By Douglas V. Gibbs
Scott Brown broke party lines and voted for the Jobs Bill that includes $15 billion in new spending. The liberal media is abuzz about it, giddy with the fact that the new "savior" of the GOP took off across the aisle the first chance he got.
Shortly after Scott Brown won in Massachusetts, though I was excited that the Republicans broke the Democrat's super majority, I indicated that Brown is hardly a conservative. There will be times that he, and many other Republicans, vote in a way that simply confounds conservatives.
Even Ronald Reagan did things that were not along the path conservative preferred. For example, every time the Democrat Congress presented him with a new spending bill, he signed it, rather than using his veto pen, thus wiping out the increased revenue from his tax cuts with a three-fold increase in spending.
Scott Brown's vote on the Jobs Bill is a clear indication that despite his claims, Brown is not a fiscal conservative. He is just another irresponsible big spender. But, we still need his vote to stop government health care, Cap and Trade, and the other big government socialist proposals that Scott Brown indicated he would vote against.
In all honesty, I do not understand why any Republican would vote for that Jobs Bill. Jobs are not created by the government, they are created by the private sector when the conditions allow for it. The Jobs Bill itself seems idiotic with its $15 billion price tag, anyway. Think about it. How can the Left justify spending billions on the Jobs Bill when the stimulus money they have sitting in their slush fund, which was supposed to save the economy and keep the unemployment rate from going above 8%, hasn't even been spent yet?
As for all of your Conservatives, don't be too down about Brown's vote. You should not put your faith in people like that, they will always let you down. You try to put in the people that best represent your ideas, and beliefs, because it is those ideas that you must have faith in.
In the end, though, put your faith in conservative principles, not people.
Besides, what did you expect from a Republican from Massachusetts?
And think about it. Though Brown's vote is disappointing, he is still better than Coakley.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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