With Republican candidate Scott Brown winning the senate election and the seat for a libreal Massachusetts over Democratic Martha Coakley in an upset, one major concern is a reality...Health care legislation hindrance, possible termination. With the late Ted Kennedy filling Mass.'s senate seat, the Democrats were leading the House of Senate with a supermajority fillled with sixty seats. Now that the democratic rule over the senate with Brown's 41st republican seat is over, legislation like universal health care, climate change, and other components of the left legislation agenda is subject to compromise and/or the end. The Democrats have lost their fillibuster-proof 60 majority vote security blanket and Brown's opposition to the current health care legislation was a key part of his campaign. Post election strategies used by fearful Dems for delaying or possibly preventing Brown from reaching Washington swiflty or quickly passing the bill, is something of urgency for Democratic officials. In response, surprisingly, powerful Democartic officials inluding the President himself, are almost embracing Brown's victory. President Obama even related his own victory to Brown's in being quoted saying,"Here's my assesment of not just the vote in Massachusetts, but the mood around the country: the same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office, People are angry and they are frusrated. Not just because of what's happened in the past year or two years, but what's happened over the last eight years." Obama also suggests that Congress "shouldn't try to jam anything through" before Brown takes his seat in Washington.
So with Democrats giving democracy a chance, time will tell how powerful Mr. Brown really is. Or how the concept of senate vote really is....bring on the fillibusters!
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Hopefull this will be a sign of things to come. I am disapointed in what the current administration is trying to do, but suprised by the general population's opposition to it.
ReplyDeleteThis adminisration is slowly losing it's appeal. I feel President Obama has gone from Prince Charming to the Big Bad Wolf with all of his Big Gov't spending which is blowing all of the Nation's money,(citizen tax dollars)away with social programs and new federal project programs. Its nice to see this adminisrtaion have an interest in education and new jobs with these programs,but geesh!
ReplyDeleteThe Federal Reserve has to just be grinning from ear to ear with how much money is debted to them from our Gov't, which again, is our tax dollars!
And how much money can we really borrow from Japan before the start to resent us, Japan isn't America's atm. Don't we have too much dependancy on foreign countries already??
The good news is the GOP is starting to regain some of it's power in Washington and general public admoration while the current administration and it's liberal constituents are losing positive approval, the public will decide...