Scott Brown Slams Obamacare in Weekly GOP Address
Remember him? The guy who won Ted Kennedy's Senate seat by running explicitly against Obamacare?
Excerpts:
“Hello, I’m United States Senator Scott Brown from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
“When the people of my state elected me in January, they sent more than a senator to Washington – they sent a message. Across party lines, the voters told [...]
Democracy Inaction
Could this be the magic “exit strategy” for the Democrats to extract themselves from mounting voter opposition to ObamaCare from all sides? Here is my late-night, bleary-eyed scenario:
The Democrats deliberately drag out discussions on the House-Senate compromise bill.
They hope and pray that Republican Scott Brown beats Democrat Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts senatorial election. [...]
Pawlenty in New Hampshire
Minnesota’s Governor Tim Pawlenty was in New Hampshire yesterday. He gave a long interview to the Manchester Union Leader:
“President Obama was here in New Hampshire on New Hampshire primary night and said he was going to fix health care by bringing Republicans and Democrats together,” he said. “Well, here we are in New Hampshire [...]
Poll: Bipartisan Majority Supports Afghan Surge
A new USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 56 percent of Americans support sending more troops to Afghanistan (38 percent say the 30,000 Obama’s sending is “about right,” while 16 percent say that number is “too low”); 36 percent say that number of troops was “too high.”
Fifty-one percent support Obama’s plan in general, while 40 percent [...]
Obama Is For Democracy, Except When He’s Not
From Obama’s presser today with Uribe:
Over the last several years, I think both Republicans and Democrats in the United States have recognized that we always want to stand with democracy, even if the results don’t always mean that the leaders of those countries are favorable to the United States — and that is a tradition [...]
No Time for Sergeants - the First Post-Penultimate Word on the A.D.D.D.D.A.
I know I said the last post was the penultimate one on the subject of the Anti-Democratic Democrats’ Denial of Democracy in Albany; but something so Kafkaesque has just happened in the New York State Senate that I cannot silently wait for the ultimate post… which will be the one where everybody’s hash is finally [...]
