Martha Coakley
"All the terrorists have left Afghanistan."
"Next question."
"Massachusettes"
There's a real circus going on in that Massachusetts Senatorial campaign between Martha Coakley(D) and Scott Brown(R)to fill Ted Kennedy's seat. First Coakley badly answered a question about Afghanistan in their recent debate stating that the terrorists were "gone". They were in Yemen, Pakistan, Montana or someplace like that. (No, she didn't say Montana.) In the story below, she refuses to answer a question from reporters about her gaffe.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/12/coakley-dodges-question-about-afghanistan-claim/
Then there is this photo taken in Washington DC last night when a reporter from the Weekly Standard tried to ask her questions and gets pushed to the ground by one of her aides. To make things worse, Coakley reacts as if nothing had happened. The aide, Michael Meehan, has already apologized, while Coakley has said nothing.
That's Coakley on the left.
The election next Tuesday is running neck and neck, and the Democrats are in panic mode. If Brown pulls off a win, there goes the 60 vote majority the Dems have that is critically needed for that upcoming health care bill. Here's where it gets interesting. If Brown wins, the Dems will try to drag out the certification process as long as they can so that Brown won't get to Washington until after the final bill is voted upon. Of course, if you follow Massachusetts politics you will remember how the Dems changed the state laws as to Senate replacement elections when John Kerry was running for president (and a vacancy was anticipated) then changed it back when it was realized that Kennedy was dying. All this was designed to keep Democrats in those two Massachusetts Senate spots.
That's Democratic politics in Massachusetts. Are you proud, you Massachusettans (Is that the right word? What the Hell. Coakley's latest campaign video spells it Massachusettes.)
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