Scott Brown Breaks With GOP To Support Jobs Bill

WASHINGTON — The Senate's newest member broke ranks Monday with fellow Republicans to support a Democratic jobs bill in an important procedural vote.

The vote of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown, along with three other Republicans, gave Democrats two more than the 60 votes they needed to end debate and vote on passage of the bill.

Brown called the bill "a small step, but it's still a step...It's not a perfect bill. I would have liked broader and deeper tax cuts, but I was comfortable with that first vote."

Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine,) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) joined Brown in voting to end debate on the bill.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/22/brown-will-break-with-gop_n_472300.html

Well, he told the GOP they could not count on him to vote in lockstep on every vote. And he is representing a rather blue state. The next question is, since his constituents opposed the Senate health care bill due to the lack of a public option in it, will he join the Democrats in passing a PO under reconciliation? Last estimate I saw has us at 49 votes for the PO.

I imagine one could find five Republicans to vote in favor of a tax cut jobs bill, especially if it doesn't create any jobs!

A company that hires a worker will get a tax break.

The catch:

A company won't hire a worker to obtain a tax break if they don't really need to hire that worker to begin with!

In other words, they would hire that worker with or without a small tax break.

vote now.

This was Snotty Scotty's token bone-throw to the Democrats who were dumb enough to vote for him. We won't see him on the final vote--I guarantee that.

presumed to be coming up for a vote. His constituents made it clear the lack of a public option was their problem with the Senate bill. Maybe he won't help with passage of the public option but that would be stupid. He did vote for the health care bill that passed in MA.

emergency care.

Scott Brown made it very clear that he did not think health care needed reforming. Not only will he vote against that, but he will actively work against any financial regulatory bills, too.

Guys, DON'T GET SUCKED IN BY THIS. Trust me. Brown's a snake.

That's pretty ugly about the amendment. Course we have a few Dems (alleged) who put some pretty anti-woman provisions in our HCR bills. And a few that will oppose financial reforms. Wish we had a majority of real Democrats. sigh

when it's one of biggest problems and ...nothing. Have the public or the media become so numb to them that they don't hear or see any of their abandonment of problem solving in a time of crisis???

Obama ties his shoe wrong and it's worthy of a talking head round table. A Dem uses a wrong word in a sentence and it's like the end of the world and the party.

Madness.