Scott Brown: the Man with the Truck turned into a Man with a Seat

Big Bureaucracy ^ | April 18th, 2010 | Ellie Velinska

[Big Bureaucracy]

Senator Scott Brown will be occupying his seat at the Capitol safely for the next six years. The Rock Star of the tea party movement is a star no more... We knew the Brown guy is a liberal on the social issues. But the conservatives gave him a pass on that hoping he will be grade A on fiscal responsibility. Nope. The hopefuls were spanked again when Senator Brown announced that he will be joining the bipartisan effort on extending the unemployment benefits again... The bill will extend not only benefits but will add 19 billion dollars to the deficit. The Senators voted for Pay-as-you-go rule last month. They shouldn’t be spending money unless they can prove they have the money. The folks in Massachusetts were hoping Brown will join the bipartisan opposition on reckless spending, not the bipartisan fringe that sprinkles goody bags filled with tax-payer money from hot air balloons... It is not something new. It happens to all of them – the politicians. They all do it: ride the wave and then take a shelter at the Washington DC Oasis for cowards in flip-flops.

[preamble]

Brown only has 2 year term.
He only serves until 2010 because it was a special election

to fill Kennedy’s remaining term.

He has to run in 2012.

It’s not that hard people. You stink LIBERALS on facts.

[LongElegantLegs]

Insanity; doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.

[Big Bureaucracy]

I see - thanks for reminding me that - he is in class I - I’ll fix that!

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Please forward to anyone who has been lied to by the media and politicians about the Tea Party Movement.

(Which of course is everybody),

“The True Face of the Tea Partiers”

Part One:
http://www.youtube.com/user/tarzantripes2#p/a/u/1/_Pm1k7MK850

Part Two:
http://www.youtube.com/user/tarzantripes2#p/a/u/0/NDQWkBcq3qw

[Kenny Bunk]

we are merely accelerating into the same demise as every other democracy that ever existed on this planet. Once the pols figure out (in about .0005 nanoseconds) that they can get re-elected by giving public money out to the voters, it's all double black diamond downhill from there. The money gives out, of course, and then there's Hell to pay! The money is giving out because only half of us pay any federal taxes ... to support those who do not. Great deal for'em!

Our Founders knew this, (Hell, the Greeks knew this!) and tried to prevent it with our Constitution as a Republic. Nice try.

In re the Unemployment Compensation Extension: I think you'll find that most every unemployed, self-proclaimed Republican in the Commonwealth of MA probably backs Brown on this one!

"Hey, where's mine?"

My centenarian Granpa said the "real America" started fading bit by bit around 1910, when they still had cows on the WH Lawn, and a horse stable out back ... glad he didn't live to see this .,.. startin to get sad I did!

This Kenyan chap in the WH may be illegitimate, but he's no fool. He fooled us into giving him the Multi-TRILLION-Stimulus Package as his own discretionary fund. He just used it to buy MA.

[Big Bureaucracy]

Thank you! I enjoyed reading your opinion - it is so true.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Still better than the Kennedys.

[Big Bureaucracy]

You have a point, but it is not that hard to top Kennedy on a conservative scale.

[Kenny Bunk]

Brown is as normal a man as you are going to find to run for office in MA, just not much of a real Republican. I predict he'll have the seat for 25 years.

He is just an RCH to the right of Lindsey Graham, a lot more macho, and a pretty good campaigner. Since the GOP has NO PLAN, NO PROGRAM, NO LEADER, and definitely NO CLUE, no one should be surprised that it is every man for himself on our side of the aisle in DC.

Sauve qui peut, and by all and any means get the folks back home some STIMULUS MONEY!

[saganite]

Brown has joined all the Republican Senators in saying he will filibuster the finance bill. You take what you can get. We all knew he wasn’t a conservative anyway. I doubt there’s even one of those in the whole state of Massachusetts.

[Big Bureaucracy]

It is a fair assessment of the situation. Republicans do lack a plan. So I guess - it is like a box of chocolates. We get what we get.

[Starboard]

“...get the folks back home some STIMULUS MONEY!”

I wonder how much additional government spending he has voted for since arriving in DC. They all get Potomac Fever once they get there.

[HighlyOpinionated]

The Voters and The TEA Party knew what Scott Brown was when he ran for the Senate seat. But he was still heads and shoulders more conservative than Scozzafava.

What counts is how strong a Senate Leader the Senate Republicans choose after the 2010 election. And I don’t see Mitch McConnell as a man who can twist arms of Republicans to vote as a block.

[AZLiberty]

The transformation of Scott Brown is so disappointing it is like realizing a sexy guy on the fold of Cosmo is just a clonker.

If "clonker" means gay, I get it.

[Big Bureaucracy]

clonker is meant to be whatever sexually dysfunctional thing you want it to be.

[AlanD]

Still too early to tell on Scott Brown. He voted to extend Unemployment benefits? Big deal.

He is hanging tight on financial reform and healthcare. 2 for 2

[Big Bureaucracy]

He hasn’t done anything for health care. He only supports repeal of the taxes for medical devises in Massachusetts.
He voted yes on Stimulus II, he did not show at the Boston tea party making every liberal pundit making fun of those who voted for him.

[AlanD]

You can’t run a South Carolina conservative in a blue-state like Massachusetts. He seems to be appealing to a lot of people. I haven’t formed an opinion on him yet, and don’t know if he will run for the Republican Presidential election.

In Massachusetts, you will lose more votes by campaigning with Sarah Palin then staying away from her. That is the only thing Scott Brown really was thinking of.

[Big Bureaucracy]

I agree, but next time he runs he may not get the money donations from South Carolina and all over the country.