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  1. 1.

    Comrade Jake

    It’s going to be interesting to see what the first vote is that truly signals whether he’s the independent he ran as or the GOP lemming he looks like.

  2. 2.

    dr. bloor

    My favorite meme in this fiasco was the “DEMS WON’T SEAT BROWN!” coming from the Right-Wing Wurlitzer, when it was Brown himself who wanted to put it off until next week. Probably had to wash his truck before heading to Washington.

  3. 3.

    Dork

    It’s going to be interesting not one bit surprising to see what that the first vote is that truly signals whether that he’s the independent he ran as or the GOP lemming he looks like.

    Fixed.

  6. 6.

    Party Of Ideas (rancid)

    Remember “Government Hands Off My Medicare?” from the tea party trolls last summer? Apparently the G(NO)P didn’t get the message. Oh, and look, they’re bringing back Dubya’s plan to privatize social security. These are hardly new ideas from the party of no, but bringing them out in an election year? What a Punch and Judy show this year is shaping up to be.

    http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/02/game_on_3.php#more?ref=fpblg

  7. 7.

    Darius

    You may laugh now, but if Brown plays his cards right, he could be president in 4 or 8 years.

    The media’s head over heels in love with this guy.

  11. 11.

    rob!

    @Comrad Jake:

    I dunno. I think Palin is the single most dangerous person to show up on the National scene in my lifetime, and I appreciate the fact that Sullivan is willing to never let up on her, even when it risks making him look a little silly, sometimes. I wish other journalists were as dogged about their work as he is, on this issue at least.

  12. 12.

    Comrade Jake

    @rob!:

    I agree with respect to Palin and Sully’s doggedness, but he discredits himself when he goes too far with stuff like this and Palin’s pregnancy.

  14. 14.

    Brick Oven Bill

    Scott has challenged Barack to a basketball game. Scott even offered to take a girl as a teammate. This was a not-so-veiled insult to our leader’s manhood.

    It is time for bold, decisive leadership on the part of the President, in order to regain the confidence of the American people.

    Barack should thus counter by challenging Scott to a game of bowling.

  15. 15.

    jrg

    Is it true that a million people filled the mall to see it?

    More like eleventy-billion. Suck it, libtards.

  16. 16.

    Ash Can

    My First Day in the US Senate, by Scott Brown

    9:00 AM: Sat down at my new desk in the Senate chamber. Wow!

    9:01 AM: Was grabbed in a headlock by John Ensign. He and his friends dragged me out of the chamber and locked me in the girls’ bathroom.

    2:45 PM: Was finally let out of the girls’ bathroom by Dick Durbin and his friends. They all laughed at me, pushed me into the janitor’s closet, and locked me in.

    3:10 PM: Mitch McConnell and some other guys let me out of the janitor’s closet. They had a bunch of reporters and TV cameras with them, and said how awful and mean it was that the Democrats had locked me in the janitor’s closet.

    3:25 PM: The last of the news guys left, and Mitch and his friends locked me in the girls’ bathroom again.

  17. 17.

    Joey Maloney

    Obama should agree to the two-on-two and take Sasha as his teammate. Then she can punch Brown right in the nads.

  18. 18.

    Balconesfault

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    Scott has challenged Barack to a basketball game. Scott even offered to take a girl as a teammate. This was a not-so-veiled insult to our leader’s manhood.

    If he really wants to challenge Obama over manhoods, how about they both whip em’ out for a who’s-got-the-bigger-dick spread in Cosmo?

  19. 19.

    Napoleon

    I am so glad Reid showed his typical backbone and seated this guy ahead of when he needed to be seated so he can torpedo Obama’s NLRB nominee. Heck of a job Harry.

  20. 20.

    Mike in NC

    Is it true that a million people filled the mall to see it?

    No, but Chris Matthews felt a thrill go up his leg, which is a hell of a lot more important.

  21. 21.

    Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions

    Yes, but only because everyone was promised free sausages and beer.

  22. 22.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    Can we change the part of the Constitution that says we can’t have health care reform if Scott Brown wins a senate seat?

  24. 24.

    Shawn K.

    It’s true! I was there! 50 million people packed the mall to see it! And it was warmer than Hussien Obama’s inauguration. It just goes to show you how much of a populist Brown is!

  25. 25.

    tinat

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    No, Obama needs to take him up on that challenge!
    Brown can get a female player from the WNBA team in MA and Obama can get his from the WNBA team in Wash D.C. or Chicago…..oh wait, MA doesn’t HAVE a pro team. I guess he’ll have to use his daughter. And Mr. President I suggest you call Alana Beard from the Mystics…she’ll school all ya’ll ;)

  26. 26.

    Brick Oven Bill

    The contest you propose Balconesfault is not becoming of a United States Senator and the President. Bowling would be better.

    Regardless, through Geometry, the American people can come to their own conclusions on a whole range of issues.

  27. 27.

    Llelldorin

    @slippy: And now I’m confused. Bush set the bar very, very low for underwhelming morons. Are you missing an “again” or something?

  34. 34.

    Jon H

    I hear Scott Brown actually holds sort of a quasi-Senatorial seat that also sits in the VP office.

  35. 35.

    aimai

    I can’t even laugh. I think if Brown isn’t a total moron he can parlay his position into a pretty serious run for the presidency. And while he’s doing that and playing to the far right our Senate seat is going to be held by someone whose entire political future is based on voting no on every single part of the Democratic agenda. He’s going to have to vote so far right to be a plausible Republican candidate that the Dems are doomed to be unable to do anything. And *then* to add insult to injury he will run as a “sensible centrist” a…what’s the word? “compassionate conservative” against “gridlock” in washington.

    aimai

  36. 36.

    Napoleon

    Awesome, TPM is reporting Reid wants to bring the jobs bill up for a vote on Monday and what do you know, he does not have the 60th vote to pass it. Too bad Reid decided to swear in Brown early which will now costing X number of people jobs.

    In a fair world those X number of people would impale an incompetent like Reid on their pitchforks.

  37. 37.

    AxelFoley

    OT, but is anybody else distracted by the cutie in the Undressed Reviews ad on this page to the left? I just keep drooling staring ogling looking at her thigh.

  38. 38.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Napoleon: I wouldn’t be surprised if the Senate Democrats are daring the Senate Republicans to filibuster the jobs bill — so that they can whack them for rejecting their many sundry olive branches from the past week. They can make more of a political statement about obstructionism by giving them the opportunity to obstruct. I think we’ll see that a lot in the weeks and months to come.

  39. 39.

    Napoleon

    Further awesomeness from Reid. He has run up the white flag on the Senate’s ability to get anything done (read, his lack of balls to simply bring things to a floor vote for an up or down vote after declaring the filibuster unconstitutional and dare the Republicans to do something about it) and has suggested that Obama is going to have to do recess appointments to get his appointments even though his party has a 59-41 majority in the Senate.

    If Reid ran the New York Yankees he would forfeit the World Series against the “The Reacharounds” a beer league team from Allentown without ever taking the field.

  40. 40.

    Liz

    Yes, let the games begin. And I agree with Sully on this…I wanna know more. After all, they could be the ticket in 2012 :\

  42. 42.

    No Joy in Mudville

    @rob!:

    I think Palin is the single most dangerous person to show up on the National scene in my lifetime,

    More dangerous than the dynamic death duo of W and Cheney? Those are some pretty big cowboy boots to fill. I realize you said “single,” but that ignores the reality that often it is partnerships that do the real damage. To give credit where credit is due, it’s possible those two wouldn’t have been nearly as successful (at ruining the planet) without the further help of Rove.

    Still, W and Cheney have hundreds of thousands of deaths in the bank earning interest. What’s Sarah got, a few turkeys and maybe a moose?

    Right now, it seems like Sarah is all potential. For Sarah to challenge Bush/Cheney/Rove don’t you think she will have to have a partner who makes up for all her obvious, and considerable, shortcomings? Someone like, say, Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli helping out as her running mate?

  44. 44.

    Balconesfault

    @Napoleon:

    Awesome, TPM is reporting Reid wants to bring the jobs bill up for a vote on Monday and what do you know, he does not have the 60th vote to pass it. Too bad Reid decided to swear in Brown early which will now costing X number of people jobs.

    I like this approach.

    Let’s let people have something to chew on next year while they’re deliberating whether to vote D or R. Knowing that R means that anything that might help them will get filibustered.

  45. 45.

    David Moisan

    Yeah, this Masshole saw the swearing in and the press conference. WIsh I’d Tivo’d it. Two things I noted:

    1) Channel 7’s (WHDH, Boston) political commentator (Andy Hiller) is a condesending p****. While the ceremony is going on, he’s talking about how peaceful the transition is, how the Democrats hate this but yet haven’t shot him. ISTR a guy at the Obama appearance in NH last year “defending” his 2nd Amendment. He a Democrat? Whocoodanode! Dog whistle is deafening.

    2) When Brown did his press conference I was dismayed at how much he sounded like Palin. I knew he was not a heavy intellectual, but it didn’t sound good for the next three years.

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