Popcorn alert: Scott Brown hasn't even been sworn in yet

[TheCowsCameHome]

and already he's made statements and done things that are bound to infuriate the loony right wing. No way will he have an extended honeymoon with the usual suspects.

I didn't vote for him, but I have a gut feeling he's going to suffer the wrath of a lot of the very same people that pushed him over the finish line.

Time will tell if he's been bought and paid for, but right now I think there may good reason to stock up on popcorn in the event of an outbreak of extreme cannibalism in Freeperland. :popcorn:

Stay tuned.

[peekaloo]

1. "Hey those aren't raisins in my man candy!"

:dunce:

[existentialist]

2. Are there some specific actions that you could share with us?

[FBaggins]

3. Doesn't matter how much of a "RINO" he becomes...

...Kennedy to RINO is still too big a shift.

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. They had an interview with his brother here in CT and he said......

to the effect that he was proud of his brother to win the seat of the greatest Senator this country ever had. That wasn't what I expected to hear. Maybe he isn't what the repugs think he is...or maybe I'm an optimist.

[hlthe2b]

5. Perhaps he is being "visited"...

by the spirit of the late Teddy Kennedy....;) (or thinks he is) ;) ;)

[SoCalDem]

7. naaah.. he's just an opportunist who's pretty full of himself right now

Once he gets to the senate, and figures out that he's the lowest of the lowest on the totem pole, and that he's only a seat-filler until '12, he'll settle down..

He had to pretend to NOT be a republican to get elected, but next time around, it won;t be as easy..

Martha won;t be running (my guess) and he'll have some trouble pulling the same trick again..

The RNC funneled a lot of cash his way, "under the radar" at the end of the campaign, while Martha et al were picking out their swearing-in outfits, but next time around, everyone will KNOW who he is, and the republicans will not support him if he's "too liberal"..and the dems who thought he WAS an independent, will know all about him too.

[laughingliberal]

6. Huff Po carried this yesterday

Scott Brown Warns GOP He Won't Always Vote With Them

BOSTON — Scott Brown says he has already told Senate Republican leaders they won't always be able to count on his vote. The man who staged an upset in last week's Massachusetts Senate special election, in part by pledging to be the 41st GOP vote against President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that he staked his claim in early conversations with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Whip Jon Kyl.

"I already told them, you know, `I got here with the help of a close group of friends and very little help from anyone down there, so there'll be issues when I'll be with you and there are issues when I won't be with you,'" Brown said Thursday during the half-hour interview. "So, I just need to look at each vote and then make a proper analysis and then decide."

Asked how McConnell and Kyl responded, Brown said, "They understood. They said, `You can probably do whatever you want, Scott. And, so, just let us know where your head's at, and we'll talk it through, and just keep us posted.'"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/28/scott-brown-warns-gop-he_n_440717.html

Don't expect it to last but it's interesting.

[RoadRage]

11. Just like Snowe & Collins..

This is only surprising to the Tea-Baggers who got caught up in the "WE WON, WE WON" moment. They just don't really realize what they won!

It's like scratching off a ticket to see that you've won a car.. and then the car that shows up is a rusted out '89 Escort. Yeah... you won the car - but frankly, do you even want it?

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Exactly right. The RW opted for door #2 last week,

and I really think buyers remorse may set in before too long.

[RoadRage]

18. Yeah..

but what they don't realize is that up in the NE, that's as much "R" as you're gonna get. I hope they stick to the "oust all moderates" philosphy that they're trekking on.. I think it's idiotic, and it will be fun to watch them split into 2 parties with only regional majorities.

I just hope the Dem's don't do it too - we need to value the logic behind the fact that different areas of the country have different political philosophies.

[spanone]

8. but he's a celebrity, he was on jay leno so he must be popular

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. It's already beyond celebrity status, to read the liberal press up here.

Even the Boston Globe has been running puff pieces on him all week.

This guy is going to be very interesting when he gets even more entrenched in the national spotlight.

[pipi_k]

10. I would absolutely pee myself from laughing if...

he pulled an Arlen Specter and switched parties.


:rofl:

[Jennicut]

12. The Repubs in New England are never that conservative....but

Snowe and Collins sometimes vote with the GOP and sometimes don't. It is no surprise to me but then I live in CT.

[pipi_k]

15. No big surprise to me, either...

and I live in Mass.

Sometimes we even get "Democrats" who sound more like Conservatives than their Republican opponents.

Personally, I think the label of Mass being the "bluest of the blue states" is, for the most part, sort of an Urban Legend. We've had plenty of Republican governors, for example, and we've even prospered under a couple of them.

:)

[Jennicut]

16. CT has a Repub gov right now though she won't run for another term.

Some of the Rethugs are okay here and some are disastrous, like John Roland. He was our Repub gov before Rell took over for him. He went to jail and was totally corrupt.
New England leans blue but it is more moderate then anything else. The legislatures have a tendency in CT and Mass to stay Dem, though. Just the govs and reps change a lot.

[KharmaTrain]

13. He No Longer Needs Them...

He did for their money and pump, but now that he's elected, he will have no use for them.

Just as we bitch about Democrats we've worked for or helped elect moving to the right, I suspect Brown will try to move in the opposite direction as not to make too many waves and position himself to run again in two years.

Bottom line is to keep an eye on that weasel...and if possible force him into making many difficult votes.

[AlinPA]

17. Once Limbaugh talks to him, he will toe the repig line. nt

[Froward69]

19. FReepervile just isn't there...

been trying to access for a half hour and nothing... I wonder if they have been hacked or is it their heads exploded and gummed up their server???