Posted on 02/23/2010 8:02:41 AM PST by raccoonradio
Coakley would support all of those things & more. I still say “half a loaf is better than none” - it buys you time to work on getting the whole loaf. Sometimes “all or nothing” just gets you nothing.
Just more of the same.
He didn’t vote FOR the bill. He voted to have the bill come up for a vote!
So true, a RINO of the worst kind.
It makes Ben Nelson scared he will lose his job and he is back peddling in order to save it.
Can anyone update on whether he is still driving his red truck to and from Washington daily? Any bets on how long he trades in his pickup truck for a liberal luxocruiser?
I’m cautiously optimistic about your idea. At least, it gives me a little hope. There was a time that I would have said that would absolutely be the case, but it is really hard to call when you have these people in Congress.
Yesterday, he voted for a bill that is 0.5% of total budget
.... and today, he saves our collective butts by standing firm against the Govt takeover of healthcare.
Bravo to Sen Scott Brown.
Cut Sen. Scott Brown some slack as Mass could have picked Martha Coakley. I don’t like most RINOs, but he is the best any conservative could hope to get out of Mass and his election was the key to stopping ObamaCare 1. Obama, Pelosi and Reid are now shopping ObamaCare 1.02 and are likely to try the reconciliation trick. Brown has come out against this trick, so he is on the right side on this.
Screw Brown — I campaigned for him, contributed to his campaign, and voted for him
And the first thing he does when he hits DC — votes with the socialists.
Is that why Rush is taking him to the woodshed now?
Good points.
I would love to have a pure conservative as the Mass. Senator but the reality is that I would take a small jobs bill over the massive takeover of health care by the gov’t.
I'll take it, if it means no ObamaCare.
Look, we had a choice: A knife to the arm, or a gunshot to the temple.
We chose the knife.
he voted for a bill that will never get anywhere in the house. big deal. he listened to the voters who put him in office and did what they wanted him to do. my congresscritters sure don’t do that.
That is factually false. Upon his swearing in, Brown voted to filibuster numerous Obama nominees to the Dept of Labor, and the worst of the bunch had to withdraw their nominations b/c the votes weren’t there.
I also donated to the Brown campaign, and as long as he votes NO on BO-care, Pelosi-care, or Reid-care, I believe my investment was well spent.
Brown’s election has totally transformed the Democratic mindset in DC. Bear in mind that the leadership cannot admit this to their members, particularly in the House. This is another reason that Pelosi and Reid will not allow their members to go home b4 Easter.
Yes, Brown voted with Dims on this issue and yes, he will no doubt make future decisions I will not like but he is light years better than a Martha Coakley or any Kennedy.
“What does that make him?”
it makes him the D version of Scott Brown.
In fact, in a post I made before the election
I asked “Is Scott “41st vote” Brown merely our version
of Ben Nelson?” Just a question.
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