Bless you Senator Scott Brown

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Barack Obama - like his political strategem inspiration, Bill Clinton - was going soft on the financial institutions who financed his campaign. Financial industry lobbyists were getting key positions as economic advisors to President Obama. Their creatures - Geithner the absymal and Bernanke the detestable - were given or positioned to retain crucial postions like Treasury Secretary and Fed Chairman.

Scott Brown's gain of an allegedly "safe" Senate seat in Massachusetts - in the US "winner take all" Two Party System - sent ripples across the nation. Inaction (aside from paying back your campaign debts to wealthy robber-baron bankers) as employment tanks will no longer be tolerated.

How has the formerly weak, capitulating, indecisive executive taken such news? As a wakeup call. The general population, not the robber-barons at AiG and Goldman Sachs, will now be people of special priority when it comes to national policy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/busin ... lcker.html

This could very well be the only initiative of President Obama to gain bipartisan support. Conservative populists certainly don't like the way the robber-baron bankers have conducted themselves. Grassroots paleoconservatives - on this site and elsewhere - are quite vocal about their opposition to what financial industry is doing. Surely popular political support is there.

All this is on the discussion table because Scott Brown's election shook things up.

Thank you, Mr. Brown.

the center cannot hold, and mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...

Obama was pushing for the bank tax before Brown was elected.

But Obama wasn't pushing as hard as he is now for the limits on bank size and prohibtions against proprietary trading.

I thought by most accounts his problem involved the opposite?

A soul man? topic

How is life without soul, OG? (I am assuming one can live without said soul.)

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I think Bill Clinton sex jokes shouldn't be so much about his personal foibles as much as his political vices. I hereby offer the following suggestions for people seeking to make new Bill Clinton sex jokes:

- Talk about Clinton screwing American and global labour.
- Talk about Clinton leaving or cheating on American labour in return for corporate relationships with special privileges.
- Talk about his political submission to the Financial and High Tech sectors.
- Talk about the sadism he displayed towards the common person and the progressive activist.

I have hereby converted useless sex jokes designed to distract us from Clinton's real vices into pertinent satire of his moral crimes against the working classes. Somebody give me an award for comedy!

yes, yes bless you senator brown. you seem like a good guy

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what rot. you want more gridlock, you got it.

BLESS a POLITICIAN?! Oy gevalt!

From what I've heard, Scott Brown is pretty moderate. For example, he's pro-choice and he's pro-gay righs (with the exception of same-sex marriage). Correct me if I'm wrong, though. I'm going by what I saw on Wikipedia.

Same sex marriage - that's one hell of an exception.

The concept in American politics that the solution to a problem with the Democrats is a Republican (because that's the only solution offered) is a rather pitiful dilemma.

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it is called "cutting-off one's nose to spite one's face." totally counterproductive, unless the goal is for even more gridlock [i wouldn't put it past 'em]

Well I live in Massatoochetts myself, and the way the campaigns were run, Coakley didn't have a chance. The Dems thought they had this in the bag, and didn't put any effort into promoting Coakley until they saw Brown, who'd been openly campaigning, was gaining a lead.

Further towards election day there were the senate debates, where Coakley argued we needed to finish Ted Kennedy's life work, and Brown rebutted that it isn't Kennedy's seat. Having to bring the President up here to campaign for Coakley wasn't good, because when you have the president trying to influence an election to make sure a bill that HE wants is passed, we're back to politics as usual, not the CHANGE we voted for. Coakley's TV spots didn't show up until late in the campaign, and they were all basically attack ads (and Brown shot down many of the claims they made during the debates).

What clinched it was when Coakley remarked in an interview that the reason she was losing people was because they DIDN'T UNDERSTAND the healthcare bill.

And, as plenty of people have pointed out, the reason our state even has a special election when a senate seat is vacated is because of a law that was enacted by Democrats in 2004: when Senator Kerry was running for president and there was the possibility his senate seat would be left empty, the governor would get to appoint a senator - in 2004 we had Governor Romney, a Republican. The Democrats manipulated the system thinking they couldn't lose, and it bit them in the ass when they didn't realize they'd actually have to make an effort to keep their spot.

Finally, as Brown pointed out, we Massholes already have a great healthcare system, why should we support a national bill that'll put us further in the hole? THAT's why Coakley lost the race.

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YOU said "Massholes", not me. that said, i remember on tv, a game show contestant was asked where he was from- "oh, i'm from a**hole, woodsachusetts!"

anyways, it was shortsighted of mass votors to turn their backs on the rest of the nation of the uninsured- we are all in this thing together, whether or not you choose to acknowledge this fact. your state's healthcare financing could fall down tomorrow, then where would you be without the backstop of a federal program? out on the street or in bankrupcy court. or deceased from something which if you were in any other western nation, you likely would not be. why are working-class americans not as deserving of primary healthcare as japanese, or canadians or europeans? remember, social mobility means if you are lucky and plucky, you MIGHT be able to move upwards to the middle class but it ALSO means you can even more easily sink back down to the working class. it CAN happen to you! pride cometh before the fall.

HEY! Sand wrote?