Floating at the top of the BG toilet:
"Brown’s high hopes ran into Senate reality; Freshman senator has carved independent course" by Christopher Rowland and Bobby Caina Calvan |
Globe Staff, May 20, 2012
He was unable to deliver on his central campaign promise: using his vote
as the 41st Republican senator to block Obama’s health care
legislation. Democrats thwarted that plan by using a parliamentary
maneuver to skirt filibuster rules and pass the bill....
Brown has also made a point of reading books by leaders of the rival
party. He keeps a copy of majority leader Harry Reid’s history of
Searchlight, Nevada, in his office. And one day in the Senate chamber,
Brown approached New York’s Chuck Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat,
to sign Schumer’s book on the middle class, the ultimate ego stroke....
He joined Democrats and Republicans in fighting to protect General
Electric’s alternative engine for the F-35 jet, an engine the Pentagon
said was not necessary and wasteful.
Because it is what Israel wants.
Also see: War Profiteer Piece of the Pie: F-35 Flying High in House
Critics viewed the engine as a giant earmark because it was not
contained in the defense budget. Brown, adopting GE’s argument, said
requiring the Pentagon to develop two engines would reduce overall costs
by forcing companies to compete for the work. Hundreds of jobs were at
stake at a GE plant in Lynn, which was helping produce the engine.
“While he came to Washington as a reformer, Brown quickly showed he
could play the political game,’’ said Loren Thompson, a consultant and
chief operating officer at the Lexington Institute, a nonpartisan think
tank in Virginia. “Exhibit A is the General Electric jet engine. He did
exactly what Ted Kennedy would have done in those same circumstances.’’
Ted got the message of those assassinations.
Also see: Meet Your Antiwar New England Liberals
One War Party, two factions.
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“To his credit, I have to say he has done a pretty good job of threading
the needle,’’ said James P. Manley, a former top aide to Reid and to
Kennedy....
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Also see: Brown's Nose Buried Deep
Seems to be a theme today.
