Here’s an article over at RealClearPolitics about Democrats not seating Scott Brown in the Senate if he wins the election next Tuesday, where Democrats use every trick in the book to bar him from office, with Martha Coakley contesting the election and dragging the process through limbo long enough for Democrats to ram the unconstitutional, economy-killing, union health plan taxing, job-obliterating Healthcare Rationing bill through the Senate.
We’re wondering what would happen if Democrats were really stupid and blind enough to REALLY do this.
We have a friend who has a drinking problem. She’s had it for years, is late to work all the time, is irresponsible, set her kitchen on fire because she forgot she had something cooking on the stove and drank herself into a stupor one night, is constantly making bad decisions with men while drunk, etc. This went on forever, with people concerned for her, but no one going the intervention route…until one day she just went too far, and at a big event she got so drunk at the open bar she was dancing inappropriately in the middle of the room, took her jacket and blouse off and ended up just in her bra, and then started throwing up on all sorts of people, many of whom worked with her.
She crossed a line, and then finally people who had been bottling things up were able to address their issues with her — some of whom were incredibly angry. It was not a pretty sight at all. We never knew someone so petite could have that much vomit inside her.
Instead of throwing up all over the place, we think voters might actually storm Washington if Democrats really pull this delay stunt.
We are telling you now — any Republicans listening — that you need to have a plan in place starting January 20th when Scott Brown pulls off the upset and wins this seat in Massachusetts. You cannot come up with a plan on January 20th. It needs to be ready now, so that on January 20th you hit the ground running.
Anyone with in driving distance to Washington needs to go the Capitol and form a mob on the steps demanding the Senate seats Brown immediately on January 20th if Democrats try these tall tactics. It needs to be the most massive march on Washington ever seen — so large it will terrify everyone on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. For people who can’t travel to DC, they need to be mobilized to head to their Senators’ offices in their own states. Every single member of the Senate, on both sides of the aisle, will need to be pressured to seat Brown immediately. If you have vacation time or sick days, you will need to use them. It will be a once in a lifetime moment to really put true terror into the hearts of all elected officials, because we believe this sort of stunt will hit people on a primal level and tap into a rage many don’t eve realize is there.
We know we will be so furious we will find it hard to contain ourselves. We will literally be screaming and yelling on the streets. We’ll march up and down Michigan Avenue to protest, with signs and pitchforks if we have to, and will make life a living Hell for Senators Durbin and Burris here in Illinois. We will most likely get on a plane and head to Washington too, to do this at the Capitol.
Everything Democrats did in 2000 to stoke the protests and the screaming and yelling over the Gore recount needs to be done to them over this proposed stunt against Scott Brown.
We’re getting ahead of ourselves because we still need Brown to actually win first — and mark our words the DNC, ACORN, the SEIU, and other villains will try every Alinsky Method trick in the book to steal this election — but you need to start thinking about what you will do in the event this does go down.
Sort of like having a Tornado Emergency plan or a Fire Drill. What will you personally do — listed in concrete steps you will follow — should Democrats really pull this?
What do you think will happen nationally if this goes down?
What do you think the public reaction will be?
January 13, 2010 at 2:15 am
If this actually happens?
I’ll drive down to Washington and show my support in person. That’s the least we can do, right? For me, it’s about a 7 hour drive. Not too much of a sacrifice for the future of our country.
January 13, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Take some friends with you. If I lived in MA, I would be looking into renting buses to take a couple of thousand MA voters down to DC. Then I would mass them on the steps of the Capitol and make sure the media knows and records that they are the citizens of Massachusetts who have come to seat their Senator. Let Harry Reid explain to a bunch of angry voters why he won’t seat their duly elected Senator.
January 13, 2010 at 2:19 am
The outrage will be palpable. Don’t be surprised if there are massive protests. 2012 will definitely see the end of Democrat majority in Congress.
January 13, 2010 at 11:03 am
It could stimulate another ‘Shot Heard Round the World,’ signaling a second American Revolution. Were I a D.C. pol, I’d be concerned with everybody within driving distance of Capitol Hill. Especially those driving pickup trucks with gun racks in the rear window. I don’t think these deluded clowns have a clue just how angry the population is.
January 13, 2010 at 2:19 am
Good question–I am actually stunned that they would even think they could get away with not seating him but then I was one of those Cocktail Party Repubs until I took to the streets April 15th of last year.
I twitted this question to Michelle Malkin, Andrew Breitbart and Glenn Beck. Being in AZ, I am also going to call McCain’s ofc. and ask them what he will do as well as ask them what we can do.
I would probably get really pissed and run around screaming outside a senator’s ofc. and get arrested :(
January 13, 2010 at 2:29 am
I’ll need to bring a handler so I don’t do something stupid outside the Capitol and get arrested. I’d hate to be toxic to the movement, but Jesus, I’m just so friggin angry, it’s hard to keep your head on straight.
January 13, 2010 at 10:42 am
Amen brother.
January 13, 2010 at 3:57 am
If it looks like they are going to attempt something like this, for the sake of the Dems, I hope a senior statesman pays a visit to the WH. To warn Obama that to pull such a stunt will guarantee such massive losses in 2010 that not only will the rest of his agenda will be done, so will any chance of his re-election.
Moreover, the Republicans will have such a majority that they will be able to begin ANY investigation they want. Treasury, the Fed, the unions, Dem members of Congress, the czars, you name it. Would be rather ugly.
(to say nothing of the fact that the Dems would turn themselves into a minority party for at least a decade)
January 13, 2010 at 8:11 am
None of them, from Obama to the Congress, care about being reelected. They are setting up machinery now that will grind away at America, destroying Liberty, and in ten years their proteges will return to control it. This is a long game they’re playing.
January 13, 2010 at 8:58 am
I concur with what you’re saying. Reelection is nice. But many of these people (e.g., Pelosi) are rather long in the tooth. They want a legacy to point to. And that legacy is Dems in power.
January 13, 2010 at 4:05 am
Related…if anyone from here is a MA resident, you can be a paid poll watcher on election day. I read someplace tonight they were short enough people to work the polls:
http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?id=3599
January 13, 2010 at 7:00 am
If they refuse to seat him should he win, it should make the healthcare bill INVALID since it would have been a crooked vote, not representative of us.
January 13, 2010 at 7:07 am
In a word: Yes.
January 13, 2010 at 7:28 am
Now that sounds like something that would happen in Louisiana, where we like our politics and our rice “dirty”. If y’all really want to know how to get down and dirty politically, find out what the WH has on each DEM Senator, make it public, and the WH loses its leverage. Everyone has skeletons, find the right ones, and the politicians will vote the “right” way.
January 13, 2010 at 7:10 am
I’ve been wondering if refusing to seat Brown could be the proper basis for a court case?
Strikes me it would be Taxation Without Representation, and rather unconstitutional.
Any lawyers here who can comment?
January 13, 2010 at 7:16 am
Haven’t we all wondered what the ‘tipping point’ would be? What would knock down the first domino that starts the unstoppable cascade?
This. Is. It.
Once Americans realize that, in the view of their elected “representatives” that taxpayers voices MEAN NOTHING (like Massachusetts saying NO to Dem representation yet being forcibly GIVEN Democratic representation in the Senate–for the HealthCare vote–by ‘dirty tricks’).
This will be protested. Will ‘we’ get thousands to riot? Maybe or maybe not. But…what if the “protest” came in the from of the fed up taxpayers going to their payroll departments and taking like 38 dependents each? No payroll taxes would be paid; no monies sent to the fed coffers. In our ‘cushy’ world, I think it would be hard to get the middle class to go ‘Rodney King’ level riots…(Though I am sure some Patriots would!!!) But NOT handing over the bi-weekly taxes–could be done. IMMEDIATELY.
January 13, 2010 at 10:59 am
Dennis Miller was saing if cap and tax is passed.. he will recommend people file for extensions.. He was not suggesting people dont pay taxes.. just make it a pain in the ass.
If everyone changed their dependents and then filed for an extension.. we could starve the governemnt into submission.
January 13, 2010 at 7:47 am
I live in the MD suburbs of DC, and work literally one block outside the Beltway. And I have a lot of leave stored up. Hells yeah I’ll get my butt down there!
January 13, 2010 at 7:50 am
Fox News just did a great piece on the election, showing Rasmussen poll that puts the race just 2 pts. away.
They also showed the quote Coakley made at their debate, basically stating that there are no more terrorists Afghanistan; then they showed a follow up interview where she was asked about that statement and refused to answer.
Finally, as you have predicted, they showed a list of huge pharma companies who showed up at her fundraising dinner and quoted a $600,000 donation from none other than SEIU, to be made today!!!!!
It has begun…
Go, Scott!
January 13, 2010 at 7:50 am
Been reading how the Dems and seiu are pumping massive amounts of money in Mass. Anyone know if the Republicans are pumping money in to help Brown. It seems to me that if they are good for them, but if they aren’t it tells you all you need to know about the Republican leadership.
January 13, 2010 at 7:53 am
“Small donors rack up $1.3 million for Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown, $77.89 at a time
Most of the 16,000 contributors who are responsible for Republican Scott Brown banking $1.3 million in campaign bucks on Monday for his Massachusetts Senate campaign came from grass roots donors averaging $77.89 a donation, his campaign said.”
http://dailycaller.com/2010/01/13/small-donors-rack-up-1-3-million-for-massachusetts-republican-senate-candidate-scott-brown-77-89-at-a-time/
January 13, 2010 at 7:57 am
How much money is the republican party contributing?
January 13, 2010 at 8:14 am
I don’t know anything about how the Republicans operate, but I think it is smart for the RNC to lay low in this race. They have heard over and over that people are no longer contributing to the party, but directly to the candidate. Scott Brown has a genuine grass-roots following, which is golden. He has so much charisma and the timing is just right for him. I think everything the RNC does for him should just be as under the radar as possible. Look how desperate Martha Coakley looks with all the last minute appeals from John Kerry and the DNC. The Republicans have a possible future presidential candidate one day in Scott Brown and I’m guessing they don’t want to screw it up by branding him with an unpopular label.
January 13, 2010 at 9:04 am
I agree with you. I would hate to see Brown lose due to lack of funding. My thought’s were that this was the best chance to get the Healthcare bill stopped and if the republicans are really against this bill, they should be supporting Brown.
January 13, 2010 at 11:17 am
completely agree, keep steele, and everyone else out of this… this is scotts race.
January 13, 2010 at 8:36 am
Shouldn’t we wait the 10 days, quietly….kind of eerily quiet, then once the 10 days are up DEMAND that he is seated. The day after the election doesn’t work because they have to wait the 10 days by law for overseas and absentee ballots.
My plan of action? Attend any local protests and maybe donate here at Hillbuzz to help pay for your tickets to DC. Seriously, if we can’t go (I’m in KC MO) I think I should help pay for you to go (it would be a small amount, but still, it would help, right?) :D
January 13, 2010 at 8:59 am
IIRC, Niki Tsongas in MA was certified the day after the ’07 special election for Meehan’s seat.
January 13, 2010 at 9:58 am
From the article:
Cities and towns must by law wait 10 days for overseas and military absentee ballots to come in. They then have 50 days from the date of the election to certify their results and submit them to the secretary of the commonwealth.
Is it possible that Tsongas was certified illigally? Or is it different for the House?
January 13, 2010 at 10:21 am
Yes, Niki Tsongas got sworn in very quickly so that she could vote for the expansion of SCHIP. “Remember Niki Tsongas” needs to be the rallying cry!
January 13, 2010 at 9:01 am
I like this idea. Maybe our representatives from Hillbuzz could let us know what their expenses might be and we could each give a little to help out.
January 13, 2010 at 10:10 pm
AMEN TO THAT! I’d sure chip in.
And I’d also go from NYC to DC to scare the crap outta every last asshole that tries to delay Brown’s seating.
Bolt Bus – $18! Genius.
January 13, 2010 at 12:47 pm
With the exception of close races, absentee ballots are usually not counted.
So, if the margin of victory > number of absentee ballots sent out, the election is over. Not all ballots come back, and some come back after the deadline to be included, and it would be astounding if they all went for the same candidate, etc.
January 13, 2010 at 8:44 am
Has anyone followed at all what has happened in Iceland recently? We won’t see results until we hit the streets. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/26/iceland.government/index.html
If we could collectively rise up against our tainted politicians, (w/o it being distorted by the press – heck, we should rise up against the press) the voice of the people would be heard. However, reality is, we’re hard-working Americans w/ families and jobs and responsibilities. It takes some planning on our part….unlike the other side. Didn’t you hear the age-old joke about how many people had to call off work to attend Obama’s inauguration? Six.
Maybe this Scott Brown thing will be the thing to push us over the edge……
January 13, 2010 at 8:54 am
It would break loose in MA squarely at Bill Galvin 1st & Deval Patrick 2nd.
January 13, 2010 at 9:28 am
That is my position.
Wells
January 13, 2010 at 9:54 am
Did anyone hear about the Coakley operative shoving a Weekly Standard reporter to the ground and then shoving him again? National Review has a piece on this. I’ll post the link. This needs to go viral so that the world sees how desperate these Libs are.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MWU4NDVjNjhmNjhhYjYyYzRlZGUzNmExMmVmZWU3OGI=
January 13, 2010 at 11:13 am
FOX news has played the Coakley “does anybody ELSE have a question” all morning, but no video of shoving. ^$&#! Comeon, some body has it; guys with mics always travel with guys with cameras.
January 13, 2010 at 9:57 am
There will be protests and demonstrations if they do not seat him, and I can’t imagine any way they could justify or put a positive spin on not seating him.
The best part is if they pull a stunt like that it can be used against every democrat campaign for years to come, it is a political daisy cutter, and for that reason I hope they try it
January 13, 2010 at 10:11 am
“We are telling you now — any Republicans listening — that you need to have a plan in place starting January 20th when Scott Brown pulls off the upset and wins this seat in Massachusetts. You cannot come up with a plan on January 20th. It needs to be ready now, so that on January 20th you hit the ground running.”
haha Fat Chance.
If Brown is elected and the Dem pols try a delay stunt, it will be Brown’s own organization combined with Tea Partiers across the country that will drive the protest.
January 13, 2010 at 11:22 am
Yes…thank you for that. I try hard every day to get my friends, families, neighbors, whoever to STOP seeing things in terms of Democrats and Republicans. We’ve been trying to do this for years. It’s the politicians who want us to continue to see things this way and we’re not listening to them any more than they’re listening to us. Not anymore.
January 13, 2010 at 10:38 am
I actually kind of regret that I’m in sunny San Diego, California. I’ll help to break Galvin’s e-mail, phone, and fax machine, though. His contact info is at
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/seccon.htm.
January 13, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Oh, come on. You don’t really regret living here.
January 13, 2010 at 10:43 am
Will hell break loose?
YOU BETCHA!
January 13, 2010 at 10:45 am
I fully agree that contingency plans should be devised now: the boyz are not getting ahead of themselves in this matter.
Yet color me incredulous that the Democrats would go all the way with this scheme, not only delaying the certification of the election (should Brown win) but also pretending that Kirk is entitled to remain in the Senate in the interval. (Of course, over the last two years or so they have surprised us again and again in their race to the bottom.) If Galvin, Patrick, Reid, etc., do so, their plot will bear an identifiable face, i.e., Paul Kirk’s; and I wonder whether he would really prove so foolhardy as to imperil himself by accepting that role.
Let us hope that the Democrats understand the “precipice” that they are now skirting, and desist.
I don’t like to say it: but by this usurpation and tyranny he, and they, would be putting himself, themselves, in mortal danger.
January 13, 2010 at 10:46 am
Has anyone seen the video of the staffer shoving the Weekly Standard reporter? The NRO piece talks about it but doesn’t link to it.
Love the idea of us contributing to get the Hillbuzz guys to DC if needed. Plus, I would do my best to get there myself.
January 13, 2010 at 11:09 am
I’ve offered to contribute the first hundred dollars (and I’m laid off) if they want to go to MA for the election.
Of course, that offer stands if Hottie McAwesome is elected and we have to fight to seat him.
When they shout out, I’ll deliver first.
January 13, 2010 at 12:06 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8CdfQGlgVw
That’s the link to the video.
I have a pic of Martha looking on as her goon dumps the guy to the ground. I’ll have to post it to an imagehost to link it here.
January 13, 2010 at 11:12 am
We still have a week before the election to make a difference, maybe even with enough votes to prevent this crap from happening in the first place.
The Brown campaign has said that the 1.3+ million raised is going for an advertising push.
Want to help give them ideas?
Given that Coakley’s most recent pathetic ad couldn’t even spell Massachusetts correctly, I think we need to help out her advertising team.
At the end of a positive Brown ad for the people’s seat, we could hear the childhood sing-song diddy that helps little ones remember how to spell their state’s name. I searched Google but I couldn’t find an example.
Anyone remember how it goes?
I’d love to see a post with Hillbuzz’s ideas for perfect positive snarky ads and then all the comments with additional gems.
January 13, 2010 at 11:34 am
If Brown wins but isn’t seated, all hell will break loose figuratively, or the proverbial hell will break loose. But hell won’t break loose literally.
Brown’s got this one in the bag. He owns it already. If, after the MA polls close, he’s not announced as the winner, then hell should still break loose, maybe even literally in that event. ;) We should take to the streets, scream and shout, tie up the phone lines, fill the email servers, and jam the mailboxes of our reps, demand a recount, demand an investigation. Because if he isn’t announced the winner, then somebody cheated and committed voter fraud (or would that be election fraud?).
In answer to your question to each of us about what we plan to do if he’s not seated after being announced the winner, I’ll call and email every Senator. I’m in Texas and I’m a little bit gimpy but I type 70wpm, have email and ‘Net access at home, have a cell number with unlimited free long distance within the US, and can dial the hell out of a telephone.
January 13, 2010 at 11:46 am
FWIW, Ted Kennedy was seated one day after winning a special election on November 6, 1962. It’s in his official bio at http://bit.ly/1bALus
January 13, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Michelle Bachmann called for Tea Party II once on a Friday afternoon;the following Tuesday there were tens of thousands on the steps of Congress.
If Galvin and Reid conspire to keep Brown from taking his seat,I think there will be a maelstrom in Boston and DC that hasn’t been seen before.A free people will only be pushed so far.
January 13, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Massachusetts O-bots ask NH O-bots for help: http://is.gd/6cBlY
January 13, 2010 at 1:48 pm
I suspect you boys will not stand alone in the cold January sunshine.
January 13, 2010 at 1:48 pm
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January 13, 2010 at 1:51 pm
In the Ny special Election Pelosi got whip lash swearing that one in they didn’t wait for certification because other candidate conceded we don’t want that but make it a issue if they do a stall
January 13, 2010 at 2:13 pm
If anyone knows Mass law, perhaps the R party in the state can prepare recall or impeachment articles for the Secretary of State, while similtaniously filing lawsuits against the State, the Mass D party, and the DNC – requiring “discovery” of all correspondence, emails, phone records et al between the politicals and all government officers i.e. the Governor’s and Galvin’s office regarding any attempt to unlawfully delay sitting a duly elected Senator by the people. While they are busy with that fun, we can just get into the trains, buses, cars, planes, and get our selves down to DC with the complete suite of furniture hillbuzz photoshopped a few days ago and set up Scott’s office on the landing of the steps to the Capitol building. Bring warm clothes! And we might need port-a-pottys.
January 13, 2010 at 2:15 pm
Whoops – I meant simultaneously. Yeesh.
January 13, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Listening to Rush today. He covered this with a soundbyte of Barney Frank, being asked about a delay in seating a Sen. Brown.
Barney went ‘off’ hysterically…saying it was “the dumbest thing he had ever heard…” And asking the Wash Post reporter “who do you work for?” (He sounded his usual, pejorative nasty self).
Limbaugh then had quotes from Kirk, from Mass SoS Galvin…to back up the story.
Now Rush didn’t say…”If this happens, WE will do x, y and z…” But he sure laid the groundwork for ‘this’ happening and what type of reaction it would cause…re: ObamaCare.
January 13, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Mrch is wrong! Drive to DC yes,Then stay in the car and just park in the middle of the street. They managed to dis 100K folk walking on the steps and the lawn. Let’s see them ignore 100K SUV’s parked in the street and stopping everything in it’s tracks. Hell, I live in Denver and can be there in 22 hours if I drink enough coffee.
January 13, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Count me in! I live in MI and I will gladly pick the Boyz up on my way!
I was there in September and will NEVER forget it.It remains one of my fondest memories of my lifetime.
Pardon me as I break into song…
And I’m proud to an American, cuz at least I know I’m free……
:)
January 13, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Count me in! I live in MI. and would be happy to pick up the Boyz on my way! I was there in September and I will carry the memories of that weekend, that rally- with me for the rest of my life! I have never been more proud to be an American.
Pardon me while I break out in song………………..:)
January 13, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Please watch The Massachusetts Miracle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEoW-P81-0
P.S. I would also donate some mulah to send BuzzGuys to MA or to DC if need be!
January 13, 2010 at 4:07 pm
weird, my posts are disappearing…
January 13, 2010 at 4:08 pm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2427265/posts?page=1
Can anyone explain what the heck this means?
January 13, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Umm j.b. going to read about this.
January 14, 2010 at 9:47 am
After reading all that looks like more speculation on the big Oh No’s birth certificate and records–nothing concrete.
January 13, 2010 at 4:08 pm
doh.
January 13, 2010 at 5:09 pm
If any of you miss Sarah on Glenn Beck you can watch the program at glennbeckclips.com Todays program will be up around 6-9pm AZ time (red neck time).
January 13, 2010 at 6:27 pm
Just ran across this: “Massachusetts Miracle” – make it go viral!
January 13, 2010 at 10:13 pm
This is awesome! Amen to that.
January 13, 2010 at 8:57 pm
AWESOME VIDEO!
January 13, 2010 at 11:07 pm
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January 14, 2010 at 12:29 am
That was awesome Teresa, thank you!
And Hillbuzz boyz, I will be right by your side on 1/20 if I have to get my butt on a bus, train or whatever to get to DC to stand with you to make sure Scott is seated.
January 14, 2010 at 9:45 am
Take the herald Pulse Poll “How should Scott Brown be sworn in?”http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1225450
January 14, 2010 at 11:20 am
Yes all hell will break loose! If Scott Brown doesn’t win (not that I think he won’t) I think hell should break loose then because it will prove that the thug unions like SEIU that Washington sent fixed the entire election. I’m amazed that the American people are sitting back and allowing the most important freedom we have, the right to vote, being bullied by these union workers! I would be fighting in the street if they tried that sh** in my district. A march on Washington if in fact they do hold up his confirmation is absolutely our American right!
January 14, 2010 at 12:38 pm
With the current economic circumstances,
It might advance carpooling to be set up. Those of you who are reading this that have
minivans, large 7 seat SUVs, 12-15 passenger
church or personal vans, speak up.
Say what area you’re in, and how many seats you have available in your vehicle.
And if the interest is shown, set up travel arrangements.
In the same vein: anyone trusting enough within a less then hour radius consider
posting with offers for a place for people to crash. Set up some ground rules for behavior.
With carpooling, offers of a place to stay many more people could show up that otherwise wouldn’t be able to do it due to
finances.
January 19, 2010 at 1:59 am
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