The 41st Vote - Support Scott Brown for Senate

There is a Special Election in Massachusetts  January 19 to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate Seat.  The race is between Republican Scott Brown and Mass Attorney General Martha Coakley.  If Scott Brown were to win he would provide the critical 41st vote in the US Senate to stop Obamacare in its tracks.  Common Cents is calling all of our readers to Support Scott Brown for US Senate.  Scott Brown was recently named the 2004 "Public Servant of the Year" award and has been a member of the Mass National Guard for 29 years.

This Democratic Congress has been a disaster.  Since the Democrats took over in January 2007 over 7 million jobs have been lost.  The  unemployment rate has skyrocketed from 4.4% (Jan 2007) to 10% (Jan 2010).  The Budget Deficit has quadrupled and $1 Trillion Deficits are here for as long as the eye can see.  This is a critical race that is winnable for the GOP!

LifeNews has a excellent take on this race:

In a state known for its left-leaning and pro-abortion politics, Brown has an uphill battle but he enjoys the support of Massachusetts Citizens for Life. Jack Rowe, chairman of the MCFL PAC, emailed LifeNews.com today to say that he is seeing movement in Brown’s direction. “People are terribly upset about health care and asking what to do. Here is the very exciting part. We in Massachusetts can actually save the whole country from this awful health care. Our PAC has been supporting Scott Brown because he will be a pro-life vote in the Senate. Scott Brown will also vote against the health care bill. After the compromise bill comes out of conference, it must be approved again by each house. Brown will vote against the bill. That means there will not be 60 votes in the Senate. That means the bill will be defeated.” That’s a lofty goal but Rowe is encouraging pro-life advocates in Massachusetts to get involved in the special election. “Can we do it? We certainly can! Turn-out will be very small,” he said — adding that the pr-life movement could change the dynamics of the race of it gets mobilized.

Hot Air has an excellent article on the race.  And National Review has another outstanding post:

The Democrats have gotten to the precipice — to borrow President Obama’s word — of victory on health-care reform for one reason above all others: 60 votes. Their supermajority in the Senate empowered them to muscle through a sprawling mess of a bill by partisan fiat. If the ball had bounced the other way in a close race or two (or if Arlen Specter had felt more loyalty to his party of decades), the Democrats wouldn’t have gotten to 60. Once there, they were willing to resort to any expedient to stay at the magic number. After Ted Kennedy’s death last summer, the Massachusetts legislature rushed to change state election law to allow for an interim replacement in advance of a special election, explicitly to keep the Democrats at 60. Now, the special election for the seat is less than two weeks away. It represents the only electoral threat to 60 that Democrats will face until November. Republican Scott Brown is mounting a surprisingly strong bid, trailing Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley by only 9 points in the latest Rasmussen poll. A state senator, Brown is running an anti-spending, anti-Washington campaign perfectly suited to the political moment. Should he win, it could make it all but impossible for Harry Reid to get 60 votes for the current version of Obamacare — and he’ll almost certainly need to meet that threshold at least one more time. In short, Scott Brown is the man who could pull the brake on this train right before it gets fully out of the station.

 Common Cents urges you to contribute all you can to the Brown for Senate Campaign.

Lest we forget there was substantial Job Growth under President Bush.

Brown vs. Coakley - MA Senate Poll:  Toss Up!