Mr. Brown goes to Washington: A recommended itinerary

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 21, 2010 09:24 AM

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GOP Sen.-elect Scott Brown of the People’s Seat of Massachusetts heads to D.C. today.

He mentioned wanting to play basketball with Barack Obama and has mentioned looking forward to meeting with John McCain. He will also meet with Harry Reid.

Here is my hope: I hope that he will reach out as aggressively to conservative Republican senators as he is to Democrats and moooooderate Republicans.

I hope he will meet with GOP Sen. Jim DeMint and GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions, who can share their Constitution-rooted insights on everything from health care to homeland security.

I hope he will meet with GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe, a font of knowledge about the cap-and-trade scam, global warming cultists, and Climategate shenanigans.

I hope he will meet with GOP Sen. Tom Coburn, one of the most vigilant spending watchdogs in Congress.

And I hope his door will be open to the best free-market, pro-taxpayer think tanks and resources in town — Heritage, Cato, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, and Judicial Watch, for starters.

Sen. Brown is no longer a parochial state legislator in a teeny-tiny minority. He’s a national figure coming to the Beltway, where there’s a robust ideological and intellectual infrastructure to support the low-tax, limited-government agenda he campaigned on in the Bay State.

Use it!

***

Update 11:10am. Awwwwkward. Fox News just showed John Kerry and Scott Brown talking to the press. Kerry looked stiffer than a frozen meat slab. He showed signs of passive-aggressive syndrome — ostensibly praising Brown while prefacing every Demcare talking point with “and I would think that Scott wouldn’t want” puppies and children to die, etc. Lurch couldn’t wait to get the event over with…his face looked ready to melt.

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  1. #1
    On January 21st, 2010 at 9:26 am, granite said:

    Well stated.

  2. #2
    On January 21st, 2010 at 9:35 am, zyzzyg said:

    I am sure there are those that will want to take Sen elect Brown to task for the statements he made about his daughters.

    That would be a mistake.

    His statement was reflective of a loving father with a good relationship with his daughters. Maybe the venue was off, but what I saw was a proud father. It is something that I have done with my nieces and nephews.

    Yep, saying anything about his statement would be small potatoes and would be a search for tittilation over substance. It would be a solicitation of emotions to attempt to bring down and make fun of someone. It would be wrong and bad form.

    In a moment of extreme happiness he shared it in an honest open way.

    And no, it wasn’t even . . . a gaffe.

  3. #3
    On January 21st, 2010 at 9:36 am, MarcoPolo said:

    I’ll give you credit Michelle, you’re always able to see some positive where I can’t. That’s one reason I love you – your perspective is enlightening, and in this case, encouraging.

    I know he’s from Massachusetts. But not even 24 hours after the election, he’s talking about a new version of the very issue we wanted him to bury. Sigh.

  4. #4
    On January 21st, 2010 at 9:39 am, stevevvs said:

    Excellent post. I’d include one more though:

    http://mises.org/

    Excellent Economic, Free Market, Pro Liberty site.

  5. #5
    On January 21st, 2010 at 9:47 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    I hope all this too-may the Senator walk the straight and narrow. The power, pomp and privilege of the Beltway does seem to seduce all too many. May he recall this is not about Scott Brown; this is about the Constitution which he swears allegiance to and the Republic.

  6. #6
    On January 21st, 2010 at 9:52 am, swede said:

    Use it!

    I’m cautious about expectations for Brown. He is first a Washington rookie, and secondly, as driven home by “the people’s seat” meme, he is primarily beholden to the people of MA – hardly a solid conservative constituency.

    The prospect of him rising quickly to being a prominent conservative leader is hopeful, but perhaps more wishful. And Brown for president in ’12 is at this point fantasy.

  7. #7
    On January 21st, 2010 at 9:53 am, corkie said:

    Here is my hope: I hope that he will reach out as aggressively to conservative Republican senators as he is to Democrats and moooooderate Republicans.

    Actually, I don’t care who he meets. I care how he votes. Let him meet anyone he wants for the optics of it.

    But this guy will feel cold and lonely if he starts providing the 60th, 61st, 62nd, etc. vote.

  8. #8
    On January 21st, 2010 at 9:53 am, jencab said:

    I wouldn’t hold my breath for that Michelle. He’s a politician. We’ll see.

  9. #9
    On January 21st, 2010 at 9:56 am, corkie said:

    On January 21st, 2010 at 9:35 am, zyzzyg said:

    I am sure there are those that will want to take Sen elect Brown to task for the statements he made about his daughters.

    I’m certainly not going to take him to task for it, and I concur with your assessment of his honorable motivations – an assessment which should be obvious to everyone. I haven’t read the critics, but do they honestly think the guy was trying to pimp his daughters on national tv?

    However, the statement was weird and awkward when watching it live.

  10. #10
    On January 21st, 2010 at 9:57 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    Ditto on what Marco Polo said. Only 24 hours after the election, it looks like the Tea Party movement has been taken over by the RNC. Palin will be campaigning for McCain, Brown is already talking like the Republican Obama while becoming every liberal and RINOs friend, and noseholder commenters are ruling the roost everywhere.

    If we don’t wake up fast (I’m talking about YOU Tea Party organizers who keep sending me e-mails every ten minutes crowing about Brown and asking for money), the movement may be over soon.

    What a disaster.

  11. #11
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:05 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Could we buy the man a subscription to National Review and Rush 24/7?

    As stated by ElRushbo on his site

    The EIB Celebration Zone:
    This One’s for You, Mary Jo!

    RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in my life I am proud of Massachusetts, as I paraphrase Michelle (My Belle) Obama. For the first time in my life I am proud of Massachusetts. I seem to remember some hack saying you never want to waste a crisis. Some hack in the White House said that. I think his name was Rahm Emanuel. That’s exactly right. Well, they are in a crisis right now, and turnaround is fair play.

  12. #12
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:08 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    I predict that all this election accomplished is to put Republicans back in the game for getting their share of the bribes. Brown will be soon be a member of the “Gangs of McCain”. I could spit nails.

  13. #13
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:09 am, tiredofit08 said:

    with you on that one with you Pasadena Phil…I got 3 emails overnight from the tea party…add that to the 6 over the last few days and that’s just too many for me. Brown needs to stay independent in his thinking and stay away from the RHINO’s and lobbyists as much as he can…

    Great list Michelle…I’d also suggest he sit down with Judge Napolitano and get good education on what the limited powers of this Congress really are!

  14. #14
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:10 am, legalbgl said:

    Don’t count on him courting to many conservatives so fast. Massachusets is an independent state. He won because he was able to appeal to the independent voters, not the conservative right wing. If he is smart he will remain more to the right of center, at least until he is ready to make a run at a national election.

  15. #15
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:12 am, walterc said:

    I don’t think it’s a disaster Phil, but you’re right about it not being an awakening of conservatism in liberal America.

    The election of Brown in Mass is a great event in view of the alternative, but he’s not a conservative. And if he’s going to start paling around with RINO’s it all may be for naught.

    From what I’ve seen so far, by being the 41st vote he’s going to force the Dems to soften up a bit. But a bad bill with a couple of good points is still a bad bill.

    And now we’ve got Sarah Palin campaigning for RINO extrordinaire John Mclame. What’s up with that?

  16. #16
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:12 am, legalbgl said:

    On January 21st, 2010 at 9:35 am, zyzzyg said:
    I am sure there are those that will want to take Sen elect Brown to task for the statements he made about his daughters.

    ****

    And no, it wasn’t even . . . a gaffe.

    Oh, it was a gaffe, just ask his wife and daughters, who are about the only people who should take him to task for it.

  17. #17
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:16 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Only 24 hours after the election, it looks like the Tea Party movement has been taken over by the RNC.

    Looks can be deceiving.

  18. #18
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:16 am, dan708 said:

    I will be watching Brown closely as well. If he simply kills the ObamaCare menace, I will forgive many other future sins.

  19. #19
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:17 am, beenthere said:

    I liked this from Michael Fumento and thought I would share, since I believe not too many conservatives read his blog (I think most of his readers are really angry liberals).

    SORRY, NO RIP YET FOR THE HEALTH CARE REFORM LEGISLATION BY MICHAEL FUMENTO

    It’s fine to celebrate the Massachusetts victory of Scott Brown. I like how Daily Show host Jon Stewart put it: “The Kennedy legacy goes down to a naked guy who owns a truck.” (He once posed for Cosmopolitan.)

    But remember from civics class that the legislation only need 51 votes to pass (technically 50, with Biden as tie-braker) and all Brown’s win does is allow a filibuster with one vote to spare. And as the Washington Post’s Steven Pearlstein writes today:

    “There is very little in the latest version of the health-care bill that Maine’s two Republican senators haven’t supported in the past or couldn’t support in the future. In succumbing to the intense social and political pressure from their caucus, both Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins flunked the leadership test last year. Massachusetts has now given them a second chance to redeem their reputations and political fortunes in a state that has always valued independence over party loyalty.”

    So here’s to the naked truckdriver, but we need to continue to get the word out on the need for health care reform but the terrible problems with the legislation that the Democrats are trying to foist upon us.

  20. #20
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:18 am, Lindsay said:

    Thanks, Michelle. Ditto.

    What a bunch of pessimists on the blog today. Gosh, folks, give him a chance!

    He may not be “perfect” but he is darn better than Coakley.

    Nice try, zyzz-gag…as the only daughter of an American hero (WWII Marine), I was kidded by my late Daddy all of my life… and by brothers, husbands and sons. It is a sign of a healthy relationship in families. My husband and I laughed at what Scott Brown said. Get over it.

  21. #21
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:20 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    There’s a little thing called the Constitution. Use it!

  22. #22
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:22 am, Lindsay said:

    Oops, not “husbands” am not a polygamist!Have only had one of those!

    Also, if I misunderstood your statements zzyzzg, I aplogize.

  23. #23
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:28 am, beenthere said:

    And now we’ve got Sarah Palin campaigning for RINO extrordinaire John Mclame. What’s up with that?

    Palin feels an intense personal loyalty to McCain. This was made very clear in her book (which eveeryone seems to have bought but only liberals and myself have read — I’m exaggerating of course. Slightly. ) and her comments since leaving the governorship of Alaska.

    Look, we are going to have to make the republicans feels the heat just like the democrat’s base does to their party. Only more so. In the meantime, read Thomas Sowell’s latest comments on the Republicans and never forget: a liberal works from sun-to-sun, a conservative’s work is never done.)

  24. #24
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:28 am, et said:

    Michelle, Watch who he hires to staff his offices both at home and in Washington.

  25. #25
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:33 am, Marshall Russ said:

    I’m hear too many phrases being used now by Brown and other Republicans that are pure liberal speak i.e. “bi-partisanship in solving problems” That means Republicans must compromise. That will lead to Republicans remaining in the minority.

  26. #26
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:37 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:18 am, Lindsay said:

    Thanks, Michelle. Ditto.

    What a bunch of pessimists on the blog today. Gosh, folks, give him a chance!

    True-but “once burned, twice shy”. In the past, not distant enough, I have worked on both the John McCain and Jon Kyl campaigns. Now I am stuck with the No Gang Banger Left Behind twins.

    We hope Senator Brown well-the Constitution thing per Rogue Cheddar .

  27. #27
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:40 am, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    On January 21st, 2010 at 9:36 am, MarcoPolo said:

    I’ll give you credit Michelle, you’re always able to see some positive where I can’t. That’s one reason I love you – your perspective is enlightening, and in this case, encouraging.

    I agree, our hostess is good at seeing the positive, as well as informing us about the negatives – real or perceived.

    I know he’s from Massachusetts. But not even 24 hours after the election, he’s talking about a new version of the very issue we wanted him to bury.

    I hope you’re all listening to what he’s actually saying, not reading or listening to the distilled sixty-second sound bites.

    He’s talking about the fact that each state should be working to craft their own health-care coverage for their citizens – he stated point blank that he’s a states’ rights guy.

    Give the guy a chance. Not even the great Ronald Reagan pleased all of us all of the time with his decisions. And as many have pointed out [myself included], Scott Brown isn’t Ronald Reagan.

    But neither should he be painted as the bogeyman who’s out to betray conservatives. He hasn’t even been sworn in yet, but already people are sharpening the knives – and that’s on our side. :roll:

  28. #28
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:45 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    I would feel so much better today had Brown included US on his list of people he thanked. We seem to be the dirty little secret that no one in polite society dare mention. Kind of like John Edwards’ little tootsie.

  29. #29
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:46 am, cheapseat said:

    yes michelle, i hope and trust he will meet with conservatives, and i trust from his background that he will be more conservative than liberal. but to the nay sayers, i see absolute reasonableness in his meeting with the people he is meeting with on a one day intro session. the republican presidential nominee of last year, the majority and minority leaders of the senate, and the massachusettes senate delegation. come on, that’s like going to someones home and not saying hi to the owners. PHIL; i get your point, and sarah should not campaign for mccain until he has won the primary, if he can. during the primary she and all tea party activists should be working to nominate the most conservative true to the issues person running in that race. THEN GET BEHIND THE BEST CHOICE. no one will be the perfect choice.

  30. #30
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:49 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    He’s talking about the fact that each state should be working to craft their own health-care coverage for their citizens – he stated point blank that he’s a states’ rights guy.

    That’s more like it. This Country is supposed to be about the “Sovereign States”. Get the Fed the f out! State overregulation of the insurance industry has contribute greatly to many of the issues the Fed wants to address. It should be fixed at the State level!

  31. #31
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:52 am, Lindsay said:

    Goodness, Scott Brown’s comments on small governement,tax cuts,our military, upholding the Constitution, terrorists not having lawyers, and other strong statements can carry me for a long time.

    As I have said before, I am an optimist. Things happen for a reason. It does not hurt to have hope and prayer that this guy can make a difference.

    I can’t stand the whining and fretting before the guy is even sworn in much less voted on anything! No matter what this man does, he will have people not liking it. I just hope most of the time the people who don’t like it are Democraps.

  32. #32
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:58 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    Brown the candidate was not the same man as Brown the state legislator. This guy is embarrassed that the Tea Party people propelled him into the Senate. His failure to mention us no less thanking us was as conspicuous in its absence as that security report that failed to mention Islam or terrorists.

    If you ask me, we seem to have a problem with low self-esteem in the Tea Party movement.

  33. #33
    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:58 am, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:16 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Only 24 hours after the election, it looks like the Tea Party movement has been taken over by the RNC.

    Looks can be deceiving.

    A voice of sanity! Thank you, AzN.

    Please don’t forget, folks, that the tea party movement is comprised of people from diverse backgrounds, economically, ethnically, religiously, and politically.

    What we all have in common is the desire to preserve this great nation, a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. No one party or group owns that idea – and we don’t have to agree on every little detail to be able to work together to that end, to preserve and protect our Constitutional Republic.

  34. #34
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:07 am, zyzzyg said:

    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:22 am, Lindsay said: #22

    Also, if I misunderstood your statements zzyzzg, I aplogize.

    It happens all the time. No worries.

  35. #35
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:09 am, Desert Rat said:

    Sorry, the shine is already off Mr. Brown for this AZ voter. I already got a Robo-call from him shilling for McCain. Ugh, couldn’t he at least have waited a week or two for me to be happy for him? Now he just appears to be another vote for “Bi-partisan” McAmnesty. Sure Hope I’m wrong about that one . . .

  36. #36
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:12 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:58 am, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    we don’t have to agree on every little detail to be able to work together

    That’s a nice little rhetorical speech but it the part that I quoted is exactly what keeps getting us conservatives in trouble. WE are the majority in this country. If you were hoping that Brown would be persuaded by our support to join us, give it up. He went out of his way (out of embarrassment) to make it clear in his acceptance speech and follow up comments that he is not one of us. We have just given him the key to the country club that he never thought he would ever be a member of.

    Brown is a senator today because of us. He was in the right place at the right time historically. Face it folks, we just had an affair with a RINO so wipe the smiles off of your faces. We are the whores in this relationship.

  37. #37
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:14 am, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    On January 21st, 2010 at 10:58 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    …His failure to mention us no less thanking us was as conspicuous in its absence as that security report that failed to mention Islam or terrorists.

    Excuse me, but you need a reality check Phil.

    Jay Severin of WTTK was in Scott Brown’s suite at the Park Plaza as one of the Brown campaign’s invited guests – friends and family is what it said on Jay’s pass. And when Scott got the call from Coakley, conceding the race, Jay got on the phone to WTTK’s Michelle McPhee, who along with Michael Graham (to whom our hostess has linked before) was hosting a gathering of Brown supporters – many of whom are also tea party activists – at F1 Boston.

    And after Jay told the crowd gathered there with Michelle and Michael that Scott had won, Senator-elect Scott Brown got on the phone and thanked the crowd there for all their support and encouragement.

    So maybe he didn’t come here personally, or mention each and every blog or group that worked to make this happen.

    But don’t go telling people that he isn’t worthy because he didn’t thank us.

    He did.

    And more importantly, he will thank us by what he does in the United States Senate.

    Give him the chance. Please.

  38. #38
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:18 am, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    Phil, we agree on a lot of issues, but on this, I think everyone is getting ahead of themselves.

    Tell me, did you agree with everything that Reagan did?

    I didn’t, and I voted for him three times, the first time when I wrote in his name for President in 1976.

  39. #39
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:29 am, graysonret said:

    Let’s see what Brown will do, and support. I’m sure, by now, he’s received the usual new senator welcome from the party…”Fall in line if you want to get anything done or passed” speech. My best wishes go out to him.

  40. #40
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:32 am, Regulus said:

    Lurch couldn’t wait to get the event over with…his face looked ready to melt.

    Too bad I missed it. Still, I got to see the expressions of severe constipation on the faces of the donks standing behind C(r)oakley during her concession speech, and that’s a close second.

  41. #41
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:35 am, Desert Dave said:

    I missed part of Brown’s acceptance speech. What is the controversial statement about his daughters, that they are super hot? I agree. But seriously, what did he say?

  42. #42
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:38 am, swede said:

    graysonret said:
    Let’s see what Brown will do, and support.

    Or not, depending on his tack, but agreed. The important thing now is Obamacare for all intents and purposes is DOA. Beyond that lets see what he does, but my expectations are tempered by his Washington infancy and his constituency.

  43. #43
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:41 am, flenser said:

    There was some irrational exuberance surrounding Brown’s victory, with lots of talk about a “superstar” and a 2012 POTUS bid.

    It seems very probable that he’s going to be a Republican in the Snowe/Collins/McCain mold. That’s better than a Democrat, sure. But there will be times he’ll drive us crazy, and we need to be aware of that going in.

  44. #44
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:44 am, jrgdds said:

    Nazi Pelosi Van Braun just announced she does no have the votes to pass the senate version of Obama care.

    Hey Congress, don’t just don’t just do something…Stand there!

  45. #45
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:46 am, jdtruly said:

    Wow! With friends like this, who needs enemies?

    Clearly Scott Brown is not as pedigreed a conservative as we’d all like, but does anyone in their right mind expect that from a state like Massachusetts? He is far more conservative than anyone who has come out of a New England state in my memory. We need to celebrate his victory – which was a victory for conservatism and because conservative ideas are taking hold.

    It’s certainly appropriate for him to be reminded what got him here, to watch his votes and remind him again. But remember, he’s up for election again in two years.

    Rome wasn’t built in a day. But it didn’t take long to tear it down. So it will be with a true conservative resurgence in the US. The Tea Party movement has made great strides in a very short time (in political years) but expecting complete victory and perfection in a short time is simply naive and unrealistic.

  46. #46
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:46 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    Wayfaring Stranger: Please drop the “agreeing on everything” argument. It is a dumb argument. It’s like pointing out that worms share 93% of human DNA. It just doesn’t work that way. As Tea Party activists, we knew that Brown was a RINO. But we saw the one-issue benefit of electing him to kill Obamacare from Ted Kennedy’s old seat as worth the risk. We are now seeing that we were used and should immediately close the door before more RINOs (without the unique benefit Brown represented) slip by.

    Brown should have been PROUD to acknowledge SPECIFICALLY the help he got from the TEA PARTY. All we got was “thanks to my supporters” with an implicit “now get lost”.

  47. #47
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:50 am, swede said:

    Desert Dave said:
    I missed part of Brown’s acceptance speech. What is the controversial statement about his daughters, that they are super hot?

    He said they are “available”, in an obviously joking tone. Beck went balistic and the link calls it a gaffe, but it was just a sign of a healthy family relationship – that he can publicly joke about it.

  48. #48
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:50 am, flenser said:

    He is far more conservative than anyone who has come out of a New England state in my memory.

    That remains to be seen. As I say, he seems likely to be another Republican of the Collins/Snowe/McCain sort.

  49. #49
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:50 am, chapoutier said:

    He said they are “available”, in an obviously joking tone. Beck went balistic and the link calls it a gaffe, but it was just a sign of a healthy family relationship – that he can publicly joke about it.

    And they are smoking hot.

  50. #50
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:51 am, floridaobserver said:

    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:35 am, Desert Dave said:
    I missed part of Brown’s acceptance speech. What is the controversial statement about his daughters, that they are super hot? I agree. But seriously, what did he say?

    He said they were both available. It was hilarious. It was done spur of the moment by a dad who is proud of his beautiful daughters. Then he said the one daughter was “definitely NOT avaiable” but the other one was. It was really funny and his wife and daughters laughed and looked “horrified” (NOT!). It was what most of us do to our kids as parents. Nothing perverse about it. Watch his victory speech on youtube or wherever, from beginning to end. (And shame on Beck for his remarks about it.)

    We’re in FLA and hoping the for similar results with OUR race next fall. Rubio over Crist in the primary, and Rubio on to DC.

  51. #51
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:54 am, BlackFlag55 said:

    Here’s a thought – how about an is itinerary that focuses on the primary and most critical job of an elected federal representative?

    DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AS IT IS WRITTEN FROM ALL THE OTHER ELECTED MEMBERS OF THE SENATE?

    You’re not there to ‘make law’. You’re not there to loot our Treasury or borrow against our credit. You’re there to DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION from legislators who will, every day in every way, attempt to usurp and corrupt the Constitution to their own ends.

    Plus … work to put every Democrat in chains, and most Republicans.

  52. #52
    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:57 am, floridaobserver said:

    BTW, my friends and I here are relinquishing our “Republican” status and going to “Conservative”. But, of course, that will be after the primaries.
    The Republicans don’t get it, either.
    Also, what’s going on with the Fair Tax?

  53. #53
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:01 pm, Desert Dave said:

    Thanks for the info Swede and Fla. It doesn’t seem like that big of a deal or a “gaffe” to me. The girls may have been a bit embarrassed, but hey that’s what fathers do! Other than that, I don’t see anything controversial about it.

  54. #54
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:02 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:46 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    Wayfaring Stranger: Please drop the “agreeing on everything” argument. It is a dumb argument…

    It may be dumb to you, but if we lived and worked according to what I think I’m hearing from you and others, the Founding Fathers would never have managed to put together our Constitution – imperfect document that it was and is according to some.

    And I don’t know where you’re getting the [implicit] now get lost from what he’s said.

    Sorry, but I refuse to be that cynical. I’m not saying I trust him implicitly [the second definition] – or anyone short of God Almighty. But I’m willing to give him a chance to prove himself, one way or another.

    Or would you all rather have had Martha Coakley?

  55. #55
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:04 pm, Send_Me said:

    “Conservatives” keep saying this guy is a great deal for America. We’ll see.

  56. #56
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:15 pm, rightwingrocker said:

    Kerry looked stiffer than a frozen meat slab.

    Sorry, Michelle …

    John Kerry looking like an old stiff meat slab is just NOT NEWS!!!

    HAHAHA

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

  57. #57
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:16 pm, swede said:

    Desert Dave said:
    The girls may have been a bit embarrassed, but hey that’s what fathers do! Other than that, I don’t see anything controversial about it.

    Exactly. Nothing to see here. Move along.

  58. #58
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:33 pm, Regulus said:

    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:04 pm, Send_Me said:

    “Conservatives” keep saying this guy is a great deal for America. We’ll see.

    I don’t know enough about Brown to say anything about what kind of Senator he’ll be, but I do know:

    1. He beats the alternative.

    2. Sometimes, half a loaf of bread is better than no loaf at all. And that’s what the alternative was offering.

    3. I believe it was Reagan who said, “There is no limit to what you can achieve, as long as you don’t care about who gets the credit.” So what if Brown didn’t give the Tea Partiers a shout out in his victory speech? They still won a great and historical victory. Sometimes, the satisfaction of being a Kingmaker must be its own reward.

    4. You can be “dead right.” You can limit yourself to supporting candidates who only say the right things and who have only 100% ratings from all the right conservative groups. No one can stop you. And you can also watch in frustration while the ones who manage to get elected get run over, because there aren’t enough of them to keep the donks from having dictatorial power and using it like tyrants. Wasn’t 2009 enough of that?

    We were that close to having donkeycare crammed up our butts, but for the election of one man. I’ll thank him for that alone, even if he doesn’t turn out perfect in everything else.

  59. #59
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:36 pm, mytake said:

    I’ve done similar stuff with my daughters…. Really embarrassed them in public. Just makes me respect him more.

  60. #60
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:37 pm, WaterBoyz said:

    MM said:
    I hope he will meet with GOP Sen. Jim DeMint and GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions, who can share their Constitution-rooted insights on everything from health care to homeland security.

    Didn’t Sessions get the top award for the Repub with the most pork in the last go around?

  61. #61
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:37 pm, mytake said:

    Obama’s little speech just now was more class-dividing drivel. Guess he didn’t learn anything yesterday.

  62. #62
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:39 pm, swede said:

    Regulus said:
    We were that close to having donkeycare crammed up our butts, but for the election of one man. I’ll thank him for that alone, even if he doesn’t turn out perfect in everything else.

    Well said. And he can be instrumental in harpooning Cap and Tax as well. Beyond this any conservative advance via his seat is gravy.

  63. #63
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:39 pm, mytake said:

    I like the “Thelma and Louise analogy. He is taking us right off the cliff. Hopefully, he will destroy the Dems first and the rest of us will be able to avoid the fall.

  64. #64
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:43 pm, mytake said:

    Dow down 2%. Obama is a dolt. He thinks this is helping the American people? Sorry to vary from Brown, but Obama learned nothing from the Brown win. Or else he learned that he has to move faster, now that the tide is turning.

  65. #65
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:43 pm, cheapseat said:

    one of the best things mr brown could do to solidify and show the way for rinos is to read the prime minister of australia’s speech where he told islamists this is australia. you came here, we didn’t go to the middle east. you must change to our society and our laws, or get out. no sharia law, nor any forms of it.
    if mr brown would articulate that very speech, and throw in the spanish illegal immigrant problem, he would be a hero of enormous proportions.

  66. #66
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:44 pm, mytake said:

    He is even more dangerous, because he is cornered.

  67. #67
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:46 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Brown’s victory was the dope-slap the communists needed to slow them down. It will not stop them. Be ever vigilant that Brown does not reach across the aisle to assist them advancing their agenda.

    Palin is campaigning for the chief “reacher”, she clearly does not understand conservatism. Conservatives do not support those who have no respect for the rule of law (McAmnesty)

  68. #68
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:48 pm, mytake said:

    VP, I was just going to say the same thing.

  69. #69
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:54 pm, happy2behere said:

    The amount of my Brown donation was worth it just for that picture.

    Other note: As the mother of a teenage daughter, I say “meat” and “daughter” should NEVER be used in the same sentence. Gaffe, tacky, cringeworthy, strange, lame, whatever, its just plain stupid to say such a thing.

  70. #70
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:57 pm, J S Ragman said:

    I like how Daily Show host Jon Stewart put it: “The Kennedy legacy goes down to a naked guy who owns a truck.”

    Well, wiseguy, at least he can keep the truck on the road.

  71. #71
    On January 21st, 2010 at 12:59 pm, mytake said:

    Maybe it is good that Dodd won’t be around to help take Brown’s truck off the road. Always remember that power corrupts.

  72. #72
    On January 21st, 2010 at 1:03 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    He mentioned wanting to play basketball with Barack Obama

    He’d better watch those elbows and body checks. Don’t want the Socialist in Chief ending up on the floor. Obummer would have the Secret Service jack him up.

  73. #73
    On January 21st, 2010 at 1:04 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Lurch couldn’t wait to get the event over with…his face looked ready to melt.

    Oopsie. He always looks like that. Awkward!

  74. #74
    On January 21st, 2010 at 1:33 pm, PhredE said:

    In electing Brown, MA voters also elected a pro-enforcement, pro-jobs guy to the Senate. From his website:

    “I recognize that our strength as a nation is built on the immigrant experience in America. I welcome legal immigration to this country. However, we are also a nation of laws and government should not adopt policies that encourage illegal immigration. Providing driver’s licenses and in-state tuition to illegal immigrant families will act as a magnet in drawing more people here in violation of the law and it will impose new costs on taxpayers. I oppose amnesty, and I believe we ought to strengthen our border enforcement and institute an employment verification system with penalties for companies that hire illegal immigrants.”

    And, on related subject matter, US Reps Kratovil (D-MD) and Chaffetz (R-UT) co-sponsored and introduced an Anti-Amnesty Bill in the US House. The HR number is 1026 for those that want to follow-up or urge your Rep to support it.

    More info at NumbersUSA

  75. #75
    On January 21st, 2010 at 2:06 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On January 21st, 2010 at 11:12 am, Pasadena Phil said:
    Face it folks, we just had an affair with a RINO so wipe the smiles off of your faces. We are the whores in this relationship.

    Oh yeah? Where the hell is my money?!

  76. #76
    On January 21st, 2010 at 3:54 pm, BlackFlag55 said:

    Regulus …

    I’m sorry, I rarely if ever confront a Commenter directly because in comments, fair’s fair.

    But … the accepted definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over yet expecting different results.

    You keep right on voting ‘Republican’. Meanwhile a true revolution is brewing to obliterate both parties, because We The People recognize there is only one party – the Party Of Power – and it fields two divisions to do chimera-theatre battle to keep us off balance and jumping from one foot to the other, chasing our tails while they loot us and herd us around like prey.

    No more. (very bad words) on both their houses until they’re all gone from the annals of History.

  77. #77
    On January 21st, 2010 at 4:56 pm, Regulus said:

    You keep right on voting ‘Republican’. Meanwhile a true revolution is brewing to obliterate both parties, because We The People recognize there is only one party – the Party Of Power – and it fields two divisions to do chimera-theatre battle to keep us off balance and jumping from one foot to the other, chasing our tails while they loot us and herd us around like prey.

    You have a very high regard for yourself as “We the People,” but tearing the whole edifice down because you don’t always get what you want sounds like either a recipe for permanent donkey rule by plurality, or worse.

    I’m not “Mr. Republican”; I simply recognize that for all its shortcomings, the Republican Party remains the most effective bulwark against the donks.

    And there is a difference between the two: Republicans may muddle through things, but I don’t worry about them hating our society so much that they want to destroy it. 2009 should have made this distinction painfully obvious to anyone and everyone.

  78. #78
    On January 21st, 2010 at 6:37 pm, Lindsay said:

    Brown won. Thank God. The end until he proves me wrong.

    That said: RUBIO!

  79. #79
    On January 22nd, 2010 at 1:36 am, love2rumba said:

    The problem with Brown is that although he did not talk of Republicans, he also did not talk of the the TEA PARTIERs who made his victory happen;he acts like McCain made his victory happen-this isn’t good.

  80. #80
    On January 22nd, 2010 at 9:27 am, kilroyshere said:

    I watched with near HORROR the Kerry/Brown love-in.

    Senator Brown; these people ARE NOT your friends, but are akin to devils in sheep’s cloth.

    Kerry is playing you as is alleged new best friend in DC cuz HE NEEDS you.

    Pre-election; Kerry was more concerned with his next Botox injection than seeing you or any Rep with a similarly badly staged photo op and sycophant liberal press in tow.

    Senator Brown, don’t fall for all the manipulative DC veteran moves like Kerry’s.

    Keep away from the DC media consultants and image makers. The press will find you when you do the right things. Be yourself and don’t become one of them.

    Sure; I understand you wanted with the Kerry pony show to make a good impression back home in MA with voters who might otherwise not pull the lever for a Rep, BUT GET A GRIP MAN.

    Stand up to the Kerry’s and anyone else in DC. You as Senator have the same voice as the Kerry’s and Reid’s in the Senate; keep em away from your office and only negotiate from strength.

    Continue to show us the spine you did on the campaign trail in your truck. Do the right thing for your constituency in MA and America. And if you do so, you will go far Mr. Brown.

    And puh-leeeeze; don’t go to the Senate barber shop and get the typical DC make-over that will make you look just like the rest of those DC fools who are responsible for dragging America down into financial collapse and a national security abyss.

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  81. #81
    On January 22nd, 2010 at 10:10 am, happyscrapper said:

    On January 22nd, 2010 at 9:27 am, kilroyshere said

    Well said! Now put a stamp on that letter and mail it to him!!

  82. #82
    On January 22nd, 2010 at 10:58 am, BlackFlag55 said:

    No sir. Wholeheartedly and completely disagree. It is 100% obvious and plain as day that that what is called a ‘Republican’ is a simpleton’s label for traitors to the Constitution in different mufti.

    The Republicans have fundamentally changed and will continue to fundamentally change America AWAY from the Constitution. We’re so far down the rabbit hole I’m certain that most people on this list have no idea what real freedom is like. No idea at all what real liberty feels like, what it looks like.

    Republicans go to Washington to LEGISLATE.

    Not protect the Constitution, but to leave their mark, satisfy the demands of their backers and make a name for themselves.

    THAT’S WRONG ON EVERY POSSIBLE COUNT.

    And what did we see with Brown immediately making patty cake with Kerry? Enough to make an American throw up.

    Unless he openly nakedly goes to Washing to RESTORE the Constitution, eradicate the IRS, destroy the FedResv, and throw Democrats in chains in jail, what good is he?

    He’s just another tool.

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