New Mass. Senator helps Dems avoid filibuster

[Thunder]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100223/pl_nm/us_usa_congress_jobs

I hope he continues on this path of independence. His courage is appreciated and noticed.

 

[willhaven]

And he supports abortion rights, and he supported Romney's health reform for Massachusetts.

I bet the hardcore right is going nuts.

What's sad about the whole thing is that a republican simply backing a democratic idea makes the news.

 

[Thunder]

What's sad about the whole thing is that a republican simply backing a democratic idea makes the news.

its the world we live in now.

 

[Brainster]

The GOP knew going in that Brown was going to be a moderate. A conservative could not have gotten elected in Massachusetts. I'm just happy he'll be a guaranteed vote against cloture on the health care bill.

 

[Beerina]

Why not tax cuts across the board instead of just for firms that hire unemployed?

 

[Thunder]

Why not tax cuts across the board instead of just for firms that hire unemployed?

what...the massive 2001 and 2003 tax cuts weren't enough for you?

 

[ravdin]

When the Senate seat was no longer was the property of the Kennedy family, a lot of people complained that Brown was a crazed far right winger and possibly the Antichrist himself. I wonder if Keith Olbermann and his ilk will retract their more hyperbolic comments.

 

[MattusMaximus]

When the Senate seat was no longer was the property of the Kennedy family, a lot of people complained that Brown was a crazed far right winger and possibly the Antichrist himself. I wonder if Keith Olbermann and his ilk will retract their more hyperbolic comments.

I'm thinking... no

Btw, good on Brown. Now there's some bipartisanship for you. But, like someone else said, I bet the rightwing TP-types are going bazoo over this right about now.

 

[MattusMaximus]

I'm thinking... no

Btw, good on Brown. Now there's some bipartisanship for you. But, like someone else said, I bet the rightwing TP-types are going bazoo over this right about now.

Wow, it's like I'm psychic or something. The rightwing TP-types are going bazoo over Brown's vote for the jobs bill...

GOP's Brown branded turncoat for jobs bill vote

A month after being crowned the darling of national conservatives, Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts is being branded "Benedict Brown" for siding with Democrats in favor of a jobs bill endorsed by the Obama administration.

Like the four other GOP senators who joined him, the man who won the late Democrat Edward Kennedy's seat says it's about jobs, not party politics. And that may be good politics, too.

The four other GOP senators who broke ranks — Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, George Voinovich of Ohio and Christopher "Kit" Bond of Missouri — also were criticized on Tuesday. But Brown was the big target on conservative Web sites, talk shows and even the Facebook page his campaign has promoted as an example of his new-media savvy.

"We campaigned for you. We donated to your campaign. And you turned on us like every other RINO," said one writer, using the initials for "Republican-In-Name-Only."

 

[Foolmewunz]

When the Senate seat was no longer was the property of the Kennedy family, a lot of people complained that Brown was a crazed far right winger and possibly the Antichrist himself. I wonder if Keith Olbermann and his ilk will retract their more hyperbolic comments.

Now, now, Ravdin. How about slanting this the other way....

I wonder if Palin and her ilk will stop claiming this as a TeaBagging now that he's shown that he's a lot closer to Kennedy than he is to Huckleberry?

 

[thaiboxerken]

When the Senate seat was no longer was the property of the Kennedy family, a lot of people complained that Brown was a crazed far right winger and possibly the Antichrist himself. I wonder if Keith Olbermann and his ilk will retract their more hyperbolic comments.

What hyperbolic comments?

 

[willhaven]

It just passed the senate BTW.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/24/senate-vote-jobs-passage-likely/

 

[Donal]

I'm thinking... no

Btw, good on Brown. Now there's some bipartisanship for you. But, like someone else said, I bet the rightwing TP-types are going bazoo over this right about now.

Depends on the Tea Baggers you are talking about. The small community groups that really weren't that tightly knit together and only really seemed to be about economic policies that they saw as favorable to the middle class that have been around for a while in a lot of places? Or the group of GOP far right wingers like Glenn Beck that high jacked the concept and use it to promote their "we hate Obama even when he gives us what we want" agenda?

My experience with so called Tea Bag Party (the ones I've met hate that name and don't even consider themselves a party) are actually pretty moderate. The irony being that Beck et al are using the movement to push the moderates out of the GOP.

 

[Thunder]

It just passed the senate BTW.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/24/senate-vote-jobs-passage-likely/

thanks to the junior Senator from Mass. maybe he isn't that bad.

hell, you can't be a Senator from Massachusetts and be a conservative jerk.

 

[ravdin]

What hyperbolic comments?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...own_is_a_racist_teabagging_ex-nude_model.html

"In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees. In any other time in our history, this man would have been laughed off the stage as an unqualified and a disaster in the making by the most conservative of conservatives. Instead, the commonwealth of Massachusetts is close to sending this bad joke to the Senate of the United States."

 

[Shalamar]

thanks to the junior Senator from Mass. maybe he isn't that bad.

hell, you can't be a Senator from Massachusetts and be a conservative jerk.

I'm not surprised. The Democratic incumbent campaigned badly, but it is still a traditionally liberal state. Brown turned out to be a moderate, and actually interested in hearing what his constituents want to say.

More politicians on both sides should be moderates, in my opinion.

 

[WildCat]

And some Dem partisans on this forum mocked me for saying Brown was a moderate when they were painting him as a drooling teabagger...

 

[MattusMaximus]

Depends on the Tea Baggers you are talking about. The small community groups that really weren't that tightly knit together and only really seemed to be about economic policies that they saw as favorable to the middle class that have been around for a while in a lot of places? Or the group of GOP far right wingers like Glenn Beck that high jacked the concept and use it to promote their "we hate Obama even when he gives us what we want" agenda?

Read the article. The rightwing TP-friendly media & activists seem to be losing their minds over this. And they're not just pissed at Brown, but at the other four GOP senators what went along with the vote.

As I said...

My experience with so called Tea Bag Party (the ones I've met hate that name and don't even consider themselves a party) are actually pretty moderate. The irony being that Beck et al are using the movement to push the moderates out of the GOP.

There you go. It is, as I've been saying for a year, the moderates vs. the hardcare "we-don't-need-any-RINOs!" conservatives in the GOP... it's going to be getting more and more ugly for the GOP, methinks.

 

[MattusMaximus]

And some Dem partisans on this forum mocked me for saying Brown was a moderate when they were painting him as a drooling teabagger...

Glad I wasn't among them. Right now some people are eating a bit of crow.

 

[JoeTheJuggler]

And some Dem partisans on this forum mocked me for saying Brown was a moderate when they were painting him as a drooling teabagger...

I didn't see those claims (though I'm not denying they were made), but I did sea Tea Partisans claiming this election as a big victory for them. I believe they used words like "sent a message" and such.

ETA: I wonder where on the left-right spectrum people would place a Massachusetts Republican relative to a Texas Democrat?