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Democrats pile on Scott Brown for Scalia remark

Democratic members of the US Senate complained today that Senator Scott Brown made a revealing comment about his commitment to women’s rights when the Massachusetts Republican named conservative Antonin Scalia first on his list of model Supreme Court justices.

Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told the Globe that he “fell straight out of my chair” when he heard the statement during Monday’s debate between Brown and his Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren.

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Well, the candidate running for re-election who is afraid to say Romney or the word Republican has shown his true colors in his selection of Scalia the most anti women judge on the Supreme court as his most admired judge.   Women, run don't walk to get the news out to your friends.  We do not need this Republican back in Washington.

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Scalia is his model judge. Scalia.

and Kagan is Warren's model judge. Kagan?  This State and Country needs Scott Brown and not this shrill carpetbagger Warren.

"...shrill carpetbagger..."?  I'm thinking your choice of the word "shrill" is pretty revealing.  I guess you Brown supporters can take some solice in the fact that he didn't say Thomas first.

It is not just Brown naming Scalia as his favorite Supreme. Other evidence supports his rightwing mindset. Senator Lugar says about Scott that we need Senators who reach across the isle. Consider this: Brown is Wall Street's favorite senator - they voted on it last year. " During the Dodd-Frank financial reform debate in early 2010, newly elected Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts was referred to as an ATM for the bankers -- meaning that whenever they needed some more cash, they would stop by his office. It was not paper money he was handing out, of course, it was something much more valuable -- rule changes that conferred a greater ability to take on reckless risk, damage consumers, and impose higher future costs on the taxpayer. " Mr. Brown had this ability because he represented the final vote needed to pass Dodd-Frank through the Senate. He could have asked for many things -- including greater consumer protection, a more thorough investigation into mortgage practices, and reforms that would have cleaned up unscrupulous lenders. He asked for none of those changes -- or anything else that would have made the financial system safer and fairer. Simon Johnson: Scott Brown: ATM for the Big Banks file:///Users/nathanmayo/Desktop/ Scott Brown: ATM for the Big Banks.html

The left-listed contingentof the U.S. Senate got flummoxed (to use a Globie's word) at the thought somebody thinks a good about Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia. Why are those party hacks acting as if one of their own had done a Donald Duart Maclean and gone over to Stalin?  Scalia votes against some of the left's silliness at times, sometimes in a majority, sometimes not. So?  These hacks are starting to think that anyone who opposes the Obama/Reid/Pelosi school of political thoughts must be tried and sentenced to 20 years chipping ice at the Shell facility on the Alaska North Slope.  Everything favored by the Lizzy school of legal ponderings is not a good . . . Sen. Brown may have had a good point, it seems, based on the Boxer-Leahy flummoxing. . .

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Weak boatwrote.  Even Rob Eno is more articulate.

Weak, esfsdfsdf? You give him a little too much credit. I couldn't make any sense out of it.