Scott Brown: Elizabeth Warren Has Assumed 'Mantle Of Oppressor' With Health Care Stance

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is accusing Elizabeth Warren of assuming "the mantle of oppressor" with her position on health care.

Warren is challenging Brown for his Massachusetts Senate seat. In an email to supporters, Brown wrote:

One of our most fundamental rights as a people is the freedom of religion. It was right here in Plymouth, Massachusetts that pilgrims from Europe established a colony because of religious persecution at home.

Now, it is Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren who has assumed the mantle of oppressor. She and her allies on the left are dictating to Catholics and other people of faith that they must do as they are told when it comes to health care or face the consequences, regardless of their personal religious beliefs.

Brown is a co-sponsor of an amendment to the Affordable Care Act by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that would allow employers to exclude any health service coverage they claim would violate their religious or moral convictions. Warren has denounced the bill, which she said would deny basic health care to families.

Blunt's amendment comes on the heels of President Barack Obama's decision that religious institutions must cover the cost of contraception as part of any health care plan they offer their employees (though a compromise would offer them a way to opt-out, in which case the insurance company would cover the cost of birth control).

"This new bill that Scott Brown is supporting is not about religious institutions -- it's about something very different. It would allow any employer or insurance company to refuse to cover any person for any treatment," Warren wrote in an email responding to Brown's claim. "Not only is it an attack on women's ability to get the vital health care we need, it is an attack on every one of us."

Polling shows Brown and Warren tied in the race for Senate.

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Comments

[Eagleman]

08:22 PM on 02/24/2012

She is not an oppressor...

She is the founder of OWS. How can you say such bad things about her

[mek0123]

01:32 PM on 02/18/2012

Scott, I will email you this story as a reminder when you pack your bags come end of December 2012. You are going to be his-tory.

[sticks n stones]

01:27 AM on 02/17/2012

"Republican US Senator Scott Brown now has a 9-point lead over Elizabeth Warren, his likely Democratic opponent in the November election, a new poll has found. "

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2012/02/poll-puts-scott-brown-ahead-elizabeth-warren-senate-race/PcpUiX0lh0GoJmKCgWtjSP/index.html

[charles77]

01:15 AM on 02/17/2012

"Now, it is Harvard Professor Elizabeth Warren who has assumed the mantle of oppressor."

Now? She wants oppress us all with endless government regulation and control. She will not be happy until we are all under the jack boot of the government.

[OurSaySo]

03:59 AM on 02/18/2012

Perhaps you'd care to enlighten us with which regulations she proposes to both strangle the job creators and oppress the population.

[Pod-gers]

11:27 PM on 02/16/2012

New poll puts Scott Brown ahead by 9 points. On Dan rea's Nightside, he spoke with the pollster, who said the numbers in the poll were consistant with the trend that saw when Scott Brown defeated Martha in the special election.

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2012/02/poll-puts-scott-brown-ahead-elizabeth-warren-senate-race/PcpUiX0lh0GoJmKCgWtjSP/index.html

[SirReal1]

01:02 AM on 02/17/2012

Which is a BIG DEAL with the election still 9 months away.

Seriously?

[whirlybird]

01:44 AM on 02/17/2012

That one's a clear outlier.

[Pod-gers]

11:21 AM on 02/17/2012

No, 'that one' has a better reputation for acuracy than the BUR poll. But in this case, both polls reveal what we all know on the ground, support for Elizabeth is limited, soft at best, and Scott is very popular.

[jvabevofox]

06:20 PM on 02/16/2012

GOP DEATH PANELS

Would allow employers to exclude any health service coverage they claim would violate their religious or moral convictions.

Talk about forcing religion down our throats.

What if a muslim was the employer and we had to abide by there religious and moral convictions? Think the GOP would say the same thing then? They would wet themselves!!!!!!!

[jchemengr]

05:54 PM on 02/16/2012

Scott Brown shouldn't speak on any issue until he has had days of rehearsal.

He's just not that bright.

[Clevelandinwi]

04:41 PM on 02/16/2012

You, mr senator scottie brawn, are a LIAR. Simpl, isn't it?

[ael443]

04:15 PM on 02/16/2012

Those saying the Blunt amendment is needed to save us from "tyranny and oppression" are using code to say it's a back door attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Repeal and not religion, that's what the controversy is really about. The slimy "moral convictions" clause in the amendment proves it.

[SirReal1]

01:08 AM on 02/17/2012

Agreed! Once the full implications of this amendment are fully explained the backlash from the voters will be significant.

Brown might have just committed the kind of Political Foopah that is generally only reserved for "non-witches" and "second amendment remedy" types.

Which, now that I consider it, puts him in company that seems fairly suited to him.

[Makos62]

04:00 PM on 02/16/2012

So, if a hospital is a Catholic one, it can discriminate against it's employees? Or any group that deemed a benefit now to costly, to say it violates their religious rights, not that they don't want to incur the cost. This seems more like a corporate end run around basic protections of employees by the Theocracy of Business called the GOP. In the end that is all the GOP worships, money.

[SirReal1]

01:10 AM on 02/17/2012

This is the basic divide between the fundie wing of the GOP and the Libertarian (Paul) wing of the GOP.

The fundie's worship money, and Paul says, "nothing wrong with that, but at least make it Gold".

[ThisOldHouse]

03:44 PM on 02/16/2012

Has this family oriented congressman paid his back child support yet?

[SirReal1]

01:12 AM on 02/17/2012

I think you're thinking of Joe Walsh.

Brown is the Playgirl Centerfold guy, that many of the GOP male population voted for.

Something very telling in that, but I'm not sure what.

[ThisOldHouse]

07:14 AM on 02/17/2012

My bad!

[anothervoice2]

03:31 PM on 02/16/2012

Can you please put this back on top of the Politics Page? Instead of that misleading article on how "Brown scored a win on the payroll tax"?! Is the MSM that desperate to make this look like a horse race? When it is clear this "Blunt" move by Brown is not going to sit well with the voters of MA?

[SirReal1]

01:15 AM on 02/17/2012

"Is the MSM that desperate to make this look like a horse race?"

That was intended to be a rhetorical question, right?

The MSM is desperate to make every race look like a "horse race".

[charles77]

01:19 AM on 02/17/2012

If they really wanted it to look like a horse race they would be boosting Warren.

Scott Brown is ahead by 9 points and rising.

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2012/02/poll-puts-scott-brown-ahead-elizabeth-warren-senate-race/PcpUiX0lh0GoJmKCgWtjSP/index.html

[anothervoice2]

11:31 AM on 02/17/2012

That actually proves my point. A poll stopped at 600 voters, that shows Brown in the lead makes this look like it is still a race worth watching. Advertising revenues for the MSM!

[OneLiberalLady]

03:07 PM on 02/16/2012

Wow, requiring hospitals that are open to the public not to discriminate in employment benefits. Shocking!

[choco1996]

02:55 PM on 02/16/2012

Guess he's not the new democrat..the strings got pulled and now the mulas have told him to support no contraception for women..thanks scott your back to your old tricks..you and blunt great duo.....

[Notmybrotherskeeper]

03:25 PM on 02/16/2012

Are you insinuating that government SHOULD force insurance companies (or any other faction) to supply women with contraceptives?

[choco1996]

04:01 PM on 02/16/2012

i not insunuating i'm stating clearly that we live in 2012 not 1312 where you obviously reside.

[itolduso]

10:46 PM on 02/16/2012

Gov. Mike Huckabee signed the same insurance/contraception mandate into law in Ark., Romney signed the same mandate into law in Mass., the same mandate is in law in Arizona (signed into law by a Repub Gov.) So- why is it only when Democratic Presidents require it that you yell about Government attacking Church and forcing insurance company's to do something?

[Notmybrotherskeeper]

02:55 PM on 02/16/2012

But seriously....there's nothing at all "progressive" or new from the ideas of LizWarren and the like. These same idealistic and ideological notions have been conceived of and tried in civilizations since the beginning of time only to end up in the same situation as is Greece currently. Don't these people ever learn?

[Makos62]

04:07 PM on 02/16/2012

The problem was not the forward thinking "idealists", but the backward grasping individuals proposing a return to the "old ways". In the case of America, forget Greece, we have been put in a financial bind by the like of Bush and Cheney and their spending on war, which was really just a redirection of the American people's money into their and their friends pockets. What America needs now is the idealists, and to maintain a course that will bring ALL Americans back on a sure financial footing, not just throw more of our tax dollars into the corporate worlds bank accounts.

[SirReal1]

01:37 AM on 02/17/2012

True, in the sense that much of Ms. Warren's philosophy is based on the ideals embodied in the Magna Carta, European Constitutional Law, and our own American Constitution.

So yes, they have been conceived of, and tried in civilizations throughout much of "modern History", but I hardly think you can conclude that they ALL ended up "as is Greece currently".

Fortunately people do seem to learn. You should even give it a try.