What a week. I’m glad it’s over. Especially after reading how Scott Brown said he’d vote with Democrats sometimes. He didn’t elaborate. Again, I apologize for being the bearer of bad news.
AP: Scott Brown says he has already told Senate Republican leaders they won’t always be able to count on his vote. The man who staged an upset in last week’s Massachusetts Senate special election, in part by pledging to be the 41st GOP vote against President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that he staked his claim in early conversations with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Whip Jon Kyl.
“I already told them, you know, `I got here with the help of a close group of friends and very little help from anyone down there, so there’ll be issues when I’ll be with you and there are issues when I won’t be with you,’” Brown said Thursday during the half-hour interview. “So, I just need to look at each vote and then make a proper analysis and then decide.”
Asked how McConnell and Kyl responded, Brown said, “They understood. They said, `You can probably do whatever you want, Scott. And, so, just let us know where your head’s at, and we’ll talk it through, and just keep us posted.’”
I can’t think of a single issue where the democrats have been right lately. So I can’t think of anything that, after a proper analysis, anyone with common sense and good judgment could support. I guess we’ll find out soon enough. Gee, I can’t wait.
Not surprising at all. This is the man that campaigned on being a “Scott Brown Republican.” A social moderate and a fiscal conservative.
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Let’s hope that’s all it is.
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I don’t think there’s anything too ominous to read into that. People in New England have this preconcieved notion that all Republicans have to look like Colnel Sanders, talk like Foghorn Leghorn and show up to legislate with a mint julep in one hand and a deluxe, imported over-under shotgun draped over the other arm.
0bamacare, Cap & Trade and Card Check…those are the things he said he’d vote against if elected. I think he’s giving himself an opening on the off chance that Dems will get an issue right someday.
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I don’t have an issue so far with what Scott said. Listening to his campaign speeches, he seems to have things right. In a way, what he said is what we want–defiance to the established leadership. All he said is he is going to vote his way and he doesn’t want someone outside of Massachusetts telling him how to vote. Maybe he will actually read a bill! He knows he got elected because people aren’t happy with the status quo. I’m not worried yet.
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I hope that he knows what he’s doing by saying this.
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If he sticks with his campaign pledge then I don’t have a problem with him, however if it becomes hollow words then he will have burned his bridges to those who stood behind him. Hoping for the best.
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Good for Scott Brown. that is all we want is people to vote for what they think is right. If he is a true conservative, then he will vote as one, regardless of where the pressure may come from. I also hope that he will vote according to the constitutionality of issues. If he does all of these things, he will find that there will not be a single instance of a Democrat sponsored bill that is both conservaitve and constitutional.
I will continue to ride the Scott Brown wave until he proves himself to be unworthy.
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At this point, he is certainly better than the alternative.
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Does this mean he follows in the path of Specter, McCain and Coillins? If so he’s toast. No one should ever vote as the dhimmies do, in lockstep. Amnesty was defeated by the GOP in spite of the McCains and Snowes.
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[...] worries of another Northeast Republican are unfounded. I certainly hope so. This interview is a reason to [...]
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