Comments on: Scott Brown Breaks Promise With First Vote http://www.michaeltbarrett.com/2010/02/22/scott-brown-breaks-promise-with-first-vote/ The Personal Blog Of Michael T. Barrett Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:51:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Jason Independent http://www.michaeltbarrett.com/2010/02/22/scott-brown-breaks-promise-with-first-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-4684 Jason Independent Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:30:04 +0000 http://www.michaeltbarrett.com/?p=1530#comment-4684 Scott Brown is just doing what he thinks is right. I mean, look at it from his perspective. First of all, his state is pretty much nothing but democrats. The only reason he even won is because the tea party supported him and the democrats didn't like their nominee. If the dems had a better nominee, Brown wouldn't even be in the Senate. He only won by 3 percentage points. When he is up for reelection in 2012, Obama will be on the ticket and you know that all the Obama voters will be out in droves again voting party line, especially in a liberal state like Mass. I really don't know why any republicans thought he was this big conservative. I think they were trying to spin this victory into the end-all-be-all, but ended up looking like morons because the very first vote he voted against his party. In fact, Brown might actually be a good thing for the democrats because now Leiberman doesn't mean anything anymore. I mean, what is the difference between 59 and 58, or 53 for that matter. This will make it much more likely that all the votes will either be passed like they were today, or pass under reconciliation. In fact, this little press conference on thursday for the health care bill is designed to make the republicans out to be obstructionists. I bet the dems put all the republicans ideas into the bill, and put it up for a vote. If the republicans still filibuster it, which they certainly will, then the democrats will say that they included their ideas and now they have no other option but to pass it under reconciliation for the good of the country...along with the public option in there also. This Brown victory might actually be the turning point, since the republicans have been winning the message war for quite some time now. I just hope you are happy if you voted for Brown, because this might be more of a curse than a blessing. Scott Brown is just doing what he thinks is right. I mean, look at it from his perspective. First of all, his state is pretty much nothing but democrats. The only reason he even won is because the tea party supported him and the democrats didn’t like their nominee. If the dems had a better nominee, Brown wouldn’t even be in the Senate. He only won by 3 percentage points. When he is up for reelection in 2012, Obama will be on the ticket and you know that all the Obama voters will be out in droves again voting party line, especially in a liberal state like Mass.

I really don’t know why any republicans thought he was this big conservative. I think they were trying to spin this victory into the end-all-be-all, but ended up looking like morons because the very first vote he voted against his party. In fact, Brown might actually be a good thing for the democrats because now Leiberman doesn’t mean anything anymore. I mean, what is the difference between 59 and 58, or 53 for that matter. This will make it much more likely that all the votes will either be passed like they were today, or pass under reconciliation. In fact, this little press conference on thursday for the health care bill is designed to make the republicans out to be obstructionists. I bet the dems put all the republicans ideas into the bill, and put it up for a vote. If the republicans still filibuster it, which they certainly will, then the democrats will say that they included their ideas and now they have no other option but to pass it under reconciliation for the good of the country…along with the public option in there also.

This Brown victory might actually be the turning point, since the republicans have been winning the message war for quite some time now. I just hope you are happy if you voted for Brown, because this might be more of a curse than a blessing.

]]> By: Business As Usual For Scott Brown http://www.michaeltbarrett.com/2010/02/22/scott-brown-breaks-promise-with-first-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-4683 Business As Usual For Scott Brown Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:00:27 +0000 http://www.michaeltbarrett.com/?p=1530#comment-4683 [...] didn’t take Scott Brown very long to prove he isn’t any different than those “business-as-usual” [...] [...] didn’t take Scott Brown very long to prove he isn’t any different than those “business-as-usual” [...]

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