Health care
BROWN: “The federal bill, which my opponent supports and I don’t... cuts, and I hope the seniors are listening, three quarters of the trillion dollars from our seniors’ Medicare, and that’s something I can’t support.”
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BROWN: “The federal bill, which my opponent supports and I don’t... cuts, and I hope the seniors are listening, three quarters of the trillion dollars from our seniors’ Medicare, and that’s something I can’t support.”
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WINNER: Warren by 10 football fields. BUT will the low information voter or those who did not watch the debate read this analysis. She is MOSTLY correct and he is OFTEN misleading and downright false. I can only hope the electorate pays attention.
Low information voter? Thank the Boston Globe. They print Warren's attacks on Senator Brown and never mention that the Boston Globe editorial board said that the "Paycheck Fairness Act" (note air quotes) was a bad idea. Days of coverage of the 'Tomahawk Chop' ... and Warren paid Union sign carriers yell out horrible insults to a Brown gay supporter and silence. Of course they can't touch that one ... gay supporters of Senator Brown? Paid Union members to show up for Warren?
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/11/17/bill_takes_on_disturbing_pay_gap__but_offers_flawed_remedies/
When Brown claims he's protecting Catholics to be able to practice their faith as the reason he voted against the health care bill, which provides birth control and other contraception access to women, he's ignoring that religious freedom belongs to individuals, not institutions. Individuals are free to practice their religion. And most Catholics practice their religion by following their informed Catholic consciences by using birth control. Brown, along with the Republicans, side with the hierarchy, not Catholic women, not Catholic people.
When Brown claims he's protecting Catholics to be able to practice their faith as the reason he voted against the health care bill, which provides birth control and other contraception access to women, he's ignoring that religious freedom belongs to individuals, not institutions. Individuals are free to practice their religion. And most Catholics practice their religion by following their informed Catholic consciences by using birth control. Brown, along with the Republicans, side with the hierarchy, not Catholic women, not Catholic people.
The Boston Globe Editorial board said essentially the same thing as Scott Brown on the "Paycheck Fairness Act" ... “…the measure as a whole is too broad a solution to a complex, nuanced problem… The bill would create too strong a presumption in favor of discrimination over other, equally plausible explanations…” (Editorial, “Bill Takes On Disturbing Pay Gap — But Offers Flawed Remedies,” The Boston Globe, 11/17/10) “… the controversial meat of the bill is the changes it would make to the legal process… companies are right to be concerned that this bill, as written, is too deep an intrusion.” (Editorial, “Bill Takes On Disturbing Pay Gap — But Offers Flawed Remedies,” The Boston Globe, 11/17/10)
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/11/17/bill_takes_on_disturbing_pay_gap__but_offers_flawed_remedies/
>>"When I served in Afghanistan..."
Really. It's like speaking with Kings and Queens. He dreams up these grandiose fantasies and I think he might actually believe them at the time he says them.
Brown is such a hyprocrite. He never uses the word Republican or Romney even when directly asked as he was last night. When he is in public in MA he is "independent." When he is in the other 49 states looking for money, he is a Republican! Love receiving his literature about his independent leadership. When the votes that had actual meaning not the ones that were never going to make it to the floor were made, Brown sided with the REPUBLICAN party at least 80% of the time. His ability to use only parts of information as he sees fit is amazing.
Also, two trips to Afghanistan does not mean the same as serving with the men and women who are there fighting aa he wanted to imply in last night's debate.
Warren took him over the coals with women's issues. Scott, stop using the line that you live with three women. If they mean that much to you, vote to protect their rights.
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If Senator Scott Brown is prochoice, then why did he get the endorsement from a prolife group? His litmus test for Supreme court is judicial experience, but that is a buch of malarchy. There have been many people who have served on the high court never having courtroom experience including Marshall and Warren. 41 out of 109 had not been judges before being appointed to the supreme court. http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1007/p01s03-usju.html