Posted on 02/22/2010 3:09:01 PM PST by mystery-ak
Newly-seated Republican Sen. Scott Brown (Mass.) on Monday joined Democrats in voting to end debate on their $15 billion jobs bill.
Brown crossed the aisle after Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) nixed an $85 billion, bipartisan plan in favor of a more narrowly-focused bill.
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Well said sport. The Republicans are bound and determined to throw away their advantage by lifting their foot from the neck of the Democratic carcass just before it expires. They only needed to stand firm for another 9 months and the Dems would have been shattered in both the House and Senate. With their poster boy from MA already caving, independent voters in other states are going to think twice before pulling the Republican lever as a form of protest against the Obama-Reid-Pelosi junta.
Is Scott Brown Faux us or against us?
Could be he was the Dem’s candidate all
along - masquerading as a conservative.
Same thing happening in Nevada ... a faux
tea party candidate running against Reed.
We need to be like the Borg. Learn and
absorb, never to be abused by this tactic
again.
My opinion.
I wouldn’t worry about Scott Brown.
He gave his reason for voting for the bill — small amount of dollars, no new taxes, and people need jobs. Don’t read too much into it.
scoakley@senate.gov
My problem with Scott Brown on this bill is that it is an extension of porkulus and is no more a “jobs” bill than the first one was. So is he a guy who just strides around flashing a nice smile, or does he read these things? If he doesn’t, if he’s not a serious legislator, then he’s just not much of a person.
Nobody who sent him money is happy with his vote because he cast a ‘political’ vote and not a ‘principled’ vote.
Republican senator’s Bond, Collins, Snowe, and Voinovich also voted with the democrats, so Brown was free to cast his with them, and have his not be of any consequence.
We will never know how he would have voted, had the other four held the line.
Would you prefer Reynolds or Alcoa for your hat?
Illegal Immigrants: The Tancredo-Buchanan position on illegal immigration is equally unrealistic as the leftist “open borders” position. Both will be disastrous to the economy and we need a third way in it.
Gitmo and Waterboarding: Yes I disagree with Senator McCain on this but considering that he as POW was tortured by the North Vietnamese I understand how he feels.
Palin wouldn’t choose Brown as VP.
RINO....RINO.....RINO
HA HA
Just one more commie from MA.
Republicans are as responsible as the Dems for the coming hyperinflation. Wise-up people get to know real Republicanism - Dr. Ron Paul.
I’m not in Maricopa County, but I think Joe is still very popular there and his endorsement of McCain will carry weight.
Dr. Savage is right once more.
“Looks like he beat Collins and Snow to the lifeboats.”
Yeah, that’s because B comes before C, S, and V. Sheesh! And on one vote you are going to decide he is not a moderately good senator. Make your decision after you see how the final vote turns out. This was a procedural vote. Learn more about how the Senate voting system actually works.
Wait. I thought you.....or somebody.....said Sheriff Joe likes JD for senate.
Does anybody know for sure which candidate Joe is supporting?
With a small handful of exceptions, most senate pubs are pretty damn stpid.
True, but stopping the killing isn't on the Senate agenda this year, and it won't be on the Senate agenda until a) the Supreme Court tells them it's okay again, and b) a leadership like the one Scott Brown will vote for is elected to take over the Senate.
Funding all that killing, which pro-aborts estimate would bring in 300,000 additional clients for killings per year, is very much on the Senate's agenda and Brown's entire campaign was a promise to cast the deciding vote against that one bill.
That vote was the beginning of his reelection campaign. Personally I wasn’t surprised, given the state he represents in the Senate.
I told you all in one of the Brown victory threads that he was a lib.
I supported his election, and thought he would be a good senator for Massachusetts. I thought that the subsequent talk about him running for President was naive and silly.
I knew that he was moderately pro-abort, if that’s not a contradiction in terms, but thought he was fiscally sound. Now I doubt that, too, after this vote.
Did he need to vote this way to keep his job? I don’t know. I thought that he was elected because even the Massachusetts voters were tired of spending and debt and layoffs.
We’ll see how he goes on from here. This is, of course, a significant vote since it now allows the Democrats to pass their so-called jobs bill (a lying name for it) with just 51 votes. I didn’t expect him to be a real conservative, but I didn’t expect him to cave so soon on this fiscal insanity.
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