I don't know why everyone is getting their bowels in an uproar over one vote. Anyone that thinks Yankees politicans for the most part are conservatives needs their head examined. Brown and Romney are cut from the same cloth. They will vote for conservative issues most of the time. Surely not as much as I would like. What is the alternative though; you want a raving left wing liberal to hold the office instead. Hell, it pains me to say I voted for that sorry ass McCain but if it was repeat of 2008 in 2012, I would vote for his sorry ass again. The alternative is to allow a die in the wool socialist to turn this country into a European wet dream. For those that say, let it happen and then we can change it, that will not happen and shows stupidity to the highest heavens. Once programs like health care, cap and trade are passed, it will be next to impossible to repeal them. You can not win all the battles but winning the big ones is much more important. This job bill is not a big one.
Spot on, sir.
I come from the state that has, ostensibly, the "most conservative" Democrat U.S. Senator, E. Benjamin Nelson; in fact, he's rated as more conservative than some Republicans.
Whoop-whoop-de-do.
Exactly how has a conservative (D) helped the conservative cause?
As we've all seen, a conservative (D), when the chips are down, goes with his own party-line, which is not conservative.
Just as a liberal (R) (Arlen Specter of yore), when the chips were down, went with his own party-line, which was not liberal.
I used to somewhat worry about (R)s in the Senate jumping ship, but no more--after the way the party-switching Specter was treated by the Democrats, I suspect liberal (R)s have suddenly seen the wisdom of sticking with their own.....which has the long-term effect of them moderating some of their own liberalities, at the same time helping the (R)s to slowly regain majority status, after which the conservative values and policies as advocated by the conservative (R)s go forward.
I have no problem with liberal (R)s; they're helping us, and the "price" of their support seems to be pretty minor, a few crumbs here and there. We can afford to give away a few crumbs, so as to attain a Greater Objective.
