Comments on: “What Sort of Health Care Reform Does Scott Brown Actually Support?”

By: Grant in Texas

Grant in Texas — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:27:11 +0000

Robert Reich has a composed assessment of the Brown victory on his blog today:

http://robertreich.org/post/344459321/what-scott-browns-victory-really-means

The Republicans won’t have easy sailing from here on, either. Brown’s victory has given more muscle to the tea-partiers — the rag-tag group of angry no-nothings who are challenging mainstream Republicans in primaries all over the country. Tea partiers have almost as much contempt for the Republican establishment as they do for Democrats. Brown himself is no tea-partier; in fact, his record in Massachusetts is quite moderate. But the partiers will use him nonetheless. And if Republicans move to the right fringe, Democrats have more room to attract moderates and Independents.

By: Jim in Michigan

Jim in Michigan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:31:19 +0000

Really, Grant, who needs that crap. I continue to support him because he stepped up to the plate to try, I give him major credit for getting in that rat infested cess pool to begin with. We can all monday morning quarterback whether he’s approached the job correctly, but of course it’s really easy to do sitting in our comfortable houses typing at the computer.

By: Grant in Texas

Grant in Texas — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:46:13 +0000

Two postings in a row blocked. Jim, never understood why Obama wanted the thankless job of cleaning up Bush/Cheney crap in the first place.

By: Grant in Texas

Grant in Texas — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:44:57 +0000

What the election looks like to a liberal Brit:

Obama’s attempts to find compromise solutions did not stop Republicans from labelling him as a radical – or their nutty tea-party allies from calling him a “socialist” and worse. And, in retrospect, that was going to happen no matter what he did. His real problem has been that, to his supporters, he looked as though he’d been sucked into the very system he was elected to reform.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/20/obama-brown-massachusetts-senate

By: Grant in Texas

Grant in Texas — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:43:09 +0000

Dan Kennedy writing for London’s The Guardian says it should be no more “Mr. Nice Guy” TRYING to reach across the aisle to Republicans:

Obama’s attempts to find compromise solutions did not stop Republicans from labeling him as a radical – or their nutty tea-party allies from calling him a “socialist” and worse. And, in retrospect, that was going to happen no matter what he did. His real problem has been that, to his supporters, he looked as though he’d been sucked into the very system he was elected to reform.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jan/20/obama-brown-massachusetts-senate

By: Jim in Michigan

Jim in Michigan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:40:37 +0000

Grant, I’ve been thinking to myself that Obama would be wise to not run again. The MSM who tries to tie everything to polls and process wouldn’t know WTF to do. It would take all the wind out of Hamsher’s sails….her real goal is to prove that Hillary should have been president.
I’ve been trying to find FDL archives from during the election but so far I haven’t been able to, unless I click “next entries” about a thousand times.

By: Grant in Texas

Grant in Texas — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:38:56 +0000

Marc Ash, founder of Truthout writes this morning:

True, is was the people’s seat yesterday morning, this morning however it’s another seat for the health care industry. Make no mistake about it; Mr. Senator Brown will sell his vote to the health care industry just as quickly as he sold his posterior to Cosmopolitan Magazine. That is how the Republican Party became the prohibitive minority to begin with.

There really aren’t and never have been 60 Senators voting as a bloc, and certainly not with any respect for the will of the mandate produced during the 2008 election.

The Democrats are now proposing to abandon the public interest, abandon the mandate they have been charged with, in the hopes that they can save their jobs as servants of the same voters whose interests are at stake. That will not work. The Time has come to show resolve, backbone. Mr. Senator Brown be damned.

By: Grant in Texas

Grant in Texas — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:16:25 +0000

I think Hillary may have bigger balls than Obama! Good editorial in Truthout that Obama needs to listen to one of Molly Ivins favorite Texas adages, “You got to dance with them that brung you!”

http://www.truthout.org/president-obama-remember-who-your-friends-are56226

By: kayinmaine

kayinmaine — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:10:06 +0000

Jim, Lame Jane’s post last night were pitiful. Apparently, she’s a typical republican because she’s blaming everyone but herself! What an ass she is.

By: kayinmaine

kayinmaine — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:09:05 +0000

Wow Grant! President Obama has said that if this is his only term he’d be fine with that. It does make you wonder if he said to Hillary back along that she could be the candidate in 2012. After what I’ve seen of her at the State Department I would be inclined to vote for her now….well….as long as Obama wasn’t running.