An editorial from Mortimer Zuckerman, chairman and editor in chief of U.S. News & World Report and publisher of the New York Daily News, trustee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. (That’s what ya call major “chops”!)

Uh, Mort’s really not very happy with The Obamessiah!

He’s Done Everything Wrong

Obama punted on the economy and reversed the fortunes of the Democrats in 365 days.

He’s misjudged the character of the country in his whole approach. There’s the saying, “It’s the economy, stupid.” He didn’t get it. He was determined somehow or other to adopt a whole new agenda. He didn’t address the main issue.

This health-care plan is going to be a fiscal disaster for the country. Most of the country wanted to deal with costs, not expansion of coverage. This is going to raise costs dramatically.

In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual. He did change them. It’s now worse than it was. I’ve now seen the kind of buying off of politicians that I’ve never seen before. It’s politically corrupt and it’s starting at the top. It’s revolting.

Five states got deals on health care—one of them was Harry Reid’s. It is disgusting, just disgusting. I’ve never seen anything like it. The unions just got them to drop the tax on Cadillac plans in the health-care bill. It was pure union politics. They just went along with it. It’s a bizarre form of political corruption. It’s bribery. I suppose they could say, that’s the system. He was supposed to change it or try to change it.

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I don’t consider it a triumph. I consider it a disaster.

One business leader said to me, “In the Clinton administration, the policy people were at the center, and the political people were on the sideline. In the Obama administration, the political people are at the center, and the policy people are on the sidelines.”

I’m very disappointed. We endorsed him. I voted for him. I supported him publicly and privately.

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I hope there are changes. I think he’s already laid in huge problems for the country. The fiscal program was a disaster. You have to get the money as quickly as possible into the economy. They didn’t do that. By end of the first year, only one-third of the money was spent. Why is that?

He should have jammed a stimulus plan into Congress and said, “This is it. No changes. Don’t give me that bullshit. We have a national emergency.” Instead they turned it over to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi who can run circles around him.

It’s very sad. It’s really sad.

He’s improved America’s image in the world. He absolutely did. But you have to translate that into something. Let me tell you what a major leader said to me recently. “We are convinced,” he said, “that he is not strong enough to confront his enemy. We are concerned,” he said “that he is not strong to support his friends.”

The political leadership of the world is very, very dismayed. He better turn it around. The Democrats are going to get killed in this election. Jesus, looks what’s happening in Massachusetts.

It’s really interesting because he had brilliant, brilliant political instincts during the campaign. I don’t know what has happened to them. His appointments present somebody who has a lot to learn about how government works. He better get some very talented businesspeople who know how to implement things. It’s unbelievable. Everybody says so. You can’t believe how dismayed people are. That’s why he’s plunging in the polls.

I can’t predict things two years from now, but if he continues on the downward spiral he is on, he won’t be reelected. In the meantime, the Democrats have recreated the Republican Party. And when I say Democrats, I mean the Obama administration. In the generic vote, the Democrats were ahead something like 52 to 30. They are now behind the Republicans 48 to 44 in the last poll. Nobody has ever seen anything that dramatic.

Hell’s still frozen over — Pigs are flyin’ higher than ever! Quick, somebody get me some ice — I see an Eskimo comin’ . . .

[H/t: Ace]

Last night, Scott Brown did the seemingly impossible by winning the Massachusetts’ Senate Seat that had been virtually “owned” by the Kennedys for over half a decade century. [Thanks for catchin' that, Sebaneau!] Democrats nationwide are in shock. The bluest of blue states is showing a bit o’ reddish purple this AM, oh ya betcha! True to form, the LA Times has barely mentioned this race — those pathetic souls that rely on the LAT for their news must be having a South Park moment today screaming out loud: “What the Hell was that?”

Brown looked good last night during his acceptance speech, giving the deceased Ted Kennedy a warm tribute, having fun teasing his daughters, taking swipes at the Obamessiah for his maligning of Scotts 200-thousand-mile GM pick-em-up truck during the President’s pathetic fly-in campaigning for Coakley this last weekend. Drudge is featuring this headline: NOW… WILL HE RUN FOR PRESIDENT? It’s way too early for that kind of reaction, but I have to admit that I was telling the fam last night that he did look presidential — hmmmm, a state office holder elected to the US Senate running for President before his first term has barely started; could never happen! Wait, Yes. It. Can. Cause. Yes. It. Did. (Sorry about all that excess punctuation, got carried away just a touch.)

Hugh Hewitt is asking, “Do You Think Dean Barnett Is Smiling?” Well, I bet he is. Hugh then puts Brown’s win into sharp focus:

The voters knew exactly what was on the line and they voted, decisively, against Obamacare. “It will raise taxes. It will hurt Medicare. It will destroy jobs. It will run us deeper into debt,” Brown declared about Obamacare in his speech. “And we can do better!”

“No more closed door meetings. No more backroom deals. No more hiding costs. No more trillions in debt for our children to pay.”

“We need to start fresh.”

That’s the message of the Massachusetts Miracle. Democrats ignore it at their political peril. If the president, the Speaker and the Majority Leader try a jam down, a political tsunami that is already forming will sweep ashore and destroy the Democratic Party for a generation.

They are celebrating in their own special way over at Ace! Michelle Malkin warns that even with 41 Senate votes for the GOP, the battle over Obamacare isn’t yet won, in fact, it’s just really started:

The nutroots are cranking up the pressure on congressional liberals to cling to the most radical form of Demcare and “fight harder for change.” What part of Coakley/Obama’s epic fail doesn’t the party in power understand?

Tea Party activists must stay vigilant and crank it up even louder to warn of the coming big government perils.

Not at all comforting, that one! The Anchoress has some interesting insight into one of Brown’s acceptance speech remarks and then an observation plus tons of links:

When Brown said, “I’m nobody’s senator but yours,” I thought: he is a very clever guy – he is alluding to an Irish song, “Nobody’s Darling but Mine…” and his Boston audience would have recognized that; you could tell by the roar that they appreciated it. Brown knows who he is talking to. Coakley never did.

Starting tomorrow, you’re going to hear Democrats talking less about healthcare and more about “jobs, jobs, jobs.”

Chris Matthews got all apoplectic over the Scott win while MS-NBC’s Keith Olbermann lost his mind as usual, basically saying that the Brown win means that Massachusetts is now a racist state because they’ve elected someone that will derail the agenda of the first black President, or something absurd like that. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has this to say about the Olbermann/Fineman exchange:

Pickup trucks are now racist? I’m curious; do the people who make trucks also qualify as racists? How about the truck manufacturers that advertise on NBC and MS-NBC? I wonder if they like the implication that pickup trucks and the people who buy them are really latent haters and bigots. Maybe someone should let them know about it, huh?

Dems and their cadre of sycophantic supporters in the MSM — gotta luv ‘em! Here’s a pic o’ Scott in his beloved truck. Enjoy

Scott Brown Drivin’ His “Obama-Mocked” GM Pick Up Truck!

Oh, BTW — Happy One Year Anniversary to President Obama for his first year in office. Hope ya enjoy the next three ’cause they’re gonna be fun!

Heh!

Possibly this Isabel Melendez — the community activist from Lawrence?

Michelle Malkin is keeping a running link fest of voter fraud incidents and allegations.

Over at American Digest Vanderleun breaks down what he sees as the margin that Scott Brown needs to overcome the cheating that most certainly is happening, and the recount shenanigans that are certain if he doesn’t win by double digits.

Dems — if they don’t cheat . . . no way they can win!

[Update: Dems in good ol' California are gettin' . . . er, ah, nervous.]

This broke yesterday, just in case you missed it. Seems like those dire “Scientific” predictions that the Himalayan glaciers are all gonna melt away due to Global Warming were a bit less than scientific, in fact, this bombshell that has fueled the Global Warming hysteria for years was based upon a short phone call to an obscure Indian scientist who was speculating out his ass because there had been NO formal research done to back up said speculation!

Say what? From the UK’s Times Online:

A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it.

Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that was claimed to incorporate the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was the world’s glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035.

In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC’s 2007 report.

It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
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Hasnain has since admitted that the claim was “speculation” and was not supported by any formal research. If confirmed it would be one of the most serious failures yet seen in climate research. The IPCC was set up precisely to ensure that world leaders had the best possible scientific advice on climate change.

Professor Murari Lal, who oversaw the chapter on glaciers in the IPCC report, said he would recommend that the claim about glaciers be dropped:

Go read it all. Ain’t it grand that our Obamessiah and his HarryPelosi lawmakers want to followup Obamacare with Cap & trade Crap & Tax legislation to tax the livin’ bejeesus out of all of us to stop the Global Warming that ALL, most, some, a few, well, maybe one or two, real-live-actual climate scientists actually, really, well maybe just a little bit believe.

Mostly they are just trying to keep that Global Warming grant money rolling in. Ol’ Big Al Gore just wants you to buy his Carbon Offsets so that he can light up that big ol’ mansion of his.

BTW — it’s balls off the brass monkey freezin’ in Boston. That won’t stop the Brown voters! Maybe we’re gonna get a pass on both Obamacare and Crap & Tax?

Go Scott Brown!

Republican Scott Brown is leading the polling in tomorrow’s Massachusetts’ special election for the Senate seat previously held by Teddy Kennedy. Real Clear Politics is showing the Republican poll having him up by ten and the Democrat poll having him up by five over rival candidate Massachusetts’ Attorney General Martha Coakley.

Coakley has run an abysmal campaign so far — her ear is so totally made out of tin — and the more you learn about her actions as a district attorney and as the Attorney General, the more you’d like to see this one run out of town on a rail. A little tar & feathers would be a nice touch!

The Brown campaign learned much from the Minnesota race “won” by the Demwit Al Franken and have called for legal volunteers to help monitor the voting, clamp down on voter fraud and report any intimidation.

Next This week, Massachusetts’s citizens will head to the polls to vote in a historical election. Close elections draw intense scrutiny, and ensuring the accuracy and credibility of the process is crucial. For that reason, the Scott Brown campaign is assembling a volunteer legal team to ensure that no voters are disenfranchised and that all ballots are accurately counted. The citizens of Massachusetts deserve a fair and honest election.

On Election Day, we will need lawyers in a variety of tasks, including legal research of compliance issues that arise; witness interviews, preservation of evidence, and preparation of witness affidavits to document any voting irregularities; and monitoring of polling places, courts, and city halls.

You can sign up at the link below. We will contact you with further information, including a conference call training session.

Please do not wait, Election Day is January 19th! [Tomorrow!]

Sonja Brown is mobilizing her Kitchen Cabinet PAC to help with the phone calls from concerned conservatives to voters in Massachusetts. If you have some time today and wish to personally participate, go there and follow the link and you can be all good to go in minutes. As Sonja reminds us:

Spend ONE HOUR Talking To Voters in Massachusetts encouraging them to protect the economy from Obama Care. If elected, Massachusetts Senate candidate Scott Brown will be the missing 41st vote needed for Republicans to BLOCK Obama care.

Time is short and Democrats are marshaling all of their machinery to stop the surging Brown candidacy.

The Kitchen Cabinet alone, could make 10,000 phone calls in the next 24 hours.

Conservative women and their families ARE the majority in this country. Let’s Act Like It!

The Dems are running plenty scared on this one. Obama even put some more of his diminishing aura on the line yesterday coming in to a rally for Coakley — and for his efforts to a less than full crowd, the Mighty ‘O’ got something he’s not used to, yet — Obama was heckled!

OK Massachusetts’ voters — time to stand up against Obamacare and the ever escalating tidal wave of deficit. Time to enact some real Hope & Change! Time to elect Scott Brown and put a Republican in the people’s seat! Time to take away the cloture-proof 60th Democratic Senate vote!

Uh Oh! Mickey Kaus writes that if Brown wins tomorrow, the House will pass the Senate bill as written and then it’s game over — Obamacare for everybody!

You know, with the unions having to eat Obama’s “Cadillac tax” on their health care, just like the rest of us.

Still, tomorrow’s gonna be exciting! Go Brown! Go get ‘em!

An open letter to the Democrats in power in Washington D.C.

November 2, 2010 — the most important election in my lifetime!