*Why doesn’t this surprise me.  John McCormack, a reporter for The Weekly Standard, was shoved to the ground last night by a Coakley campaign staffer after trying to ask her a question. 

“After Coakley finished her answer, she began walking away from the restaurant, and I walked behind her asking why health care industry lobbyists were supporting her at the fundraiser. She didn’t reply.

As I walked down the street, a man who appeared to be associated with the Coakley campaign pushed me into a freestanding metal railing. I ended up on the sidewalk. I was fine. He helped me up from the ground, but kept pushing up against me, blocking my path toward Coakley down the street.”

Geez, it’s almost like Democrats have no respect for their constituents and depend on union thugs to rough up the opposition.  I know, crazy right.

RELATED: Rape, She Cried: Coakley’s desperate lie, by Kathryn Jean Lopez.

RELATED II: Coakley’s Saviors: The healthcare industry rides to the Democrats rescue, at the WSJ.

“As first reported by Timothy Carney of the Washington Examiner, the host committee for the fundraiser at Pennsylvania Avenue’s Sonoma Restaurant includes lobbyists for Pfizer, Merck, Eli Lilly, Novartis and sundry other drug companies that have been among the biggest of ObamaCare’s corporate sponsors. Other hosts—who have raised at least $10,000 for Ms. Coakley—include representatives from UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Humana and other insurers.”

I can’t imagine why an industry supports a law that forces you to buy their product.

*President Obama vows to continue uniting the American people against his agenda for another year.

*Obama’s Rapturous Style vs. Tea Party Substance, by Michael Barone.

*Governing Class: Elites or Idiots, by Tony Blankley.

“Against all evidence, it has become an idee fixe in the collective mind of European and American governments, academe, journalism and foreign policy establishments that radical Muslims in the West are the victims of Western bigotry and cultural hostility – rather than, primarily, the other way round. Dangerously, these attitudes continue to shape both the premises and procedures of government policies even after nine years of post-September 11 evidence to the contrary. The slaughtered American troops at Fort Hood are just among the early few in what will surely become whole legions of the dead victims of political correctness – if the public does not soon succeed at overruling the Western governing elite’s unconscionable moral blindness to the malign danger in our midst.”

*Let’s Talk About Faith, by Ross Douthat.

*Obama’s Next Three Years, by John Bolton.