Posted on 02/23/2010 8:02:41 AM PST by raccoonradio
Sen. Martha Coakley (D-MA) smiles broadly as she stands behind President Obama, as Obama signed the massive health care bill she helped to pass.
>>where many Democrats were scared away from backing reform after Brown’s victory.
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>>where many Democrats were scared away from backing reform after Brown’s victory.
Let those who were first to bash Brown after his vote yesterday remember the meaning of the word “independent”.
Yesterday, Scott Brown voted for the democrats jobs bill, he is a RINO.
Ben Nelson (D) voted against it.....what's that make him?
Independents elected Scott Brown not Republicrats
That was a much reduced bill less than what the Republican leadership wanted.
So let’s not try to wield that as a weapon.
This is the core issue and Scott Brown is on the money here. Let’s applaud him for standing up to Obama here.
Or what? He won’t vote for the next Democrat garbage bill? He’ll hold his breath?
Still a RINO.
That makes him trying to save his soul in his home state. Remember he was booed out of a pizza joint by his fellow home towners for his health care vote.
It also shows how bad the bill is.
I will hold on that support on Brown to see just what he really does in this case.
the jobs bill eventually would have likely passed anyway (else be accused in MSM of voting against “jobs”), and Brown has to keep largely liberal Mass voters on his side if we are going to hold back this Socialist tide. I can give him a mulligan on that one.
I agree with you on that.
What is independent about more spending.
He specifically spoke against more spending.
Two faced is more like it.
Sorry, he scammed a lot of folks who don’t want their children saddled with trillions of dollars of debt.
If you mean unenrolleds, the term in MA, yes. I am one. I voted for him. He did not run ads saying “I will vote in lockstep with the Republicans on every issue” His opponent rans ads saying he would, actually...he will be with us on most votes.
That Jobs bill is “peanuts”. I doesn’t amount to a fly speck in the overall scheme of things and their are a few decent things in it. The big fight is Health care and on that, Brown has it right.
Good point. McConnell and company backed a much more expensive "jobs bill."
I hope you are right and Brown stays his ground.
That was my first thought as well.
Yes
NEWS FROM THE FUTURE: Nov 2012
BOSTON—The Mass. U.S. Senate seat pits incumbent Republican Scott Brown against Dem. nominee Joe Kennedy IV, the son of former Congressman Joe Kennedy. It is a close race and some feel that conservatives in this state will hand the race to Kennedy as they feel Brown is “Republican in name only”....
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