But you knew that, already, right? Because I reported as much on December 30, when everyone else was saying that the Republican party was not giving him adequate support. Hey, I heard it from the horse’s mouth.
FYI: I listened in on a conference call with Brown, yesterday, and was surprised to learn that those rumors about the GOP leaving him in the cold were greatly exaggerated. In fact, “Don’t believe everything you read” is a direct quote from Brown. He wanted us to know that the GOP wasn’t stiffing him. But he is being greatly outspent by his well connected opponent, MA Atty Gen Martha Coakley, who has special interest, and union $$$ backing her.
Now Ed Morressey is reporting:
NRSC, RNC quietly moved money into Massachusetts last two weeks
This was a brilliant move by both the NRSC and the RNC. They didn’t fall into a Democratic trap by trumpeting their involvement with Brown, who wanted to show as much independence as possible. Coakley and Obama spent Sunday making Brown look like a tool of the Tea Party movement and the GOP national machine, but it was Coakley getting bailed out by Democratic heavyweights from outside Massachusetts.
Incidentally, in that post, I also linked to that hunky Cosmo spread of Brown, which I found whilst googling, the first blogger to notice it, (it was from a Sept. issue), not that I got any hat tips out of the deal. Hmmmph.
Linked by Michelle Malkin’s Buzzworthy, thanks!
Nice Deb 
Yes, and they did it because people like us nagged them into it.
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That’s not what he said in the conference call.
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You do know Scott Brown is a RINO don’t you?
He supported requiring that most of the people in Massachusetts purchase health care insurance.
And it says pretty clearly at his own web site that he still supports that law.
http://www.brownforussenate.com/issues
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You do know Scott Brown is a RINO don’t you?
You do know that this is as conservative a candidate as could hope to be elected in MA don’t you? Unlike NY, there wasn’t a more conservative candidate to support. And electing a Republican Senator to replace Teddy K. is monumental in that state.
If we can replace Dems in the bluest states with RINOs, and replace RINOs in the redder states with conservatives, then we’ll have made some progress.
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I rather have Democrats in the bluest states than RINOS.
RINOS work from within to destroy conservatives. The enemy within is always more dangerous than the enemy outside the gates.
It really does need to be conservative or bust!
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Hopefully Brown gets religion on this health care thing…seems its his only RINO card.
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These articles beg to differ with you torabora
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=31376
http://snipurl.com/u2ncd
http://www.rightcondition.com/2010/01/voting-for-scott-brown-and-big-html
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Fact: Election Eve, Monday, November 3rd, 2008: Scott Brown went on WTKK RADIO and urged voters to VOTE AGAINST Ballot Question 1, to END the Massachusetts state income tax. Scott Brown allied himself with the National and state Teachers Unions and SEIU (the government employees union that often works with ACORN) – against the taxpayers of Massachusetts.
Fact: Scott Brown has been a state legislator for the last 11 years, but we can’t find a single tax cut bill authored, sponsored, or introduced by him that would cut as little as 5% of state government revenue.
Fact: Scott Brown has been a state legislator for the last 11 years, but we can’t find even one spending cut bill authored, sponsored, or introduced by him that would cut as little as 5% of total state government spending.
Fact: Scott Brown has been a state legislator for the last 11 years, but we can’t find a single waste reduction bill authored, sponsored, or introduced by him that would cut waste as little as 5% of total spending. Polling shows that Massachusetts voters estimate that 41% of their taxes are wasted, but Scott Brown can’t even find 5% government waste.
Fact: The biggest tax and spending issue facing Massachusetts this year is our ballot initiative to roll back the sales tax from 6.25% to 3%. Yet we cannot find a single news account or mention at Scott Brown’s legislative or campaign web sites where he takes a stand on this issue. He refuses to publicly endorse or campaign for our ballot initiative to roll back the sales tax — even though it would give Massachusetts families 32,929 new private sector jobs.
Fact: Scott Brown proudly proclaims that he was a key part of the team that designed RomneyCare, the Massachusetts health care reform bill endorsed and backed by Senator Ted Kennedy. Scott Brown helped write, voted for, and endorses the bill provision that forces all Massachusetts workers to buy medical insurance – or pay a penalty tax. (Remember when Bill Clinton swore that oral sex from Monica Lewinsky wasn’t sex? Scott Brown, a lawyer, swears that this mandatory fee paid to the government is NOT a tax! )
And now, Scott Brown’s provision requiring everyone to buy medical insurance – or pay a mandatory penalty tax – is a key part of the Nancy Pelosi-Harry Reid-Barack Obama Health Care Reform Bill.
Scott Brown campaigns against everything the Tea Party Movement represents. Brown opposes and votes against as little as a 5% tax cut. He opposes and votes against cutting government spending or waste by even 5%. He designed and voted for a key part of the Pelosi-Reid-Obama Health Care bill now being voted on in Washington.
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Many Readers Wanted More Facts on Big Government Republican Scott Brown’s 11-year Legislative Record.
How shocked would you be to find out that, in 2008, Republican state senator Scott Brown voted for a Northeastern states CAP-AND-TRADE law?
Scott Brown joined the Democrats and passed legislation requiring Massachusetts to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in a cap-and-trade pact among Northeastern states requiring power plants to reduce emissions or to buy credits from cleaner industries.
“Reducing carbon dioxide emission in Massachusetts has long been a priority of mine,” Brown said in a news release in 2008. “Passing this legislation is an important step . . . towards improving our environment.”
Now Brown says he’s against it. In the tradition of John Kerry, Scott Brown might say,
“I voted for CAP-AND-TRADE LAWS before I planned to vote against it.”
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Here’s a good summary of what a Scott Brown election victory could mean. Go to the web page for the full article but here is the key quote.
http://www.rightcondition.com/2010/01/what-does-scott-brown-victory-mean-for.html
“Brown will send a misleading message to all those running for office. A message suggesting that being a fiscal moderate is sufficient in gaining support of millions of people, a message we cannot afford. Waves of moderates running for office is precisely how we got into our current mess and a Brown victory can further exacerbate the situation.
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I rather have Democrats in the bluest states than RINOS.
Riiight. That’s worked out so well for us.
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Both suck, but I don’t get the impression that Scott Brown is a total RINO. Liberal on some things, yeah. But we’re not gonna get a Palin clone elected in MA. Unless he ran an Obama-like totally cynical, totally dishonest campaign, he’s with us on Obamacare, on fiscal responsibility, and national security. Those are important things.
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Hey geoff, did you enjoy the Bush administration?
How about that “Republican Revolution” in 1994. Did it bring all the “change” you thought it would?
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nicedeb.
Read this blog post and tell me that this poster didn’t make some good points.
http://www.rightcondition.com/2010/01/aftermath-brown-wins-now-what.html
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Throwing the Bums out is great UNLESS you just replace them with new bums.
I don’t know how many saw Glenn Beck yesterday but he did say that there were progressives in the Republicans as well as the Democrat party.
I believe we just elected another Republican progressive to office.
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Hey geoff, did you enjoy the Bush administration?
Parts.
How about that “Republican Revolution” in 1994. Did it bring all the “change” you thought it would?
That was an interesting case of the press and Dems circling the wagons and going on a 24/7 attack on the freshman legislators. Within months their power was almost nullified.
But it was still better than the Reid/Pelosi Congress.
Read this blog post and tell me that this poster didn’t make some good points.
All he said was that “Government” was the real winner and that Brown’s vote on critical issues might be negotiable. Yawn. That guy’s no Nostradamus – he’s already been proven wrong on the impact of Brown’s election on Obamacare. [At least so far]
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Throwing the Bums out is great UNLESS you just replace them with new bums.
Well, we just replaced Ted Kennedy, a leader of Obamacare, with Scott Brown, someone who is unlikely to vote for Obamacare.
That’s good enough in Massachusetts.
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That guy’s no Nostradamus…
I should mention that many pundits and Democratic politicians were saying the same thing prior to the election, so his prediction was neither outlandish nor original. The difference is that many of us thought that the election might change enough minds that the progress of Obamacare might be slowed. Arkady apparently didn’t.
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Are you against the name Obamacare? I mean who is proposing it? Or are you against socialized medicine?
I actually found his predictions pretty sound. He didn’t say that it wouldn’t seem to stop Obamacare. What he did was that now they are going to have to find another way to get it enacted.
And one of the most profound things he said was that if Pelosi and Reed would compromise a bit that could bring RINOS on board with “bipartisan” health care legislation.
It would not be what the extremists would want but it would be a foundation that they could build upon to gradually get the other elements of socialized medicine later on.
Perhaps when Romney becomes President. Perhaps they will do it piecemeal.
He said it won’t happen overnight, but he predicts it will happen.
Here’s his exact quote.
http://www.rightcondition.com/2010/01/aftermath-brown-wins-now-what.html
“So while his presence takes away the Democrat majority, it only does so as long as the Democrats continue to push a radical agenda. This is crucial to understand. If Reid or Pelosi decide to play ball and are wiling to compromise then Brown and his ilk will concede immediately. It won’t happen right away, but it will happen eventually and that is a guarantee. “
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Are you against the name Obamacare? I mean who is proposing it? Or are you against socialized medicine?
If Reid or Pelosi decide to play ball and are willing to compromise then Brown and his ilk will concede immediately.
You’re correct – I missed the last sentence of the quoted passage and triggered off the “immediately.” But look at what’s happened: yesterday we were faced with an imminent passage of the bill (probably the Senate’s version). Today the Democrats’ coalition has fractured, with calls for incremental reform, rewriting the entire bill, and negotiating in much better faith with Republicans.
There’s always a threat of socialized medicine, but a 30-day window has turned into possibly a 12-month window. The Democrats’ momentum has been broken, and in a year the compositions of the House and Senate will change.
Is Scott Brown a prophylactic against socialized medicine for all time? Of course not. But did his election spare us the near-term passage of a costly, ineffective, and intrusive bill? Absolutely.
Reid and Pelosi aren’t going to be able to come to a quick agreement that satisfies their nervous followers, so Arkady’s scenario is unlikely to unfold before mid-term elections. At that point, the election of Brown will have more than done its job.
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I just want to get this out now…and FAST.
One of our sources in Arizona said, “Hey, how do you like that Scott Brown? We’re getting RoboCalls from him to support John McCain”.
I didn’t know what to say other than Brown, at the wrap-up, did thank McCain for his help.
I think someone with the number/address should contact Brown’s Office and ask if it’s so.
He can’t possibly think that McCain’s name helped him to win in any way.
I think we ALL really need to know that.
What say you?
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