Scott Brown touts Republican lies: "massive increase in spending that our country can’t afford"

[ProSense]

The health care fight is not over

By Scott Brown

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.

This bill constitutes a massive increase in spending that our country can’t afford and will result in a huge expansion in the size and reach of the federal government. When this legislation is fully implemented, the real cost to taxpayers is $2.6 trillion over years. Instead of reforming the health care system and bending the cost curve down, we are doing the exact opposite.

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For starters, we can work in a bipartisan manner to repeal the worst parts of this bill. Americans have been clear that they do not like its $2.6 trillion cost, the higher taxes on families and businesses, the runaway spending, the state mandates, the sweetheart deals, and overcharging students to pay for health care.

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Dear Senator American Idol, not only is the bill paid for, it's good for the country:

chart comparing four policies and their impact on the budget: the two big Bush tax cuts, the Iraq war, and the health reform

[Arkana]

1. More verbal diarrhea from Senator Snotty Scotty.

I can't wait to throw him out in 2012.

[Cha]

2. Damn straight the HCR is not over, scotty..

It will be improved upon over the years without the help of tools such as yourself.

I hope someone is warming up in the Dem bullpen to take this gop out in 2012.

[Bitwit1234]

3. HEY NUDEO so we could afford it during bush's stolen reigns

for wars in Iraq, massive tax cuts for the rich. But we can't afford a social program for the poor and middle class. Oh golly of gee what's the country coming to.

[Cha]

4. scott brown in showing his willful ignorance..

The HCR is actually going to help the deficit..didn't he read the CBO Report?

[Puzzler]

5. No Scott, by electing Obama and a majority of Democrats in both houses...

... in 2008 the people of the USA sent a clear message. Health care reform was a major platform of Obama and the rest of the Dems. If anything, the HCR has been quite mild. So Scott, you're arguing that the Dems have no mandate, but you do?