Yup, it's election day in the Bay State, and the special senate election to replace the one person who did not die in a car in Chappaquidick has proven to be a frothy one. The Ds and Rs are both claiming their major party opposition is lying and evil (when in fact both are lying and evil) and the one choice available that would actually help the republic is derided (You're just throwing your vote away!); Joe Kennedy.

Fact is, Both Coakley and Brown are big-government expansionists. Coakley wants you to think Brown will eat your unborn babies if you vote for him, but he is in favor of Cap-and-trade, backed Romney (Hillary) Care, and in 11 years of elected office never once introduced legislation to rein in government spending. He came out against Question 1, the ballot initiative to end the state income tax, for instance. He voted against the Democrats to raise taxes last summer but earlier he voted for

• the income tax penalty imposed by RomneyCare
• appx. $700M in new tax-fees every year.

and probably voted with Romney for

• "closing loopholes" to increase taxes
• enabling business property tax increases

A Romney clone, if you will.

Coakley says "As Attorney General, I took on drug companies and health insurers, rooting out fraud and abuse that drives up costs for families and seniors and achieved record recoveries in Medicaid fraud cases."

She sure did all right. Here are the pharma contributors to her campaign:
Thomas Boggs, Patton Boggs: Bristol-Myers Squibb Chuck Brain, Capitol Hill Strategies: Amgen, BIO, Merck, PhRMA Susan Brophy, Glover Park Group: Blue Cross, Pfizer Steven Champlin, Duberstein Group: AHIP, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis Licy Do Canto, Raben Group: Amgen Gerald Cassidy, Cassidy & Associates: U. Mass Memorial Health Care David Castagnetti, Mehlman, Vogel, Castagnetti: Abbot Labs, AHIP, Astra-Zenaca, General Electric, Humana, Merck, PhRMA. Steven Elmendorf, Elmendorf Strategies: Medicines Company, PhRMA, United Health Shannon Finley, Capitol Counsel: Amgen, Astra-Zeneca, Blue Cross, GE, PhRMA, Sanofi-Aventis. Heather Podesta, Heather Podesta & Partners: Cigna, Eli Lilly, HealthSouth Tony Podesta, Podesta Group: Amgen, GE, Merck, Novartis. Robert Raben, Raben Group: Amgen, GE.

She took them on, all right. Where I come from, that's called "pulling a train."

But of course her history is even more storied. She was on the team with Luther Scott Harshbarger, state attorney general at the time, who helped trump up the fraudulent prosecution of the Fells Acres Daycare case. The kids' "testimonies," proven later to have been completely fabricated and induced by the "therapists" who "interviewed" them, destroyed the lives of the Amirault family. Two rotted in prison for decades while their mother was spared the lengthy sentence by death in prison. She went on to prosecute others on made-up testimony and built her career by standing on the faces of these innocents.

Which makes me wonder what the hell kind of people can cast a vote for her knowing this alone. The Blue Kool-Aid is strong here.

Both major party candidates talk about all the great stuff they're going to do for us in Washington. Create jobs, something-something-something healthcare.... Uh, you dimwits have been in Massachusetts for decades. Why didn't you do any of this while you were in office here? Oh yeah, I forgot; Brown backed Romney Care, a program that was declared so "successful" that they bankrupted it in 3 months. That's right, OUT of money in 3 months. My bad.

Then we have Mr Kennedy. Saying the stupidest shit you've ever heard:

We need to cut spending.

On foreign-policy, I believe we must promote free trade and peace.

Our military has become over extended with troop deployments around the world that do not make us safer.

Today, health care is significantly more expensive largely due to government regulation and liability insurance required to be held by our physicians.

The system needs to be changed so that every person entering the country must be accounted for and must contribute.

I view marriage as a religious matter and not something that government should be allowed to define as our religious freedoms are protected.

Anything less than equal treatment under the law is not acceptable. This standard goes for Race, Gender, Physical Characteristics, Gender Preference or any other item that could be the root of discrimination.

It's crazy talk, I tell.......hey, wait a minute.

I know who I'm voting for. I've had enough!


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'Odd', said Arthur, 'I thought you said it was a democracy.'
'I did', said Ford. 'It is.'
'So', said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, 'why don't people get rid of the lizards?'
'It honestly doesn't occur to them', said Ford. 'They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.'
'You mean they actually vote for the lizards?'
'Oh yes', said Ford with a shrug, 'of course.'
'But', said Arthur, going for the big one again, 'why?'
'Because if they didn't vote for a lizard', said Ford, 'the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?'

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