“I bet they can hear this cheering all the way in Washington, D.C.!”
“The independent voters of Massachusetts have spoken!”
People are chanting “41!”
Brown says he has spoken to “interim Senator Paul Kirk and he has completed his work as a Senator.”
Classy guy praising Ted Kennedy, calling him “a force like no other in this state.” First call he made was to the late Democrat’s widow Vicki. Pledges to be a worthy successor that long-serving Senator.
“It was all of us against the machine.”
He just gave Mitt Romney a big boost for his 2012 campaign by singling him out for praise. He also singled out his new colleague John McCain.
Notes that Air Force One made an emergency run to Logan Airport. Sees his victory as something which will reverberate across the country. “When there’s trouble in Massachusetts, there’s trouble everywhere.”
“People do not want the trillion dollar health care bill that is being forced on the American people.” We can do better. Interesting to note that he begin his conclusion by focusing on “need to start fresh” on health care. Ok, he sounded like he was concluding, but he’s got some great stuff on standing with our troops and against terrorists!
“Giving new rights to terrorists is the wrong agenda for our country.” Guy kind of sounds like a lesbian’s father.
In this election season that’s about to begin, “let them take a look at what happened in Massachusetts.” Because what happened here can happen all over America.
As Chicken Little said: “It’s a new day!!!!”
Great speech so far….as was Martha’s, frankly.
I swear to y’all, I am on Cloud 9 here….just almost in disbelief!!!!!
I, too, thought Martha’s speech was good and quite gracious. That said: WOOO HOOO! Mr. Brown (and his lovely daughters) goes to Washington!
The McCain-Romney connection is… interesting. But it fits with Brown having supported RomneyCare.
Hey, no one’s perfect! Even if Brown isn’t perfect, I’m astounded and pleased by tonight’s result.
Hey, Pelosi, Reid, Obama: “CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?”
As excited as many conservatives are now, and rightly so I may add, I must remind you all of the work that’s ahead of us. There is much to do and no time to waste believing this “is the winter of our discontent…………” Wm.S.
Unlike our recent history, we can not allow complacency to rear it’s ugly head again and prevent us from knowing in advance when it’s time to check or course. We have renewed ourselves tonight, but will have only ourselves to blame if we squander this momentum and fail to make our case. We can do this.
The people of Massachusetts have spoken. Congratulations to Senator Elect Brown…..he now holds the people’s seat, but only as long as the people allow. I just heard Mr Brown say, “I’m ready to go to Washington without delay”. I’m sure Harry Reid heard him too.
Wonderful night!
Wow………….just wow…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LbvFckptY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL0Qt7IF8Q4
“I’m Scott Brown, I’m from Wrentham,and I drive a truck!!!!” YES!!!! LOVE IT!!!!
He covered some great topics…”taxpayer money should go to weapons to kill terrorists and not lawyers to defend them” … “The constitution was written to defend THIS country” (the crowd loved that one…). Interesting how he noted throughout the campaign people were consistently not wanting the current health care bill.
Indeed, it’s been a very good night!!!! WOO HOO!!!!
I love how sites like Ace and HotAir keep running Waterloo videos:
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/19/politico-house-dems-already-starting-to-run-from-obamacare/
(Ace has been running Waterloo at different points for weeks now, I think.)
And I wouldn’t be too surprised if the stock market has a good day tomorrow. The specter of (further) socialism is lifting.
Thanks Gaypatrioters for killing DADT repeal!
Speaking of specters, wonder how Arlen is feeling tonight.
Oh Tom, do raise your game! DADT was established by Democrats. It wasn’t ever going to be repealed by Obama.
Wow, just wow,
So nice to see all of you homosexuals (I refuse to call the self-loathing people on this site “gay”) celebrating the election of one of your oppressors. Here’s what your hero Mr. Brown has done for my community (not yours, of course), lest we forget:
– consistently voted against the GLBT community while in the state senate
– voted over 25 times against marriage recognition for the GLBT community
– does not support the Transgender Civil Rights & Hate Crimes Bill, currently pending at the Statehouse
– opposes repealing ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’
– opposes repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
– has ridiculed GLBT parents as inadequate, saying that gay parenting is ‘not normal’
– supported former Governor Mitt Romney’s anti-gay policies
– supported former President George Bush’s anti-gay policies
So go on and cheer GayPatriots, when Tea Party nuts like Scott Brown take over this country your butts may be later in the camps or on the gallows than the rest of us truly gay people, but don’t doubt for a second that they’ll spare any of you homosexuals.
By all means, be gleeful in your lack of marriage recognition, inability to serve in the military, ability to be fired for your sexual-orientation or gender-identity, inability to jointly adopt children, and, most of all, ability to go bankrupt because your precious free-market health insurance drops your coverage when you get a deadly disease because you forgot to mention you had a runny nose when you were five!
Dear Lord, I’ll never understand how any self-respecting person with a same-gender sexual-orientation in this country could support the GOP. Give me tepid Democratic lip-service any day to the overt Republican hostility that the readers of this site seem to have deluded themselves into believing is better for their lives.
Hey Senatus: I have an open letter for you… click here: http://www.gaypatriot.net/?comments_popup=21494#comment-537509
Actually, “Tom in Lazybrook”, the best argument for keeping DADT in place was made by one of your fellow “gay activists” at — surprise! — Annise Parker’s “victory party”.
When “Gay” people like yourself just have to flat-out LIE about how “honorably” you served, I think it should be obvious to everyone what the problem is.
So go on and cheer GayPatriots, when Tea Party nuts like Scott Brown take over this country your butts may be later in the camps or on the gallows than the rest of us truly gay people
LOL….I love it. There is nothing more hilarious than watching Barack Obama shriek that, if we don’t worship him, the Republicans will kill us or send us to the concentration camps.
The degree to which Obama Party members have to delude themselves is getting well past merely annoying and into the downright entertaining spectrum.
I am confused with this website? I am from Massachusetts and Scott Brown is NOT a supporter of gay rights! He has a verifiable track record against us. I am not here to call anyone names, but get your facts straight! I can tell you how horrible many of us felt when Scott Brown supported the 2007 amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution to ban gay marriage after it was legal…just like California! If it was allowed to go on the ballot it could have possibly dissolved my marriage or left us in limbo! He even supported the original Travers amendment in 2003 that would have also banned civil unions! Do your research people. Your civil rights are at stake!
LOL. I see the self-loathing Americans who worship tyranny have awoken from their stupors.
Oh, and Senatus? You and your fellow Obama puppets like Mike Rogers were making that “internment camps for gays” charge way back in 2004. You also swore that, if Bush was elected, you’d leave the country.
So get out. Put your money where your mouth is.
Tom, you silly, silly, child.
DADT is not a law, it is policy established by executive order of Bill Clinton.
The only thing needed to repeal it is Barack Obama’s signature, which he has put off for a year, for, um, er…
…well, for no good reason whatsoever. considering most Americans think it should be repealed one can only assume that Obama just hates gays.
You are right! They are! But not from Republicans. They are under almost daily attack from fascist “progressives” Who want to control everything from what health care we can and cannot get to how much we make, to what products and services we can and cannot buy.
Do YOUR research.
Where oh where is Tano??? I’m disappointed he hasn’t shown his face tonight. Hey Tom, I’m a gay vet, are you? I met my 30year partner in Saigon. Guess what, Obama could change DADT with a simple executive order. Why hasn’t he??? Come on Tom, tell us why he hasn’t.
Disneybear, I think you are confused because you have the impression that because this blog happens to have some gay readers and some gay writers that gay issues are the only ones anyone here cares about. You read the “Gay” part of the blog name but you must have missed the part that reads, “PATRIOT”. Most of the people that post on this site are not single-issue types, I’ve found. They are looking at the bigger picture, the long term, national consequences of their political choices. I support the rights of gays to marry and adopt and to have all the legal benefits I enjoy as a straight citizen. But if this country continues down the road it is on none of us, gay or straight, will have any rights left!
The president and the congress are systematically screwing this country over and if Scott Brown can be a roadblock to that, then I am ECSTATIC that he won tonight. He may not support gay rights and I may not agree with him on every issue, but this election was not about his stand on gay rights for most people. It was about letting the people have thier say and making sure that Washington hears it! Our economy is in the toilet, unemployment is through the roof, we’ve got terrorists showing up like it’s freaking “take your jihadist to work” week and our government wants to focus on legislation that the majority of American’s do not support or want. Yes, rights for gay Americans are important and yes DADT and DOMA need to be repealed but there are other issues that are just as important that we need to be focusing on right now and if we don’t we’re all going to suffer for it, gay and straight.
Do your research people. Your civil rights are at stake!
Yes, Disneybear, we’ve already been told by you and your Barack Obama that, quote, “your butts may be later in the camps or on the gallows than the rest of us truly gay people”.
So why don’t you move to Cuba? Since the only things you care about are gay-sex marriage and free health care, it should be a paradise on earth for you.
Or are there “civil rights” that you would suddenly discover if you had to put your money where your Marxist mouth is?
These trolls are really stupid… yes Disneybear I mean you and your friends.
They are extremely angry because the woman who let a pedophile priest go free to harm more children did not win in Massachusetts. Now keep in mind I am Catholic, and I feel very upset at the way these issues were handled in the press, especially when there are women teachers who have behaved the same way towards their students. What I am saying though, is that Coakley was in error when she did not press charges when complaints were made the first time.
Now, like most of the more sane people who write on this blog, read and comment, I believe that there are far more important issues than “gay rights”.
What you people do not understand is that your attitude towards heterosexuals is more than half of any problem that exists. As has been pointed out DADT is a policy. It is not legislation. It can be removed by executive order, but it has not been removed. Why not?
I am straight. I have been married for over 30 years. I believe that marriage is a sacrament, and that it is something that exists between a man and a woman. It is that simple.
However, I do not believe that the government belongs in the bedroom. If there was any place where gays are being punished because they live together due to laws that are in place, then I would support the repeal of those laws. What someone does in his or own place of residence is his or her own business. On the other hand I do not believe that it is necessarily healthy for a child to be adopted into a same sex family situation. As a result of an experience that I had at the time of giving birth to one of my children (and in the ward afterwards), I am not enthusiastic at the idea of lesbian women giving birth so that they can play happy families. Yes there was a specific experience behind how I feel. I certainly think that it is better for children to be raised in a two parent family.
However, I am well aware that two parent families can also be hazardous for children. What is important is the welfare of the children, and not diversity. Again, I speak from experience where little girls were put at risk. It could be that someone who is homosexual would make a great guardian to a child, and for that reason, I will accept that situation where it is best for the welfare of a child…. except of course when homosexuals are being chosen ahead of family members to look after a child… then I am opposed to the diversity and politically correct attitudes that allowed the child to be placed into that environment.
As such my own opinions and thoughts are very divergent to the things that I see written on this blog.
Whilst I am against “gay marriage” for the very reason that I believe that this is meant more as an affront to heterosexuals in the way that it is pushed than anything else, I do believe that there should not be discrimination against those partnerships, and that there should be some kind of legal recognition… so long as there is no demands relating to church weddings… that remains intolerable.
I read this blog because of the great thoughts of the authors of the blog. I enjoy reading what Daniel and Bruce have to say.
You little snakes do not have to come here and start with your whining and your lies about Brown’s record.
Well, we all know what the Dems are saying while doing their best Ingrid Bergman impersonation: “We’ll always have NY-23.”
Fascinating. Just goes to show that Mass. has become the Alabama of the nawth. Brown is no supporter of the gay “community”. Of course the useless “gay right” are happy – he says he supports “civil unions”.
A little bitter, Merle?
Wow, so many new bitter
sockpuppetstrolls on the site this morning.No, darling. Just stating facts. Brown will only help the Southern controlled Republican party with their agenda. The facts are what they are. Mitch, the good ole boy from Kentucky, must feel emboldened. The “teabaggers” are thrilled and Mass. got themselves a good ole Alabama style poster boy. There is no reason to be “bitter” when the Dems still have a larger majority than Bush ever did. This is only a bump in the road. Brown still has to run again in 2012.
“There is no reason to be “bitter” when the Dems still have a larger majority than Bush ever did.”
Hmmm, and what exactly have they done with that majority in the last year? They’ve struggled to pass healthcare, cap & trade has been a pointless waste of time, they have managed to put us so far into debt that our great-grandkids will be paying off the loans and our economy is in the basement thanks to their need to prop up failing banks & car companies with no thought to helping out the small business that actually create jobs in this country! They’ve also certainly done nothing for the gay community. Oh sure, gay people are good enough to take contributions from, but at the end of the day most Democrats in office are only paying lip service to their “support” for gays and lesbians. If they really gave a crap about gay/lesbian issues DADT would have been halted with a stroke of Obama’s pen and the congress would have rushed through a repeal of DOMA. Odd that they didn’t.
Instead they set about trying to foust government run/mandated healthcare on Americans that don’t want it which interestingly might actually harm gay/lesbians. Right now a great number of private sector companies offer benefits for the partners of gay/lesbian employees and their children but DOMA prevents the government from recognizing those relationships, so if this healthcare monstrosity passes and those gay/lesbian couples or families have to move to the government plan they may end up paying a lot more for the same coverage they get now, because they won’t qualify as a family or couple anymore.
Yup, they are really looking out for gay folks!
Kristie, well put. Beautifully describes our economic mess.
Received a recording from Senator-elect Brown over the telephone. He complemented Senator McCain for supporting him.
He provided a telephone number to complement McCain for his service.
For the past five years, I have not receive any support for WWII vetrans I have been involved regarding awards, and decorations.
Robert,
I’m not sure I am following what you are saying. You haven’t received support from whom, for whom, for doing what? Could you rephrase that?
Not just the last year. Last THREE years. Democrats want everyone to forget that they have controlled congress since January 2007, and that the recession didnt start til a year after they took control, and the economic crisis didnt happen until they had been in control for two years.
But I’ve made it my duty to remind everyone for them.
American Elephant,
My eyes must have been crossed…again:
“He provided a telephone number to complement McCain for his service.”
For over five years, I have not received any support from the office of Senator McCain for WWII veterans regarding awards, and decorations.
Particularly, veterans (former POWs) of the battle of the Bulge, battles of Bataan, and Corregidor. Veterans with rank up to, and including Colonel. Not to mention, next of kin of veterans (former POWs) that participated in the battles identified.