Conservatives Turn On Scott Brown Over Jobs Bill Vote: 'Low Life Scum Hypocrite!' [UPDATE]

Not long ago, Scott Brown (R-Mass.) was elected to the United States Senate and a nation rejoiced, because he was going to drive down to Washington D.C. and become the President of Filibusters. But a funny thing happened yesterday, when Brown decided not to cast the 41st vote, and instead to vote as if he'd like to one day get re-elected to office in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

"It's a small step, but it's still a step," Brown told reporters after casting a procedural vote in favor of the Democratic jobs bill, bucking his party leaders and the strategy of opposition they have carried out since President Obama took office.

For Senate Democrats, it was much bigger step. Four Republicans followed Brown's lead, giving the jobs legislation 62 votes, two more than needed to cut off a GOP filibuster.

That was enough to earn Brown the Drudge banner, complete with the demon-red tint of betrayal! And, subsequently, Scott Brown's honeymoon came to an end like all political honeymoons: amid hotheaded recriminations on Twitter. Ken Layne at Wonkette documented the carnage.

Over at Scott Brown's Facebook page, the mood is much the same, probably because David Broder hasn't written a column yet telling America that the jobs in this jobs bill are so much more awesome than the jobs that came before them because they are "bipartisan." Some of Brown's fans are giving him some support, but the lion's share of comments read like "LYING LOW LIFE SCUM HYPOCRITE!" and "What a bummer dude. We didn't need another Olympia Snowe," and "BROWN, YOU JUST REMEMBER YOU DOUCHEBAG...WE ARE WATCHING YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! AND YOU FAILED AT THE FIRST CHANCE...YOU SCUM SUCKING ASS!!! GUESS MY 10-15 HOUR WORK DAYS WILL HELP PAY FOR THIS TOTAL BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!"

Brown was joined in his vote by fellow Republican Senators Kit Bond (R-Mo.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), and George Voinovich (R-Ohio). Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson -- the Coke Classic of being the 41st vote -- voted against cloture.

UPDATE: Alex Pareene has more delightfulness, including a screenshot of the images that Brown's Facebook fans are uploading to his Facebook page, because a picture is worth a thousand words and the ten thousand exclamation points deployed around those words.

RELATED:
Scott Brown Votes For Jobs Bill, Wingnuts Go Nuts On Twitter [Wonkette]

PREVIOUSLY, on the HUFFINGTON POST:
Jobs Bill VOTE: GOP Filibuster Fails As Scott Brown And Others Break With Party

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Comments

[hedah]

01:52 PM on 03/02/2010

Congratulations 4 your "bravery" Mr. Brown, in being your "own" man ! ( independent ?! ). Now u have a taste of republi"cons" s trade mark foul mouth ! ( what a nice way 2 welcome a fella ! ). I've "changed" my mind about u, and I "respect" u a lot more then your own tea-baggers's party so called "friends" !!! U go babe boy !

[Mark Szczygiel]

11:04 AM on 02/26/2010

Not in my state! Please!

Mark Szczygiel

[suzy000]

07:40 PM on 02/24/2010

Ok OK....it is not at all like you are hearing. Millions of Conservatives knew that Scott Brown represented a blue state. Conservatives know he has to represent his people. Conservatives across the nation supported Brown because Coakley was a definite Obama supporter and the Senate had no balance. The loud mouths of the Conservatives do not represent the entire party. Brown has received hundreds of thousands of letters from Conservative supporters telling him that they were glad he supported this bill instead of that 85 Billion Pork Barrell Bill that both parties cooked up. But Reid will still try little bit by bit to eventually get it all passed. He didn't endorse the big Jobs Bill because he is in trouble at home for spending too much and he wants to look like a Conservative. So, if anybody is going against party grain, it is Reid. And the majority Conservatives already know this. FYI....Scott would never endorse Obama.

[womanwithstixs]

05:49 PM on 02/24/2010

Thank you Senator Brown and remember
Each time a person stands up for an ideal,
or acts to improve the lot of others...
he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,
and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring,
those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968)

[Altx]

02:41 PM on 02/24/2010

The real joke being that a bill that offers tax cuts to small businesses to encourage them to hire more people sounds like something straight out of the Republicans' playbook, not the Democrats'; but even then only 5 GOP senators can muster the integrity and consistency to put their constituents' concerns ahead of their own. While the rest of their party's principle concern, it would appear, is to bring down the President by any and all means necessary, regardless of how that undermines the country both domestically and on the world stage. How can they not see that this just reinforces the perception that they're both intellectually and morally bankrupt at this point, however loudly their more witless and vitriolic supporters might reflexly bray in support of their embarrassingly kindergarten tactics?

[Factkneader]

03:36 PM on 02/24/2010

Almost a century and a half ago most of members of the Know Nothing Party became Republicans. In the ensuing years the Republicans have now devolved successfully into the No,Nothing, Party without apparently losing any Know Nothing attributes. It seems obvious that if the Capitol Building were on fire, the No, Nothingers would oppose any Democrat move to call the fire department! What magnificent public servants!

[Altx]

04:40 PM on 02/24/2010

Nicely said! Yes, "Burn, Baby, Burn' they'd chant in unison as they defiantly self-immolated. Though that's effectively what they're doing anyway, if on 'simmer' rather than 'roast'.

[Jazzcomedian]

11:47 AM on 02/24/2010

What a silly, crazy, angry country America has become. Whatever America used to do that contributed to it's past greatness, it certainly has stopped. I've seen them all from JFK to Obama, and I've never seen our politics on the federal, state, and local level, this dysfunctional and ineffective. It's always been partisan, but never this ineffective. The rational idea that compromise is necessary for the nation to solve it's major problems is completely off the radar these days. In the last 30 years, we've become two countries (liberal and conservative, red and blue) forced to live together as one. And our 24/7 cable news cycle seems to be intensifying that not lessening it. It's a bad "irreconcilable differences" marriage without possibility of divorce. That's not good for national progress, and our lack of progress on all the critical issues is proving that.

I'm also a permanent resident of "free spirited" Australia, and split time between L.A. and Melbourne. I've observed their politics closely, and while there's a certain amount of knee jerk BS in it, ethical scandals, and skepticism on the public's part, they certainly aren't as polarized or extremist as we are, and the nation's business gets done effectively on the tough issues facing the country. The Aussies pay far more income taxes, but from my vantage, get great value for money. And they still fundamentally trust their government. Without all our jingoistic ritual, they are far more unified than we are. The contrast is striking.

[givesflack]

11:56 AM on 02/24/2010

If you look at the faces and the actions of the GOP they look like their still fighting the Civil War. Its that bad. Other countries have grown out of that despair between fellow citizens to cooperate even in the midst of their own scandals and mischief, but they handle them in a more reasonable fashion. When it comes to taxes, I believe the more money in the common trust the more options you have in life and a better society all around, a notion the GOP will suppress to the bitter end. They would rather see that public income privatized and incurring interest in an off shore account. Freedom for me is better schools, roads, public facilities, medicine, not more money back on an already wage reduced income, also because of GOP policies (there are plenty). A happier society is one that shares in the spoils, not vice versa- we need to grow up enough to share. We had that here until Reagan.

[pyradius]

07:28 PM on 02/24/2010

Funny thing is the South was all about the "Free Market" which is why they bought all their European imports with extremely low tariffs. Slave labor, outsourcing, sweat shops...apparently these are the staples of the Republican diet.

[erasmusbdraggin]

01:30 PM on 02/24/2010

Great post, thank you.

Echoing the person who replied above - I wonder if this polarized stagnation we are in got its start with Republican Think Tanks after the Nixon disaster. Corporations and the elite funneled mega bucks to "frame" arguments - using Neuro Lingustic Programming - to win back Congressional seats.

Progressives should be so smart as to use framing better, but whatever party uses it, maybe it's part of the problem we see now:

"My" argument, "my" best interests, "my" constituency, "my" legislative initiative. Me me me.

How about "our" community, "our" solution, "our" democracy, "our" health as a planet, "our" collective best interests. Oops, the word "collective" - commie!

55 years since Joe McCarthy and words still matter.

[givesflack]

11:46 AM on 02/24/2010

I guess Brown broke the pledge:
Signed by every member ever in the GOP,
We the Hypocritical Party do stand together as the disloyal opposition
as we are not loyal to the American Citizen as we are to are newly anointed
Corporate Citizen. Our aim is to maintain the wealthiest peoples status quo at
all cost to the nation and raise it at will either through rule of fear and dishonesty when in the majority
or to obstruct the majority party by every extreme measure to bring to a stand still the functioning government. All this in order to get our way completely while we fool the people all of the time because we always can. This is our pledge, and we plan to continue it.....la la la la la

[DandyRandy]

11:45 AM on 02/24/2010

Let's see....hmm....a "progressive Republican"....a term from the past and certainly a contradictory term in more recent times.
DandyRandy

www.pontificating-randy.blogspot.com

[ron071]

11:39 AM on 02/24/2010

The voters of Mass. will be long remembered for what they did in sending this stand-for-nothing guy to the Senate. They betrayed their values and those of all progressives in the land. Brown cannot be counted on to stand for anything and so neither party will have achieved any reliable support. Thanks, Mass.

[California Dreamin]

02:03 PM on 02/24/2010

That's the problem ! It needs to be less about Republicans & Democrats and more about being American. We need people like Senator Brown who have the balls to govern. Both parties have good ideas. It doesn't matter what side of the isle it comes from. If it's a good idea vote accordingly. Not whether it fits your parties ideology, but whether it works to improve America.America needs jobs!!! The bill may not be perfect but it is a better option than doing nothing. Brown is not a stand for nothing guy. He's doing what he was elected to do by the people

[swimbiker]

07:02 PM on 02/24/2010

Problem is, the Tea Baggers think they elected him and therefore he should do as they say---but the voters of Massachusetts elected him.

[ladybug7]

11:33 AM on 02/24/2010

This shows the true colors of the GOP. They have never been interested in "bipartisan" legislation but only in blocking anything the party in power tries. Even when it helps their state.

[Ozzymondias]

11:31 AM on 02/24/2010

Alright this is Brown's facebook fans. Not everybody who is conservative. Get some flipping perspective folks.

[jmc42]

11:31 AM on 02/24/2010

Senator Brown,

The truth is that you are representing the people of the state of Massachusetts. Thank you for representing me correctly regarding the Jobs Bill.

You are the first time that I have not voted for a Democrat. And there's a reason for that: The current folks in office do not and have not represented my wishes.

In the end, it is not the party that anyone has to answer to but their own conscience and the people that elect them.

Thanks!

[KeyWestDan]

11:26 AM on 02/24/2010

It's like a classroom loving the new substitute teacher because he's young & hip and maybe likes the things you like, then turning on him because he assigned some homework. "Boooo! You're not one of us! Booooo!" Fickle republicans.

[CaliGrown78]

11:25 AM on 02/24/2010

Remeber it's about politics not what the people want when dealing with the repigs

[Mike949]

11:21 AM on 02/24/2010

I find it ironic that people are trashing the Republicans for "turning on their own" when it was not too long ago Lieberman was the target by the Democrats in the same, if not worse way.

The message given by Republicans and Democrats to their members is to never stray from the extremes of the party.

[foodchain11]

11:24 AM on 02/24/2010

You're only on your first Brown vote. Wait till you put good money into him, give him priority comittees, have become an indy, help the opposition's presidential run and vote against your most major programs.

[Whinott2000]

11:28 AM on 02/24/2010

A sad, but valid point. However, I think there's a big difference between Brown voting on a bipartisan bill, and Lieberman actively campaigning for the Republican candidate for president. Still, in America people are supposed to be free to make their own decisions. Unfortunately in politics nowadays, I think there's always going to be punishment for not making the "right" (re: tow the party line) choice.

[sobachka]

11:37 AM on 02/24/2010

It didn't bother me so much that Liebermann endorsed McCain, or even campaigned for him. What bothered the poo-poo out of me was that instead of focusing on legitimate policy differences between the two candidates, he went around reciting the same idiotic, lying, off-topic repug talking points.