Disappointing (Sen. Brown R-MA Yes for Financial "Reform")

National Review Online ^ | July 12, 2010 | Stephen Spruiell

[C19fan]

Scott Brown will vote for the Democrats' financial-regulation bill, thus ensuring its passage:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Scott (R-MA) today issued the following statement regarding the Wall Street reform bill:

“I've spent the past week reviewing the Wall Street reform bill. I appreciate the efforts to improve the bill, especially the removal of the $19 billion bank tax. As a result, it is a better bill than it was when this whole process started. While it isn't perfect, I expect to support the bill when it comes up for a vote. It includes safeguards to help prevent another financial meltdown, ensures that consumers are protected, and it is paid for without new taxes. That doesn't mean our work is done. Further reforms are still needed to address the government’s role in the financial crisis, including significant changes to the way Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac operate.”

What replaced the bank tax? Deficit spending, and another bank tax.

[C19fan]

Oh well.

[Persevero]

Scott Brown never promised to be the next Sarah Palin. He is a vast improvement over Kennedy, and I am glad he won. However, I don’t look to him for conservative leadership.

[central_va]

If it grunts like a RINO, smells like a RINO, and votes like a RINO then...........

[cranked]

lulz, predicted such given his voting TRACK RECORD to date.

Give it a bit, the Scott Brown defenders will respond in due course....=.=

[misterrob]

For Mass he is on the far right

[gthog61]

So this means he’s pro-quota I guess?

sad that there are states where this is the best that can be done (and he probably is the best that can be done from there)

[massmike]

Well.....anyone else losing all hope that he'll vote against Kagan?

Time to give Massachusetts back to the British.....or the Indians!

[Paladin2]

Remember that Brown is still a MAtard.

[grumpygresh]

Unfortunately, Brown will have to do in the People’s Republic of MA. What we need is real conservatives in the red states. Conservatives should really be dominating the inter-mountain west, deep south and the plains in the Senate.

[Lancey Howard]

Anybody who truly expected better from this steaming pantload was naive.

[bigbob]

or even followership.

Brown’s claim to fame was that he was a self-described “independent” who would vote against Obamacare. He’s better than Martha Coakley would have been and sometimes that’s about all the choice we get.

[Raycpa]

It must meet with the approval of the big Boston banks.

[Rational Thought]

Brown will regret this decision.

[central_va]

The six New England states are overrepresented in the US Senate with 12 Senators all lib/rino types. N.E. should be one state with 2 senators, or better yet, their own socialist utopian country..

[Circle_Hook]

What did you really expect? Duh!

[Venturer]

Brown will be a one termer. No matter who’s crotch he breathes into he still carries the Republican tag and when out of staters do not send him campaign money the Democrats in mass. will make him a one termer.

he is not a great dissappointment we never expected much, we didnt get much. I paid for that one vote, I got it.
I won’t be sending him anything else.

[Lancey Howard]

On the bright side, he clearly has no aspirations to run for President.
Guess we’ll have to settle for whatever we can get before Massachusetts ejects him in 2 years.

[massmike]

-sad that there are states where this is the best that can be done (and he probably is the best that can be done from there)-

You should see what the Ma GOP is running for governor!

http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/10c/pride_week/baker.html

http://www.massresistance.org/docs/govt10/election10/tisei_spirit_mag/index.html

[HamiltonJay]

Anyone suprised by Browns actions in the Senate was in denial during the campaign, there was no doubt at all where he was going to legislate from.. While it was nice to keep 61 seats from the Dems and put an finger in the Eye of the Kennedy legacy, anyone who thought this guy was a ideological conservative was just not paying attention.

[fullchroma]

Very, very good-looking people are often beneficiaries of a sort of Affirmative Action. I’m beginning to think Sen. Brown is a dumb-dumb and has benefited from the phenomenon. At least he’s nice to look at...