Author Topic: Brown wins in Mass Senate race! Dems reeling! (Read 1538 times)

Cabin4 · « **on:** January 19, 2010, 03:35:08 PM »

Brown has essentially been declared the winner in the Mass senate race. Coakly has conceded to him. The dems 60 seat filibuster majority is over! Obama admin will now start throwing Coakley under the bus as a means to distance Obama from the failure. This is obama’s 3rd election loss since taking office.

Next, what will the dems do? Rush the health care bill of disaster to vote before his swearing in?

mirage1988 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 19, 2010, 03:54:28 PM »

They will drag out his swearing in as long as they possibly can, they are all lawyers and will try to find any way they can to delay his swearing in as long as possible. I thought they might try to pull a franken again but it looks like they were caught flat-footed this time.

KB21 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 19, 2010, 04:12:43 PM »

Harry Ried has already said that he will not take hsi seat until "all of the appropriate paperwork has been received."

powderman · « **Reply #3 on:** January 19, 2010, 04:25:10 PM »

Great news. POWDERMAN.

mirage1988 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 19, 2010, 04:28:45 PM »

Too much is being made of the 60-40 count though, all it will take is one more olympia snowe to make it interesting again. I would not be surprised to see a push to amend the constitution to a majority rule, not 60-40 to pass regulation.

myronman3 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 19, 2010, 04:42:35 PM »

worm food, err, i mean teddy kennedy, just rolled over in his grave.

mirage1988 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 19, 2010, 04:47:54 PM »

Quote from: myronman3 on January 19, 2010, 04:42:35 PM

worm food, err, i mean teddy kennedy, just rolled over in his grave.

Again? Awww man, when he rolled over last week it cost 100 million!

Redtail1949 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 19, 2010, 04:50:21 PM »

Yep bet we get a lot closer look at just how corrupt these "Progressive Democrats " can be. They got a bigtime warning of whats is in store for them.

pastorp · « **Reply #8 on:** January 19, 2010, 04:57:26 PM »

This is good news indeed........Don't know if this is enought to fix much but it's a start.

Regards,

mauser98us · « **Reply #9 on:** January 19, 2010, 05:02:23 PM »

Keith Olberman is really crying on MSNBC. He is a bitter ,nasty person. I quit watching football on NBC cause of his involvment. He truly makes me sick.

bearmgc · « **Reply #10 on:** January 19, 2010, 05:04:37 PM »

WOW!

Cabin4 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 19, 2010, 05:09:24 PM »

Quote from: mauser98us on January 19, 2010, 05:02:23 PM

Keith Olberman is really crying on MSNBC. He is a bitter ,nasty person. I quit watching football on NBC cause of his involvment. He truly makes me sick.

Send Olberman an email. Just type in it: Massachusetts Ha Ha Ha

lakota · « **Reply #12 on:** January 19, 2010, 05:10:14 PM »

They should have brought U.N. people in to mointor this election. I wonder how many minorities will be on TV tommorow saying they were turned away from the polls.

billy_56081 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 19, 2010, 05:13:21 PM »

I'm glad to see the people of Mass spitting on Ted The turds grave, but I hope the Repubs move hard right.

lee1954 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 19, 2010, 05:30:50 PM »

A man -proud to drive a pickup with over 200.000 mile -- And had a positive campain.... takes Teddy's seat Dan

Redtail1949 · « **Reply #15 on:** January 19, 2010, 05:53:02 PM »

mauser98us:

i have watched him for the last year or so just to hear the other side. he is a vicious lier and is a disgrace to MSNBC and should be pulled off the air. yet they will not as they love that crap out of him. the whole NBC and MSNBC are a real sickning bunch.

bilmac · « **Reply #16 on:** January 19, 2010, 05:53:45 PM »

Yeee Haa A REPUBLICAN WINS IN A STATE THAT HAS TIME AFTER TIME BEEN ELECTING A DEMOCRAT WHO MURDERED HIS GIRLFRIEND. MAYBE OBAMA WILL TURN OUT THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE COUNTRY.

Questor · « **Reply #17 on:** January 19, 2010, 08:39:17 PM »

It's so ironic that he won the long time Ted "Chappaquiddick" Kennedy's seat. Stunning!

alsaqr · « **Reply #18 on:** January 20, 2010, 12:43:49 AM »

Yep, the voters of PRMA have elected a Republican. A real lesser of two evils guy he is too. Just wait until he votes with the Democrats for gun registration.

In any event Brown must stand for re-election in 2012. The ultra-liberal Democrat machine in PRMA will dust off another Kennedy family member and the race will be on in 2012.

Dixie Dude · « **Reply #19 on:** January 20, 2010, 01:44:44 AM »

Don't know where Brown stands on gun control, but in his speach last night he supported a military second to none. He supported tax cuts to stimulate the economy. He supported fiscal responsibility. He said he wanted to improve health care by incremental steps that we can afford, not a trillion dollar bill. He sounded like a Reagan.

skarke · « **Reply #20 on:** January 20, 2010, 01:54:44 AM »

From www.senate.gov

In 1917, senators adopted a rule (Rule 22), at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, that allowed the Senate to end a debate with a two-thirds majority vote, a device known as "cloture." The new Senate rule was first put to the test in 1919, when the Senate invoked cloture to end a filibuster against the Treaty of Versailles. Even with the new cloture rule, filibusters remained an effective means to block legislation, since a two-thirds vote is difficult to obtain. Over the next five decades, the Senate occasionally tried to invoke cloture, but usually failed to gain the necessary two-thirds vote. Filibusters were particularly useful to Southern senators who sought to block civil rights legislation, including anti-lynching legislation, until cloture was invoked after a 57 day filibuster against the Civil Right Act of 1964. In 1975, the Senate reduced the number of votes required for cloture from two-thirds to three-fifths, or 60 of the current one hundred senators.

Back to me again.

The purpose of the upper House is to empower smaller states. During the Constitutional debates, the majority believed in a concept of "tyranny of the majority". Pure voting power could overwhelm the rights of individuals whose circumstances differ, for instance, by living in a predominantly rural State.

The purpose of the filibuster is similar. Think of it this way: the majority of Americans live in cities, have never been to the country, owned country property, operated a farm, etc. Why shouldn't those that do have a voice in Congress? Without such things as the Electoral College, the Filibuster, and the Senate, they won't.

Questor · « **Reply #21 on:** January 20, 2010, 01:55:46 AM »

* Rep. Brown indicated he supports the following principles concerning gun issues:Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
* Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
* Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
* Require a license for gun possession.

Source: Massachusetts State Legislative Election 2002 NPAT Nov 1, 2002

Brett · « **Reply #22 on:** January 20, 2010, 02:17:39 AM »

Satan is calling for all the firewood he can get his hands on.

slim rem 7 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 20, 2010, 02:25:52 AM »

well i have said this beforea bout obama.. but i actually fear for him....slim

Victor3 · « **Reply #24 on:** January 20, 2010, 02:38:48 AM »

Various groups expressing their views on Brown's win...

GOP...

Independents...

Dems...

nomosendero · « **Reply #25 on:** January 20, 2010, 02:58:55 AM »

Quote from: alsaqr on January 20, 2010, 12:43:49 AM

Yep, the voters of PRMA have elected a Republican. A real lesser of two evils guy he is too. Just wait until he votes with the Democrats for gun registration.

In any event Brown must stand for re-election in 2012. The ultra-liberal Democrat machine in PRMA will dust off another Kennedy family member and the race will be on in 2012.

Or the Independents can enter someone & WIN if this guy doesn't perform, which would not surprise me because I don't have any confidence in ANY Northeastern polititian being a Conservative. To say a third party person could not win doen't make sense in view of the fact that 6 months ago no one believed that a Republican could capture this seat & also considering there are so many Independants in the voting populace now. But the lessor of 2 evil deal here is a real head scratcher here, there was no good 3rd party person to vote for & no real Conservative is for Gov. Health Care, so the only choice was Brown until the next election. The Dem is a true idiot & a trainwreck.

ms · « **Reply #26 on:** January 20, 2010, 03:07:59 AM »

I hope he will be just like Ron Paul.

magooch · « **Reply #27 on:** January 20, 2010, 03:10:50 AM »

Hold on now, everybody, the Dumbycrats are going to have the election overturned on the grounds that Brown didn't say that he was a Republican. Boy, those right wingers will use any dirty trick in the book.

kansasj · « **Reply #28 on:** January 20, 2010, 03:37:46 AM »

Ted Kennedy's girlfriend said something about being pregnant and he replied " We'll cross that bridge when we get there"!!
justice at last perhaps for a moment at least. The libs got some very clear messages last night even from a blue state. "Leave the states and people govern themselves and KEEP OUT.

nw_hunter · « **Reply #29 on:** January 20, 2010, 05:10:08 AM »

Quote from: ms on January 20, 2010, 03:07:59 AM

I hope he will be just like Ron Paul.

Like Ron Paul! YEA SURE! "Lets see"
He does have two arms, two legs,one head and walks in an upright position.
Yea! Just like Paul

* Rep. Brown indicated he supports the following principles concerning gun issues:Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
* Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
* Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
* Require a license for gun possession.

Source: Massachusetts State Legislative Election 2002 NPAT Nov 1, 2002