At least, for now. And one can argue that the bill in question doesn’t actual reform anything, but that’s hardly the issue here.
It’s been an interesting week for Sen. Scott Brown. A recent poll has him as the most popular elected official in Massachusetts – more popular than either John Kerry or Barack Obama – which as a Republican is impressive. He’s also put the kibosh, at least temporary, on the financial “reform” bill.
You can read more aboot the bill here. We know the drill by now. It’s a big bill that no one understand, that people say doesn’t do what it says it’s going to do, that the Democrats try to guilt a few moderate Republicans into supporting just so that they can say they accomplished something. One of those moderate Republicans they were counting on was Brown, who they assumed would vote for anything.
Surprise! I didn’t like that he voted for cloture in the first place, but when he said it didn’t mean he would vote on the final bill…
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Ok, not really. However he did say the words “immigration reform” and “demagogue” in a recent 
Well, maybe this is why John Boehner took such an honest approach to social security? 
They call social security the third rail of politics, because whenever someone tries reforming or talking honestly aboot it, they have a habit of electrocuting themselves politically. So, for a guy who is an election cycle away from being Speaker of the House, what did John Boehner go and do?
