He wasn’t a hero. He was voted in to stop Obamacare, but the he voted to move it forward. Republican have never forgotten his betrayal. Also, he ran as a phony populist.
Uhmmm...
Are you sure?
The Senate passed the original Obamacare bill BEFORE Scott won. Scott Brown won, but the Senate let the interim replacement, Paul Kirk, vote on Obamacare “Reconciliation”.
Remember that the Senate only had 59 votes to pass the Reconciliation Act since Republican Scott Brown replaced Democrat Ted Kennedy. Therefore in order to pass the Act Senate Democrats decided to change the rules. They declared that they could use the “Reconciliation Rule (this is a different “reconciliation” than the House bill). This rule was only supposed to be used for budget item approvals so that such items could be passed with only 51 votes in the Senate, not the usual 60. Reconciliation was never intended to be used for legislation of the magnitude of Obamacare. But that didn’t stop them.
So both of the “Acts” were able to pass both houses of Congress and sent to President Obama for his signature without a single Republican vote in favor of the legislation. The American system of governance was shafted. To quote Democrat Rep. Alcee Hastings of the House Rules Committee during the bill process: “We’re making up the rules as we go along.”
I campaigned and voted for him, because the alternative was so odious.
Then he did that. Boy, did I ever feel stupid and used. He can pound sand.
Why lie?
Weeks before Brown’s election, the Senate had already passed its version of health care reform, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, on Dec. 24, 2009, on a 60-39 vote.
The House passed the Senate bill on March 21, 2010. On that same day, the House passed a slew of their own measures in a separate bill, which the Senate passed March 25, 2010, through the filibuster-proof reconciliation process.
Obastardcare..like the federal income tax, is unconstitutional.
“ He wasn’t a hero. He was voted in to stop Obamacare, but the he voted to move it forward. Republican have never forgotten his betrayal. Also, he ran as a phony populist.”
He is a poster boy turncoat An icon.
Exactly- he used the Tea Party to get elected then spat in our face- as did so many other d-bag RINO’s.