A gentleman of Wrentham. We think Acton can take him. (ap photo)
Remember when Scott Brown’s election to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat meant the end of health care reform? Neither do we. He remembers it, though. And he sounds kinda sorry about the whole thing.
“My election in January deprived the Democrats of their 60th vote, and forced them to resort to a parliamentary maneuver known as reconciliation to ram this bill through Congress,” Brown said in a statement. “While we all support improving our health care system, today’s vote proves that the majority party will stop at nothing to force their disastrous health care plan onto a nation that doesn’t want it, can’t afford it and that is not good for my state.”
(Cue obligatory observation that Massachusetts was a template for the president’s plan) In other Scott Brown news, meanwhile, Rachel Maddow wants to make it abundantly clear that she’s not running against him and he can quit talking about it now. From FishbowlDC:
Brown spoke of a potential challenge from Maddow on a recent radio show, saying, “Bring it on.”
Maddow, on her show, replied: “Bring what on? I’m not running against him. I’m not running for anything. … Scott Brown is my senator. Isn’t this weird?”
Brown used Maddow’s non-existent candidacy in a recent fundraising appeal, and Maddow said she now feels icky and harassed. And also that she is not running. He does seem a little obsessed — which makes Beltway think that hmmmm, maybe WE will consider a run against him!
