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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mwdiver on March 13, 2010 at 5:41 PM
Nor do they let the US Constitution get in their way.
CliffHanger on March 13, 2010 at 5:49 PM
I don’t think this year has gone to waste. Think of the mischief the Democrats would have done if they were not fixated on healthcare…
unclesmrgol on March 13, 2010 at 6:35 PM
Good job Scotty B. …
… more please!
Seven Percent Solution on March 13, 2010 at 6:43 PM
They still have 9.5 months left until 2011. They will get to the rest of the mischief soon enough. Amnesty anyone?
angryed on March 13, 2010 at 6:44 PM
Sic semper tyrannis!
kd6rxl on March 13, 2010 at 7:43 PM
All the more need to kill this bill so as to further damage the chances of the rest of the agenda. They pass this, it’ll be smooth sailing for the rest of it, I don’t care what the analysts are saying about cap and trade being dead in the Senate.
Missy on March 13, 2010 at 8:30 PM
He is a hot one when he wants to be. Can we keep THIS Scott Brown?
leftnomore on March 13, 2010 at 9:13 PM
That was a bit long winded wasn’t it? Brevity Scott! You hit on all the right stuff.
daesleeper on March 13, 2010 at 9:22 PM
Learned a lesson after he signed that horrible jobs bill.
inchdeep on March 13, 2010 at 9:53 PM
OK Scott, you need more key light and less fill, The way they lit you made you look a little like Al Bundy from Married With Children. That’s not the image you want to project.
Boxy_Brown on March 13, 2010 at 10:36 PM
I applauded Brown’s election; he is no conservative but he may be on the right path
Willie on March 13, 2010 at 10:46 PM
Dump the traitor bama in any way!!!
jgdp on March 13, 2010 at 11:03 PM
Scott Brown wasn’t elected based on ideology alone, he was elected because of his competence, sound mind and trustworthyiness. He does what he said he’ll do, many politicans don’t, so the electorate is often cynical about their motives. He’s made no secret about many of his positions, and he’s good about explaining his votes.
Ripama on March 14, 2010 at 12:03 AM
He isn’t conservative enough for some of the posters here which, in my opinion, is a shame. Mr. Brown is not an ultra right wing Senator. Neither was President Reagan: Senator Brown is the first person whom I have heard just being matter of fact on issues. Moreover, he did not vote for the jobs bill, he voted for the debate.
I am a committed hard core Republican – sound conservative policy trumps hard core ideology is what we must remember. If we are so limited in our demands of our matter of fact candidate, we do President Reagan’s memory a colossal disservice.
Afterall, we are not Obamacrats.
bbh on March 14, 2010 at 1:04 AM
I don’t know if AnninCA will see this, but she claims that she was a Dem because of their “dedication to helping the poor”.
OK, I was clearing out some old shows on my DVR today and finally got through that week that Glenn Beck did last August that was very hard hitting against Obama and the people he has surrounded himself with, that are not confirmed by the Senate. (This was the week Kennedy died because there was a lot of scrolls at the bottom of the screen when his body was carried somewhere, as if I cared).
One statistic that Glenn Beck put up on the screen that week was that since 1970, the 10 largest, poorest cities, have only been run by Republicans 8% of the time. 8 of the 10 were 100% Democrat ruled cities the whole time. The poverty level didn’t budge, the school graduation rates are abysmal, etc.
I don’t understand why more people do not see this. Progressives have NEVER successfully “shared the wealth” that lifted people’s income higher, ever anywhere in the world. The Deomocrats find the poor easy votes, lock step votes. The Dems don’t give a flying fig about the poor, the poor help the Dems stay in power.
It is all about POWER!!
karenhasfreedom on March 14, 2010 at 2:14 AM
O/T
This website didn’t pick up the time change tonite on the time stamp of my above post :)
karenhasfreedom on March 14, 2010 at 2:15 AM
Fixed it for Ann.
xblade on March 14, 2010 at 4:35 AM
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