Posted on 02/25/2010 3:40:35 AM PST by Scanian
You can take the Senator out of Massachusetts, but you can't take Massachusetts out of the Senator.
Sen. Scott Brown has always been a liberal Republican, so it isn't hard to understand why he voted for the new jobs bill proposed by Harry Reid. What is hard to comprehend is his lack of awareness and sense of responsibility towards those who put him into office. True, he had the backing of Republican status quo politicians Romney and McCain, but he also had conservatives from other states donating money to his campaign.
When I last wrote about Sen. Brown in the AT blog, he had just won a stunning victory in the special election against the favored Martha Coakley.
"Scott Brown's first order of business should be to listen to his supporters. It sounds so simple, yet, most of our elected officials, both Democrat and Republican, have been turning a deaf ear to the people's wishes..."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
You can’t really expect much sanity from Massachusetts.
LOL!!!
She is full of crap just like the rest of them. As if there isn’t enough money in NYC they have to take ours too.
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I posted the article precisely because I am disappointed not only with Brown but with the other 11 Republicans who voted with him.
From what I’ve read, its a mixed bill. Some good tax stuff, some pork. It is also less than 5% the size of last year’s “Stimulus bill” which wasn’t a stimulus at all, just payoffs to Obama supporters in government. As the tax cuts will help and the pork isn’t that bad, politically best I think just to let this one go. ObamaCare, Card Check, Cap & Trade are the killers. Block this one (as I think Democrats wanted the GOP to do) and they would have a slight edge up claiming obstructism on the bills they want to pass which will destroy our country.
All true but there was no public desire for a phony-baloney “jobs” bill like the one that passed the Senate. Why throw Harry Reid, who is drowning politically, a lifeline by voting for his lousy bill?
They jumped on the bandwagon after the 5 Yankees Republicans broke the ice.
Evidently, the Mississippi guys thought there would be some political advantage in appearing “bi-partisan” on what they considered a nothing bill. But I’m not so sure that Miss. voters will be so inclined as to agree. That is an extremely conservative state and the voters must surely be p.o.’d about all the silly spending. And why do anything to help Harry Reid??
You got that right.
Maybe that was part of his thinking, who knows? I don’t think he cared for that type of attention at this point - too Obama-ish.
I live here... we are mostly to the right of Atilla the Hun.
LLS
Scott Brown: the 70th vote.
thanks...interesting and encouraging....except for Massachusettsians favoring the jobs bill, but how much can one expect.
As for Brown...he’s already done his job, last month, imho.
If it costs way more money to get in to office than the office pays, then what does that tell you?
It tells me that the people who ‘won’ (and I use that term very loosely) were basically bought and paid for.
Do we vote for somebody because of their values? Or because we will make a buck?’
Stupid question, I guess...’
Exactly. Plus his election was a major slap in the face to Obama and the Kennedy crime family. As a conservative, I'm thrilled with him. People who expect to get the perfect conservative out of Mass. are nuts.
Well stated.
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