WASHINGTON (AP) - Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous.
"An entire year has gone to waste," Brown said in the weekly GOP radio and Internet address. "Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and many more jobs are in danger. Even now, the president still hasn't gotten the message.
"Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway."
Brown himself can claim responsibility for the Democrats' failure to pass health overhaul legislation to date. They were on the verge of doing so before Brown claimed the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat in a special election upset in January, depriving Democrats of their filibuster-proof supermajority and throwing the health care effort into limbo.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
VIDEO: Scott Brown lays down the law on Health Care
"An entire year has gone to waste"
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This year was NOT a waste for the advance of socialism. Real damage has been done in the past year, most of which we will not see the brunt of for a while.
If the turkey turd deathcare bill does pass it will be a huge nail in the coffin of liberty. The smaller nails hammered in so far have set the stage nicely. If it does fail, incremental implementation is the plan. They love to hide that nasty stuff in legislation.
Those of us paying attention see what a mess we're in. But in my observation, most of the population is still disengaged to a shocking degree. The youngest generations are OK with socialism -- ask any college student or graduate in the past 10 years. It's fine with them, desirable even.
Good there are a few politicians speaking up, but it's close to too late. We've got "educated" fools after generations of junk indoctrination from our schools. Not much to work with here.
We're getting close to 50% of the population on welfare of some kind. Now unemployment is tipping the scales. People don't give up what is once handed to them, and the strings attached become just a way of life. And with a government that sees this as their role, how can this path be reversed?
Maybe November elections will help slow things, but the momentum has been heavily set. Not enough people pay attention to history or think the Constitution is a concept that applies to their lives. I see it in my own family. Our ignorance and our culture today doesn't allow for it.
Not for nothing, but this would have been finished over a year ago if Republicans conservative Democrats were not playing the middle and trying to get "bipartisan" support. It would be political suicide for the Dems to give it up now. If I were a liberal Democrat running I would blame conservative Democrats and Republicans for making this debate drag on for so long.
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