Scott Brown Says to Scrap Obamacare & Start Over
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, February 1, 2010, 5:37 AM
Despite Robert Gibbs insistance that Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts was a referendum in support of Obamacare, Senator Brown said several times during the campaign that he would be the 41st vote against the democrat’s nationalized health care plan.
Again yesterday in his interview with Barbara Walters Scott Brown said that Obamacare should be scrapped and Congress should start over on health care reform.
The Politico reported:
Brown said the Democratic health care reform bill should be scrapped and lawmakers should start over.
“Yes,” Brown said when asked if the bill should be abandoned. “I think it was on its last legs before I even got elected, because the Democrats even were upset at the backroom deals, for example, in Nebraska. And they want a chance, I believe, based on just what I’m hearing, …to go back to the drawing board and do it in a transparent, bipartisan manner. That’s the big difference between Massachusetts and Washington.”
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 60 Comments
BigAlSouth commented:
Scrap ObamaCare?
Whoa, whoa, whoa. That’s not what Gibbles said about the meaning of Brown’s election. Didn’t the Mass. voters say they voted for Brown because they wanted MORE Obamacare?
I mean, if one can’t trust the President’s spokesperson-pitchman Bob Gibbles, whom can one trust?
JonahVark commented:
Scott Brown is right!
The entire process of this bill was a violation of the Constitution and it should be thrown out.
Why was the PRESIDENT’S STAFF involved in writing the Senate health care bill but duly elected Republican Senators were locked out of the process?
Every fifth grader knows the U.S. Constitution requires a separation of powers through the three branches of government, the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial. The Legislative Branch has the responsibility of making the laws. Would it be appropriate if a Supreme Court Justice took part in the process of writing a bill or intimidated a Senator to vote for the bill? Of course not! Then the present administration has overstepped their authority. This may have occurred in past administrations but for the sake of righteousness and adherence to the Constitution, it must stop NOW! The entire process of this bill was a violation of the Constitution and it should be thrown out.
Is anyone in Congress going to protest this usurpation of their Constitutional responsibility and demand that the President GET HIS HANDS OFF CONGRESS?! Are we on the road to becoming a dictatorship? Where are the Patriots on this one?
Flyover Sam commented:
Is Brown’s predecessor still seated and voting? How about that debt ceiling override that got passed with an invalid vote.. where are the Republicans on this one?
akak commented:
before or after he votes in favor of abortion?
and to think Newt was villified for Scozza!
Tom63010 commented:
akak, I must have missed something is Congress voting on abortion?
reliapundit commented:
HAS HE BEEN SWORN IN YET?
HAS HE VOTED ON ANYTHING?
DOES HE HAVE ANY COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS?
WHERE’S HIS OFFICE? WHAT’S HIS PHONE #?
WHERE’S THE VIDEO OF HIM BEING SWORN IN?
Tom63010 commented:
Laura Ingraham is on the air now having a cow because he doesn’t acknowledge the TEA Party’s involvement in Scott Brown’s win.
I disagree with her, I appreciate that he disassociates from the TEA Party because I believe the strength of the TEA Party movement is that it is a undefined target for the Progressives.
How do they resolve a group having a TEA Party convention featuring Sarah Palin in Tennessee while the TEA Party in Arizona is putting their efforts into defeating John McCain who Sarah Palin is endorsing and campaigning for?
The strength in the TEA Party is that it is a true grassroots phenomena. It’s name came from a righteous rant of a Rick Santelli. It grew when the American People saw insane spending from Washington.
newton commented:
“Every fifth grader knows the U.S. Constitution requires a separation of powers”
That is, assuming that fifth-graders are being taught the Constitution nowadays…
Besides, why is Brown not sworn in yet? Do we have to bang the doors of the Capitol loud enough for those clowns to do what they’re supposed to do? Let him in!
Agent 99 commented:
akak is right in that Scott Brown does believe in Abortion but NOT Tax-Payer Funded Abortion which is in the Health Care Bill. Scott said ..I differ with my Party (R) in that I do not feel a need to OVERTURN roe-vs-wade. But rather abortion should be a choice for the woman, her family…etc. I can live with that. In essence Scott is saying …NO TAX PAYER ABORTIONS but do not seek to Overthrow Roe vs Wade. Sometimes…such as rape or the mother’s life in jeopardy may neccesitaite an abortion. And the way Scott sees it is that it should be a FREE CHOICE not Mandated by Congress or the Supreme Court. Scott Brown Will NOT be sworn in until Feb 11 as the results of absentee ballots are not in yet.
Agent 99 commented:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_re_us/us_kennedy_successor “Brown expects to be sworn in on Feb. 11, after all absentee ballots are counted and Massachusetts has certified the special election results. Until then, he is trying to function amid a whirlwind.
His office has been besieged with job seekers. He is meeting next week with Education Secretary Arne Duncan as he tries to clarify his legislative priorities. He had to ask a reporter how much his new job paid; it is $174,000 annually.
Brown also is trying to determine how his election will affect his 30-year National Guard career.
He said he will most likely be blocked from active duty with his military legal team, since as a U.S. senator, he would be a more valuable target for the enemy. Brown is speaking with generals in Washington about how to best fulfill his responsibilities, which include duty one weekend per month and two weeks per summer.
“Maybe it’s talking to troops, maybe it’s working in the Pentagon,” he said. “It’s something I’ve been doing since I’ve been 19. I don’t know what I’d do without it, to be honest with you.”
SEE?? Sworn in Feb 11 AND Scott Needs to check with Active Duty National Guard …. Plez …enough of “where is the GOP?” We The People can not be divided. We MUST ‘stick together’ cuz the Dems are counting on DIVIDING US ..We The People …THE TRUE PATRIOTS!!!
avery commented:
I have no problem with Scott on abortion he is aganist partial birth abortion that killing the baby at birth.He said he was aganist Obamacare he also said he aganist them taken 500 billions from medicare.
BertoGem commented:
“Everyone is entitled to some form of insurance?” What,exactly, does that mean? Specifically the entitled part? We have got to get away from the entitlement mentality, which is strangling us as a nation.
I believe we have a moral responsibility to care for the sick. I also believe the Federal government must stay out of itn and though health insurance could fall under the purvue of the states, I’m not so sure that’s a good idea either.
Acceptable health care reform includes tort reform, tax-exempt insurance premiums, the ability to purchase insurance across state lines, and a provision to form private insurance pools in a distributist manner, avoiding any mandatory participation or coverage for routine and elective procedures, including abortions (98% of which are elective).
bg commented:
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SB says Scrap Obamacare & Start Over
as do a majority of “we the people”..
[Sixty-one percent (61%) think, too, that Congress should drop health care and focus on more immediate ways of helping the economy and creating jobs. ]
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