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RUSH: Turning now to the Massachusetts special election on Tuesday. Yesterday we told you the story of how Mike Meehan pushed down John McCormack to the sidewalk and a metal railing in full view of the candidate and Attorney General Martha Coakley, and how it was reported that he ‘slipped\u2019 and so forth and then Meehan went in there to ‘help him\u2019 out. It turns out now that Michael Meehan has publicly acknowledged that he acted too aggressively during that incident with a reporter. He said: ‘Last evening I was a little too aggressive in trying to help the attorney general get to her car and catch a flight.\u2019 He said he had called the reporter, John McCormack of the Weekly Standard, this afternoon to apologize.\u2019 <\/line><\/line>However, the apology and acknowledgment runs contrary to Martha Coakley\u2019s own statement earlier yesterday in which she blamed the incident on Republican stalkers. ‘Bay State Attorney General Martha Coakley blamed GOP ‘stalkers\u2019 today for triggering tensions outside a Washington, D.C., fund-raiser last night where a Weekly Standard reporter said he was roughed up by a Coakley campaign volunteer. ‘I know there were people following, including two from the Brown campaign who have been very aggressive in their stalking,\u2019 Coakley told reporters during an appearance at Kit Clark Senior Services in Dorchester. ‘I\u2019m not sure what happened. I know something occurred, but I\u2019m not privy to the facts. I\u2019m sure it will come out, but I\u2019m not aware of that.” She watched it, and the pictures show her looking exactly at the reporter as he\u2019s on the sidewalk. She is the state\u2019s number one law enforcement officer. She stood by. She did nothing. She let it happen. She claims it now to be stalking. So will she retract her statement? Will Martha Coakley retract her statement blaming Republican stalkers now that her goon, Michael Meehan, has fessed up?<\/line><\/p>\n

Somebody needs to fax this down to Barney Frank. This is from the Associated Press: ‘Massachusetts\u2019s top election official says it could take weeks to certify the results of the upcoming US Senate special election. That delay could let President Barack Obama preserve a key 60th vote for his health care overhaul.\u2019 And Barney Frank said (imitating Frank) ‘This is inth\u2019ane! This couldn\u2019t possibly be happening, can\u2019t possibly happen!\u2019 And everybody has been writing about how it\u2019s going to happen. ‘Secretary of State William F. Galvin, citing state law, says city and town clerks must wait at least 10 days for absentee ballots to arrive before they certify the results of the Jan. 19 election.\u2019 Okay, that\u2019s January 29th. ‘They then have five more days to file the returns with his office.\u2019 That\u2019s February 2nd, which happens to be the day Obama wants to do his speech. ‘Galvin bypassed the provision in 2007 so his fellow Democrats could gain a House vote they needed to override a veto of then-Republican President George W. Bush, but the secretary says US Senate rules would preclude a similar rush today.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, this is Public Policy Polling. This is Tom Jensen. This is a liberal bunch in North Carolina that we follow here. They had a post yesterday: ‘Obama and Coakley.\u2019 He says, ‘I\u2019m sure the main reason Barack Obama\u2019s not going to campaign for Martha Coakley is that either a) the White House isn\u2019t that worried about her or b) they want to minimize the extent to which the President gets blamed if she does somehow manage to lose or only wins by a small margin.\u2019 Obama did do a commercial. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a phone commercial or if he\u2019s producing a TV commercial or whatever but I just saw it moments ago. He is going to do a commercial. This is good news, folks. It\u2019s good news. He\u2019s going to be part of the campaign. This is excellent news. <\/p>\n

‘What\u2019s interesting to note,\u2019 says Public Policy Polling, ‘in the poll that we did on the race though is that Coakley is actually more popular than Obama. She has a 50% favorable rating while he has a 44% approval rating.\u2019 Whoa! ‘Now certainly you can make the argument that the reason for that is the conservative lean of likely voters at this point, and that if Obama showed up and changed the electorate he would have better approval numbers among those planning to go and vote. But his visits in Virginia and New Jersey never did put any dent in the poll numbers — in fact Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell saw the polls move slightly in their direction after Obama\u2019s visits to their state,\u2019 and let\u2019s not forget that in the state of Virginia. They threw Creigh Deeds under the bus before they election. They blamed him for not following Obama\u2019s campaign tactics. They blamed him for not using Obama enough. So PPP says ‘there\u2019s an argument to be made that an Obama visit could actually have had more of a negative effect on Coakley than a positive one. But at this point it\u2019s academic.\u2019 No, it\u2019s not. Not if he\u2019s going to show up in a commercial. <\/p>\n

And here\u2019s a headline from the Investor\u2019s Business Daily: ‘Bay State Jobs Threatened By A Coakley Win — One tax hike that is causing heartburn for bill supporters is a new levy on medical device manufacturers. The scuttlebutt on the Hill is that, next to the ‘Cadillac plan\u2019 excise tax, this new tax on medical device makers is causing the most consternation among vulnerable Democrats. What hasn\u2019t been fully explored yet in the Massachusetts Senate race is how much this new tax impacts the Bay State. … If elected to the United States Senate, it\u2019s no secret that Martha Coakley would become the deciding, 60th vote in favor of the Reid-Obama-Pelosi government-run health care bill. To pay for this expansion of state power, the bill relies on 18 new tax hikes. … Massachusetts relies heavily on the medical device manufacturing industry (which makes everything from wheelchairs to pacemakers) for jobs. According to a 2007 study by AdvaMed (the industry trade association), 22,000 Massachusetts workers punch a clock every day at a medical device plant. This is one out of every 150 workers in the state. Their annual paychecks amount to about $51,000 (far higher than the average Massachusetts wage of $42,000).\u2019<\/p>\n

So these people who work in substantial numbers at medical device manufacturers understand that huge tax increases are coming on their companies, and that\u2019s going to have a definite effect on their eventual employment — certainly on raises, compensation — that could redound in a very negative way to them. The polls are tightening in this race but still people don\u2019t know what to make of it and the reason they don\u2019t know what to make of it is that most people cannot get their arms around the fact that in a state with a million more Democrats than Republicans — and the Ted Kennedy seat! — people just can\u2019t get their arms around the concept a Republican could win this. So polling data is within the margin of error in a number of polls. Other polls show a 9- to 15-point landslide for Martha Coakley. And pollsters, they\u2019re not even confident because of the variance from one poll to the other.<\/p>\n

The one thing that we can draw from this conclusively is the Democrats are scared to death. They are in panic mode. The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee is sending money. The House campaign committee is sending money to Martha Coakley in a Senate <\/emphasize>race. Now, technically that\u2019s not allowed, so they had to change their wording here. They\u2019re saying, ‘We\u2019re making an expenditure for her,\u2019 rather than a campaign contribution. I don\u2019t know what the expenditure is going to be. But the reason they\u2019re concerned about it in Pelosi\u2019s office is because the House is more out of touch with the American body politic than the Senate is. They are so far out of touch it\u2019s laughable. They know they need 60 votes in the Senate to get Pelosi\u2019s agenda done. Forget Obama\u2019s. Pelosi has her own and they need 60 votes in the Senate to get it done. If they don\u2019t have 60 votes in the Senate then they\u2019ve got huge, huge problems. That\u2019s why the House is getting involved in this as well.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s the latest ad, the Chamber of Commerce ad for Scott Brown in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

ANNOUNCER: The Washington politicians continue to fail us. More spending and fewer jobs. But it\u2019s not too late to get our economy back on track. Scott Brown believes in fiscal responsibility. Scott Brown supports measures that hold spending, cut taxes, and help businesses invest in new jobs. Scott Brown\u2019s plan empowers businesses, not politicians. Call Scott Brown, thank him for supporting a plan to fix our economy. The US Chamber of Commerce is responsible for this advertising.<\/p>\n

RUSH: US Chamber of Commerce. That\u2019s their first ad on behalf of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, as that race continues to tighten. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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