Posted on 02/23/2010 5:59:28 AM PST by tbot3446
Newly elected Senator Scott Brown wasted no time plunging the knife in the back of the hordes of people who thrusted him into power. In a crass attempt to suck-up to the people of Massachusetts who didn't vote for him, he crossed party lines in favor of the Democratic-backed “jobs bill”. "It's not a perfect bill, I was comfortable with that vote... It is the first step in creating jobs, not only for the people of Massachusetts but for the people of the country.” Brown said.
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Thanks for mentioning his famous quote...and thanks for the great comment. LOL! (I'd put something harsher than meathead in there but that's just me)
You know, as much as he was talkin’ the talk, his “bows” to the Kennedy klan after his win and his love fest with other “mods” should have been a heads up for this and future votes...Brown is not the messiah we have been waiting for who will lead the country to a promised, conservative government...and stand by for the MSM to go
ga-ga over his new found “reasonable” attitude...BARF!
It’s his job to represent his constituency. He’s not going to be as conservative as others, but he’s a lot more conservative than a Dem from Mass. Put it bluntly, if Hutchison wasn’t running for Gov, she probably would have voted for it as well.
Didn't trust him, and he's already proved me right.
Next up on the cue card: Scandalous affair.
Now that he’s been elected, it didn’t take Scott Brown very long to stop pretending to be a conservative and fall in line with the socialists in DC. Very disappointing. What is it about that cesspool of a city that corrupts everyone who goes there?
Gee what a shock an elected offficial who lies.
Remember these words, “I won, get over it”.
Congratulations to Scott Brown for joining the Colin Powell/Arnold Schwarznegger wing of the Republican Party.
What did we expect from a Republican Senator of Massachusetts?
Haha the 1-term wonder Senator Brown-out. I wonder if voter recall is legal in Massachusetts.
Yeah, I know. The good-statist/bad-statist thesis/anti-thesis is synthesizing into more statism at our expense.
? You must get all your news from the very liberal Boston Globe. The liberals hate Mitt Romney. In fact they overrode 7 of his vetoes concerning his otherwise great health care plan in Massachusetts. The Heritage foundation, which is a conservative organization, gave him high regards for his work. Romney is a conservative; you just are too slow to get the facts straight. Senator Brown-out on the other hand TOLD you that he was not a straight-up conservative. AGAIN, why on earth are you surprised? You need to get your news from CONSERVATIVE sources or just sit down and shut up.
You misspelled ROMNEY btw, smart guy.
I was a fan on his facebook. I left him a message on there, then took myself off his fan page.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good lie. Good job for being ignorant on the fact that Romneycare HAS made MARKED improvements ABOVE and beyond what was expected. He could only do so much in the most liberal state in the Union.
You really think Martha Coakley is not more liberal than Senator Brown-out? Whatever you are smoking, I want some.
Maybe he doesn't get that VP spot he was probably hoping for. Oh well, it was nice knowing you 1-term wonder Senator Brown-out.
I agree. It’s the only way he could have gotten elected here.
I must have been sleeping when he must have said, “I will vote Repub. and conservative consistently.” Did I miss this?
Many on the middle and even the left voted for him. Had he cast himself as a total conservative, if you called Ted K’s old office today, they would have answered, “Good morning, Senator Coakley’s office.”
But I guess we were starving and they offered us sirloin instead of prime rib, and we said no thanks, we’d rather not eat at all.
If he does this all the time, then yeah, get rid of him.
Yeah, put up a solid conservative candidate against him
in ‘12 and suppose that candidate wins the primary. Final result: Mike Capuano elected Senator. Joe “Carrot Top” Kennedy IV, our new senator. etc
This is Massachusetts. I’m afraid we have to settle for
someone who’s conservative only 85 per cent of the time (or 90). (And just think, if the health care issue weren’t red hot, and if Coakley had campaigned a bit harder, you wouldn’t have the truck going to DC at all)
I might as well try to explain politics to my dog.
I said that I was thrilled that Martha lost. Did you not read that or did you not understand that? And yes, he like all other Republicans move toward more government just more slowly than Dems. Name me just one Republican to the right of FDR, i.e., one who advocates going back to pre-FDR gov.
Below is my piece on the subject published on WND last year.
The Republican Party spends most of its effort promoting the Democrats and their agenda. That’s crazy! Crazy but true. Republicans effectively, if unwittingly, advance the Democrats’ leftist agenda. No matter who is in power, the federal government, its power and expenditures, continue to grow with little chance of reversal.
The Democrats propose a “generous” increase in the minimum wage. The Republicans either oppose an increase and opt for staying at the current level or counter with a more modest increase. The Democrats say that we need to increase the school lunch program by x million dollars. The Republicans answer by offering an increase of one-third x. Democrats say that the government needs to spend a lot more subsidizing housing, and Republicans say that the current level is adequate. Democrats say that more people should be made eligible, and Republicans defend the status quo.
So the predictable dynamic is that the Democrats fight for an increase in spending for some government program, and the Republicans either oppose any increase or counter with a proposal for more modest growth. What impression of the Republican Party does this give? What is the one principle that people are able to discern from Republicans’ policies as stated above? That the Republicans are cheap and uncaring. Some may manage to construe it as fiscal responsibility, but what it comes down to is withholding funds from “worthwhile” programs – thus ultimately withholding help from those who are “entitled” to it.
If the Republicans agree to spend $2 billion on a program, they are inherently saying that it is good and just and worthwhile. Why else would they agree to spend such a massive amount of money on it? If people who position themselves as fiscally responsible spend that kind of money, it has to be for something good. Something right. Something necessary. And here they cede the moral high ground to Democrats, liberals and leftists by validating their policies, programs and agenda. It’s Democrats who are fighting for all of these good and righteous schemes and the Republicans who are dragging their feet.
Every time Republicans say yes, but not so much, they are saying that the Democrats are right and they, the Republicans, are cheap. The Democrats are looking out for the needy and the Republicans are looking out for the cheap and stingy. We are cheap! Hardly an inspiring philosophy. Hardly a winning strategy.
We all know that the best defense is a good offense. The GOP has turned that truism on its head. Their only offense is a pathetic defense. And no matter how good your defense, if you have no offense you will eventually lose. It’s inevitable. After the 1994 elections swept the Republicans into control of Congress, many anticipated the extinction of a few federal agencies. Many even a department or two. Dare to dream. Then we were told that Rome was not built in a day, so don’t expect it to be dismantled in a day. Well, we are still waiting for those first few bricks to be knocked loose.
Sure, the left has moved us to a gargantuan and ever-growing welfare state one step at a time, or make that 1 billion at a time. That is the only way it could have happened. Anyone who 100 years ago had tried to propose what we have now would have been run out of town. Any American town. As per the above, it may be impossible to move in the opposite direction by increments. When you propose to spend less than the left wants, the only principle you are standing on and promoting is cheapness. Not a very compelling platform; rather, it’s a recipe for long-term defeat.
I knew when Brown EMBARASSED his wife and daughters by running off at the mouth during his victory speech that this guy was just another blowhard with a smile.
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