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...Hill, a Washington tabloid, announced the passage of the bill with the headline, “Brown helps Reid Win on Jobs Bill...
Brown’s vote on this bill has been widely analyzed as a heroic political move. The Christian Science Monitor wrote, “In his first big votes this week for a $15 billion jobs bill, Sen. Scott Brown stunned some conservative supporters by siding with Democrats...
...Boston Herald crowed, “Her campaign tried to label Sen. Scott Brown a ‘lockstep’ Republican, but Attorney General Martha Coakley is now praising Brown’s decision to break with the GOP to support a Democratic-sponsored jobs bill...
However, it is far from encouraging that Brown’s action has been termed such a radical show of “bipartisanship.” In fact, this perception speaks to the outrageous level of factional division in the Senate. Thirteen Republicans voting for a minor bill is barely worthy of discussion, historically speaking. In years past, legislation regularly passed by such margins and garnered little media attention when it did. Yet, today, every measure seems split on party lines. Hostility and blind partisanship are the going order, and, as such, Brown’s adherence to basic...
Though the president’s sweeping attempt at health-care reform has struck upon rocky terrain, there is still a good chance of breaking through the gridlock and passing a bill that will help millions of Americans—he has come farther on the issue than any president in history. Obama’s recent health-care summit was promising enough to make even the oft-cynical Jon Stewart genuinely impressed. And, in the face of some of the strictest congressional partisanship in recent memory, 13 Republicans joined with the Democratic Caucus last week to pass the Senate?...