Brown emerging as key Senate player (Brown providing Obamacare cover)

Boston Globe ^ | 03/05/2011 | Mark Arsenault

[nhwingut]

WASHINGTON — Candidate Scott Brown campaigned as the potential 41st GOP vote to halt President Obama’s health insurance overhaul. Now, after his first full year as a US senator, Brown is helping the president make the new law more palatable to its critics.

Although Brown insists he still opposes the overall health care measure, his bipartisan plan embraced by the president is one of the most visible examples of Brown’s willingness to rebuff his Tea Party movement roots and work in the Senate as a compromiser. With a voting record similar to those of Susan M. Collins and Olympia J. Snowe, the moderate Republican senators from Maine, Brown is now firmly ensconced among the small group of Senate centrists who stand as potential power brokers in the era of divided government.

[FrankR]

[freekitty]

I can’t tell you how disappointed I am in these people who conned the people who trusted and voted for them. They are disgusting. I don’t know how they can live with themselves. How do they tell their children what POS they are.

[teg_76]

I hope he loses in 2012. Let’s spend our recources picking up seats in redder states. Then we don’t have to worry about him in the future. But of course the NRSC will go all out to save him, even though he’s a very unreliable vote.

[FlyVet]

I only need to read that word “bipartisan” to know that some Republican is about to kneel down and lick Democrat boots, to put it nicely.

[mommyq]

I was very suspicious of him when he seemed to be singularly focused on playing basketball with Obama right after he was elected.

[ronnie raygun]

He’s a fraud

[Rytas]

Please send my $10 back.

[nhwingut]

I hope he loses in 2012. Let’s spend our recources picking up seats in redder states. Then we don’t have to worry about him in the future.

Same here. We need to lose the seat in Mass (and Maine whenever they are up). And pick up the seats in Ohio, Nebraska, Missouri, Montana, Virginia, Florida, and New Mexico.

Senators from these more conservative states will be much more reliable, not having to walk the tightrope of appeasing liberalism back home.

[teg_76]

I wish the NRSC would understand this concept. Their dollars will go a lot further if they focus on the red/purple states.

For example, right before the last election they dumped millions into Fiorina in CA. Even if she had won, she wouldn’t have been reliable, simply because the state she was representing. What if they had given that money to Ken Buck in CO? He would have been a much more reliable vote, and would have had a better shot in future elections, thus saving even more money.

[donhunt]

I’ll never vote for the SOB again.

[crazyhorse691]

Too many people were focused only on the short term effects of the candidate Scott Brown and were willing to ignore the long term effects of Sen. Scott Brown. Now there is a gnashing of teeth and the wailing of voices as his true self becomes visible. He said what he needed to say to get elected. Regardless of his RINO ways it was a pleasure to watch the rats shock and disbelief at Teddys’ seat going to somebody to the right.

[TLI]

He’s a fraud

He's a PRIC, Phony Republican Imitating Conservatives.

And he is just about the Poster Boy of PRIC's too, a classic example.

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[mojito]

This guy is a sociopath right up there with Obama.

[nhwingut]

We’re on the same page. I call NRSC all the time and rant the same theory. They always tell me they are trying to “create a big tent,” claiming that Republican Senators from liberal/blue states help our cause in the big picture - “spreading conservatism.”

I say BS. The blue state Repubs always muck things up, allowing the lib media to paint them as “open-minded centrists” who provide cover for liberal policies. Meanwhile real conservatism is tarred and feathered as “right wing partisans.”

[LibFreeOrDie]

Brown stinks.

[iopscusa]

Scott Brown is just a pimple on the big Elephant’s azz. He’ll be a 1 termer most likely. IMO the short term gain was watching the Lefty’s losing the vaulted Red Teddy seat, whadda hoot. Scott Brown will go back and be just another Mass toad but I think overall he has served a purpose to give us an awesome display of TParty activism!

[TauntedTiger]

Gird your loins!!! RINO’s like Scott Brown are itching to teabag the teaparty!

[HenpeckedCon]

Bovine excrement, Scott Brown is as conservative a Republican from Massachusetts we will ever get. He was taking huge heat here when he voted no on the so called “dream act.” I certainly disagree with some of his votes, but on the major issues like amnesty and “cap-n-tax” he will be a reliable vote. Chill out all of you Scott Brown haters. Sure I’d love Jim Inhofe to be my Senator, but it ain’t going to happen here.

[teg_76]

Yep...they dilute the message and give the media the chance to say “now this is a reasonable Republican”, when they are just democrat light. The “big tent” idea is a charade. If someone doesn’t agree with the party platform, get out of it.

I like the “magnet” idea better. Let’s see what happens when conservative ideas are turned into law, and let the success of that draw people to these ideas. But as long as we keep propping up the Collins, Snowes, and Browns of the world, we’ll never get enough conservatives to get the legislation we need passed.