Scott Brown Will Vote for Dodd-Frank Bill
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
I wish Scott Brown wouldn’t feel the need to ask himself “what would Teddy do” before deciding how to vote. Brown is saying he’ll go along with the Democrats on the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill:
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown said on Monday that he will support the financial regulation overhaul, becoming one of the Republicans needed to moved one of the Obama administration’s key pieces of legislation into law.
Brown had announced that he would oppose the compromise bill that had been negotiated by the House and Senate, but shifted his support after bargainers went back to the table and restructured about $19 billion in payments that was opposed by banks in Brown’s state. A final Senate vote could come this week.
“I appreciate the efforts to improve the bill, especially the removal of the $19-billion bank tax. As a result, it is a better bill than it was when this whole process started. While it isn’t perfect, I expect to support the bill when it comes up for a vote,” Brown said in a prepared statement.
Brown joined Sen. Susan Collins of Maine as two crucial Republican votes for the legislation.
I knew we were in trouble when Brown started bicycling with John Kerry. Fittingly enough, Brown was against Dodd-Frank before he was for it. Francois has taught his student well.
This is the same bill about which Chris Dodd, one of its authors, said “No one will know until this is actually in place how it works.”
We have to pass it so we know how it works? I want to get these slimy jerkweeds on an airplane, lock them in, tell them the plane was manufactured by a bunch of guys with a history of shady dealings and zero experience in aeronautics, tell them “nobody knows if this will work until we’re airborne” and see how many of these worms wet themselves when the plane starts taxiing down the runway.
Chris Dodd and Barney Frank — two of the many reasons we’re in such financial trouble — are also the architects of the effort to “fix” the problem. “Hope & Change!”
Thanks for going along with it, Senator Brown, but it’s nothing that Marcia Coakley, or Ted Kennedy for that matter, couldn’t or wouldn’t have done.
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SCOTT: This alone should be enough of a reason to vote against this.
Another Olympia Snowe/Susan Collins/Lindsey Graham/John McCain RINO!
*Exasperated Sigh*
Hey! That’s a Republican you’re trashing Michelle! There are people here who go all frouffy when someone attacks a Republican.
You might wish to double check the poster’s name.
Hell, I will trash any Repub thats a RINO!!
D’oh! (Sorry Doug.)
Just so you all know one of the little “goodies” in this financial regulation bill – from RealClearPolitics:
Remember, Scott Brown is a politician from Massachusetts! That is all you need to know. He is a complete country club RINO, nothing more.
Once AZ dumps McCain (I haven’t given up), I expect Brown will switch parties within a year or two. Being from MA myself, I just can’t see those voters supporting a Republican for long.
Oh well. He served his purpose. Now let’s see if AZ can knock off the GOP’s Ted Kennedy on August 24. It would make the Brown aftershock look like tingle.
Dems and RINOS voting yes on bills that they admit are not “perfect” are so tiresome. This pile of crap bill with opportunities for DIVERSITY CZARS is just another reason to try to turnover as many incumbents as we can in November
I’m trying to figure out what “purpose” Scott Brown actually served. We still have an unconstitutional health care bill, Kagan will almost certainly be confirmed and the Senate is still largely a bunch of left-wing hacks from both parties.
What exactly did Brown do for us?
And just think now that all student loans go through the Feds it looks like any bank that wants in on handling the student loans will have to comply. And that is just one example of how banks do business with the Feds.
Section 342, which declares that race and gender employment ratios, if not quotas, must be observed by private financial institutions that do business with the government. In a major power grab, the new law inserts race and gender quotas into America’s financial industry.
I woner how SCOTUS would view this?
He can be a one termer if he keeps this up.
He poked dead Teddy in his penny-covered eye, and scared the bejeezus out of every Lib in the country… for a little while. It was worth it.
Gave us about a week of warm fuzzies when we thought he could kill the BarryCare nightmare. I don’t think anyone really believed conservatives “gained” a seat. This is MA for cryin out loud.
Perhaps Brown brought down the Dems trying to ram through Cap & Tax and Shamnesty II. We will never really know.
I honestly thought that it is that way already. I find it impossible to conceive that I could walk into any major financial institution and have any difficulty in finding all manner of “diversity” BS. Will this bill make it any worse? I can’t rule that out (affirmative action for gays?), but right now it is hard for me to see how. Last time I looked, affirmative action has been the law of land for decades and nothing Senator “Waitress Sandwich” Dodd and Congressman “Bend Over” Barney is likely impact that one way or another.
But please feel free to correct me on my ignorance.
Ahhhh… seems the Freshman done got rolled…
How many people here were shouting” Brown in 2012!” last January? If I have to explain something that happened so recently, it is because some people have the attention span of a gnat and have no reason posting here.
If the GOP were an actual party, the whip would stroll over to Brown’s office and explain the facts of life to him.
Cmon people…nobody really thought that Scott Brown was a conservative did they? The guy is a Massachusetts liberal posing as a conservative.
He WILL be a one termer, unless he decides to switch parties. MA will vote for a real Democrat next time, not an immitation.
On July 12th, 2010 at 3:37 pm, stillontheroad said:
The answer to that question depends on which side has the 5 justice majority at the time a case is heard.
If things get to the point where the “Wise Latina” is in the majority, not the minority, then this reverse discrimination against white males will be upheld.
Just remember Gibbs said the Dems could very well loose the House this year.
The question is, could Obama be looking at this as not such a bad thing for Obama in 2012? Rush was talking about this today and pointed out that it is very possible that if dems loose the House this year Obama will use it in 2012 as a way to lay blame on Republicans for the state of the country (he has seen the poll numbers showing blame Bush isnt working anymore)with the help of the media of course.
Rush went on to point out the best way to combat this would be for Republicans to emulate the job that Chris Critsie is doing in Jersey. I truly hope they realize that or else they could very easily become the foil Obama so desperately wants for his re-election bid in 2012.
Are we sure Kennedy died? Maybe Brown’s channeling Teddy?
Apparently Scott Brown enjoyed his turn in the pickle barrel at Barney’s house!
Instead, he strolls over, gives the whip to Brown, while bending over and asking, “more please!”
The Democrats rule their own with an iron hand – the GOP with a limp wrist.
None that I recall, other than perhaps a vague reference. Maybe you can cite a comment. At any rate, a questionable comment made in the exuberance of the moment may be excused. Folks needed some good news and thought we had some.
Your condescending arrogance toward others here is another matter. Frankly, it’s getting rather tedious.
California is a fiscal mess, and I voted for McCain. Have at it – then ask me how much I care.
The people who created the problems cannot be trusted to fix the problems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
Brown was against…
And to heck with the rest of the USA.
Yep, he told us what he was going to do right when he was elected. He said he was going to vote for the good of the people of his state, Mass. Just like Obama, they say what they plan to do early on and we make the choice to listen.
I said when he was elected, that this guy was not going to be the Republicans savior in the Senate. East coast Republicans have a track record of being nothing more then warmed up democrats and he is just another perfect example of that policy.
Bawney Bukkake?
Far be it from me, a non-politician, to question a pro’s judgement, but would it be to outrageous to suggest that he can pretty much vote for what he wants now and do the New England Republican thing after this year’s election when he’s closer to his own re-election time? It only seems right after all, they did neutralize his “41st vote against health care” promise through shennanigans after all. Turnabout’s fair play and all that…
Only everybody gets slimed!
You know what else is getting tedious here? RINOs who keep voting for RINOs. I am not concerned about coming off as arrogant and condescending to RINOs and “Republican Uber Alles” pin heads.
I’m never one to let Republicans slide when it comes to conservative values, but Scott Brown was our only hope at stopping health care. It was that simple then.
Next election, the GOP in MA will stay home. After all those Kennedy years, they’re probably used to it.
Brown was a net gain short term over Teddy. It’s a stop gap until the 2010 elections. I never expected much. You cannot expect anything from a GOP member from NY, CT, NH, VT or ME.
That’s the way it is.
See? Someone remembers. Brown was written off by the GOP until the Tea Party got behind him. His stunning victory triggered panic in the upper echelons of the Dem party, GOP and MSM. The Tea Party proved that it could get even a RINO elected if it suited their purpose. In this case, it did.
MA was going to send a liberal to DC anyway but those of us who don’t like Obamacare prevented it’s passage at that time by getting Brown elected. Brown is no longer important.
What IS important is that we depose his best bud McCain in August.
I was referring to Marco Polo and Flyoverman’s posts, not Swede’s. It is important to remember Brown’s election for what it was: a kick to the Dems groin, Tea Partiers rubbing the RNC’s ineptitude nose in the stinking pile, and a stunning set-back for Obamacare at the time. It’s been growing steadily worse for Dems ever since and the Tea Party finally won the respect (and fear) it deserves.
Where the hell is Mitch McConnell or Jim DeMint??!!! Along with the constituency, someone in that damned Republican party has got to lean on him as well as Susan Collins.
This is freaking serious. Start burning the phones, faxes and e-mails, people.
Brown was not a “true” conservative, so Phil would have voted Coakley.
Jim DeMint is not part of the GOP leadership. In fact, they consider him to be a “nut”. Brown’s mentor is McCain. Who knows what to make of McConnell anymore.
Brown is who he is, nothing more than a progressive toady after-all. This bill kill small business by burying them in red tape.
And no Fannie and Freddie in site.
Ever heard of the “Enabling Act of 1933″? This is just one more part of America’s Enabling Act. And what did the enabling act do? It enabled Hitler to be dictator of Germany by forcing the oppression by bureaucracy on the German people. And we know how that gracious act did for the German people.
Read history or repeat it.
We need to elect conservatives whenever we can, but its better to have a moderate in MA than a far left liberal. However, in conservative states like Nevada, Arizona and others we must dump the RINO’s. Take down as many liberals and RINO’s as we can. Those few that survive, must be targeted in 2014, 2016, and 2018.
I’m not satisfied with just 2012. Obama has turned me into a conservative activist for life. Educate, speak about real American history, the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, capitalism, and the eventual failure of ALL liberal policies.
Facts are kryptonite to liberals. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
Electing Brown from Massachusetts was just a nose-tweaking from the electorate to the demoncats. Nothing more. If everyone had played the game fairly, health care would not have passed with a super-majority. The demons had to go for the nuclear option.
Go figure: the demons play dirty until they get caught, then they play even dirtier.
I briefly worked for the Brown campaign, and stood in the freezing rain on election night holding a sign for him.
Now I’m lying gunshot at the side of the road.
We may in fact have to “settle” for Brown here, but that’s a far cry from voting for him enthusiastically.
I can write his next campaign slogan for him:
“Scott Brown: the Best of a Bad Lot”
Excellent!
But, sorry…just had to FIFY a teeny bit.
I wonder what sweet deals are being hatched around Scott’s office, these days. Being a rookie, and having an important vote, the old politician temptation swings in: Me,first. The dems could use his votes. Yes, promise your voters anything to win office, then thumb your nose at them afterwards.
As a Massachusetts republican myself, it always bothered me that Brown’s overused response concerning many liberal policy issues was, “We can do better.”
“THE NEXT TIME AROUN’ WE CAN DO BETTER THAN BROWN.
Don’t think John Kerry didn’t have a few carrots and sticks that he discussed with Mr Brown. He has been put in his place by the majority party.
He isn’t the only one. They target their opponents and use any means necessary to destroy them. GW Bush is the poster child of these politics of personal destruction.
And now the racists at the NAACP are calling the Tea Party activists racist. Talk about the kettle calling the pot black. They target, using the power of their position, and the people lose.
swede said:
The Drudge Report had a headline with something to the effect of “Brown 2012?”
Which made me shake my head. Everyone knew this guy was just another liberal RINO.
The point of electing Brown was that this was a direct slap in the face of Obama & Obamacare. By denying the Democrats that 60th vote in the Senate, it made the Democrats’ shoving of healthcare down America’s throat & their disdain for the will of the people that much more explicit.
So, somehow the Tea Party rallies behind a liberal Republican and elects him to the Senate in Massachusetts and we still get ObamaCare and Kagan and maybe “comprehensive immigration reform” and we are supposed to feel good about this?
There was an Libertarian named Kennedy running but he had no real chance of winning. Kennedy took 1% of the vote. Now, the GOP has another “maverick” Senator. Anyone who took a moment to think about this saw it coming before election day.
The only surprise was how quickly Brown got co-opted in DC. He barely lasted a few days before he started selling out!
DC is the problem and we need to do something about DC.
you boys are naughty…
mind you, I don’t think Mister Frank could do that if he saved up a couple of years…
What does it say about our country when most of the original colony states are the bluest in the nation? Overthrow a monarchy and replace it with a similar oligarchy. Northeast states suck. The only reason they are still solvent is they are propped up by red states. What is that old battle cry- “The south will rise again!” Onlt this time it may be the southwestern states.
This is where die hard republicans and November dreamers are in for a big huge let down.
Sure, there *might* be a turnover of a number of positions in November, but the only thing that will be going on is taking out trash and replacing it with new trash that doesn’t smell bad yet.
# 40 said:
This has been proven, in the recent past, to be a waste of time. They will vote what benefits themself regardless the rest of the Nation.
Email programs have filters.
Fax machines have a trash can next to them.
Phones have “voice mail full” buttons.
We can only vote who we think has the best track-record and talking points and hope they will retain 10% of it when then get into the DC machine.
The Maine Twins have both caved. Harry got his 60 votes, even without Byrd and Feingold’s.
The alternative was a person who would vote 100% of the time with Obo. This guy only seems to vote about 60% of the time with him. Thats about right for a McCain/Graham/Collins/Snowe MODERATE. The question of where the gop leadership is is a great one. Perhaps the pundits are correct and it is Rush, because it sure isn’t any of these establishment eunichs.
Scott Brown has been a major disappointment. Olympia Snowe has consistently been a major disappointment.
Michelle Malkin, along with Glen Beck, is mis/un informed regarding Teddy Roosevelt. It’s simply wrong for her to attribute positions to him that are the exact opposite of what he held.
Theddy Roosevelt would never have supported or signed a bill that included “Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion” to force race and/or gender quotas on businesses:
“It is in my mind equally an outrage…to appoint an improper man to a position because he is a Negro, or with a view of affecting the Negro vote, or on the other hand to exclude a proper man from an office..because he is a Negro. I shall never knowingly consent to either doctrine.”-Theodore Roosevelt
He hasn’t let me down…in order to defeat thy enemy, one must know him. All progressives….All of them, are, or should be the bane of freedom loving Americans. They know what they do, they just can’t help themselves…it must be the attraction of power…I don’t know, having never been one myself…..
TR’s been a hero of mine since I was stationed aboard his first namesake. It was the finest of the 5 ships I served aboard.
Scott Brown: Another one bites the dust.
Hangfire, Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive who had no problem with challenging the supremacy of the US Constitution when it suited his purposes (phlosophically at least).
WarEagle82: well said!
I think this just proves Pasadena Phil’s point. He gets rocked on here all the time but regardless of his “style” in saying it, the truth is there to see.
As I often say, what good is it to go up against one army of 5,000 with 5,000 of your own if 2,500 of yours actually sympathize and fight with the other side? No serious person should ever expect 100% conformity out of every elected rep; that would obviously be unrealistic. But come ON–when the person votes against your party’s principles the MAJORITY OF THE TIME, what have you really gained by them?
Also, another good point Phil and others have made is around this tired notion of electability. Electability is what you MAKE it. For crying out loud–we live in a country where an abjectly MEDIOCRE talent like Miley Cyrus (sp?) can achieve billion dollar status as “Hannah Montana” through complete media saturation. And more to our point here, Scott Brown was considered “a long shot” UNTIL he got the Tea Party behind him. For that matter, 4 or 5 years ago, whoever heard of Barack??
I guess my point is that the GOP and more generally conservatives live in this constrained world that liberals seem to defy. As someone pointed out, they rule their own with an iron hand and always manage to get nobodies into office when they want to.
If Dems/the Left/liberals are so inept, and the country is so center-right as Hugh Hewitt and others say, how the heck did they come to be in power for 40 years or so and how do they continue to prevail after decades of demonstrated ineptitude??
I’m sure there is a lesson here for conservatives but we don’t seem to be in a place where we can really hear it right now.
discriminatory
#59 said:
You have to have leadership in the first place to be able to miss them.
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Unfortunately METT-T makes your tactic an unviable course of action.
“There are people here who go all frouffy when someone attacks a Republican.”
Sad Phil. As previously noted, you are a one note song.
Roger that, but I can tell a big difference between turn-of-the-century pre-Bolshevik progressivism and the post-Haight Ashbury stuff that is being force fed the nation at present. This one stinks.
“Scott Brown has been a major disappointment.”
Sorry but I disagree. Sen. Brown has represented the people who voted for him.
The problem is with Senators/Representatives who have NOT represented the majority of folks in their respective districts.
Would I prefer Sen. Brown vote against this mess of a finance bill? Of course.
Is Sen Brown THE problem?
No, he is not.
THE problem is a majority of politicians not representing the majority of the folks in their districts.
Sen. Brown is exactly what the folks who voted for him expected.
Not good for the conservative movement. But hardly a turn coat traitor that some are painting him out to be.
I wish all our Sen/Rep’s would do as he ahas done. We’d not have Obamacare, bail outs, etc……
What the flip is in the water in Washington DC?
If they do, they’re Grade A morons.
Can’t stomach voting for the GOP candidate? Then at the very least, vote 3rd party or do a write-in. THERE IS NO EXCUSE WHATSOEVER FOR STAYING HOME.
True. And he made no secret of the fact that he was no conservative, even before the election. The simple truth was that he won because he promised to be the 41st vote against cloture on Obamacare.
I roger that too.
Scott, I don’t think Republican means what you think it means.
My own guess is that Brown will go the “Independent” route (aka DIABLO – Democrat in all but label only). It appears to be increasingly popular and for good reason: it gives the politician identified as Independent all the latitude he needs to vote for with the Democrats 99% of the time while She/He/It can vote on great rare occasion for something, or propose something, that appeals to the right but of course has no chance of passage. Phony Joe Leiberman has mastered this. Others have noticed. So just as we saw a lot of “Blue Dog” democrats in 2008, who turned out to be Lap Dogs as soon as they got to Washington, we will see increasing numbers of “Independents” who will be anything but. This is a wretched state of affairs and yes it will keep the Progressives in power. Unfortunately, the voters, many of them with conservative inclinations — if not all that bright– continue to fall for it.
And Brown still has my vote over Marcia Choakley every time. Better to have somebody who is with us 85% (Brown) of the time than 5% (Choackley/Kerry/Kennedy)
How about: Scott Brown: The freshest clump in the compost heap!
Honestly, our problem is that we keep electing politicians. We need to find some statesmen to run for office.
Statesmen have morals, and principles. Politicians do not.
A statesman would say “Even though this bill would benefit business in our State, I cannot vote for it because it would do more damage than good in general”. Or “Where in the Constitution is government granted to power to do what this bill proposes to do?”
Agreed.
I disagree.
Well Rogue what are the views of the majority of the people of Sen. Brown’s district?
One the one hand when we complain that our elected officials don’t represent our district, the majority of the people those elected officials represent, we can’t then on the other hand complain when an elected official actually does.
Our complaint in general is elected officials have stopped supporting the wishes of the majority of their particular support base. Issues that illustrate this are endless but easy to see with border security, health care-socialism, etc. A very legitimate complaint. We want our elected officials to represent us. Not their own interest.
So Sen. Brown represents the folks for the area he represents, in no way a conservative area, and we decide he is a traitor, a totally flawed individual with no principles who has sold out his soul to Washington, DC. Really?
This bill is a mess. There is way more to complain about than a senator who actually represents his constituents.
I wish all elected officials would do likewise. We’d have a fence by now.
*That* we can agree on.
But why vote for a bill that is a mess, when you can fight to get a bill that is not a mess?
Dodd/Frank started this mess that should have been cleaned up before Bush left office. He tried – they lied – nobody died except the hopes of taxpayers. We are so screwed.
JS Middleton,
I don’t think offices of “Minority and Women Inclusion” to force quotas on the financial industry are what the voters who voted for Scott Brown wanted.
He is from New England. He’ll probably never be as bad as Snowe or Collins.
Well, by playing Dem-Lite, he’ll ensure conservatives won’t have the energy and motivation as they did in the Coakley election last year, nobody will travel from out of state to help his campaign, and given a choice between a real Demonrat and a Dem-Lite, he’ll be out on his butt in a couple of years.
He probably would lose his seat in uber-lib Massachusetts if he voted as a real conservative, but he could have gone down with some self respect, and maybe even have wound up in a future administration, maybe even as a VP candidate.
Now, he’ll just lose and be a footnote.
For those in love with using the term “progressive” as a pejorative:
What defined “progressive” to Teddy Roosevelt was far different than what defined the policies of Wilson, FDR and today’s Democrats.
To TR progressive meant:
1. Turning the US into a world power by building up the US military, especially the fleet
2. Breaking up the trusts that to a major degree had destroyed capitalism and created oligopoly
3. Extending voting rights to women (which he supported but failed to get done)
4. Promoting racial equality-not quotas.
5. Keeping European powers out of the western hemisphere.
6. Peace through military strength.
7. Building the Panama Canal to facilitate trade and economic expansion.
Most of that looks pretty conservative to me.
And sometimes specific circumstances trump ideology. One major federal expansion by TR, the creation of the national park system looks pretty good 100+ years later. Few would argue that preserving Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and so on was a bad move.
Yes, the feds today have been dictatorial regarding other federal lands like the national forests and grasslands (and I’d be first in line to support turning them over to the states), but that’s been bad policy as their management today is much different than their management under say Ike or Reagan.
All in all, Beck and Malkin have chosen the wrong historical figure to scapegoat in Teddy Roosevelt.
The double standard on display is quite revealing.
We rightfully are upset with Obama because he is clearly not the President of the entire country. He is partisan. He is the President of the left of his party. He panders to those who got him elected. He is not the leader of all of us and is in fact thumbing his nose at the majority of us. He represents one faction or section of this country.
But you expect Sen. Brown to represent a section of his electorate and ignore the others and do what a piece of his electorate demand?
I’m sorry but to expect an elected official from the area of MA that elected him to act like a conservative is an unrealistic expectation and is clearly a double standard.
Again the problem is with elected officials who do not do what Sen. Brown is doing. If our elected officials from our states, our districts, would consistently represent our wishes, Sen. Brown, Snow, RINO’s in general, would not matter.
Sen. Brown is not the problem.
“I don’t think offices of “Minority and Women Inclusion” to force quotas on the financial industry are what the voters who voted for Scott Brown wanted.”
I have no idea. Do you?
Do we think the majority of folks that Lindsey Graham represent support Lindsey Graham’s ideas?
Did the majority of people that Trent Lott represent support the idea of big government spending and taxes? Yet all the while Trent Lott brings home the bacon and no one objects in his state?
Majority of the folks here in AZ support McCain’s previous ideas of border security and immigration reform?
I could go on……
Sen. Brown is not the problem.
That’s the tough thing. The very nature of “how things get done” in DC tends to corrupt everyone going in so conservatives are always swimming against the current. The nature of the organism is to perpetuate and expand itself.
“conservatives are always swimming against the current.”
We need to elect enough conservatives so conservatism IS the current…..
Then liberal Republicans and liberals are not a problem.
“I don’t think offices of “Minority and Women Inclusion” to force quotas on the financial industry are what the voters who voted for Scott Brown wanted.”-me
“I have no idea. Do you?”-jsmiddleton4
One would think if they wanted policies like that they’d have voted for the candidate of the party that openly supports them-Martha Coakley.
But they didn’t.
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Of course Scott Brown is part of the problem. Without his vote and the two RINO senatorettes from Maine, this bill wouldn’t have passed.
Love the airplane analogy. Jerkwads all!
I knew when he made his victory speech and didn’t mention the millions of dollars of support from “tea party” types, we were in trouble. Biggest waste of money for me since I bought night vision binoculars to see the deer in my yard.
It’s disgusting.
And I’ve lost any respect I might have had for Scott Brown. He’s nothing more than a useful idiot for the left now.
So he’ll serve the purpose of holding a republican seat and in that way, much like a mannequin, help cost the Dems their majority. But when it comes to votes. He’s a Lefty. Plain and simple.