Scott Brown Victory in Massachusetts
Email is not the proper forum for discussion so I created a place-holder topic on this PUBLIC site to discuss the recent historic election of Scott Brown, a republican in the very blue state of Massachusetts. Keep it civil folks! I am the moderator of this blog and I can block comments that are off topic or nasty. The Democrats are already in a circular firing squad looking for someone to blame but this victory did not surprise me, even though I'm a bleeding heart liberal. I was upset with the special treatment that some of the senators got for supporting health care, or maybe jealous because our senator Jeanne Shaheen wasn't clever enough to hold out for more.
I still have hope for Obama's presidency, but I did detect a bit of back room Chicago style politicking. I didn't care for the secret meetings when I was "hoping" for the transparency and the online postings of legislation.
So weigh in with your opinions here instead of sending "reply to all" emails. If you are a big supporter of Brown, explain it to the rest of us since he is already being tapped for President 2012 with Palin. If you want to bash Obama, explain it. If you are a "Birther" I'll probably reject your comment. Have fun, and forego the email route.
Just add comments to this entry below:
I still have hope for Obama's presidency, but I did detect a bit of back room Chicago style politicking. I didn't care for the secret meetings when I was "hoping" for the transparency and the online postings of legislation.
So weigh in with your opinions here instead of sending "reply to all" emails. If you are a big supporter of Brown, explain it to the rest of us since he is already being tapped for President 2012 with Palin. If you want to bash Obama, explain it. If you are a "Birther" I'll probably reject your comment. Have fun, and forego the email route.
Just add comments to this entry below:
Comments
I have to commend you for your post, and the offer for a forum to give our political opinions.
Steve
Cinnie
C
Hopefully the message this sends is actually received in Washington. Republicans were shown the door because of their spendthrift habits and questionable deals. The Democrats misread the meaning of this and started down the same road only more so. Now they will be properly handed their head unless they can manage to clean up their act. I'm not holding out much hope for that.
Let's hope that this year we see a new crop of people willing to get into politics for the purpose of really representing the interests of the folks that gave them the job. In NH, I have a sense that all our representatives up for election will be looking for new work this year.
I live in MA and i did not vote.
Why? Because I see no point in voting for the lesser of two evils I never have nor will I ever do this.
I also see no difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. The silly bickering they have is over things that i wouldn't even consider in my top 100 things that need to be done in this country. Also both parties would probebly agree to not support half of things i beleive need to be done.
To me both Dems and Republicans are for big goverment nowadays they just bicker where they want to spend the money which we don't have.
I wish we had a "no confidence" vote available. I doubt i'm the only one who stayed home not because they didn't want to vote but because they had no one to represent them.
/Anders
and to John Weber - sadly, I'm hearing that Wash. thinks Coakley lost because of a poor campaign, NOT getting that the people don't like the way gov't is being run.
An illustration of how politically interested we are, my daughter in law went to work as a volunteer for Scott Brown way back in the summer when he was a virtual unknown. Then she became the volunteer office manager of his Needham, MA hdqtrs. After the primary they offered her the job -paid. My husband drove around putting up signs on pre-approved properties. My daughter drove up to Wrentham from RI to make phone calls, my brother in law made phone calls, etc. Our system does work and it pains me to hear of people who don't vote.
Cinnie
I was estatic when Brown won! It was glorious and wonderful to know that the people have spoken. We want to be heard. As cinnie said, the health care bill needs LOTS of tweaking.....to cram it down our throats is abhorrent to us. And I think that Washington has finally gotten the message !
Sharrie
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