Brown grassroots vs Coakley machine: "I don't think they play at all fairly"

"I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak — and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them" … "How do you like the Queen?" said the Cat … "Not at all," said Alice: "she's so extremely … likely to win, that it's hardly worth while finishing the game." Alice In Wonderland, chapter 8. (Illustration by John Tenniel, Chapter 4. Wood-engraving by Thomas Dalziel)

"They'll do whatever they're told. I won't," Scott Brown told Sean Hannity last night. What do the citizens of Massachusetts want? A "Scott Brown Republican" who is his own man or the same-old, same-old Beacon Hill political machine that's working assiduously and without shame to thwart the will of the people? Even if Brown should achieve a "Massachusetts Miracle," winning the Kennedy throne seat in the January 19  special election, his state certification will be delayed until after Congress passes its health-care monstrosity in time for President Obama's State of the Union address. So much for making Scott Brown's Senate race a "referendum on Obamacare." It's the hijacking, stupid. As Joseph Stalin once remarked, "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." Matthew Vadim of The American Spectator explains:

The vehicle for this planned hijacking of democracy is a below-the-radar non-federal "527" group called the Secretary of State Project. The entity can accept unlimited financial contributions and doesn't have to disclose them publicly until well after the election.

"This needs to go viral — everyone you know needs to read this," HillBuzz sounds the alarm (via neo-neocon):

Democrats have made a critical mistake in Massachusetts.

Democrats have admitted to a scheme to ram through the Healthcare Rationing vote before Scott Brown can be sworn in as Senator, should he defeat his Democrat opponent on January 19th.

Paul Kirk, currently serving as interim Senator in Massachusetts, has declared that Brown, if he should be elected, will be delayed from any voting in Washington for as long as possible. Masssachusett’s Soros-funded Secretary of State, the corrupt William Galvin, has promised to do everything he can to stall the certification of Republican Brown “so that Democrats can pass the healthcare bill.”

Governor Deval Patrick, Senator Kirk, and Secretary Galvin fully intend to steal the will of the people and jam this Healthcare Rationing bill through the Senate, election be damned, no matter what the people of Massachusetts want.

Despicable.

We were in on the discussion at the top of Memeorandum's "Top Items" yesterday with a handful of the usual suspects, including Legal Insurrection, Jules Crittenden and The Riehl Review. Plus a couple of strange bedfellows like the Associated Press and Time's The Page.

In related news, our own Jules Crittenden [who links!] reports with high humor that "Kennedy coatholder/seatwarmer breaks the Senate succession law Kennedy jury-rigged, by joining Kennedy dynastic holdovers to endorse the Liberal Lion’s annointed successor":

Shocking. The Liberal Lion must be spinning in his grave! The last thing the late senator wanted … when he pressured lawmakers to rewrite the state’s succession law to bolster Dem health-care plans in 2009, reversing the rewrite he had pressured them to make in 2004 to prevent a Republican appointment … was the appearance of a political handoff. The state Attorney General should probably launch an investigation into this scandalous state of affairs!

Ha ha, just kidding. I don’t know why they bothered to put that provision in the succession law in the first place. It’s not like it’s a real law, anyway. More of a legislative wink and a nod. And as Kennedy himself so amply demonstrated in life, Massachusetts laws don’t apply to Kennedys, and apparently they don’t apply to their coatholders, either.

Meanwhile Professor William A. Jacobson of Legal Insurrection uncovers more evidence of foul play:

I posted earlier today about negative push polling in Massachusetts against Scott Brown, including questions purporting to link Brown to "hate groups" …

Now I have turned up a recent connection between McGuire and SEIU.

This Reynoldsian Army of Davids is on the case, disintermediating the old-boy networks via the Internet, and we are totally thrilled with the response of so many of our readers and commenters and Twitter followers who have embraced the idea behind GOTV for Scott Brown and are doing their part, donating to his campaign and mounting the phone banks either at regional offices or from home. Click here to help, and let the vox populi be heard!

Update: "There are certain red lines which no one has crossed before," writes William Jacobson:

And refusing to seat a duly elected Senator, for the sole purpose of excluding that Senator from voting on a particular piece of legislation, crosses that line.

The Democrats have shown complete contempt for the Massachusetts voters, now it is time for the Massachusetts voters to show contempt for the Democrats who have hatched this scheme.

As HillBuzz said, "despicable."

Update: The Weekly Standard links!

Update II: Rhymes with Right links.

Update III: "There’s a local saying for what the Brown camp is experiencing today," quips the ever skeptical Jules Crittenden: "It’s 'Dawn over Marblehead.'"

Comments

[goomp]

The fate of the "Land of the Free" hangs in the balance. A supreme court that will overrule the Constitution, a president who has Fascist leanings and a Democrat-controlled Congress could be fatal. Man the Ramparts!

[Dante]

If National Guardsmen killing students in Ohio couldn't spark a revolution, nothing will.

[arctic_front]

It's hard to picture the greatest nation on earth, sink to this level of apathy.

The USA, with the most amazing constitution ever written by man, plunges towards tyranny with nary a whimper. The founding fathers of your great nation specifically included wording, separation of jurisdictions and responsibilities to PREVENT the very things the Obama administration/Senate/Congress is inflicting on your country.

To paraphrase: anyone willing to forgo liberty in exchange for security, deserves neither.

[Buford Gooch]

Dante, I assume that either you weren't around in 1970, or that you were on the side of the jackals. The poor kids in the national guard were afraid for their lives. Should they have killed the rioters? No. Should there have been a revolution? Only if you were a far left-wing whacko.

[M. Report]

On the election:
Never interrupt an enemy
while he is making a mistake.

On Kent State: That was the _Ohio_
National Guard vs the College students;
Blue collar vs white collar teenagers.
The college students were hurling rocks
and sexual taunts, the Guard troops were
afraid, and angry, and the _supposed_ adults
in charge of the _state_ government were criminally irresponsible to have pitted
armed troops against students.

The State is still doing stupid things;
Try and discover who is doing what to whom,
and who is getting paid, then direct your
anger accordingly.

[Hyphenated American]

This development makes me pretty happy. If even in reliably left-wing Massachusets, the liberals have to break all kinds of laws to stay in power - wait until more moderate states find out about this. Obama and his ilk will most likely destroy the Democratic party and liberalism. Barry is once again proving my predictions right.

Please read what I wrote back in November 2008

[ic]

Don't worry, Coakley will have enough votes from disused warehouses, abandoned home sites, dilapidated tenements and cemeteries to squeak by. Turn out will be so vast that the number of votes will exceed the number of voters in Mass.

[Jake Was Here]

I concur with IC. No doubt the Democrats have been on the horn to ACORN all week.