“You know they can try to pooh-pooh my election and try to minimize it and all that stuff,” Brown said.
Oh, “pooh-pooh.” I get it. Sorry — my mistake. đŸ˜‰
Anyway, poor Scott has been reduced to mumbling barely coherent, vaguely paranoid sentence fragments in trying to explain what happened. From the same story:
“I get what they’re trying to do. But the bottom line is they are going to start to carve out folks who are disabled and have some very serious medical issues and say, ‘See the Republicans want to take this away.’ ”
What’s that about disabled people? Is this another “death panel” thing? Seriously, what is Brown on about here? I would honestly like to know.
But Scott still thinks he’s got it covered.
“They can try to, you know, twist and manipulate and, you know, destroy the message and destroy as much as they want but the bottom line is people are very angry.”
Problem is, that’s not really true. Actually, most people like the bill that was just signed into law. Now, the tea partiers, they are angry, since nobody likes to lose. But my guess is that President Obama’s ginormous win on health care will significantly improve his standing with the public, and will allow him to move forward on other items on his agenda. In politics, nothing succeeds like success, and Obama just scored a big one.
That’s just pathetic, the guy is just in over his head. He can’t even set up an email address so voters can reach him yet.
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p>But he found time to talk to WAAF, together with these guys again?
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p>Nice, I hope he tells all the people who have WAAF on their radios in their trucks working for themselves that he wants to take away their 35% tax credit this year, which goes up to 50% in 2014. Good luck with that Scotty!
and challenging the Republicans who try to repeal it, calling them anti-business and unpatriotic. Brown is in waaay over his head.
The problem is that Lynch’s pathetic “forgainst” strategy makes me despise Lynch even more than Brown.
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p>How do you determine the lesser of two evils when doing so require “division by zeroes“?
Well, Brown’s vote will suit perfectly for killing “card check.”
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p>Sucks, don’t it, guy?
Sadly though, Brown and the other 40 just-say-noers, can still cause a fair amount of havoc to getting things done.
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p>But I gotta think if he votes against (filibusters) financial reforms and sides with the banks and their lobbyist hordes he will be nailing his coffin. Where he comes out on that stuff will define him either as a supporter of every day folks or as paid-for slave to Wall Street and its campaign millions.
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p>And that medical device amendment may seem good for Mass, but the reason the tax on medical devices is in the bill is as a cost control measure. Republicans are as usual preaching fiscal rectitude while doing everything they prevent it from happening.
Scott Brown won election by combining two things:
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p>1. The excitement of the right, including the teapartiers, by signaling that he was one of them.
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p>2. Disgruntled Massachusetts Democratic-leaning mainstream voters, frustrated with the Democratic party, but on the whole more liberal than conservative.
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p>During the campaign, due to the Coakley campaign’s ineffectiveness, he was able to run with both messages for different audiences. But once elected, he was put into a very tough spot of trying to balance two contradictory, incompatible constituencies, and keep their support, while being an actual legislator and casting actual votes.
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p>He’s been trying. It’s going to be an interesting act to watch.