Brown: An entire year has gone to waste
posted at 1:00 pm on March 13, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Scott Brown takes a bit of a political risk today by picking up the GOP standard in the response to Barack Obama’s weekly Presidential address, but he delivers a scathing assessment of the Democratic machinations to pass ObamaCare. He offers some “advice from a newcomer” to his colleagues on Capitol Hill, which is to listen to the will of the people rather than the commands of the far-Left Democratic leadership. Andrew Malcolm has the transcript (via JWF):
Maybe you remember what President Obama promised in his State of the Union address. He said he was going to finally focus on jobs and the economy for the remainder of this year. I applauded him for that. Well, here it is, it’s almost spring. And what is he out there talking about again? That same 2,700-page, multi-trillion dollar healthcare legislation.
So, an entire year has gone to waste. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and many more jobs are in danger. Even now, the president still hasn’t gotten the message.
Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the healthcare bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst – the presumption that they know best, and they’re going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.
And, when politicians start thinking like that, they don’t let anything get in their way – not public opinion, not the rules of fair play, not even their own promises.
They pledged transparency. Instead, we have a healthcare bill tainted by secrecy, concealed cost, and full of backroom deals – and that’s just not right. They should do better. The American people expect more.
Brown does an excellent job in framing the argument against Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama and their arrogant pass-the-bill-at-any-cost approach. Brown also shows that he’s not afraid to stand up to the statists and stand with the GOP when it counts.
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Oh we’ve wasted a lot more than a year…
ernesto on March 13, 2010 at 1:01 PM
No SH*T Sherlock!!
canopfor on March 13, 2010 at 1:02 PM
One wasted year and three to go!!!!
yoda on March 13, 2010 at 1:04 PM
This may a bit OT, but does CNN share the Duracell battery advertisement revenue with third-party distributors like Hot Air? Seems they’re getting unearned hits.
John the Libertarian on March 13, 2010 at 1:04 PM
“Brown does an excellent job in framing the argument against Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama and their arrogant pass-the-bill-at-any-cost approach. Brown also shows that he’s not afraid to stand up to the statists and stand with the GOP when it counts.”
Nice. And he has the balls to do it even though he represents a Blue State, a distinction many internet yahoos cannot seem to grasp.
swamp_yankee on March 13, 2010 at 1:07 PM
I would frame it the opposite way, the GOP leadership is agreement with Scott Brown. While subtle, it has a slight conotation that Scott Brown is subserving his views to the GOP. He is not. His views are independent of the GOP. They just happen to line up in this case (and in most cases).
WashJeff on March 13, 2010 at 1:08 PM
Scott’s back on track. Now I pray he stays there.
TheBigOldDog on March 13, 2010 at 1:09 PM
Very well said. I don’t know that this is such a terrible political risk in any event. I know quite a few people in Taxachusetts who are growing sour on the Nanny State – and more so, every time they have to drive to New Hampshire to shop.
Laura on March 13, 2010 at 1:10 PM
Remember that comment Obama said awhile back,
about kicking the can down the road!!
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In last night’s address to Congress and the nation, President Barack Obama used the children’s game as a metaphor for Washington’s inaction on healthcare. “I understand that the politically safe move would be to kick the can further down the road — to defer reform one more year, or one more election, or one more term,” he said. “But that’s not what the moment calls for. That’s not what we came here to do.”
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http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/john-del-cecato/58195-no-more-kicking-the-can
canopfor on March 13, 2010 at 1:12 PM
Scott’s back on track. Now I pray he stays there.
TheBigOldDog on March 13, 2010 at 1:09 PM
TheBigOldDog: I second that!!:)
canopfor on March 13, 2010 at 1:14 PM
One wasted year and three to go!!!!
yoda on March 13, 2010 at 1:04 PM
yoda: It feels like 2 years!!:)
canopfor on March 13, 2010 at 1:15 PM
Howie Carr spared my telling Scott to his face that is exactly why he won. He won because he stood up for his principles and never attempted to make himself acceptable to the Liberals or the Press. People responded to that like I have never seen in Massachusetts for a politician.
He started a movement that his earliest move almost snuffed out. Now we’ll see if he can rekindle it by helping to lead the fight. He’ll be perfect because he has no tendency to make himself sound acceptable to the Left even when being brow beaten on live TV by the press. He just sticks to his guns and that’s what we need at the head of the fight.
TheBigOldDog on March 13, 2010 at 1:16 PM
Brown said what needs to be said because it’s true. Good on ‘im. He’s right.
This country has sunk low when stating the truth is a ‘political risk’, but we see it every day.
In the end, it isn’t a political risk. Americans want some modicum of honesty from politicians. It’s time to face facts and get our house in order.
Cody1991 on March 13, 2010 at 1:18 PM
I want to hear what Patches thinks. His speeches are the gold standard for the donks.
a capella on March 13, 2010 at 1:18 PM
Tactically, going “off track” enabled him to do this. The GOP has plenty of voices that always toe the conservative line. But when they speak, it does not resonate.
By breaking from his party, which he has to do to prove his independent bona fides in Massachusetts, he gave himself the leverage to vote noe here. Plus, his word carries more weight now. If Jim DeMint or Tom Coburn said the same thing, it would get half the play. Now, it resonates with Indies and Conservative Dems.
swamp_yankee on March 13, 2010 at 1:18 PM
canopfor – I feel a song coming on. ( :
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights by Freddy Fender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUVgkXVDkBA
yoda on March 13, 2010 at 1:19 PM
Be sure to give him a little slack, except on ObamaCare. We will need all the Senate seats we can get 2013 and beyond. I will trust the Brown knows how to increase his chances in MA to keep that seat in 2012.
WashJeff on March 13, 2010 at 1:22 PM
I am just glad I don’t have to regret my campaign contribution. He did a great job.
TXMomof3 on March 13, 2010 at 1:22 PM
Scott Brown won because he ran a great campaign and he ran as a populist. He promised to represent the people. Hi listened to the people and he proomised to be the people’s servant. Those who believe that Scott ran as some super principled conservative and that Massachusetts voters ate it up are in denial.
He ran as a conservative leaning populist. His principle was putting his constituents first and a lot of them are still Indies and Dems.
It called a representative democracy. People may not like how Scott voted every time, but he is true to his word and his principles of representation.
swamp_yankee on March 13, 2010 at 1:23 PM
There was no risk in this. It’s why he was elected. It was one of the main items to his campaign.
The real risk for him would have been if he had remained silent right now. This is his moment.
INC on March 13, 2010 at 1:23 PM
The voters of the United States will start draining the swamp next election.
Cybergeezer on March 13, 2010 at 1:25 PM
How is this a risk? It’s what he campaigned on and it also happens to be the view of a majority of Americans according to the polls.
Positing it as “risky” sounds like a Dem media angle to me.
Missy on March 13, 2010 at 1:27 PM
I would add, “not even the Constitution.”
kagai on March 13, 2010 at 1:28 PM
NICE!
I submit this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHz03ZYsWK0
Cybergeezer on March 13, 2010 at 1:30 PM
This entire past year has been a study in the liberal mindset.
Dems are so focused on their liberal fantasy of Utopia, they failed to respond to the very real condition of the American citizen.
Jvette on March 13, 2010 at 1:32 PM
DEMOCRAT PARTY PLEDGE:
WHATEVER DECEPTION, CORRUPTION, OR FRAUDULENCE WORKS. USE THEM ALL TO ACCOMPLISH YOUR ASSIGNED MISSION.
Cybergeezer on March 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM
The AM Radio news spot,just played Scott,saying that the
economy trumps healthcare,and a wasted year!!
canopfor on March 13, 2010 at 1:34 PM
Obama has spent the last year making America worse off when he could have made America better with the same effort.
MB4 on March 13, 2010 at 1:36 PM
canopfor on March 13, 2010 at 1:15 PM
canopfor – I feel a song coming on. ( :
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights by Freddy Fender
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUVgkXVDkBA
yoda on March 13, 2010 at 1:19 PM
yoda: Me thinks,I can’t top that,hehe!:)
This might work!
================================
Iron Maiden “Wasted Years”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0LuFaPtmt8&feature=related
canopfor on March 13, 2010 at 1:38 PM
Cybergeezer on March 13, 2010 at 1:30 PM
Cybergeezer – I likey!!!!
How about Iron Maiden? Let’s hope we don’t have too many more Wasted Years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwB9zg7Tbx8&feature=related
yoda on March 13, 2010 at 1:39 PM
Exactly, if someone like Olympia Snowe got up there and just tore Obama to shreds over this, it would open a lot of eyes.
uknowmorethanme on March 13, 2010 at 1:39 PM
Oh oh canopfor….we’re starting to think alike!!!!!! How about this one.
We’re going to Run to the Hills if we have any more wasted days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Snehl2bAk&feature=related
yoda on March 13, 2010 at 1:43 PM
Nice. Very nice. However, they’ve already proven they don’t listen. They’ve alrady made up their minds. They don’t care about jobs. They don’t care about what the people want. They don’t care how much debt we incur. It’s all about power. Greed and corruption and sinister back room deals and power. I can’t wait for this term to be history, and then we’ll spend the next four years trying to undo the damage he’s done.
scalleywag on March 13, 2010 at 1:44 PM
good job, Scotty B…+3
ted c on March 13, 2010 at 1:47 PM
Tom Waits does a tune called “Step Right Up”: The best copy I could find quickly was this one done as a tribute.
It fits the Democrat salesmanship to a T.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8KUx_SsB1g
Cybergeezer on March 13, 2010 at 1:49 PM
OT but I know Hot Air is the best place to ask. Why were Senators originally appointed by state governments rather than elected?
angelwing34215 on March 13, 2010 at 1:59 PM
Cybergeezer – I like….this is the first that I have heard of him!!! His song, Till the Money Runs Out is appropriate too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsIl4eIwufk&feature=related
I’ve been watching your postings this morning…thank you for reminding people. ( : I won’t be able to attend, but I will be thinking of all of you on the 16th.
yoda on March 13, 2010 at 2:04 PM
I’m not following how this is a risk. This was how he campaigned.
MA doesn’t particularly want to pay for other states. They have a HC plan. Moreover, they are well aware of the pitfalls.
AnninCA on March 13, 2010 at 2:04 PM
A good source for that answer is:
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/senators_appointed.htm
Cybergeezer on March 13, 2010 at 2:04 PM
canopfor on March 13, 2010 at 1:38 PM
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Oh oh canopfor….we’re starting to think alike!!!!!! How about this one.
We’re going to Run to the Hills if we have any more wasted days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Snehl2bAk&feature=related
yoda on March 13, 2010 at 1:43 PM
yoda: Spooky,eh,and yes I like that one!:)
canopfor on March 13, 2010 at 2:05 PM
thanks, I’ll look around there.
angelwing34215 on March 13, 2010 at 2:09 PM
Love Tom Waits. My first date with my husband was a Tom Waits show. His early career and later career are very different musically, but it’s all great.
Missy on March 13, 2010 at 2:10 PM
Scott Brown is awesome. He moderates some for the sake of MA voters, but he does not pander or pretend that there is an infinite supply of government goodies. He understands how to put MA and the rest of the country back to work.
exdeadhead on March 13, 2010 at 2:12 PM
Meh. “I challenge them to do better.” How many times have I heard that impotent appeal? When will the reality sink in that this is not only the best the Left can do, it is all they can do. Figure it out. Time’s running out.
rrpjr on March 13, 2010 at 2:13 PM
The next big march on D.C. will be April 15th.
But, this one is extremely important.
Tom Waits is one of my fav’s. He’s an accomplished musician, also.
I’ve been buying his music since the 70′s. To describe him, I tell people he sings burlesque. Another fading art form.
He has a site at:
http://www.tomwaits.com/
Cybergeezer on March 13, 2010 at 2:18 PM
Tom Waits is great.
And, there was a great article a few months back about using the strategy that really is being used: Wear down the public.
The Democrats have utterly failed to sell this awful bill. Taxes before benefits, mandates, sweet deals for some and not others…..the public may really want a HCR bill, but this sure isn’t what they had in mind.
However, when the country gets tired of the debate, tired of the discussion, then….the iron is hot.
AnninCA on March 13, 2010 at 2:27 PM
I have several of his albums; He has videos out, but I can’t find the one I was looking for about him at a movie theatre. I rented it from a local video rental in the late 80′s.
Lucky you and the live engagement: Maybe I can catch up to him nearby sometime soon.
Cybergeezer on March 13, 2010 at 2:31 PM
I knew, that anyone that could hang around and take the caustic ridicule you have taken, must have SOME redeeming quality. I’m glad to get a glimpse.
But, would you please not argue with yourself in the same comment? And please, don’t make me explain!
Cybergeezer on March 13, 2010 at 2:38 PM
Wow this is a strong graphic Michelle has up…why hasn’t this graphic gone viral?
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/13/constitution-butchers-stop-pelosis-slaughter-house/
Dr Evil on March 13, 2010 at 2:39 PM
I never would let strangers on the computer shake my tree. That’s really dysfunctional thinking, in my opinion.
AnninCA on March 13, 2010 at 2:42 PM
Massachusetts revolution of today…
Schadenfreude on March 13, 2010 at 2:42 PM
Maybe you’re thinking of Big Time? It’s a live album from 1988 but there was also a film that had some live sequences.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Time_(Tom_Waits_album)
Thanks, yeah, it was a real treat to see him as he doesn’t play live too often. I’d waited more than ten years and gotten lucky with tickets on top of that.
Missy on March 13, 2010 at 2:42 PM
From same link, as above.
Schadenfreude on March 13, 2010 at 2:43 PM
From The Federalist Papers,
No. 62: The Senate
Author: Alexander Hamilton or James Madison
INC on March 13, 2010 at 2:45 PM
AnninCA on March 13, 2010 at 2:27 PM
The public is not worn down and as awake as it can be, for good. Nov. will make Ramirez’ cartoon of today a mild reflection of what will descend upon the liberals.
Schadenfreude on March 13, 2010 at 2:45 PM
Also from No. 62:
Gridlock is good.
INC on March 13, 2010 at 2:48 PM
It’s anything but a wasted year for those that want to bring down America.
mego73 on March 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM
My own political crystal ball says: You’re right. Wait until people are taxed WHILE their loved ones get zippo benefits for 3 years.
It will absolutely infuriate people. My theory is that’s why the polls look skewed. People report they want HCR specifics, but reject this plan.
My thinking is this is actually pretty commonsense. They are appalled by the rollout.
It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen in my own lifetime. Major changes have always offered immediate payoff for the public. That’s the “sugar.”
This one is constructed differently. Taxes, mandates…but no real benefits?
Whoa nelly. Have they lost their minds?
AnninCA on March 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM
Well, Scott Brown got elected, so the year wasn’t a TOTAL waste!!
And AnninCA: yes, the Democrats HAVE lost their minds… And if they push ObamaCare through this week, consider it a suicide pact for your beloved party…
Khun Joe on March 13, 2010 at 2:53 PM
Federalist No. 63: The Senate Continued
Author: Alexander Hamilton or James Madison
INC on March 13, 2010 at 2:53 PM
Ann, the other way around, buying furniture, and paying for it later, is something the folks get…this one they know is fraud. Wait until the milennial crowd find out that their good parents are being scroom. That’ll be the end of liberalism….no more youth vote.
Oblivion is cool. I love it.
Schadenfreude on March 13, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Thanks for the wiki link:
I recently got some of his music off iTunes. I’ll have to search there for videos.
Some of the old stuff iTunes doesn’t have.
Cybergeezer on March 13, 2010 at 2:55 PM
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Schadenfreude on March 13, 2010 at 2:55 PM
And that’s all we expect from party moderates. Granted, they’re holding firm on Obamacare, but historically this is exactly what we don’t get from the Maine girls, Grahamnesty, McCain and a few others. We can have party members that disagree, but when you can’t get behind the party when the chips are down, that’s when you need to follow Arlen Specter out the door.
There’s a difference between being a moderate Republican and a RINO. Brown is so far proving to be the former.
Jim-Rose on March 13, 2010 at 2:56 PM
Correction
“that their good parents are being scroom” s/b “are being scroomed”
Schadenfreude on March 13, 2010 at 2:57 PM
I left the Democrats. I’m Independent now. I truly believed in party loyalty for the majority of my adult voting life. Take the good with the bad, etc., but I relinquished that thinking in the last primary.
I simply do not relate to the “progressives.”
I will always believe that Democrats abandoned pocket-book voters.
OK. But then, I no longer feel emotionally committed. I grew up in a very poor state, and I always felt a real affiliation with the party that looked out for the poor. It was a principle I felt pride about.
When the party abandoned that principle, then I no longer felt attached.
I’m still very liberal and have NOT abandoned that ideal. But, that party isn’t necessarily offering a shred of real help.
AnninCA on March 13, 2010 at 2:58 PM
You’re much nicer than me. I can’t believe they ever thought the policy won a mandate. It was so obviously a personality, voting in the first Black president, etc.
THAT won the mandate.
His agenda? Nah*
AnninCA on March 13, 2010 at 3:00 PM
No, Ann. To think it’s just the roll out is to willfully misunderstand the difference between the glossy promises proffered in the polling language and the realities involved in bringing to fruition promises that are financially impossible to deliver.
There is a huge difference between “Wouldn’t it be great if…” and “Give me your money and we’ll try to make some of these promised things happen for you or, more likely, my friends.”
ROCnPhilly on March 13, 2010 at 3:02 PM
I’m not sure about that. My friends were really expecting some kind of increase in tax, etc.
But I think the specifics of the plan, the delay and the mandates and the deals and the sheer chaos?
That’s what turned them off. Not that they’d have to ante up a bit.
AnninCA on March 13, 2010 at 3:04 PM
They sounded and made it look like they were looking out for the poor:
Example: Detroit’s unions, and their situation today. (I lived there.)
You need a little vacation from Central Arkansas.
Cybergeezer on March 13, 2010 at 3:08 PM
Schools are cutting jobs, layoffs, and shutting down in droves.
(From tenessean.com)Just this week a school in Nashville, TN cut hours and announced layoffs for 800 bus drivers and 656 custodians. So many angry people attended the meeting the police were called in. The NAACP and Harpeth Institute for Social Peace, asked the school to ‘scrap their budget’ and draft a new one.
But the problem is they are out of money. Where did the $800 BILLION Stimulus/Recovery Act money go?? Obama & Dems said it would save/create jobs.
TN Mom on March 13, 2010 at 3:16 PM
Uh huh, uh huh.
Well then Mr. Brown, can you explain why you voted for The Messiah’s $15B so-called jobs bill last month? After all if it was a waste, shouldn’t you have voted no?
angryed on March 13, 2010 at 3:17 PM
Ann, glad you joined my group, the independents…though I question them harshly. How can a true independent ever vote for Obama?
On your dedication to the poor – internalize this, in all earnest and told you with sincerity in the best of ways – the liberals have never been for the poor.
The elitist liberals finagle the masses to believe otherwise but only want them on their modern day plantation, for the votes.
No one prohibits a Kennedy or Rockefeller to donate all or a good chunk of their wealth to the ‘poor’ but they never do. They could send their money to the IRS, easily, but they send the money to the Caymen Islands instead, protected even from the taxes for the benefit of the ‘poor’.
One day the Latinos, blacks and the ‘trailer trash’ poor of all kinds will wake up to the realization that they’ve been held back with education, fooled in so many ways…by nefarious schemes to enslave them. It will be hell for the lefties. Only enlightenment and education can help any populace, any group. The ‘government support’ from diaper to grave is a modern day plantation and don’t let anything else fool you. It’s not even a cynical conclusion, just a realistic one. Just look at things with open eyes and you will see this all around.
Btw, we have e-sparred much over time, but you are still someone who’d be interesting to have lunch with. And, no, I don’t try to convert people to another party. Each must arrive to their own conclusions – be free, or be dependent.
Schadenfreude on March 13, 2010 at 3:18 PM
How many freaking schools does Nashville have to require 800 bus drivers in the first place? Seems like there are too many bus drivers and getting rid of a bunch is a good fiscal move on the part of the city.
angryed on March 13, 2010 at 3:19 PM
I really appreciate the Democrats laser like focus on jobs jobs and jobs.
tarpon on March 13, 2010 at 3:25 PM
Pick any business section from any newspaper around the country; You’ll not find that much good news about business, large or small.
This, just so happens to be, where the jobs come from.
And, just take a little jaunt on the liberal/Democrat logic train of taking all the money from the rich and spreading it out for the poor; The end result is that their money dries up and the people are forced to revolt.
Basic history lesson, actually.
Cybergeezer on March 13, 2010 at 3:31 PM
How are they unearned? It’s their video, they can put whatever they want in it. If hotair doesn’t like it they don’t have to link to it.
Darth Executor on March 13, 2010 at 3:38 PM
While I’m happy this is a suicide pact for the Democratic party, it’s cold comfort to me that my liberties will be unconstitutionally stripped from me and there will be little to no chance of getting them back. Obama will veto everything and they’ve already laid the financial foundation to give leverage to all the unions to fortify Democrat strongholds. That plus a Riefenstahl’esque press leads me to believe we’re following Chavez’ playbook for Venezuela… once a Republic like ours, look at it now… in just 10 years.
These Democrats that vote for this legislation, or allow this power grab to happen are no citizens of these United States but traitors to the constitution and have forsaken their sworn offices to represent US.
Just say no.
Skywise on March 13, 2010 at 3:39 PM
April 1st is the day the Tea Party Express will be in Omaha and I am trying to rally the Nebraska HotAirheads to meet that afternoon. My husband and I plan to be in D.C. for the rally in August.
I will look on Tom Waits site today. I watched several YouTubes and I like his music. Thanks!!!!
We will be watching on FOX for all of you on the 16th. Good luck!!!!!
yoda on March 13, 2010 at 3:40 PM
I did not mean that those who liked the plan in the polls thought it would be free.
I meant that what’s promised for the money sounds good in theory. The actual delivery here in reality is widely known to be impossible. (That’s the specifics.) The mandates and delays are required to make it seem feasible (to those unaccustomed to math) that they can deliver on their promises.
I think in the end your friends will come to love the new US Ministry of Health. You can comfort your friends with the following bromide: Really, what’s a few deals and a little chaos when you can get something so noble accomplished?
ROCnPhilly on March 13, 2010 at 3:42 PM
I think the national unemployment is much higher than they are reporting. TN Dept of Labor released their report this past Tuesday, and nearly every county moved up by (at least) one point. It’s ugly out there.
TN Mom on March 13, 2010 at 3:47 PM
140 schools
TN Mom on March 13, 2010 at 3:51 PM
Yes, Clinton really understood the challenges, the solutions, and the path to help people.
I will always, always respect his presidency for that reason.
He was, however, unique. Even as president, he had this odd east coast liberal problem.
They have so taken over.
I call it “coastal progressives.”
AnninCA on March 13, 2010 at 3:56 PM
I thought Brown did a good job.
Terrye on March 13, 2010 at 3:57 PM
Yea; They’re hiding it.
I don’t read the newspapers, but a friend was saying his Miami Herald had bad news about their economy, jobs, local hospitals, business cutting back and shutting down.
It is worse than it is being published.
I’d hate to be anywhere around Detroit these days.
Cybergeezer on March 13, 2010 at 4:07 PM
Senator Brown: what do you plan to do next week when President Obama and the Democrat leadership mutilate the constitution?
rrpjr on March 13, 2010 at 4:09 PM
How did Clinton and his Presidency “help people”?
He started by taken credit for the economic recovery that began 18 months before he was even elected, he twice vetoed welfare reform and only finally signed it after being dragged kicking and screaming to the table by Republicans, and he had his Justice Department prosecute a female Federal employee for lying under oath about sex, only to later say he was above the law for doing the exact same thing.
What did Bill Clinton actually “accomplish” between January of 1993 and January of 2001, other than hand his successor the 9/11 attacks?
Del Dolemonte on March 13, 2010 at 4:44 PM
After checking out Michelle Malkin’s blog with its apt graphic and the link to Mark Levin’s remarks re the Constitution, I am filled with dread over why the American people are not even more incensed of the Dem power grab.
When a bill that affects one-sixth of the economy and 300 million people is crafted in secrecy, through graft and bribes (with our tax dollars), coercion, and partisan witchcraft by fewer than 300 people in Congress (all from the same party), our rule of law and representation exists no longer. We have an oligarchy of the few who see their role as one of ruling, not representing.
Brown’s message was good, but he should also have emphasized the issue maintaining the spirit and law of the Constitution. And to tell Nancy Pelosi that he means that seriously.
onlineanalyst on March 13, 2010 at 4:45 PM
Bad pun, but if they get Zippo benefits, maybe the realization will light a fire of protest in them.
onlineanalyst on March 13, 2010 at 4:58 PM
Good for you, Scotty – that’s why I contributed to your campaign!
disa on March 13, 2010 at 5:07 PM
And in 3 more years we will have wasted 4.
Mojave Mark on March 13, 2010 at 5:17 PM
Considering the real alternative with a Dem Presidency, House, and Senate I don’t think it was that much of a waste.
CWforFreedom on March 13, 2010 at 5:35 PM
He has poor diction. He ought to enunciate his words better.
atheling on March 13, 2010 at 5:37 PM
2 for 2!
mwdiver on March 13, 2010 at 5:39 PM
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