his desk, with nameplate sparkling in the sun reading SENATOR SCOTT BROWN, MASSACHUSETTS on it, taking photographs with all the tourists who come by. We think there’d be lines for hours and hours to see him.
* Embarrass Reid and the Democrats in the Senate. Humiliate them. We can’t tell you how much we wanted Burris to do the above: an elderly black man shivering in the cold, sitting at a desk out in the open, outside the Capitol, barred from having an actual office. Great Merciful Zeus, the image of that would have been indelible. This won’t have the same resonance with Brown, but it will be effective. Reid will try to bar him from the building, but Brown needs to start acting like a Senator from DAY ONE after the election — should he win and Coakley and her supporters in Massachusetts try to illegally impede him from coming to Washington to do his job.
* Brown needs to watch the movie “Recount” that HBO ran in 2008: Al Gore’s idiot campaign manager Donna Brazile and senile fool Warren Christopher told Gore to “be as effeminate and lacquidasical as possible about all this” and “to come off as a big sissy baby and not put up a real fight”. That was honestly their strategy. George W. Bush’s team, meanwhile, decided to declare Bush president and start acting as such, moving immediately into transition mode and largely ignoring whatever Gore was doing. We all know how this turned out. Gore, Brazile, and Christopher brought muffins and applesauce to a knife fight. Scott Brown needs to bring chainsaws on January 20th. In addition to “Recount”, he needs to be watching “Evil Dead” to take some tips from Bruce Campbell.
* Republicans at large, and Scott Brown specifically, need to understand they are in the fight of their lives. We’ve made the analogy before and will do it again: a Brown victory in Massachusetts is the equivalent of the fledgling Rebellion taking down the Death Star in Star Wars. Imperial hubris manufactured a battle station the size of a small moon, with the most destructive weapons systems ever designed – so massive was this magic 8-ball of evil that the Emperor himself believed it indestructable, unstoppable. A lot of things supposedly indestructable go up in flames, or sink to the bottom of the ocean with Leonardo DiCaprio on board. The Healthcare Rationing Bill will be one of them if Brown is elected January 19th. Democrats know this. We can’t tell you how many times Rahm Emanuel’s watched Titanic with hunky Secret Service guys in the White House, but we bet it’s a lot. Like over 50. That’s called “cuddle-time”. Scott Brown is the iceberg Democrats fear. He’s the spark to the flame on their giant gas bag hovering over New Jersey (that for once is not Oprah). Hottie McAwesome, as we love to call him (because he is, indeed, the scientific combination of hot + awesome), is the handsome rebel pilot zeroing in on the Death Star with a weapons-grade can of whupass in tow.
Democrats will lose if they try to thwart Senator Scott Brown’s taking of office in Washington — but only if Republicans grow a pair and back this man up, staging the “Outdoor Office” theatrics we’ve outlined here.
It will work.
Trust us.
Burris almost did it, but thought it would be too cold and didn’t want to be outside for that long. We couldn’t talk him into it.
But, just imagine the absurdity as Scott Brown sets up an office to meet the people and serve his constituents starting January 20th, right on the steps of the Capitol to force Harry Reid to recognize him as a Senator. His daughters could sing and entertain the crowd. His reporter wife Gayle could interview everyone in line and ask him how terrible they think Reid and his fellow Democrats are. The whole thing could be podcast and live-blogged and broadcast to millions across the country to prove yet again how corrupt and power mad Democrats have become.
How worthy of electoral defeat they’ve become.
How much every last one of the Democrats in Congress deserves to be tarred and feathered and run out of Washington on rails.
An Open Letter to Scott Brown Supporters Regarding Eeyorism and Concern Trolls
To Scott Brown and all his supporters,
We are writing to you as moderate Democrats who fought for Hillary Clinton all through 2007-2008, then became Democrats for McCain/Palin and remain supporters of former Govenor Palin now. This means that for almost three years now, we have been on the receiving end of everything the Left has dreamed up to throw at us. Dr. Utopia, our current president, and his supporters are truly the most vile and malicious people we’ve ever been up against. In the primaries, in particular, their viciousness, hatred, and stop-at-nothing/ends-justify-means attitude was sobering. We learned many lessons in the trenches we won’t soon forget — and need to pass on to you now.
For the next ten days, the most effective thing the Left will do is to demoralize Scott Brown’s supporters to convince them to sit their butts home on election day. It is a time-proven and successful tactic of the Left. Frankly, it’s the best tool in their arsenal. We call this Eeyore-breeding and concern-trolling.
Here’s what they’re going to do:
(1) Convince Scott Brown’s supporters to sit home by telling them he’s already lost and it’s meaningless for them to vote. Dr. Utopia’s Obots worked overtime before every primary or caucus telling all of Hillary Clinton’s supporters it was pointless to vote, that they should just give up, and that Dr. Utopia was going to win Massachusetts, California, Ohio, Texas, Puerto Rico, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Indiana, South Dakota, you name it. Sometimes, during the middle of voting in a given state, the Obots would start the rumor that Hillary Clinton had dropped out of the race. They beseiged Clinton supporting sites telling everyone to just give up and go home. They called likely Clinton voters and told them to just stay home. Working off scripts, they just hammered and hammered this into people — and it worked! Here in Chicago, we had a few volunteers — good friends of ours — who would get so depressed at what the Obots were saying that they’d just stop phone banking, would curl up under covers, and would go to sleep until the election was over…forever surprised when Clinton won Ohio, Texas, or wherever like she was supposed to. Obots lie. Once a race was over, they’d start telling lies about the next one, to breed new Eeyores. Scott Brown, Eeyores are your biggest threat…people who walk around like infected zombies, spreading little black rainclouds to others.
(2) Use the media to breed more Eeyores. Essentially, in 2008 the national media became Obots with journalism degrees and seats at anchor tables. Anyone running against Liberals has to know he is running against the MSM too. They are one and the same. Liberal-Socialist Democrats control the news media, because the media sees itself as Liberal first, journalists second. The MSM will do everything it can to beat Scott Brown’s supporters into the ground and convince them to give up. In the Richard Matheson “I Am Legend”, the MSM’s like the vampires outside hounding the Last Man on Earth to just give up, just walk outside to be destroyed, to give up all hope and surrender. That’s all they did to Hillary Clinton from January 3rd – June 3rd, 2008, when they told her every day to “just quit already” and heaped abuse on all her supporters to “give up and go home”. It is what they will do to Scott Brown for the next 10 days to, to demoralize his supporters.
(3) Concern trolls will invade all Scott Brown email lists, blogs, and forums to breed Eeyores. Concern trolls are people who pose as Scott Brown supporters, and then make statements that start out sounding like they support him, but then finish by saying, “Well, I really wanted him to win, and like I said I really like him, but I think he can try again in a few years. It wasn’t his time, and he did a good job, but let’s face it, he’s lost this time. We should just all sit home and back cookies tomorrow instead of voting. Doesn’t cookies sound yummy? Much better than going to vote. Martha Coakley’s already won”. The concern trolls hope to find weak minded Brown supporters and infect them with Eeyorism…the disease Republicans, especially are so susceptible, that makes people lose all their fire and plop their big butts into comfy sofas and sit there doing nothing. ”Oh, I read on the Internet that it’s over and Coakley’s already won and that I should sit home and eat cookies instead of voting. I am so depressed, there are rain clouds over my head now. If a stranger I don’t know at all on the Internet told me to give up, I have to give up, because that person said to.” Waaaaah! The Eeyores then infect other people, breeding more Eeyores, keeping more butts in comfy sofas, and before you know it Brown’s lost half his ground troops to an Eeyore outbreak. Hillary Clinton lost contests like Wisconsin, North Carolina, Guam, and Missouri because of Eeyores.
You need to stay fired-up and motivated to see this thing through to January 19th.
Yes, it’s an uphill battle.
We never said it wasn’t.
Nothing worth fighting for was ever easy.
You don’t give up until your opponent does, no matter how tired you get, no matter how much you think you can’t go on.
YOU JUST KEEP FIGHTING.
We are telling you that Democrats are terrified about this Senate race.
This is how Liberals acted before Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Indiana in the 2008 primaries. ALL of those contests Tim Russert and the other pigs at MSNBC called for Dr. Utopia, telling Hillary Clinton she should just shut up and sit down and quit. The Obots came out in force, breeding Eeyores left and right. We lost hundreds of volunteers in Chicago to Eeyorism…people who just stopped showing up to phone banks, stopping canvassing, stopped volunteering, because “the TV told me it was over”. We hope there is a special place in Hell for Tim Russert, that shameless pig. It’s frustrating people listen to the Liberals on TV, but you have to accept the fact that they do. The TV is powerful, and it will be focused on telling Scott Brown’s voters to fall into their Republican patterns of sitting their butts home on election day because the TV says there’s no hope for Brown.
This is what the TV did to Clinton voters in Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.
But enough of us fought the Eeyorism and delivered those states to our champ.
We implore all of you out there to learn from us, to look back on our example, and to PLEASE fight back against the Liberals and Eeyorism.
The Liberals are using the same playbook from 2008 in 2010. They have not learned any new tricks. Why should they, when the old ones worked so well?
Scott Brown has the opportunity to become Senator Hottie McAwesome. Never let it be said that this group of gay dudes in Boystown, Chicago didn’t do all they could to help a former centerfold become more awesome. Never let it be said we haven’t dedicated our lives to eradicating the Eeyore virus and shutting down concern trolls wherever we find them.
If we work hard and don’t give up, we’ll win.
Senator Hottie McAwesome’s victory will be the first blow against the Liberal-Socialist Democrat Party for the Resistance Movement that’s forming, which will ultimately drive all 60 current Democrats from the Senate in the next three elections cycles. We can take back this country, from the only angle we have available to us at the moment: the Massachusetts Senate race.
That angle is the centerfold.
Our great hope is Scott Brown.
His victory depends on never giving up, no matter what.
