You make a lot of sense, IMHO. The people on my twitter list are SHOCKED AND APPALLED and readying their pitchforks, and I don't see this as a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, except, of course, that leftist pundits are beside themselves with glee about it.
His stand against Obamacare was enough to win my support.
Yep, people knew he wasn't very conservative to start with - no one that was paying attention expected him to be either. His stance against Obamacare was what really got him elected.
While I am annoyed at these type of bills, I'm not shocked Brown supported it.
Well, what do people expect? The guy's from Massachusetts. Just because he's a Republican doesn't mean he's going to be as conservative as, say, Jim DeMint or Mitch McConnell. He's still got to go back to MA and be reelected. Shoot - even Mitt Romney had to buy into some Democrat ideas when he was governor. As long as he stood up against the health care bill, that was as good as I hoped for.
Sure, he rained on the Kennedy parade, but I never expected him to be this hardcore right-wing conservative. And I thought it was a little strange that people were ready to nominate him as a presidential candidate so soon after he won the election. Good grief - let the man do something in the Senate before you crown him Savior of the Universe (hmm... that's sounds eerily familiar, doesn't it?)
I respect that he's representing his constituents, even if his views disagree with mine.
My problem with the situation is that,when something is a bad idea, you don't support it even if your constituents want it. If every politician allowed his provably ignorant constituents to run roughshod over him, this country would have been over long before now (what is that oft misidentified quote about democracies lasting only as long as it takes the voters to start voting themselves handouts from the treasury? I don't remember it off-hand, but that's where I'm going with this). Politicians doing the "popular" thing instead of the "right" thing are why this country is in its current state.
Look at the numbers; do the math, as Cavuto would say, and find out if 2 + 2 actually makes 4. In this case I don't believe he did that and instead chose to support another wasteful spending bill that will do absolutely nothing to help this country.
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That's the same article I linked to, I think.
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Yep, people knew he wasn't very conservative to start with - no one that was paying attention expected him to be either. His stance against Obamacare was what really got him elected.
While I am annoyed at these type of bills, I'm not shocked Brown supported it.
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Sure, he rained on the Kennedy parade, but I never expected him to be this hardcore right-wing conservative. And I thought it was a little strange that people were ready to nominate him as a presidential candidate so soon after he won the election. Good grief - let the man do something in the Senate before you crown him Savior of the Universe (hmm... that's sounds eerily familiar, doesn't it?)
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My problem with the situation is that,when something is a bad idea, you don't support it even if your constituents want it. If every politician allowed his provably ignorant constituents to run roughshod over him, this country would have been over long before now (what is that oft misidentified quote about democracies lasting only as long as it takes the voters to start voting themselves handouts from the treasury? I don't remember it off-hand, but that's where I'm going with this). Politicians doing the "popular" thing instead of the "right" thing are why this country is in its current state.
Look at the numbers; do the math, as Cavuto would say, and find out if 2 + 2 actually makes 4. In this case I don't believe he did that and instead chose to support another wasteful spending bill that will do absolutely nothing to help this country.
/pessimism.