Cynthia Yockey
Obama announces, “The future was anything but certain… again we must answer history’s call … one year later, the worst of the storm has passed.”
No, it hasn’t. Obama is still president.
Update: He feels our pain. “These struggles are why I became president.” Really? We are agog.
Michelle Obama is dressed like a college dance major tonight — the top looks like a leotard — but in a color that Hill Buzz has recommended as flattering for her. Also, she has discovered sleeves. Yay!
This kind of sums it up — “OK, I don’t think it’s going to pivot any more”:
And we just heard Fox report the text of the speech was delivered a half an hour behind schedule — in my community, we call that “on gay time.”
Obama a la Magritte.
(H/T a commenter at Perfunction, which has other versions of this photo from the White House’s Flickr feed that are just as hilarious. Via Ace.)
I just read Michelle Malkin’s post that Joe Wilson will be the first member of Congress to answer a State of the Union address with a live video post from his Facebook page. You may recall Joe Wilson, who is an immigration attorney, shouted “You lie!” when Obama addressed Congress and told them falsely that the proposed health care legislation would not provide healthcare to illegal immigrants.
But it occurred to me that the people who OUGHT to be liveblogging Obama’s State of the Union address are the Republican members of Congress. How freakin’ AWESOME would it be if each and every one of them were on his or her Twitter or Facebook account liveblogging their reactions? OMG!
Michael Steele — why do we conservative bloggers have to keep thinking of these things FOR YOU?
Republican Scott Brown is the victor in the special election tonight for Senate in Massachusetts over Democrat Martha Coakley, 52 to 47 percent.
“I bet they can hear this cheering all the way in Washington, D.C.,” Brown told a cheering crowd. “I hope they’re paying close attention because tonight the independent voice of Massachusetts has spoken. Tonight the independent majority has delivered a great victory. I thank the people of Massachusetts for electing me as your next United States senator.” Then he held up a copy of the Boston Herald with the headline, “He did it!”
“This is the people’s seat! I spoke to interim Sen. Paul Kirk and he has completed his work. He said he will help me with the transition. I want to thank him from the bottom of my heart. I’m ready to go to Washington without delay. I also want to thank Martha Coakley — it was a hard contest and now we must come together as a commonwealth. When I spoke to the president the first thing I said was, would you like me to drive the truck down to Washington so you can see it. [The crowd chanted, "Gas up the truck!"] And then I said, Mr. President, I know you like baseketball, so why don’t you take your best player and I’ll take Ayla and we’ll play you two on two. read more…
“I wish we were here with other and better news tonight,” Martha Coakley told the crowd assembled for her campaign in Boston. “We never lost our focus or our determination. If you do not run, you cannot win. Sometimes it is more important to travel hopefully than to arrive. We will continue to travel hopefully. I am heartbroken at this result. There will be plenty of Wednesday morning quarterbacking. We will be honest about the assessment of this race.”
Coakley also thanked Pres. Clinton and Vicki Kennedy, the wife of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, for campaigning for her. (Fox News cut in with Greta van Susteren, so Coakley may also have thanked Obama.)
Listening to Coakley’s concession speech, Gov. Sarah Palin commented, “This is a tidal wave telling politicians the status quo is not acceptable. It was this overall message that arrogance wasn’t going to win. When you look at the way Scott ran his campaign, it was quite simple. This is a step towards taking our country back. I so respected he didn’t call in a lot of outsiders to do his campaigning for him. All along I was rooting for him. [Coakley can tell her colleagues,] This is what democracy looks like, Democrats.”
Sean Hannity of Fox News reports that Sen. Harry Reid says Scott Brown will be seated when the Senate receives the proper paperwork.
Senator-elect Scott Brown’s daughter sang “The Star Spangled Banner” with the Boston Pops Orchestra on July 4, 2006:
The Associated Press has called the special election tonight (1/19/2010) in Massachusetts for Senate for Republican Scott Brown over Democrat Martha Coakley. With 84 percent of the votes in, the margin was 52 to 47 percent.
On Fox News, Juan Williams is reporting that the Obama administration says it will double down on ramming its healthcare legislation through Congress, despite Brown’s election. Williams claims Obama still has plenty of political capital left to get healthcare passed.
Update:
Hannity: “(Obama is) O for 4. If he supports you, it’s the kiss of death.”
The Associated Press is now projecting Scott Brown as the victor in the Senate race in Massachusetts at 9:22 pm, ET.
From the first moment of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s debut as a Fox news analyst on The O’Reilly Factor last night, the deathknell began to sound for the Leftist meme that she is dishonest, not intelligent and not ready to be president of the United States.
Gov. Palin’s move to Fox News is a win-win because the leading cable news network now has a telegenic and eloquent insider with a proven ability to generate high ratings while Gov. Palin now has direct access to the public and plenty of ability to prove herself. Why, it might just be that last night was the moment the planet began to heal and the oceans to still be primarily influenced by sunspots and tides because there’s no such goshdarn thing as anthropogenic global warming. read more…
NewsReal Sunday: Remembering My friend, Alan Scherr, Murdered in Mumbai, and the Maharishi Effect He Advocated
A year ago, on November 26, my friend, Alan Scherr, 58, and his daughter Naomi, 13, were murdered in the restaurant of the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai by one of the 10 Islamic terrorists conducting attacks at several carefully selected locations. Over 200 persons were murdered and more than 308 wounded in the attacks, which lasted from Nov. 26 to Nov. 29.
Two television documentaries recently commemorated the attacks: HBO’s “Terror in Mumbai,†narrated by Fareed Zakaria; and PBS’s “Mumbai Massacre,†which is an episode of the series, “Secrets of the Dead.†I have to admit, I could not bear to watch them. read more…
