QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 5:50 P.M. ET:  Again the Brit reporters get it right, when observing American politics.  From The Times of London, on the Massachusetts race:

The latest polls show the Republicans ahead in America’s most liberal state. The party has not won a Senate seat here for 37 years. The Democrats are so worried about losing the seat that Obama is flying in tomorrow, despite the crisis in Haiti.

Yeah, let's put first things first.  Who cares about human life?

To lose Kennedy’s seat would be a humiliating end to Obama’s first year in power, particularly as Kennedy was one of the first senior Democrats to endorse him for president. Not only would it be an ominous sign for the mid-term elections later this year but it would lose the Democrats their supermajority in the Senate, robbing them of their ability to sidestep Republican filibusters, and derail healthcare reform.

And...

Bill Clinton, the former president, flew in for a rally last Friday even though, as a United Nations special envoy for Haiti, he had not slept for three days. “I came here to tell the people of Massachusetts that this country’s revolution was born in Massachusetts against those who abused power ... do you now want to put Massachusetts on the side of the power abusers?” Clinton said.

Remarkable.  Martha Coakley, as a prosecutor, worked to keep an innocent man in prison to protect her political allies.  She ignored the case of an obviously guilty rapist, again presumably to protect the people who could help her. 

Abuse of power anyone?

January 16, 2010