Posted on 05/23/2011 5:45:08 AM PDT by nhwingut
GOP Sen. Scott Brown (Mass.) said Monday he won't support Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget when it comes up for a vote in the Senate.
Brown, a centrist who is running for reelection in 2012, said that Ryan's plan helped jumpstart a necessary debate, but that Ryan's Medicare reforms go too far.
"While I applaud Ryan for getting the conversation started, I cannot support his specific plan — and therefore will vote 'no' on his budget," he wrote in a Politico op-ed.
"Our country is on an unsustainable fiscal path," he added. "But I do not think it requires us to change Medicare as we know it. We can work inside of Medicare to make it more solvent."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
That’s “NO”, ans in RINO.
I was ecstatic to see a Republican in Ted Kennedy’s former seat, but I had some doubts about him. I was right. Too bad. He had the opportunity to do some good things for this country if only he were a conservative. He has failed.
What’s worse is he knew the voters wanted a conservative; he chose to ignore them.
Sorry!
Leftist politics is, still, too profoundly entrenched in both major political parties, throughout the northeastern states down to Maryland and Delaware, in Illinois, in Colorado, in the West Coast states, and in all U.S. cities.
Geez, did this guy snooker the American public or what?
Scott Brown is Obama’s ‘ho
when his vote should have been: NO.
Of course. Just like eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood and NPR, Ryan’s budget probably “goes too far” in Brown’s mind.
Can’t wait for his next email to me asking for another donation.
I guess that is the thinking that makes the Maine nitwits career politicians.
For God’s sake, the man is from Massachusetts. What should one expect? An honorable politician?
"He said he favors eliminating waste, fraud and absuse and providing tighter oversight of providers."
I think we've all heard this before. Was it not during the stain's push for the healthcare reform, when we heard all about the $500,000,000,000 in "waste, fraud, and abuse"??
So...two and a half years later, the stain has done nothing, the congress has done nothing...and the alleged "waste, fraud, and abuse" (if it exists) goes merrily on.
Brown is pretty much a waste...at least for the right. But he needs to get re-elected, and he won't be if he doesn't vote the way the dem/lib/prog/pops tell him to.
No surprise from a self-confessed RINO.
It's easy to vote "no" on things. Given the fiscal problems we're in, how about proposing how you would fix Ryan's plan?
Rinos make very little no difference to the advancement of conservatism. Instead of spending time or money on this fool, conservatives know they must get conservative Senators in more or less red states such as NE, MT, ND, MO, swing states such as OH, VA, FL, WI etc. A rino is pretty much all you will get in the Leftist states. Rinos usually vote the party line, but they confound conservatives when they vote against conservatives on the big issues, water down good legislation or form counterproductive coalitions with Leftists.
He is the perfect tool for the journOlistas at pull=it=i=Co.
He will not matter after the next election... we can boot him to the aisle where he truly belongs.
LLS
Browne, Collins, Snowe.....all from the same NE gene pool....=.=
That part is not so bad but when he goes on and says;
that Ryan's plan places a disproportionate burden on seniors.
"Seniors should not have to bear a disproportionate burden,"
Those statements about the seniors just give the Socialists(Dems) another club to use against the inept Republicans. - tom
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