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Scott Brown Wins US Senate Seat in Massachusetts

Is Massachusetts Obama's Waterloo?



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Scott Brown is the Republican Senator-elect from Massachusetts. On January 19, 2010, he defeated Democrat Martha Coakley with a 52% to 47% victory.

Barack Obama personally campaigned for the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in New Jersey and Virginia; the people rejected the uber-liberal agenda and both states went red; the folks followed suit in MA. Scott Brown took back the Peoples' Seat!

President Barack Obama ran to Massachusetts to campaign for Martha Coakley in a desperate effort to secure votes for the US Senate seat once occupied by Ted Kennedy. Obama's evangelical dialect on that campaign trail did not find enough choir members and Martha Coakley delivered her concession speech in light of a Scott Brown Victory.

Scott Brown said his campaign began with him, his truck, and a very few amount of dedicated volunteers; however, it ended with Air Force One making an emergency run to Logan. The crowd erupted in cheers.

When Scott Brown stepped up to the podium to deliver his Victory speech he was greeted with chants of "Gas up the truck, Gas up the truck!" That was in response to Obama's derisive comments regarding Brown campaigning around town in his GMC truck.

Brown acknowledged his honor of winning, but reminded us that the Senate seat does not belong to one person, not one political Party and he said it before and he said it again, "This is the Peoples Seat." Scott Brown stated he hopes Washington is paying attention because the independent voice in Massachusetts has spoken. Can you hear me now?

He recounted the times during the campaign trail when he shook hands with Americans. Party affiliation was not cared about it was simply a shared conviction that brought us all together. Brown continued saying one thing was very, very clear as he traveled throughout the state; the people did not want the trillion-dollar health care plan that is being forced upon the American people.

Scott Brown had the courage to acknowledge that the health care bill is not being debated openly or fairly, it is not in the interest of the state or the country and that we can do better. That bold claim was met with chants of, "Yes We Can, Yes We Can!"

Scott Brown also reminded us that the special election was held because we lost someone very dear to Massachusetts and to America. Ted Kennedy was a tireless worker and a big-hearted public servant and most of his lifetime he was a force like no other in the MA.

Scott Brown continued to exude class when the first call he made was to Vicki Kennedy and reminded her that her husband's name will always command the affection and respect from the people of Massachusetts and that she is thought of in the same manner.

The 60 Plus Association has an online petition demanding that Senator Brown is seated. The Association is alerting us that some Washington politicians are threatening to play political games to keep Senator Brown from voting on the health care bill. When the people speak, their voice should not be ignored.

Senator Ted Kennedy was seated one day after his special election on November 6, 1962. Senator Brown should be seated immediately. Now is not the time for politicians to play games and cut back room deals. Listen to the voters of Massachusetts and Seat Senator Brown.

To sign the petition visit here: http://www.seatsenatorbrown.com/

Brown will become the 41st Republican in the 100-member Senate, which could allow the GOP to block the president's health care legislation and the rest of Obama's agenda. Democrats needed Coakley to win for a 60th vote to thwart Republican filibusters.

Source:

Scott Brown's Victory speech, 01/19/2010

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2610755/scott_brown_wins_us_senate_seat_in.html?cat=9

www.nypost.com

Wise Latina Sotomayor Sworn In As First Hispanic Supreme Court Justice

Sonia Sotomayor and Barack Obama/Peter Souza,White House

By Tony Vega

Sonia Sotomayor was sworn-in on Saturday, August 08, 2009 as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. On September 08, she will be "invested as a member of the Court" in a special session of the Supreme Court. The swearing-in on Saturday by Chief Justice John Roberts allows her to prepare as an Associate Justice.

Sonia Sotomayor is the 111th Supreme Court justice, the first Latina and third woman in the 220-year SCOTUS history. Folks, history is on a roll. Forgive me if I don't get all warm and fuzzy here, but making history simply for history's sake does not by default mean it will be positive; remember not all history is good history.

At approximately 1100 hours, Chief Justice Roberts administered two oaths to Sonia Sotomayor. The first oath was a more private one and standard for all federal employees, who swear to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

The second oath is the judicial oath and took place in the court’s East Conference Room, where cameras were allowed to record the event. That oath under the Constitution and laws of the United States is where Sotomayor swore to “administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me.”

All Freedom loving Patriots will hope that Justice Sotomayor will adhere to her oaths and has grown from the folly of her judicial activism and rhetoric displaying a degree of racial animus.

In addition to the controversy of her suggestion that a wise Latina would make better decisions than a white man, Sotomayor's more famous, or rather infamous, decision as an appellate court justice was her ruling against The New Haven 20.

In 2005, while addressing student law clerks Sotomayor revealed her judicial activism by saying, "court of appeals is where policy is made." She then immediately added, "And I know — I know this is on tape, and I should never say that because we don't make law. I know. O.K. I know. I'm not promoting it. I'm not advocating it. I'm — you know."

Brace yourselves; Barack Obama may conceivably make three or more Supreme Court appointments during his first term. If Obama's brief history is any indication, we know he has a penchant for the radical.

Sonia Sotomayor replaced the retiring David Souter. In addition to Souter, Justices Ginsberg, 76, and Stevens, 89 may retire.

This year, making history is chic right long with American Idol and fawning over morally corrupt celebrities. Politics is certainly not an area where one will find moral fortitude, however, it is disappointing when a SCOTUS appointment is confirmed via political expedience over what is best for the nation.

Republican Senators facing reelection know that their constituents will expect them to honor their base and the principle of country first. All 12 Republican Senators facing reelection voted against Sotomayor.

With the Democrats in power, Sotomayor was easily confirmed by sixty-eight Senators to thirty-one. 57:58 Democrats voted yes, while Sen. Kennedy suffering from cancer did not vote. Sen. Sanders of Vermont and Sen. Lieberman of Connecticut, both Independents that caucus with the Democrats voted for confirmation.

The following are the nine Republicans that voted to confirm:
Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)
Sen. Christopher Bond (Mo.)
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.)
Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.)
Sen. Richard Lugar (Ind.)
Sen. Mel Martinez (Fla.)
Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine)
Sen. George Voinovich (Ohio)

For the complete Senate roll call visit here.

Resources:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/06/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5220908.shtml

http://ninthjustice.nationaljournal.com/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090808/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_sotomayor

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/us/politics/09sotomayor.html?_r=3

Senate Roll Call for the Sotomayor Confirmation

The following is the roll call by which the Senate confirmed Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the SCOTUS on a 68 to 31 vote:

Democrats Yes:

Akaka (Hawaii); Baucus (Mont.); Bayh (Ind.); Begich (Alaska); Bennet (Colo.); Bingaman (N.M.); Boxer (Calif.); Brown (Ohio); Burris (Ill.); Byrd (W.Va.); Cantwell (Wash.); Cardin (Md.); Carper (Del.); Casey (Pa.); Conrad (N.D.); Dodd (Conn.); Dorgan (N.D.); Durbin (Ill.); Feingold (Wis.); Feinstein (Calif.); Franken (Minn.); Gillibrand (N.Y.); Hagan (N.C.); Harkin (Iowa); Inouye (Hawaii); Johnson (S.D.); Kaufman (Del.); Kerry (Mass.); Klobuchar (Minn.); Kohl (Wis.); Landrieu (La.); Lautenberg (N.J.); Leahy (Vt.); Levin (Mich.); Lincoln (Ark.); McCaskill (Mo.); Menendez (N.J.); Merkley (Ore.); Mikulski (Md.); Murray (Wash.); Nelson (Fla.); Nelson (Neb.); Pryor (Ark.); Reed (R.I.); Reid (Nev.); Rockefeller (W.Va.); Schumer (N.Y.); Shaheen (N.H.); Specter (Pa.); Stabenow (Mich.); Tester (Mont.); Udall (Colo.); Udall (N.M.); Warner (Va.); Webb (Va.); Whitehouse (R.I.); Wyden (Ore.)

Democrats Not Voting: Kennedy (Mass.)

Independents (caucusing with Democrats) Yes: Lieberman (Conn.); Sanders (Vt.)

Republicans No:

Barrasso (Wyo.); Bennett (Utah); Brownback (Kan.); Bunning (Ky.); Burr (N.C.); Chambliss (Ga.); Coburn (Okla.); Cochran (Miss.); Corker (Tenn.); Cornyn (Tex.); Crapo (Idaho); DeMint (S.C.); Ensign (Nev.); Enzi (Wyo.); Grassley (Iowa); Hatch (Utah); Hutchison (Tex.); Inhofe (Okla.); Isakson (Ga.); Johanns (Neb.); Kyl (Ariz.); McCain (Ariz.); McConnell (Ky.); Murkowski (Alaska); Risch (Idaho); Roberts (Kan.); Sessions (Ala.); Shelby (Ala.); Thune (S.D.); Vitter (La.); Wicker (Miss.)

Republicans Yes:

Alexander (Tenn.); Bond (Mo.); Collins (Maine); Graham (S.C.); Gregg (N.H.); Lugar (Ind.); Martinez (Fla.); Snowe (Maine); Voinovich (Ohio)

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00262