Scott Brown Saves the Union

Brown was outside Fenway Park shaking hands before the Bruins game. Coakely did not want to be out in the cold.

 

Suburbia, great points. I had the same line of thinking you have about the current state of things right now.

The Dems infighting over how to stay on the same page over HCR, the GOP on the verge of a civil war between the moderates and the Bible belt wing, will make this must-see viewing thru this year.

 

Nice try, Boom. But since the Senate has already voted on it, the House could just pass the Senate bill and be done with it.

A Brown win could actually work out to be a positive in the end. It would certainly give the voters a taste of what the other teabagger candidates will do if they win.

 

Like fishy said,

The House only needs to vote on the Senate bill which has already passed, and then the diffrences are ironed out through reconciliation. No re-vote needed.

It'll piss a lot of people off, but who cares?

I though the best part of health care reform would be the whining cries of Republicans when it passed 60-40.

But now, the best part will be when it passes and Republicans wet their pants by crying "It's not fair."

I can't wait.

 

THIS WEEK:

Senator Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, said that if Brown were elected, rushing a bill through or using reconciliation to pass it "would be Chicago politics at its worst.’’

"You’re talking about basically an approach that says we’re going to do whatever we want, and because we’ve got power, independent of what people think or say or how they may vote,’’ he said in a telephone interview last night.


UNDER BUSH:

"The point, of course, is this: If you have 51 votes for your position, you win," Gregg told his Senate colleagues on the floor.

He added, "Reconciliation is a rule of the Senate (that) has been used before for purposes exactly like this on numerous occasions... Is there something wrong with majority rules? I don't think so."

 

Joe Kennedy still has a chance.

All those Tea Party folks are supposed to like libertarians.

 

Harry Reid will need to have the balls to actually pull the trigger on reconciliation. And if Coakley loses tonight, I'm not even sure they can get 50 Democrats plus VP Joe Biden to stay together. If a Democrat with the party establishment's backing can lose in Massachusetts, it could cause even some normally loyal Democrats to get cold feet.

 

That's hilarious. All of a sudden the same tactics that were okay when they ran the show are "Chicago Politics."

 

I GUARANTEE Brown wins.

If he doesn't, I won't post for two weeks.

Funniest thing I saw all day was the Fox News boys purposely suppressing their
Cheshire grins, while pretending it's still wide-open . . . anything to avoid
discouraging any potential GOP voters.

 

There is much truth to what you say.

 

I have faith that my friends at ACORN will push Coakley over the line -- if you know what I mean.

 

After the way Harry Reid kissed Joe Lieberman's ass after 2008, I think it's safe to say Harry Reid has no balls.

Reid is a major disappointment. The Dems need someone who's not afraid to kick the other side in the nuts from time to time.