Duplicate post. n/t

[wisteria]

[TayTay]

1. Hijacking a blank thread for a Scott Brown update

Scott Brown hits nearly every RW talking point on the recent HCR bill in an http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/03/30/the_health_care_fight_is_not_over/">op-ed today in the BGlob

BY ELECTING me to the US Senate, the people of Massachusetts sent a clear message: Washington needs to get its priorities straight. Voters believed I would be the best candidate to fight for jobs and a stronger economy, keep our country safe, and serve as the 41st vote against the health care reform legislation debated in the Senate.

After my election, Washington politicians began an aggressive push to bend the rules and force their unpopular health care bill on an unwilling nation. They went into secret negotiations to make up their own rules, and eventually found a way to circumvent the will of the people by using the reconciliation process to ram through their health care bill. For the last year, the American people have been shaking their heads at the closed-door meetings, sweetheart deals, and special carve-outs. It has been a very ugly process, and caused many Americans to lose faith in their elected officials in Washington.

Gag. The GOP Messiah is upset that his Holy Election was not an end to HCR. Get a life scottie.

[karynnj]

2. Wow - he really is convinced that his nomination meant way more than it really did

I bet he doesn't see that if the personalities were swapped - but the positions stayed as they were, Coakley would have won - maybe by a landslide. I would argue this by pointing to the 30 point lead Coakley squandered - that likely represented the "all things being equal" spilt between Democratic and Republican ideas. If his 52% victory meant something, what of Obama's 62% MA wuin and JK's 66% win. The fact is Kerry got almost double the votes that he did - in an election where people knew neither Obama or Kerry would have a close race. Not to mention all the landslides MA gave Kennedy.

The fact is he voted against removing the sweetheart deals. A lot of the negotiations were on CSPAN - far more than on any Bush bill.

Looking through the first couple of pages the comments are very good - for us.

(I liked this one:
Ah, Scott, you fooled me in your Election; but now I see why; thou were but the Unintended Consequence of an Angry Day and a Confused Polity, thy Sentaorial Boast but their angry Retort to thine too Diffident Opponent.

And now, Senator Accident, thou hast proven not the Barrier, but the Spur to Reform; and can only Burble like Poe's Immortal Crow, Repeal, Repeal, Nevermore!

Perhaps my Penetration, sullied by thine own startling Election, shall in this cast be redeemed: enjoy One Hundred and Twelvem it shall be thy only Congress.

The Detective In The Mirror

[TayTay]

3. Love that comment

Sounds like alternative Mass-speak to "Bite me Scottie!"

LOL!

[karynnj]

6. Yes but oh so Shakespearianly

lOL

The delusion of some Brown supporters, is amazing in that some think Brown's win puts Kerry in jeopardy of losing his seat (and that's why he was in MA), shows they don't realize that he is not up until 2014.

[wisteria]

4. It is amazing he can keep that head of his on his shoulders- it is so big.

What a jack*ss.

Oh, and thanks for fill in the dead space. I had posted the same thing as Mass almost at the same time.

[ProSense]

9. He's an idiot.

I saw this and posted it in GDP. Not only are his talking points inaccurately lame, but the GOP repeal idiocy is already backfiring.

Only a partisan hack would stake out such an idiotic position. Then again, most Republicans don't seem to care that they're lying hypocrites.

[Luftmensch067]

5. LOL!

First of all, Tay kills me with the idea of only a blank thread being the right place for news about Senator Not Quite and then that comment from the Glob! I'd almost feel sorry for him, except that I DON'T!

[TayTay]

8. I am not starting a new fresh thread for SBrown

Ick! That poser doesn't deserve a whole thread.

And i agree with Karynnj downthread, he is pandering on bringing home the troops. Shameless pandering from a poser.

[karynnj]

10. This crossed a line with me

I have thought he was really over his head without the gravitas or thoughtfulness to become a serious Senator. I also thought it rather weird that the right actually liked the fact that he posed in Cosmo - something my parents would have been none too happy if my brothers did. But, that was not illegal and it was in his youth.

His indecisiveness alternating with lock step RW talking points is his decision, but I think it ends up helping him with no one. This crosses a different line. These vets clearly feel betrayed by their government. The idea that the US would have left soldiers behind really is as low as you can get. That a poor country would have kept them and hidden them for 37 years - defies logic. The cost to feed them alone would be high - and for what purpose?

I could see though for the family, it would leave a painful gaping hole - worse than having the loved one return home dead back in the 1960s or 1970s. His not knowing of Kerry's committee would be the kindest explanation.

[beachmom]

11. Perhaps Brown doesn't understand the concept of the internet.

That when you say something locally and it is printed in a local paper it also is placed into a series of tubes that broadcasts it out everywhere. Maybe it was a "just between you and me" kind of talk, to please the crowd before him without noticing that it would reach a wider audience. I don't know. That or he doesn't quite get what he promised.

[karynnj]

12. You might be right - especially on the latter - that he didn't understand

what he promised. As to the internet, maybe he thinks of it as Facebook, where he has a major fan club. In the video where he was with Kerry the day after he won, even though this was a point of triumph for him, he really could not sound coherent next to Kerry. It really might be that he was completely unaware of the controversy and the history there. Either that, or he will say that the Democrats control Congress. (I can't imagine Levin sending him on a trip for the Armed Services Committee to look into this.)

[karynnj]

7. What about what he did yesterday - he went to a POW/MIA rally and spoke of bringing them home

Now, it is reasonable to go to show sympathy and support for these veterans, but there is something not quite honest in making the promises he did.

Vowing to keep supporting efforts to retrieve soldiers missing in action since the Vietnam War, Sen. Scott Brown joined more than 100 veterans and town officials at the Vietnam Memorial on Church Green in Taunton yesterday in honor of the city’s annual POW/MIA Remembrance Day.

"I feel they should be brought home to their families,” the Massachusetts Republican told the crowd, “And our determination to keep up the fight for our loved ones and make sure they come home safely is certainly my priority.”

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20100329scott_brown_joins_taunton_pow_rally/srvc=home&position=1

This holds out false hope. Given the scope of the committee Kerry headed, this is pure pandering. It ignores that the war ended in 1973, 37 years ago. Do you think Mr pickup truck is really willing to spend his recesses making trips to Vietnam? Could he not have known or appreciated what Kerry was able to do? (Or see that Kerry's history made him more able to get concessions?)

[wisteria]

13. The man is ignorant. n/t