Scott Brown Criticizes Proposed Budget Cuts As 'Irresponsible'

Politico:

While some Senate Republicans are tacking right on the budget, Sen. Scott Brown is attacking proposed cuts coming from members of his own party as "irresponsible" and urging both sides of the aisle to come together on a bipartisan deal.

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Comments

[Roxee]

06:49 AM on 04/03/2011

Great point rainjustice. I never thought of the comparison to male rights. So true.

[rainjustice]

01:52 AM on 04/03/2011

With the ENORMOUS problems facing our country, the GOP is busily wasting their time and our money, obsessing on controlling women’s reproductive tracts!

Controlling women's bodies has always been the great construct of men. These proposed
laws are just a modern continuation of, "Droit de Seigneur;" the, "right" of Lords to deflower the brides of his vassals.

“Conservatives” and GOP Congressmen surely enjoy their right to the many drugs and, “implements” created to promote a man's erection. His right to impregnate at will. Most are covered by insurance, even Medicare! Yet, these same insurers refuse to cover birth control, in a real sense, forcing women to breed.

Meanwhile, these same members of Congress are determined to eliminate the one resource available for free, and cost-effective women’s reproductive healthcare: Planned Parenthood.

The same people attacking women's rights to their own bodies are the very ones determined to deny healthcare to their children, once delivered, a quality education and healthy foods to children of hard-pressed parents living on the razor’s edge of poverty. We need to understand that the ONLY, "cure" for ALL abortions is AFFORDABLE and AVAILABLE BIRTH CONTROL, including the, "morning-after pill."


The Pope is not our king. When are we women going to DEMAND full coverage for women’s reproductive health care, including birth control; on par, at least, with some of the obscene amounts spent towards providing for a man’s erection rights; his, “right” to impregnate at will, too often without consequences or responsibility?

[rascal barquecat]

03:28 PM on 04/09/2011

Thank you for the reminder that there is that very large elephant in the middle of the living room.

[Davwbaird]

08:07 PM on 04/02/2011

i have three cavaliers on my bed with me, makes more sense then this man.

[xtiangodloki]

06:54 PM on 04/02/2011

Smart political move. The tea party helped brown to the scene but there is no way te party candidates will do well in ma.

[hempster]

05:10 PM on 04/02/2011

New England Republican defined = Liberal southern democrat.

[cheo]

05:03 PM on 04/02/2011

And yet....
March 22, 2011
http://www­.washingto­nmonthly.c­om/archive­s/individu­al/2011_03­/028568.ph­p
That said, it's worth emphasizin­g that the House GOP spending bill -- the one including brutal domestic spending cuts -- eliminated every penny of federal funding for Title X and Planned Parenthood­.
And who voted in support of the House Republican proposal when it reached the Senate floor? Brown, Murkowski, and Collins did.

http://www­.washingto­npost.com/­blogs/2cha­mbers/post­/after-vot­ing-for-ho­use-republ­ican-fundi­ng-plan-sc­ott-brown-­now-says-h­e-opposes-­defunding-­planned-pa­renthood/2­011/03/22/­ABsA6yDB_b­log.html
[...] all three Republican moderates voted in favor of the House-pass­ed bill earlier this month, even though it contained the cuts to Planned Parenthood and Title X.
[...] it would be difficult for Brown, Murkowski and Collins to vote against it [again], since they backed those cuts as recently as two weeks ago.

http://fir­stread.msn­bc.msn.com­/_news/201­1/03/22/63­21579-brow­n-latest-g­oper-oppos­ed-to-plan­ned-parent­hood-defun­ding
[...]Brown voted in favor of the GOP budget plan two weeks ago, thereby voting for the Planned Parenthood cuts that were in that budget.

http://www­.examiner.­com/democr­at-in-los-­angeles/se­cond-gop-s­enator-opp­oses-cuts-­to-planned­-parenthoo­d
What is unusual by Brown’s statement, though, is that when the House’s spending bill came to a vote in the Senate, Brown voted in favor of it despite it including the cuts to Planned Parenthood­.

[johnsonbrown2222]

03:55 PM on 04/02/2011

We have a RINO here.

[Mattie]

04:07 PM on 04/02/2011

Is that what baggers call a reasonable human being. I guess someone who doesn't apologize to BP after they have the biggest oil spill in history, or call the unemployed lazy just isn't attractive to a bagger.

[Peter Combs]

03:46 PM on 04/02/2011

Bravo Scott!!! You just did what we in Mass voted for you for! be your own man...keep going!

[Ascoli]

05:43 PM on 04/02/2011

Not from Mass. but echo your sentiments.

[Larkin31]

09:32 PM on 04/02/2011

Same reason we here in Maine elect Snowe and Collins.

[anywaylm]

03:34 PM on 04/02/2011

Hey, I have an idea! For so long, we have heard from the GOP about how wonderful Regan was, along with his great "trickle down" trick. So here's what I would challenge the GOP to do now with the budget. Use the Regan Trickle Down Revenue policy. Here's how it would go. The richest in the country gets the biggest revenue bills...along with those top revenue bills going to the corporations making the most profit. Cut out their loopholes and have them have to pay like the rest of us poor buggers. But the lower the wage, the trickle down revenues would get smaller and smaller. Sounds fair to me.
OK. I know I'm not the brightest economy bulb on the block, but I am sick and tired of the richest getting the biggest breaks, while the only breaks the rest of us get are breaks in our backs. Instead of doing away with the middle class and poor, let's allow them to grow bigger and better than ever before.

[forkuu]

04:14 PM on 04/02/2011

oh i agree. do you ever wonder how reagan got to be such an idol to even some democrats. ? i guess it was his style because most of his rhetoric and government was hurtful to many poor and disabled americans

[hempster]

05:12 PM on 04/02/2011

I heard this last night on Bill Mahr: "Saint Ronnie raised the corporate tax 33% cuz the government needed money"

[StewII]

03:25 PM on 04/02/2011

Talk is cheap, let's see how he votes.

[freedom1947]

03:24 PM on 04/02/2011

Watch out baggers! El Cajones Brown is standing up to be heard.

[stape45]

03:12 PM on 04/02/2011

They want you and me to act responsibly. Keywords: "you" and "me".

[sprootles]

02:53 PM on 04/02/2011

I'd like to ask McConnell how it feels to know he sold his soul to the TBers. I'd like to ask him how it feels to put his own political ambitions beyond the needs of the country.

Every politician who climbed into the TBers bed should be having the morning after remorse by now. They (Republibaggers) are starting to look like timid d ogs, whi pped one too many times, by the neighborhood bul ly.

The TP is losing any power it once imagined itself to have. When you force moderates out of your own party, leaving it to the exrt remists, you force people to go elsewhere. You also force a sort of inner party w ar.

I'm waiting for Boehner and Company to stand up the TP and tell them where to put it. I have a feeling we're going to be waiting awhile. I just wonder when that magic tipping point will be when the TP reaches out to wh ack the tim id d og and the d og FINALLY decides to b ite back...

It's going to be a good show. I think I'll make popcorn...

[anywaylm]

03:36 PM on 04/02/2011

Can I come over and watch the show with you? My greatest wish is for the GOP to rise above the tea-bagger bunch and propose something that makes sense for a change. Might be a long wait, tho.

[linksteroh]

02:50 PM on 04/02/2011

Brown will run as an independent. He s smart he knows the t-bags are mad and he wants to keep the moderate and independent vote.

[Robert Cantor]

02:23 PM on 04/02/2011

Brown is setting himself up for a 2012 run as an independent, ala Lieberman.

[forkuu]

04:15 PM on 04/02/2011

we could do worse ... liebermann is not trust worthy and a poor example