Posted on 03/23/2010 10:24:51 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Republican folk hero Sen. Scott Brown is being taunted by triumphant Democrats - and slammed by irked conservatives - after the historic health-care bill he was elected to kill was signed into law by President Obama yesterday.
“If he were a milk carton, he would be expired,” said Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman John Walsh.
Brown’s backers from the insurgent Tea Party movement want to know if they’ve been had.
“We start to wonder whether we helped a RINO (Republican in name only) get into office,” said Tea Party activist Jeffrey McQueen, who traveled from Michigan to campaign for Brown in the final days of the Jan. 19 special election that rocked the nation.
“If it wasn’t for the Tea Party movement, Scott Brown wouldn’t have gotten that seat. We expect to see a true conservative in there.”
In fact, Democrats now say Brown’s election as the so-called “41st vote” to block Obama’s health-care overhaul inspired them to seek procedural means to bypass GOP efforts to derail the bill.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Brown RINO.
Assuming this is an accurate quote, someone needs to remind this putz what the alternative was.
And we KNOW how beloved the IRS is. Wait till they do the equivalent of auditing you monthly.
YAWN. Blaming Scott Brown for this is getting a bit ridiculous. I’m not sure what this supposed Tea Party activist expected but Brown is a Conservative in the Reagan sense. If he’s looking for a Jesse Helms Conservative then he has a point but that can’t win in Mass.
I'll take the bait, how is the Massachusetts moderate, pro abortion, Brown, a "Reagan" conservative.
Could be a liberal troll too.
Im trying to figure out the thesis of this story?
And I love the last line by some Dem Strategiest...
“He’s got tp placate all the whackos (tea partiers) while trying to serve the mainstream (mass commies).”... or something.
He is right, or at least he could be right. If the Democrats had 60 votes still in the senate, obviously they STILL could have done what they just did — but maybe they wouldn’t have throught it was worth it, and instead would have tried to amend the Senate bill in the house.
And maybe we could have flipped one democrat senator, and stopped it — although I don’t really see how.
Brown’s vote forced the house to vote on the senate bill as-is.
Still doesn’t mean it was useless, but it’s just part of the job. We now need to use the democrat’s undemocratic moves to get them thrown out of office.
It hasn’t backfired in that its the best reasonably possible outcome. He keeps them under 60 votes and he isn’t a Kennedy or Kerry type. For a state as disgustingly liberal as Mass thats about the best we can do. At the moment only a RINO like Brown or Mitt can win there. In time though...
Exactly. His election limited the dirty Dems options/forced their hand and exposed their unscrupulousness which will even more irk voters come November when the Dems will learn that there is no expiration on voters’ grudge.
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