Posted on 12/24/2010 12:39:41 PM PST by Whenifhow
Who would you vote for? His Democrat opponent? Is he better than having a Kennedy like person in the seat? I don’t know much about him. I am just asking because compared to Markey, Frank, Kerry, Patrick and other Mass. pols I am aware of, he seems not bad and more ocnservative than I would have hoped for out of that state. Hell, he seems better than Romney would be.
That's the real issue, isn't it? Conservatives simply don't have the votes to stop this madness. The radical liberals have simply been far more successful at selling their policies than we have. Brown's as good as it's going to get in MA. A real conservative can't get elected there nor in most other parts of the NE and West Coast.
The people that supported Brown in MASS...especially the tea partiers who put him over...will do well IF they could find a true conservative Republican in MASS to run against him in the primary...and knock him out. I have my doubts if a true conservative could win in MASS in the general election but at least Brown would be gone.
http://dailybail.com/videos/henry-kissinger-talks-about-the-new-world-order-bushs-legacy.html
Is there any surprise that Brown just hired someone from the Kissinger organizaton?
http://redmassgroup.com/diary/7178/scott-brown-chooses-steven-schrage-to-be-chief-of-staff
While an excellent argument can be made for term limits (which, along with elimination of the fat pensions, perks and LAME DUCK SESSIONS I favor), I would offer that, currently, our chances of getting them are somewhere between slim and none. The sad fact that we are even discussing them is a manifestation of the even sadder fact that, until recently, Americans have grown complacently inattentive to the actions of and abuses by government at all levels. The phrase “Let George do it” springs to mind. More folks know the names of the characters on “Lost” and “Dancing With The Stars” than know who allegedly “represents” them in the House.
Having said that, I must respectfully disagree with calls for a Constitutional Convention. I do so for the same reasons I joined with others to repel the push for a ConCon during the Carter maladministration.
Please recall that the FIRST ConCon was convened to REVISE the Articles of Confederation and, while it produced a radically different – and arguably superior – national charter, the problem to which I referred at the top would almost certainly lead to a loss of even more of the freedoms too many of us now take for granted.
A second ConCon would be populated by current political elites who have been selected BY their fellow political elites. Think Chuck Schumer, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Kerry, Fortney “Pete” Stark, etc. Be afraid. Be VERY AFRAID!
Unfortunately for us and our liberties, General Washington, Messers. Madison, Franklin, Adams, Sherman and the others will not be there this time. Once in session, THERE WOULD BE NO PRACTICAL WAY TO CONTROL THEM.
But, say you, the PEOPLE would have to ratify any such actions. Please recall that, today, these would be the same people who gave us Barrack Obama and hundreds of “progressives” on Capitol Hill in 2008.
Yes, 2010 WAS a course change and, no, I’m not giving up on the people. In our system, they should, within Constitutional constraints, have the last word.
Mr. Jefferson’s advice in that area comes to mind:
“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”
Those of us who wish to save this nation and return it to a condition the Founders would again recognize must continue to “…inform their discretion.”
Dick Bachert
DO NOT PUT AN R AFTER THE 13; MAKE IT A T FOR TRAITOR.
Guys, IT’S THE PEOPLES’ republic OF TAXACHUSETTS!!
A RINO is about all you could expect from Kennedy-Kerry-Bawneyland.
The water up there is apparently more toxic than that in DC.
The Founders from up there must be rolling in their graves.
...and say hello to Sen. (Victoria) Kennedy.
Do you have some kind of plan for electing a conservative to the Senate in Massachusetts?
Why? We already have a perfectly good Constitution that nobody pays attention to.
In every case, these were issues where his vote was meaningless, as the issue had already been decided.
Where his vote might be decisive....he invariably sides with the Dems.
Sorry to dovetail off an old Boston Red Sox joke here, but he is choking on some big ones. the Banking Bill and the START Treaty are way over the line for me. I get some inside the finanical beltway publications and read what the effects of Dodd/Frank are and we are so screwed. I got a number of people to send $ to him and got Mass voters to vote for him. Not anymore. If many feel like me, he is political toast real soon....
Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.
Only because of the RomneyBOTs on talk radio
who claim to be "conservatives".
HINT: TURN OFF WRKO and DU.
Howie Carr is on WRKO. Why turn him off?
WRKO is a pro-ROMNEY station almost all day long.
pro-ROMNEY, pro-ROMNEY-toadies like Baker and Brown.
So, if you are into SOROS and Romney and BAKER and DU,
then perhaps you can find succor there.
For real conservatives, there is FReeRepublic.
Actually he is more in touch with his inner girl that most know......
Read the following by Howie Carr.
If Howie were supporting Romney would he have written
that column? Maybe he supported him in the past, but not now.
Maybe you can try to do your own conservative talk show, true conservatives; kind of like the guy, Chuck Morse, who buys time on WDIS 1170 in Norfolk and WNSH 1570 in Beverly—no wait,
he’s no longer on WNSH because they’re in Spanish now.
The operable word in your statement is "was". If we continue to remove liberal democrats in 2012 and regain the majority, people like Scott Brown become irrelevant. The only reason we would need him is to gain leverage in committee chairmanships. I can't see where he is much help to us on any issue at this point. There are several states swinging from democrat that have senators up for election in '12 who may be removable. Mr. Obama is not helping them and they are not helping themselves.
| Senate Republican Voting Yea in Lame Duck Session | ||||
| Bill | S.510 FDA Food | DADT Repeal | START Treaty | HR3082 Budget |
| Alexander (R-TN) | Yea | Yea | Yea | |
| Barrasso (R-WY) | Yea | |||
| Bennett (R-UT) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Brown (R-MA) | Yea | Yea | Yea | Yea |
| Bunning (R-KY) | Yea | |||
| Burr (R-NC) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Cochran (R-MS) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Collins (R-ME) | Yea | Yea | Yea | Yea |
| Corker (R-TN) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Ensign (R-NV) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Enzi (R-WY) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Grassley (R-IA) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Gregg (R-NH) | Yea | Yea | ||
| Hutchison (R-TX) | Yea | |||
| Isakson (R-GA) | Yea | |||
| Johanns (R-NE) | Yea | Yea | Yea | |
| Kirk (R-IL) | Yea | Yea | Yea | |
| Kyl (R-AZ) | Yea | |||
| LeMieux (R-FL) | Yea | |||
| Lugar (R-IN) | Yea | Yea | Yea | |
| McConnell (R-KY) | Yea | |||
| Murkowski (R-AK) | Yea | Yea | Yea | Yea |
| Roberts (R-KS) | Yea | |||
| Sessions (R-AL) | Yea | |||
| Shelby (R-AL) | Yea | |||
| Snowe (R-ME) | Yea | Yea | Yea | Yea |
| Thune (R-SD) | Yea | |||
| Vitter (R-LA) | Yea | |||
| Voinovich (R-OH) | Yea | Yea | Yea | Yea |
| Not Voting | ||||
| Bond (R-MO) | Not voting | Not voting | Not voting | |
| Brownback (R-KS) | Not voting | Not voting | Not voting | |
| Bunning (R-KY) | Not voting | Not voting | ||
| Gregg (R-NH) | Not voting | Not voting | ||
| Hatch (R-UT) | Not voting | |||
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