New Mass. Senator helps Dems avoid filibuster

[Newtons Bit]

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

That would make too much sense. Now companies are more motivated to hire someone who has been out of work for six months (or whatever the requirement was) than someone who is still employed and just looking to change locations/fields/move-up.

 

[WildCat]

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

Nah, it was really just Random.

 

[leftysergeant]

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

Giving a tax break to businesses working in the public interest and individual entrepreneurs who are contributing to the betterment of their society makes a lot more sense than shovelling money down the gaping maws of the people who have profitted from moving our industrial base off-shore.

 

[willhaven]

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

Anyone who would paint Brown as a teabagger when he supports abortion rights and mandatory health care in Massachusetts isn't paying attention.

 

[leftysergeant]

It is entirely possible that Brown realized that he only had one issue that appealed to the masses of Mass. They already have a better health care system than what is left of the original conmcept that the Republicans so savaged in congress.

Brown knows that his election is a fluke and that he still has to do at least something to convince the fence-sitters that he is not as great an idiot as the rest of the GOP. This was a good start.

I still don't like him.

 

[thaiboxerken]

I'm glad Brown actually is turning out to be somewhat reasonable. However, does it surprise anyone that there are those of us that questioned his ability when his biggest strength in the election was owning a truck?