There seems to be serious consideration having Ted’s widow run for his old seat:

Nearly one year after Edward M. Kennedy’s death, prominent Democrats in Washington and Massachusetts are promoting his widow as the party’s best shot at winning back the Senate seat he held for nearly five decades.

Though she has seemed to bat down the idea of challenging Sen. Scott Brown (R) in 2012, Victoria Reggie Kennedy has been in some ways acting the part of a candidate. She has raised her public profile by campaigning for other politicians and appearing at events across the country…

A party so bereft of ideas and candidates that they can’t think of anything else in Massachusetts than to drag out another Kennedy is a party on its way down.

This should make our liberals have a hissy fit – both in the fact that its humorous as well as having a kindness to Sarah Palin they are incapable of:

From Huffington Post:

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell predicted on Tuesday that if the president escalates America’s military involvement in Afghanistan he could very well face a primary challenger in 2012…

Which is both typical of liberal Democrat politics, and a continuing reminder of just how pathetic liberals are. Boiled down, what Rendell is saying is that if Obama responds to changing circumstances in Afghanistan and sends more troops (or, presumptively, if he just refuses to draw down after July of 2011), then there could be a primary challenger to him. Shades of Bobby Kennedy against LBJ in 1968!

While it should be kept in mind that Rendell was a Hillary backer in 2008, it cannot be ignored that he represents a significant portion of the Democrat coalition on this. And the fact that he’s airing this in public shows the level of dismay Obama is generating on the left. There is clearly a growing level of anger out there over the fact that the new, liberal dawn hasn’t come about as expected on election night, 2008.

I will have to rate the emergence of a serious primary challenger to Obama as a 1-100 shot. But this is still vastly different from “absolutely impossible”, which would have been my judgment even a couple weeks ago. Its still not at all likely because, quite simply, any Democrat who did challenge Obama would be doomed politically, even if they snatched the nomination away from him – there is no way that the broad mass of African-Americans would forgive the Democrat who ousted Obama;come November after that, black voters would stay home in droves, thus assuring not just a GOP Presidential win, but also a massive win in House, Senate and other down-ballot contests (Democrats are extraordinarily dependent upon high black turnout voting 90% Democrat). The Democrat who brought this about would be utterly finished in politics.

And so, I don’t think any of the potential serious challengers would do it. For instance, Hillary ages, but she is also in good health and 2016 is not too long from now. Why end all chances of it in 2012 when a mere four years later she’d have a chance of grabbing the brass ring?

On the other hand, if 2010 turns out badly for the Democrats and the economy slips deep in to recession/depression in 2011, then the choice for the Democrats may come down to figuring out how to save the party. Staying loyal to Obama won’t be much worth if by January 2013 they’re facing a GOP President backed by 300 House and 60 Senate Republicans. With that, in just two years all of Obamunism can be undone and great strides made in dismantling the entire Democrat power structure.

We’ll have to see how it comes out – but clearly things are not rosy in Democrat-land at the moment.

From Conservatives for Palin:

This week’s Economist/YouGov poll finds Governor Palin leading the 2012 presidential race:

Sarah Palin 28%
Mitt Romney 18%
Newt Gingrich 17%
Mike Huckabee 13%
Mitch Daniels 4%
Tim Pawlenty 1%
Mike Pence 1%
Haley Barbour 1%
John Thune 1%
No preference 17%

Curiously, neither Jindal nor Christie is listed – and those two governors are the only people, I think, who can de-rail a Palin run for the GOP nomination (Christie much more than Jindal, at the moment, but if Jindal keeps up the passion he’s been showing of late, then he could become just as formidable on the trail as Christie).

Clearly, though, Palin’s use of donations and endorsements coupled with her so-far dead-on use of Facebook and Twitter to intervene in the national debate has paid off. It really now just comes down to, will she run? I simply don’t know – she’s doing what she needs to lay the ground work, but she’s also keeping just far enough away from the fire to keep all of her options on the table.

What she is doing is allowing herself the time time to come in only when she really wants to. Someone like Gingrich or Daniels will have to be pretty clear about it no later than, say, February of 2011 – they will have to start building up the national infrastructure to run. Palin’s already done that – she can now wait until even September of 2011, the deadline for filing in the New Hampshire primary. This allows her to sit back, choose her moment, build up tension and expectation and then do a huge, razzle-dazzle entry in to the race.

We’ll see how it comes out – but one thing to keep in mind: she’s probably one of the smartest people in American politics today. I know, the left (and even some of the “ruling class” right) have tagged her as a dummy…but that is because they, themselves, are idiots. Mark my words on this – she’s got depth upon depth of insight her opponents don’t even suspect her of.

This is gonna leave a mark:

A year after President Barack Obama’s political honeymoon ended, his job approval rating has dropped to a negative 44 – 48 percent, his worst net score ever, and American voters say by a narrow 39 – 36 percent margin that they would vote for an unnamed Republican rather than President Obama in 2012, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today…

Ouch! That that’s a sharp slap to the face – and quite gratifying to see it happen. The people are fully awake, now, to the terrible error we made in November of 2008.

From Hot Air:

No, this is not coming from Rasmussen or an internal GOP poll, but from the normally Democrat-sympathetic Public Policy Polling. PPP pitted Barack Obama against five potential Republican challengers for the 2012 presidential campaign, and the only one Obama beat was … Jan Brewer. Even that, PPP admitted, resulted from Brewer’s lack of name recognition. The headline, though, is Sarah Palin’s dead heat with the President:

…He trails Mitt Romney 46-43, Mike Huckabee 47-45, Newt Gingrich 46-45, and is even tied with Sarah Palin at 46. The only person tested he leads is Jan Brewer, who doesn’t have particularly high name recognition on the national level at this point…

As Hot Air goes on to note, the poll samples Democrats 5 percentage points more than GOPers. This is a devastating poll for the man who won 53% of the vote less than two years ago. It is a long way to 2012, but its hard – very hard – for a President to recover lost popularity.

Additionally, as the MSM continues to lose influence and the New Media becomes larger, the narratives developed by the MSM for people such as Sarah Palin will become weaker. It took relentless hounding to develop the memes, and that relentless hounding is going to fade away as time goes on, allowing all of the Republicans to better craft their own public image. Meanwhile, Obama is stuck – as it were – in the White House where daily decisions are his and if things don’t get wonderful, he’ll be blamed for everything which goes wrong (its not necessarily fair that it works out that way, but it does – and we GOPers were on the heavy receiving end of it from mid-2005 on).

Allahpundit has an excellent article about all the Presidential-prep stuff Sarah Palin is doing, and some of the normal Presidential-run stuff she’s not doing. Do read the whole thing, but to boil it down – she’s getting together the means of a massive, grass-roots campaign, spreading campaign cash around in key States, but she isn’t building the normal political infrastructure of a campaign. Is she getting in? Is she just thinking about it? Or is she just getting in to it differently than most establishment candidates?

As for me, I’m still not sure she’s in. There is certainly a lot of prep work being done, but I still don’t see the definitive information which would make me think she’s going to go for it. In fact, of all the 2012 prospects, Mitt Romney is the only person I count as “in” (and even he’s still got some wiggle room to gracefully withdraw if the polls in mid-2011 don’t favor him).

On the other hand, as I’ve said before, if Palin runs, she gets the Republican nomination. To be sure, a great deal of the GOP establishment would be against her (but not all, she’s built some bridges to some parts of it) and the MSM would go in to an orgy of anti-Palin screeches…but, she’d win it, if she sought it. Only someone more “outsider” than Palin could take it away from her.

The fact that the liberal establishment entirely and the GOP establishment partially despises her is the key to understanding why she’d win: the people are heartily sick of the establishment. Allahpundit notes that a lot of GOP prospects are setting up to run on a “competence” platform against Obama’s manifest failures. A good idea, but it doesn’t capture the mood of the electorate, especially the GOP electorate. Obama was said to be competent – he was going to replace the supposedly incompetent Bush, remember?

What is wanted is someone who will be on the side of the people – just as the Democrat primary in 2008 revolved around who was least like Bush (and that was why I picked Obama out as the Democrat nominee as early as September of 2007), the 2012 GOP primary will revolve around who is least like the people in government. Romney has many good points; so does Pawlenty. Mitch Daniels has been a superb governor of Indiana. Any one of them, nominated by the GOP, would get my enthusiastic support against Obama – but can any one of them credibly present themselves as outsiders who will go to DC to clean out the crooks who have wrecked our nation?

Not hardly. To find someone with her ability to do this, you’d have to go to Christie in New Jersey (the only man, I think, who could possibly derail Palin in the primaries), or to Allen West in Florida (but he’s not even managed to win a House seat…his time will come, but not before 2016, at the earliest). Outsiders. Anti-government. People vs Powerful. The Second American Revolution.

That is what 2012 will be – and if Palin runs, she wins.

The “Mom Awakening”…

Keep in mind they are still terrified of her – and with good reason

J. Christian Adams, up until just recently a Department of Justice attorney, has blown the whistle on the Obama Justice Department with regard to their willful ignorance on the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case

The New Black Panther case was the simplest and most obvious violation of federal law I saw in my Justice Department career. Because of the corrupt nature of the dismissal, statements falsely characterizing the case and, most of all, indefensible orders for the career attorneys not to comply with lawful subpoenas investigating the dismissal, this month I resigned my position as a Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney.

Read the whole thing

This is illustrative of the Obama administration’s willful ignorance and total disregard for the rule of law. The Obama administration has put its imprimatur on voter intimidation, especially if it enhances his agenda and cements his power.

Expect more of this come November and expect more intimidation of voters and of citizens in general until the day that this thug regime is removed from power.

At the same time, expect a push-back from Americans who will not allow themselves to be subjected to these fascist, jack-booted tactics from a megalomaniacal regime whose aim is to not govern but to subjugate.

There is no American who should stand for this, and any move to excuse this flagrant abuse of power by any Obama apologist (or anyone else) should be presumed as coming from one who is, like Barack Hussein Obama, an enemy of liberty.

He just gets better and better:

Gonna be real hard to not back him for President in 2012.

Not backing down an inch – but greatly clarifying. From Mark Hemingway over at the Washington Examiner:

…Daniels called me to say that he’s dead serious about the need for the next president to declare a truce. “It wasn’t something I just blurted out,” he told me. “It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while.”

He’s emphasized the need to focus like a laser beam on the existential threats facing the country — the two big issues he’s previously identified being the war on terror and the country’s precarious fiscal position. “We’re going to need a lot more than 50.1 percent of the country to come together to keep from becoming Greece,” he said.

He did, however, want to clarify that he’s not just singling out controversial social issues. “I’m talking about all divisive issues,” he said. Clear and unified priorities are the only way he sees the country rallying around common purposes…

I, on the other hand, am a firm believer in the scheme, the whole scheme and nothing but the scheme. Taking my cue – and that phrase – from Lord John Fisher, First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty during his reform of the Royal Navy in the early 20th century. He got a much more powerful navy, vastly more prepared for war at no more cost than the old, weaker and less ready navy. While his special area was narrow, he showed how you go about fixing a broken governmental system – you take it apart and put it all back together the way you want.

And since Governor Daniels is repeating his statement with emphasis and without retreat (for which he gets a tip of the hat from me – courage is a rare and vital trait in a leader, and Daniels has it), I’ll repeat mine: you can’t have a truce. A truce would have been akin to trying to build a modern, efficient naval fighting force while allowing the dinosaurs to continue on in their old, inefficient ways.

Our opponents don’t look at issues in separation – any advancement of the leftist goal is good and will never be surrendered. You give them an inch, they’ll take the mile, and then demand one more inch, in preparation for taking one more mile. And it doesn’t matter if they don’t get it this year, or next year, or the year after. Patience is the one virtue they have shown – they’ll wait for years, continually grinding away at our position, knowing that they’ll eventually topple it, if given time and never hit back.

If we surrender the initiative on, say, gay marriage, then the left will just continue to press it. If we say, “let us put aside this contentious issue and concentrate on rebuilding our economy”, the left might say they agree, but that would simply be a tactical lie – the very next day they’d be back at it, pressing their agenda and if anyone on our side subsequently brought up the fact that they were, indeed, pressing their agenda, the left would scream that we’re bringing back partisanship at a time when we’re all supposed to be working together to rebuild the economy. What we’d find is that while we, acting as patriots, fixed the economy, the left had busily besieged several places we thought safe during the truce.

We have to fight them all, and all down the line. The left must be destroyed in order to save our nation – ripped out of the body politic root and branch. Exposed for their corruption and de-funded. We might beat a tactical retreat from time to time from direct assault, but we must never entirely let up the pressure. Flexibility is an absolute requirement – but we must never say, “we won’t battle on this issue, if you don’t”, simply because they’ll lie and say they agree, and then just go on as before.

As they plan to continually press us, we must change the dynamics and continually press them…force them to defend the destruction they have wrought and convince ever more Americans that liberty and safety are best secured by limiting the baleful influence of the left.

I understand where Governor Daniels is coming from – and should he win the GOP nomination at some point, I will vote for him, as he’s been an excellent governor – but he’s flat wrong on this truce idea. Battle, continual and aggressive until the war is won – that is what we must do.

Getting it wrong before he even gets to the Presidential starting gate:

Beyond the debt and the deficit, in Daniels’s telling, all other issues fade to comparative insignificance. He’s an agnostic on the science of global warming but says his views don’t matter. “I don’t know if the CO2 zealots are right,” he said. “But I don’t care, because we can’t afford to do what they want to do. Unless you want to go broke, in which case the world isn’t going to be any greener. Poor nations are never green.”

And then, he says, the next president, whoever he is, “would have to call a truce on the so-called social issues. We’re going to just have to agree to get along for a little while,” until the economic issues are resolved…

To call a truce in the matter of social issues is to surrender them to the left – because they will never, ever call a truce. This is one of thing which burns me up about some Republicans – the way they don’t get it about the left: they are in it to win the whole ball of wax.

The left wants America to be a carbon-copy of Canada, or France. Everything controlled by government, moral depravity given public support, Christianity booted out of the public square (they wouldn’t even mention Christianity in the proposed European constitution – as if anyone can make any sense of Europe without a grasp of Christianity) and the people disarmed, welfare addicted and prevented from actually changing the way things are done in government. It is what they want and they will never call a truce and will never compromise – anything they get in negotiations is just one more step on the path to total victory.

Don’t get me wrong, the economic and fiscal crisis in the United States commands priority but nothing exists in isolation. You won’t be able to sustain a free market economy if you have a population on welfare. People who are waiting for their government checks are not likely to be much moved by appeals to individual responsibility. Daniels might win the battle for a tax cut – but he’ll lose the war unless the people have the internal grit necessary to take advantage of a low tax economic climate.

There is a triad of things we must do to rescue our nation:

1. Balance the budget, lower the tax burden.

2. De-fund the left – taking away the massive government subsidies to things like Planned Parenthood who undermine the very concept of freedom which makes a low-tax, low-regulation environment worth while.

3. Vigorously investigate all forms of political corruption in the United States.

None of these things can be done in isolation – success in any one of them requires success in the other two. We can’t balance the budget without de-funding the left; we can’t de-fund the left unless we expose the corruption whereby the left gains its government subsidies; we can’t investigate corruption unless we make it part of a general reform of government as opposed to something which could be cast as a political witch-hunt. All are necessary, all are connected and failure in any one of the three will mean that our nation’s story is told.

And Mitch Daniels wants to call a truce! That, in and of itself, shows that he’s not ready to be the sort of President we need. Competent he would be; he would get some good things done – but unless he fully engages in the entire battle to restore America, everything he does will be ultimately pointless.

As I’ve said, just when you think they can’t go any lower, they manage to find the basement in the sewer:

Author Joe McGinniss has taken up residence in a house next to Palin’s lakeside home in Wasilla.

McGinniss previously wrote a critical expose on Palin and her natural gas pipeline plan for the Conde Nast publication Portfolio last year, and is planning a book about the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate. It’s tentatively titled, “Sarah Palin’s Year of Living Dangerously” and could be on the shelves in the fall of 2011.

“Yes, that Joe McGinniss. Here he is about 15 feet away on the neighbor’s rented deck overlooking my children’s play area and my kitchen window,” Palin posted on Facebook late Monday, hours after returning from a trip to the Lower 48 and learning of McGinniss’ presence.

“We’re sure to have a doozey to look forward to with this treasure he’s penning. Wonder what kind of material he’ll gather while overlooking Piper’s bedroom, my little garden, and the family’s swimming hole?” she wrote.

Honestly, what does this guy hope to learn? Is he one of those guys trying to prove that Sarah isn’t the mother of Trig? Does he hope to get some shots of the family in their underwear?

Liberals, this obsessive hatred you have for Sarah Palin simply has got to stop. I realize that she’s better looking than any liberal woman, smarter than any two dozen of you put together and has done more real good than any liberal politician could ever hope to do…but just because she’s vastly better than you are, its no reason to hate her.

It might, perhaps, he better if you’d get off your knees and actually try to rise to Palin’s level – once you are no longer looking in the mud and are, instead, trying to look in her eyes, you might see something quite interesting.

Meanwhile, you guys are really starting to creep us all out. Stop it.

The news:

The Republican National Committee’s Site Selection Committee is recommending the party hold its presidential nominating convention in Tampa-St.Petersburg in 2012, the RNC announced this afternoon.

Tampa beat out Phoenix and Salt Lake City for the event. Minneapolis-St. Paul hosted the 2008 event.

I was hoping for Phoenix just to really stick it to the left – but Tampa will be fine because we’re going to mop the floor with Obama in that State in 2012.

Ian Lazaran over at Conservatives for Palin has a long article debunking yet another anti-Palin hit piece, this one in The New Yorker. My hat is off to Lazaran for being willing to slog through yet another tedious, mendacious liberal attack on Sarah Palin.

Liberals (and a selection of sorta-conservatives) do this because they hate Sarah Palin. They hate her because she’s everything they despise. A woman who is a conservative. A mother who didn’t stop after having a designer child. A wife who loves and admires her husband. A friend who won’t kick you to the curb in order to advance a career. A target of media slanders who will neither curry favor nor fly off the handle.

We once upon a time had another one of these in politics. His name was Ronald Reagan.

Know what I think? I think that if she runs, she’ll win the Republican nomination and be the next President of the United States. The only person who has a realistic chance of derailing the Palin Express is Governor Christie – and that only if he manages to turn New Jersey around. Why should this be? Two reasons:

1. In an increasingly anti-establishment political climate, Palin is the ultimate outsider. As it works out right now, the more the elite attack her, the more viable she becomes. They are making a heroine out of her – there will be quite a lot of “if they hate her, then she must be good” among the electorate.

The people are tired of career politicians who only care about advancing their career. Palin’s resignation of the governorship will not be a liability by 2012 but, instead, proof that she doesn’t need office in order to feel complete. In or out, she’s going to be comfortable with herself.

2. She’s really quite a lot smarter than her critics. Like so many other conservatives in the past – especially Ronald Reagan – Palin has been tagged as “dumb” because she didn’t attend an elite university and hasn’t read all the book the elite think important. They think like that because it is what they have and they think they’re smart – ergo, if you don’t have it, you’re not smart.

But Palin has been running rings around them from day one (Reagan did, too – and so, to only a slightly lesser extent, did President Bush). Its not a matter of staying a step ahead, its a matter of Palin being in a whole, different intellectual league. Not fettered by the idiocies of orthodox liberalism, Palin is free to think – to see things as they are and devise ways and means based upon actual facts.

Now, will she run? Beats all heck out of me. Does this mean I’m endorsing her for the primary? Not at all – I haven’t settled on whom I’ll support and my support in the primary is always lent to the person I think most in tune with my ideas, which isn’t necessarily the person who can win. If I had to make any sort of declaration right now, I’d have to say Jindal is my man…but he’ll probably end up as HHS Secretary in the Palin Administration.

But I’m going to stick with this – if she runs she will win, with the only joker in the deck being Governor Christie. If he’s a sitting governor who has cured New Jersey, then than will be very hard to beat. Though, of course, one could easily see a Palin/Christie ticket (or Palin/Jindal, or Palin/Gingrich, or Palin/West…any of these four would perfectly dove-tail in to a Palin-headed ticked).

So, keep misunderestimating her, liberals – it will make her swearing in that much more fun to watch…especially if the camera cuts to Obama while its happening.

A bit premature, I think, but here it is:

…Christie’s fate is largely in his own hands. New Jersey has one of the most powerful chief executives in the country — with authority to rewrite legislation and cut spending with the stroke of his pen. Christie is using this power — for example, freezing $2.2 billion in spending by executive action. His showdown with teachers unions has been compared to Reagan’s confrontation with the air traffic controllers union. If he wins this and other battles, he could emerge as the conservative favorite in 2012 or beyond.

Tough medicine can be tough to swallow, and recent polls show Christie’s approval rating slipping. But if he succeeds in putting New Jersey on solid fiscal ground, his poll numbers will probably rebound. And if the voters of New Jersey don’t want him, perhaps the rest of America will.

I have to say that I’m all admiration for Governor Christie – the man has courage and he’s doing precisely what he said he’d do. That, in and of itself, makes him a breath of fresh air in politics.

2012 is a long way off and the results of 2010 will go a long way towards deciding how 2012 will shake out – but Christie can credibly be the man whether the GOP wins or loses this year. If we win, then Christie is the fore-runner who lead the way. If we lose, then Christie’s gutsy leadership showed us the way, and we flubbed it.

We’ll just have to see how it comes out – but if Christie can turn New Jersey around, then he’ll have put together a nearly unanswerable argument for a Presidential campaign.

This is nothing more than the most egregious and disgusting form of political payoff:

Barely 15 percent of all construction-industry workers in the United States are union members, while the remaining 85 percent are nonunion, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. So why has President Obama signed Executive Order 13502 directing federal agencies taking bids for government construction projects to accept only those from contractors who agree in advance to a project labor agreement that requires a union work force?…

…By eliminating the vast majority of potential bidders on federal construction projects, Obama guarantees two things. First, the projects will cost taxpayers more because union labor is always more expensive. And with mandated PLAs, the cost premium for union contractors will be even greater because fewer bidders always means less competition and higher prices. Second, by guaranteeing unions a bigger stream of federal contracts, Obama is making sure that Big Labor, already among the Democrats’ biggest sources of campaign cash, will have even more money to hand out for the 2010 and 2012 elections.

This is just nauseating – Obama is telling the vast majority of American construction workers that he doesn’t give a darn about them. He’s saying that the American economy and the taxpayer’s money are reserved only for groups which back the Democrat party. Essentially, Obama is impounding our government and economy in favor of his supporters, everyone else can go jump in a lake.

All Americans have a right to bid on all government contracts. The only things which should bear on whether a bid is accepted is the price offered and the ability to perform the task. All other considerations are simply un-American and should not come in to play.

This is just another example of what we fight against – this liberal notion that politics trumps everything. Obama is just locking down his union support for the 2010 and 2012 elections – what happens to the country just isn’t a factor in the decision.

HAT TIP: Mish’s

Interesting poll:

Americans are now pretty evenly divided about whether they would rather have Barack Obama or George W. Bush in the White House. 48% prefer Obama while 46% say they would rather have the old President back.

Meanwhile, the Ronulans will love this:

Pit maverick Republican Congressman Ron Paul against President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up, and the race is – virtually dead even.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters finds Obama with 42% support and Paul with 41% of the vote. Eleven percent (11%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.

The bloom is clearly off the rose…

Wow–I received this neat email today from none other than Joltin’ Joe Biden!

Leo –

Two weeks after it was signed into law, health insurance reform is still the talk of the town.

It’s for a good reason: This was a historic accomplishment. But it wasn’t easy. I remember what it’s like to be a senator and take a tough stand on an issue — confident that it’s the best thing for your constituents, but equally sure that special interests will pour buckets of money into attacking you for it.

Your senators, Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, took that tough stand when they supported health reform. Now, we need to provide a line of defense money can’t buy: the voices of real constituents speaking out and showing their support.

That’s where you come in. Do you have three minutes to jot down a quick letter to your local newspaper? If you need ideas on what to say, you can watch a quick video Organizing for America put together about how reform will benefit Minnesota.

Click here to get started.

Believe me, senators and their staff read the letters page — because they know just how influential it can be. Your letter could make a tremendous difference.

In my conversations with my old colleagues, I made it clear that this White House was prepared to back them up — that no barrage of partisan attack ads would go unanswered. But to follow through, I’m going to need some help from folks like you.

This legislation will put Americans in control of their own health care, rein in insurance-company abuses, and give millions of Americans access to affordable health care for the first time.

Special interests know that in the coming months, all their lies about reform will be proven false. But that won’t stop them from inventing new ones and spreading attack ads.

It’s just the first step, but one letter from a constituent is worth a hundred paid advertisements. So please make sure your friends and neighbors understand the benefits this law will bring to ordinary Americans — take three minutes and write a paragraph or two now:

http://my.barackobama.com/SenateThank

Thanks,

Vice President Joe Biden

Well, shucks–that was mighty nice of ol’ Joe–I mean–to offer the resources of Organizing for America to write a letter of ‘thanks’ to Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken for their thoughtful consideration in voting for Obamacare! It was so nice, that I thought I would take him up on his offer. So, I wrote the following LTE to the St. Cloud Times, the Star Tribune, and the Duluth Tribune, all on OFA’s dime:

I am writing this letter to voice my disgust over Senators Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar’s blind passage of the behemoth health care bill that is neither about bringing down the cost of health care nor of expanding the coverage of quality health care. Already we are seeing the effects of planned layoffs at corporations who will, by virtue of the mandates of the bill, be required to lay off hundreds of workers, merely to stay in business. This, along with the proposed Value Added Tax (VAT) could not come at a worse time, and will only prolong this, the greatest recession since the 1930s. This bill was ill conceived from the onset, and it is clear that Senators Klobuchar and Franken lacked the integrity to do the right thing and to block the passage to the greatest affront to America’s personal and financial liberties since before the American Revolution.

Rest assured, the voters will long remember this transgression, and Senators Klobuchar and Franken will go down in History in the Hall of One-Term Wonders.