"Brown Tells AP He'll Sometimes Side With Democrats"

[Clio the Leo]

I have a feeling this guy is gonna be a lot more left leaning than the GOP party faithful had hoped. He HAS to be considering where he comes from and every statement to the press thus far has indicated this. He didn't even SAY "GOP" or "Republican" during his acceptance speech.

Brown Tells AP He'll Sometimes Side With Democrats

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 28, 2010
Filed at 7:25 p.m. ET

BOSTON (AP) -- 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.'''

The senator-elect did not elaborate on possible breaking points, though the Washington newcomer dismissed any suggestion he will relent once he starts working in the highly partisan capital.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/28/us/AP-US-Kennedy-Successor.html?_r=1

[yourout]

1. belive it when I see it and not a millisecond before.

[qazplm]

13. he doesnt have much of a choice

if he wants to be more than a two year wonder.

[FormerDittoHead]

20. They lie when their lips move. Repugs won't give him DIME ONE if he doesn't vote LOCKSTEP

See you in 2012, Mr. Centerfold.

The fact is that to be a Republican voter is to be "in the lie". Like the lie about WMD over the war for oil. They all know it was a lie, but accept it.

They accept their politicians lying to gain/keep power so they can then cut their taxes.

[Bitwit1234]

2. He did have a quote on CNN that said he agreed with

a lot Obama said at the State of the Union.

[emilyg]

3. I think he'll surprise us many times in a good way.

[Cha]

6. Oh really? And, what makes you think that, emily?

[emilyg]

19. Hello my favorite

cheerleader. What makes me think that - hopeful feeling.

[jenmito]

4. I think he's a carbon copy of Romney-a flip-flopper who will say whatever he thinks is

the most popular thing to say at the time. He was anti-choice, he was pro-choice. He was pro-teabagger, he pretended not to know the teabaggers. He'll be in trouble sooner or later WHATEVER he does, thankfully.

[Jennicut]

9. Yup. But the voters whp put him in there are from Mass and are not fire

breathing conservatives. He has to walk a fine line between people who put him there because of anger toward DC as a whole and the GOP who gave him the money to run and win. He knows it too. New England is not ultra conservative no matter what anyone tries to say about his winning there.

[jenmito]

10. Exactly...

but the teabaggers helped him, thinking he was one of them since he supposedly met with them twice and his "thing" was being the "41st vote against HCR." Once they see him campaigning for McCain, cooperating with Dems., etc., he'll never get their endorsement for '12 (since the media's already talking about him being a possible Repub. nominee. They love comparing his situation to Obama's. It won't work-they won't nominate another "moderate."

[AlinPA]

5. Limbaugh will pound him into line. He will be kissing his ring soon.

[Clio the Leo]

7. Yeah, but he has more star power than anyone else in the GOP at the moment...

.... more than Limbaugh, more than even that Palin woman.

Should be interesting.

[ibegurpard]

8. lol

oh please

[quantass]

11. If i recall Republicans notoriously vote as a giant block so likely Brown will fall in line....

he is just a n00b and all googly-eyed by it all but once he gets comfortable and is taken around the office he will be made aware of the common rule of the land...and if not, he will be whipped and waterboarded until he does. It's all part of the initiation.

[Mz Pip]

12. Uh, huh sure.

Maybe over some mudane legislation that affects roads in MA but for the stuff that matters to the rest of the country I kind of doubt it.

[Nedsdag]

14. Someone's thinking about 2012.

He's thinking ahead, plus he sees himself as an Olympia Snowe/Susan Collins Republican.

[jefferson_dem]

15. I'm of two minds on this one.

I want him to be an occasional cross-over to help with an immediate agenda item or two.

At the same time, I wouldn't mind seeing march in lock-step loyalty with the kooky Repug leadership...since that means he'll be more likely to get tossed in 2012.

I suspect we'll see the latter. He'll be gone in three years.

[varelse]

16. Interesting (nt)

[treestar]

17. So he voted for the healthcare plan in MA

So he should vote for one for the rest of us.

If he marches in lockstep we'll know he's full of hot air.

[Recursion]

18. This is just what New England Republicans do

Snowe. Collins. Chaffee, back in the day. Etc. I imagine he'll be more or less like them.

[WI_DEM]

21. Well, if he wants to be re-elected in 2012 he can't be a hard line conservative.