Posted on 07/15/2010 2:55:48 PM PDT by tobyhill
The surest indication of whether a bill will be pushed through Congress right now is not a speech from President Obama or a declaration by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Instead, it's often a letter from the office of a Massachusetts senator who has served in Washington for less than seven months.
When Sen. Scott Brown (R) announced in a written statement Monday he would back a briefly stalled bill to reform the financial regulatory system, two other Republicans quickly joined him. The three helped prevent a Republican filibuster of the legislation on Thursday morning, clearing the way for a final vote.
But on Tuesday, when Brown declared his opposition to a bill to increase disclosure of corporate spending on elections, the legislation's chances in Congress were widely seen as doomed.
Brown campaigned in Massachusetts as an outsider who criticized the ways of Washington and pledged to be the 41st vote against Obama's health-care plan. But instead of becoming a GOP stalwart on Capitol Hill, Brown has turned into an unpredictable lawmaker whose vote is often in doubt and highly coveted by the two sharply divided parties.
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Would you like to have Kennedy back you mouth-breathing moron?
Brown is nothing but a RINO traitor. His daughters are not the prostitutes. Scott Brown is the lackey whore.
i just want to know how the Tea Party and all the conservatives who backed him were so deceived? did he not have a rino’s record? out and out lying on his part?
exactly. Having a Scott Brown in MA is a miracle. It is up to us in red and purple states to get more GOP seats and to elect more conservatives wherever possible. I’ll take Brown any day over Coakely or Kennedy.
After November, Brown will be a minority within the majority. Good enough to vote for McConnell.
How dare you call that moron a mouth breather?
Brown is a prostitute who trick every donor
and then stabbed them in the heart.
I apologize for insulting prostitutes who have
worth. The ba$tard Brown is lower than a snake
and every single person that donated to him should
help throw him out on his ass.
Yea Moron, so much better than a Kennedy. /sarc
uhhhhh....it wasn’t Kennedy, it was Martha Coakley.
They were going for Kennedy’s seat.
With Martha Coakley, there was NO DOUBT she would vote exactly as Kennedy would have.
Scott Brown may be nearly as bad, since he cynically has made himself the ‘go-to guy’ regarding all close votes.
So far he’s the go-to guy who is voting on the wrong side of these issues.
But what do you expect from a guy who marketed himself cynically AND DISHONESTLY as THE FORTYFIRST VOTE, the magnetic and indispensable candidate who would STOP OBAMACARE, suckering in enthusiastic political newbies who put him in this Senate seat.
Turned out he WASN’T the 41st vote after all/
Now it seems he’s trying to recapture “the old magic”.
In the weeks before the election, I was onto him and posted first one way and then another on FR.
Myself and one other FReeper were jumped on.
Beware of all these types in Republican politics.
I never liked him.
Uh. I’d love to have 60 true conservatives in Senate, but getting one deep blue Senate seat turned into GOP is absolutely crucial. The most important vote is for senate majority leader. Then, there are a lot of other votes that these Scott Browns etc and other RINOs will provide.
In red states, we should absolute kick these Senate Centrist Coalition bozos out (think of those Lindsay Grahams and Fred Thompsons).
Brown in MA is still fine. I’m deeply disappointed by the vote, though. I think he is trying to position himself as some sort of maverick so he has better chance for re-election in 2012. If he votes to repeal ObamaCare (as I believe he would), that’s good enoug for me.
I hope he enjoys his 15 minutes. When he is up for re election they will throw him out like yesterday’s newspaper. Every RINO in NE except for the two princesses in Maine have been sent packing including Chaffee, Roth, Shays, etc. Brown will soon join them.
I agree. Blaming the GOP because a blue state won’t elect conservatives will get us nowhere. I would prefer a true conservative, but Brown is the best we could have hoped for from Massachusetts.
The GOP isn’t winning anything.
What’s the one bill that the GOP has been able to filibuster with Brown as the GOP’S “magic 40”?
He is just trying to make himself relevant, but I wish he could choose some better bills to do that on. This financial bill is a joke without fanny and freddie included. Why didn’t he hold out for inclusion of them.
The GOP can get these RINOs in check if they wanted.
As long as he's "positioning" himself in any manner, he's just another politician warming a seat where a statesman is needed.
I don't think he's actually a RINO, I think he's a full fledged Rat.
When Crap and Trade comes up he will once again vote with the Rats.
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