Posted by
Brian Peters on Monday, February 22, 2010 9:07:10 PM
Walking and talking after supper tonight, the conversation turned to the politics of the day. Looking at the upcoming 'Bipartisan Health Care Summit' at the White House, this was a brilliant plan from the Obama team. This had to come via Axelrod since it put the Republican's into a damn if you do, damn if you don't position. There are two camps on the conservative side, don't go - do attend. The Republican's were stupid enough to open themselves up to this 'Summit' with their continued press conferences saying they would work with Congress and the President in a bilateral environment to help solve health care.
So with the initial defeat of the quasi-Socialist Democrat-Obama Care plan, it appeared that common sense, conservatism, Republicans, and the average American workers had won against the SDOC plan. But the Republicans kept flapping their jibs, trying to look and sound like the nice guys, and Axelrod's team saw an opening. We (Dems) can now push through our plan and have Republicans on board, and make them look really bad if they fail to either show up or have them show, offer a plan that must be in sync with ours, or make them sign onto the SDOC plan by putting them in front of the camera and public.
Today, newly minted Republican Senator Scott Brown, whose voters no doubt, wanted him to go to DC to represent them and Conservative ideals (which is why he garnered so much out of State support), today did:
WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - A modest
job-creation bill
advanced in the U.S. Senate on Monday as the chamber's newest
Republican bucked his party and sided with Democrats on a $15
billion package of tax cuts and highway spending.
Republican Scott Brown joined four other
Republicans, 55
Democrats and two independents to overcome a procedural hurdle
that sets up a final vote later this week.
I don't know about you dear reader, but I'm this close ( ) that space between the enclosure marks, of chucking my RNC card and joining most likely the Libertarian Party.
I was just reading some of the comments on that story:.....wow....glad I'm not feeling alone tonight.
http://www.reuters.com/article/comments/idUSN2221899520100222
Between the Republicans getting set up by the Obama White House over this 'Summit' and Sen. Brown's stab in the back to the Conservatives who helped him........let me start looking for a new place to call 'home' politically.