Posts Tagged ‘ scott brown ’

As David noted this morning (as he does every morning in the fabulously information "Today in Congress"), the Senate will have a cloture vote on a scaled down jobs bill this afternoon. The chamber will vote on whether to proceed with a $15 billion measure that includes a one-year Social Security tax...
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It would have been easy to get smothered in the avalanche of fawning press coverage of Scott Brown and his upset victory in Massachusetts last week. Leave it to the Fox News Channel to go the extra mile, however. Far from trumpeting the victory of America's newest Republican Senator, FNC took it upon...
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prior visits to Washington, he explained, were mostly to watch his daughter Ayla, a college basketball player, play against American University, or to visit the monuments "as a tourist." "I'm a history buff," he said. "I love the Museum of Natural History."   -- Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R-MA),...
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Will anyone in the traditional media interrupt Senate-elect Scott Brown's (R-MA) victory lap to ask this question? Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-MA) supports Massachusetts’ 2006 health care reform but opposes the near-identical Senate health care bill. During the campaign, Brown promised to provide the 41st vote for any national reform effort that required...
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I've asked twice in posts today when Scott Brown is coming to town, and now I have an answer: Thursday. Which is great, because it may finally give us an answer on another so far unasked question. Brown's supporters made a huge deal of insisting that he be seated immediately after his victory,...
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Filed under: Senate, Polls, Poll Watch, 2010 Elections, LiberalsNate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com has digested all the recent polls and run them through a statistical model he uses to predict Senate races. His verdict? Republican Scott Brown has a 74 percent chance to beat Democrat Martha Coakley in the race to fill the seat of...
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The campaign against Scott Brown has effectively been ten days long. Ten days is not a long time, but in that time we've learned a lot about Brown. Scott Brown suggested on television that President Obama was born out of wedlock, then tried to claim that Martha Coakley was making things up when...
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Greg Sargent: One month after the September 11th attacks, Scott Brown was one of only three Massachusetts State Representatives to vote against a bill to provide financial assistance to Red Cross workers who had volunteered with 9/11 recovery efforts, we’ve learned. Why did Brown vote against 9/11 workers? ...
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Blue Mass Group has plenty on the Republican who's neck and neck in the Massachusetts special election. Just like George Bush, he claims to be a compassionate centrist but is in fact a ferociously partisan Republican. "I have a history of working as an independent thinker and voter having over 6,000 votes...
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In the final analysis, this was a race that was essentially frozen from its inception. And as a result, Ted Kennedy's successor in the United States Senate is likely to be the first woman elected to that chamber from the state of Massachusetts: Martha Coakley, a no-nonsense lawyer who has worked more...
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