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In this file photo, Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., speaks during a media availability, on Capitol Hill. Brown, who was defeated in his re-election bid, said Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 that he will not run for the Senate seat vacated by John Kerry, who was named secretary of state.
Updated 1:51 p.m. - Former Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown, won't look to reclaim a spot in the Senate in this summer's special election to replace outgoing Sen. John Kerry.
Brown decided against running in the special election, a Republican official told NBC News on Friday. The decision strengthens Democrats' chances of holding the seat in the special election in the June 25 special election.
"I was not at all certain that a third Senate campaign in less than four years, and the prospect of returning to a Congress even more partisan than the one I left, was really the best way for me to continue in public service at this time. And I know it’s not the only way for me to advance the ideals and causes that matter most to me," Brown said in a statement. "That is why I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for the United States Senate in the upcoming special election."
The special election would have been Brown's third since his initial January 2010 election to the Senate, when he bested Democratic favorite Martha Coakley in an election to fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. Brown's election came at the height of the fight over health care reform in Congress, and his victory was seen as the advent of the political influence of the Tea Party movement.
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Brown styled himself as a relative moderate during his time in the Senate, breaking with Republicans to approving an overhaul of financial regulations and repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," among other issues. A former state senator, Brown was seen as the relative favorite to win re-election during a full term in this fall's general election until Democrats managed to convince Elizabeth Warren to enter the race. Warren beat Brown, 54 to 46 percent, in November.
Brown was seen as having an advantage had he decided to attempt to reclaim a Senate seat. A number of Democrats have endorsed Rep. Edward Markey for the Senate nomination, though Rep. Stephen Lynch will challenge Markey in the primary. Republicans maintain the discord in the Democratic primary could improve their chances of winning the election.
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WHAT??? lol
Senator "Hot Pants" scared of getting his butt beat again?
Another GNOPER shelved in 2013!
Keep em coming....
HA! Another tea bagger goes down in flames! How many more we got to go before we can be completely rid of them?! That day cannot come soon enough to suit my taste! I hate tea!!
HOORAY!!!!!! He could have won, but now I don't think the GOP will find a viable candidate to take his place.
Very, very, very unlikely that he could become the next governor. (Right, Pat in Boston?)
Now, now Alaska Girl! I love me my tea and you cannot put images that equate those ninnies with it. Promise to never do it again! I'm already stuck with the Barbara Ann song and now I will have to work on erasing Sarah Palin's image when sipping my lovely Chai!
AG, He must have been the only teabagger that vote to repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell" or is that just something you label every conservative?
I'm with you, Layton. I love my tea. The baggers did sour it's taste. Someday, soon I hope, they will be a memory.
Why, yes, ozzie, in today's modern Republican Party, I do. So there. I saw it in the "tea leaves"!!! HA!
Layton! Hey!! I will do my very best not to disparage the tea drinkers! I only drink tea when I am sick, and then of course it must be laced with some good old Irish whisky!
OK AG, I see, So all conservatives should label modern day Liberals as Socialists. Got it!
Yeah, oz, go with that. Whatev.
HaHa! Ok, oz. I gotta good laugh. Seems as though you had your ideologies mixed up and changed Marxist to Socialist. K. Got it! Too funny! This is gonna be a frickin' great day on the vine!
That means another Democrat will represent Moonbatachusetts in the Senate.
C'mon down, Ed Markey, yet another senile old white washed up lifetime Democratic hack, in the mold of the crooked Bulger Brothers.
A perfect candidate for US Senate from the pathetic state of Massachusetts.
He's going to run for President in 2016. Wait and see.
Scott Brown voted with Republicans in the Senate 55% of the time. Which means he was truly trying to be objective in his decisions of what to support or not to support. Versus someone like Elizabeth Warren that will vote Democrat 98% of the time if not 100%. Hardly a fair minded or objective person. We need more like Scott Brown.
Ha! Kudos to Lawrence O'Donnell who predicted Scott Brown would not run.
While I have always believed that Senator John Kerry was President Obama's first choice to replace Secretary of State Clinton, it makes me smile to think the GOPer Senators who spent months slandering UN Ambassador Susan Rice--who had not been nominated--while praising Senator Kerry in the hopes of opening a Massachusetts senate seat for Scott Brown only to see their efforts and hopes rise and fall as quickly as Scott Brown's star.
Rick, which means he voted 55% of the time against democrats. Just as republicans prefer their legislators to primarily support the party's agenda, so do democrats.
Rick-3426939-
"Scott Brown voted with Republicans in the Senate 55% of the time. Which means he was truly trying to be objective in his decisions of what to support or not to support." ...which truly means he was trying to hedge his bets with the folks who initially bought his chore-coat-and-pickup-truck act. Unfortunately, one of his votes that the GOP/T got was against extending unemployment benefits. With his decision to make that vote and others, he lost the Reagan Democrat vote he had earlier won. If that and his other pro-GOP/T votes form a valid sample of former Senator Brown's political acumen, the sharpest thing he has done is to have made today's announcement. But why did he do it by releasing a written statement instead of by more directly facing possible future voters, even if through the media?
Maybe Brown is in the closing stages of contract negotiations with Fox News...
Alaska Girl
Scott Brown is not a Tea Party Candidate. He was one of Mitt Romney's picks.
Odds are now greate that he will run for Governor.
I am shedding no tears over this. I guess he will get to spend more time with his family. I can see him running for governor, but is Massachussets ready for a tea party governor? Have they forgotten how they suffered under Romney, who probably wasn't even a resident? I think not.
Surprised, Scottie didn't run again. Run for Governor, who really needs that. Scottie is nothing more than a pretty face and empty suit. Run along your 15 minutes are up.
Now the Tea Party even finds it necessary to rewrite it's OWN history;
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2012/10/07/tea-party-activists-again-backing-sen-brown/392ALhwvtWi559i7jYL55O/story.html
Oops. Nice try DB.
Scott Brown is not a tea partier. The fact that the tea party types supported him was due to his being a Republican, which increased their overall influence in the Senate.
That being said, Brown is the kind of Republican we need MORE of, and no self declared progressive does themselves or their politics any favors by overapplying the tea party lable to anyone with an R after their name. That is self defeating.
If the tea party types support you, you are, by definition, a tea partier.
Really....? The Democrats all-out opposed the Tea Party and anyone supported by the Tea Party in this last November election. Do you get the feeling that they self-deafeated?
If you want to get an idea of what "self-defeat" looks like, look at Mr Brown's campaign. He lost by 8 points.
If Scott Brown's election signaled the rise of the tea party, his refusal to run for the Senate again surely signals its fall.
Taking bets that this guy has a cozy job lined up, either with lobbying firm, or with clients of lobbying firms. I highly doubt that this guy would pass up the opportunity to go back to Washington so he could kick up his feet, sip his marguerita and shout "No", while getting paid six figures, if he didn't have another gig lined up. Did he even draft and propose any legislation while he was in the senate?
To republicans, serving in government is a means, not an end.
Great - Glad to hear he "saw the writing on the wall". Maybe he can get a job modeling underwear for Jockey.
GOP Comeback 2014, it must be nice to live in a world where you can create your own reality. Too bad it bears no resemblance whatsoever to the real world. Keep up the delusions! I mean, even your name is delusional! Your pathetic Grand OLD Party is washed up and is on its way to becoming a relic of history. You can't argue with demographics, and your party is losing on that front. You will become OLDER, whiter, and increasingly irrelevant in public discourse. Good bye and good riddance to the GOP!
Translation:"I know I'll lose again. My looks could only take me so far. But I can probably make a whole sh!tload of $$$$$$$$ doing something else, following in the footsteps of my fellow losers Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, etc.
That's what it's all about, making money. Forget about public service."
For the U.S.A. Brown's departure from the political stage is a huge gain!!
Wow! Seems to me just a few days ago the righties were on here gloating about how the Dems had fallen right into the hands of the GOP (you know, those super-shrewd guys who continually out-maneuver the poor slow-of-mind Dems) by bringing in John Kerry from Massachusetts, and opening the gates for Scott Brown to re-take another seat in the Senate.
I love the predictions these guys keep coming up with that forecast either 1) another once in a lifetime opportunity for the GOP to "take back our country" or 2) another doomsday prediction because something the Dems just did is taking the country, if not the entire world down to Hades in a handbasket. Which causes me, for the two-trillionth time, to ask you mental midgets to retract your no-basis fantasies. After all, you have proven you can't get your hands around the realities of the present, so why keep taking wild-assed stabs at predicting your Ayn Rand versions of the future?
So to all the righty regulars on here, let me drop some very bad news in your laps; you guys just aren't nearly as clever and bright as you keep giving yourselves credit for! Down in flames, again!
1) He really didn't like all the work that goes into being a Senator.
2) MA does elect Rep. Govs. not Senators and there is that position openning up.
3) If he loses, rules in politics = if you get your ass handed to you twice in a row in such a short span your career is over. + Labeled a loser.
4) And here's the BIG one , If he were to run and win he will in the Senate for the next two years and will have created a voting record in the Senate again.
Once he does that his votes will come back and bite him in the ass
and be used by whoever the new Elizabeth Warren is.
His votes will be used to hammer him in debates for the full term
the same way as Warren sunk him the first time.
HE's TOXIC
I agree that Brown is probably going to run for governor. And as Mitt Romney proved, a republican can win the governors seat in Massachusetts. Especially if Patrick gets his wish to increase the income tax by 1%.
As I have already stated in a previous post, he JUST lost a Senate seat. Running for a senate seat again looks sad. He's still freshly minted a "loser" in people's minds. His false ad campaign is still in memory, as do his votes against women. He lost to a professor with little campaign experience. He would likely get trashed by a real politician.
Whereas, MA still has an idiot in the governor's mansion. Brown has an excellent chance of knocking of Patrick. A few more years and the stink of losing will have faded, and the stink of Patrick will be just as strong.
Governor Scott Brown 2014!
Brown will have 2 opportunities in 2014.
He could run against whoever wins the special election for Senator as that office will be up again for election in 2014 or make a run for Governor.
At least he won’t have a loss in 2 elections in less than a year. However no matter which office he runs for in ‘14 he will encounter back-to-back defeats.
No matter when Scott Brown runs or for whatever office, he is not going to have an easy time.
more like the next new Fox TV contributor than the next governor.
Actually, I think a viable GOP candidate could throw their hat into the ring, but they will probably wait awhile. It won't be till April until things get serious.
In fact I think Mitt Romney will announce his senatorial campaign on April 1st. Ha!
Yellowdog-Mark, if Mitt runs he'll have to move into his son's basement - again. LoL.
OMG! Yellowdog! A pox upon your house! Just when I think I have passed the safe point of never seeing or hearing the name........OH, I can't type it, I suddenly have a hand cramp!
Did Mitt's son finish building that basement? I know Willard sometimes confused his room at the Ritz Carlton for his son's basement.
Job1, that is sooooo funny.
We're all sooooo terrible but too funny!
And just for fun ... a list of perennial candidates . . .
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Perennial_candidate
"more like the next new Fox TV contributor than the next governor."
I tend to agree with that. He was a splash in the pan, a fluke in MA politics. But he may not be radical and crazy enough for Fox Propaganda.
Layton, love the link you provided. My god that is funny!
Ok, hand cramp gone. So, based on the definition of a "perennial candidate" wouldn't that kind of define Mitt Romney?
Thanks, Pat! :) And AG ... Definitely!
bqhatevwr.
Rev . . .
What exactly was that? Was he toasted?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/28/bqhatevwr-or-why-scott-brown-needs-to-address-his-tweets/
When he wasn't looking, somebody moved the keys around.
Job1, that's a good one. For that matter, love the Friday humor from all.
Does the Ritz or his son's basement have a car elevator? That could be a deal breaker don'cha know.
The Irish Mafia , the Bulger Brothers Democratic political machine, is alive and well at the crooked Democrat-dominated Massachusetts Legislature. Quite a streak, Democratic Speakers of the Mass. House seem to get indicted, one after another. What a cesspool.
Scott Brown can come in as Governor in 2014 and clean up the massive stench of corruption, that Dem Gov Patrick condones...
The Ritz does have a rather nice garden in advance of its Arlington Street entrance. The unfortunate aspect is that it is the Public Garden, and worse yet, at the end of the Public Garden is the Boston Common. The Ritz may not be satisfactory...
Here's a laugh
I Beau "No Regard for human life" Biden do solemny swear to abolish the rights of Delaware Sheriffs to make any arrests. rotflmao
lol... maybe he can do his little war dance again. Discrimination is just such a winning strategy, especially in MA. ;)
Actually he may have a good chance to win a seat in the Senate, I hear he is moving to Wyoming or Utah. He wouldn't run in Mass. and hurt his ego for petes sake.
Wouldn't surprise me at all. His wife was a long-time TV news reporter in the Boston market. I think she's been working for a D.C. station more recently. Frankly, I think she's a better extemporaneous speaker than he is.
I thought Mittens was from Michigan now? Or was it New Hampshire? Wait, I know, it was Mexico! I guess it's wherever his carpet bag lands!
GOP Comeback can't understand why his party keeps losing. Nothing but pure abuse, hatred, and insults pour out of their mouth, and then they sit confused when people don't like them and don't vote for them. GET RID OF THE MEXICANS. SELF DEPORT. BUILD A WALL TO KEEP THEM OUT... wait.... why did we lose over 70% of the hispanic vote?!?!? Anymore insults to hurl about, GOP-C? You'll soon be changing your name to Comeback 2016.... then 2018... let's hope your party figures it sooner that you probably will. We will see hopefully with the immigration reform bill. At least the GOP party leaders know its the smart thing to do. But can they convince the "combackers" in their party?
Think Progress:
As his campaign against Prof. Elizabeth Warren picks up, Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) is trying to take credit for the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law, saying in an ad last week that he provided the “tie-breaking vote” that got the law through the Senate. However, Brown’s ad neglects to mention that he demanded that the law be watered down in return for his vote.
Brown focused his efforts to weaken the law on the Volcker Rule, which is meant to prevent banks from engaging in risky trading with federally backed funds. And according to the Boston Globe, his efforts to weaken that rule did not end after President Obama signed Dodd-Frank into law:
In the second stage, as regulators began the less publicly scrutinized task of writing rules amid heavy pressure from the banking sector, Brown urged the regulators to interpret the 3 percent rule broadly and to offer banks some leeway to invest in hedge funds and private equity funds.
Supporters as well as critics of the banking industry agree that Brown’s suggestions would mean looser regulations for banks, though specialists disagree on the extent of the impact.
MIT professor and staunch reform advocate Simon Johnson said Brown’s prescriptions amount to “significant loosening of the regulations and [are] absolutely serving the interests of people who do not want to have meaningful reform.’’
While Brown was working to water down Dodd-Frank, he received 400 percent more in campaign donations from the financial industry than than the average received by other GOP senators during that period. And money from the financial sector hasn’t stopped pouring in. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, employees from the securities and investment industries have donated more to Brown than those of any other industry. JP Morgan Chase, which just lost billions of dollars engaging in risky trading, is one of his top ten donors.
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He wasn't going to win. This is a much different Scott Brown from the Scott Brown that first dove into the Senate campaign a few years ago.
His watering down of legislation wasn't going to sit well in this campaign.
Stephen Lynch said he would like to be compared with Scott Brown.
Sure Lynchie. Sure. Good luck with that.
Let's see. The Republicans went after Susan Rice so that John Kerry would be appointed, thus making the way for Scott Brown to grab this Senate seat.
Hmm.
I would say that strategy is not their strong suit.
Strategy, poll reading, thinking . . . the list goes on and on . . .
AlaskaGirl and Layton -
Senator Markey? Music to my ears.
We didn't want Brown anywhere NEAR the Senate again.
So, what's the GOP's game plan now I wonder. We're shaking in our boots here, just waiting to find out. haha
GOP/Ters-
In the words of that noted political consultant and strategist Ice Cube, "Be careful what you wish for; you might just get it, fool!"
@ Pat
Somewhere I missed where it was published by any Republican Party that this was a plan? lol
So you actually think the fierce opposition to Ms Rice's potential nomination was actually based on principle? If so, there's a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in buying.
**Yawn** Slow Friday, politically speaking.
thank goodness. No news is good news.
And the democrats win the senate seat in Massachusetts and keep control of the senate !
McCain and his fellow republican senators wish they had the Kerry hearing to do over now. They thought they had him replaced with Scott. Another misstep by the GOP.
That's probably the prudent decision. I would question why an individual would lose a seat months ago and try and regain it again.
I think the speculation about a governor's run might be more in line and a chance at success even though Patrick is proven and popular.
I don't dislike Brown and I haven't been a fan of Republican behavior of late. I think he tries to be as objective/impartial as possible without having to defect to the Independent camp.
Maybe Brown can run for governor and claim he will be to the left of Ted Kenedy then turn around and run for president as a "severly conservative" candidate. LOL
Mitt Romney is going to run.
No way. Everything he has done has been in pursuit of the presidency. He'd rather not do anything than get a consolation prize. Besides, he wouldn't win in MA.
IAMMYOWNWOMAN... "Mitt Romney is going to run."
On the beach near his home?
Which home?
what a pity! he really should run.
I suspect he has his eye on either the governor's chair, or as a contender for whoever wins this seat. Because why have a tough election for another two year term followed by a bruising battle when you can just have a bruising battle in 2 years when everybody has forgotten the nastiness of 2012?
In MA people don't like Willard Romney. Actually, he is not well liked any where in Blue States. However, 47% of Red States love him.
Maybe he should move to Mississippi and run!
Scott Brown won't get elected governor. We had to deal with the mess left from Romney. We're not going to let Brown come in here and mess it all up again.
Republicans are incompetent. Particularly today's republicans. They don't want to run a state competently. They are there to answer to corporations. Scott Brown is who they want running MA, for all the wrong reasons.
We get it.
Not that I voted for any of them but, Idaho is a strong Republican state, with a budget surplus. I guess that rules out your fantasy Pat
This is probably the smartest decision made by a Republican in the last 2 years.
The welfare red sates,,backward thinking hillbillies. Aka GOP retards
That's funny, most of you frozen minded yankee morons that didn't move down here and pollute our political system have been on welfare since the 1980s.
I can see where you are soooo much smarter than we are. remember that when you are digging your car out of the snow. Idiot.
The truth is that many of the 47% that voted for Romney live in red states and many in the red states are the same ones that don't pay federal income taxes. However, everyone does pay some form of taxes, such as sales taxes.
Source: Tax Foundation):
Top 10 states that got the most back in terms of federal benefits and paid the least in taxes:
New Mexico, Mississippi, Alaska, Louisiana, W. Virginia, N. Dakota, Alabama, S. Dakota, Virginia and Kentucky
The States that give more to the federal government in taxes than they get in return. From 1 to 10, they are:
New Jersey, Nevada, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Illinois, Delaware, California, New York and Colorado.
Bullettman = ahole
Boy those NE states are going to really love the returns after they start shutting off ALL the fishing, and not just the cod. Just keep on grinding that fish population to zero Mensa's
I don't know why all of you Marxists don't like Scott Brown, he is just a little less leftist than you all.
Why would a Fascist care about so called Marxists?
justaplumber:
I don't know why all of you Marxists don't like Scott Brown, he is just a little less leftist than you all.
Does that mean that Scott Brown is just a little Marxist?
Said it earlier, it's a great day on the Vine!
Can you define "Marxist" for us, please?
You guys must be thinking Groucho, certainly not Karl. Brown is a clown.
Somewhere, Harry Reid and Ed Markey are doing a doe-see-doe.
It's also fun to read the pissing and moaning from people like justaplumber.
Oh I'm mot Pi___— and moaning, I'm laughing! This crap is funny! Scott Brown is NOT a Conservative.
Me a Fascist? Not hardly! I want the least amount of government possible.
Of course not, because Conservatism never loses. *snark off*
Tea Partiers sure counted him as one of their own when he won his Senate seat.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20100202_3984.php
sarah palin OUT
scott brown IN...
Shuffling the cards at FAUX News...
Good point. I'd put even money on it.
Scott Brown is a dumb jock who has run out of insults and now can only stand there with his tongue hanging out, drooling, trying to think of what to say next.
Yep, he is almost as dumb as a sack of bidens but not quite.
Yea...we saw how stupid Biden was when he was debating Paul Ryan. He only won against Ryan..like, well, overwhelmingly...Ryan who is supposed to be the genius of his party.
Perception is an amazing thing isn't it Byron because it is usually founded on ones beliefs and desires. What is a win for one will not necessarily been seen as a win by another.
I think S. Brown will go for the governors job. Easier for him to change the country with the ALEC influence. After all I think the republicans are against abortion because killing people with bullets is creating JOBS. The Police are busy, the morticians are busy, the casket makers are busy, the funeral directors are busy, the cemetery grave diggers are busy, florists are busy, the bullet proof vest makers are busy, the ambulance drivers are busy, hospitals are busy, armor piercing bullet manufacturers are busy, gun manufacturers are VERY busy. WOW!! l Look at all the job creation and job security going on. Every job listed requires more workers, Police too, but the state budget cuts do not allow for them to hire. Every GOP supporter should be very proud of the contribution their selected rep. or sen. state or federal has made to making this the country of JOB CREATORS.
Funny how the GOP is against abortion because it is murder. I can only speculate that they believe population management is done cheaper with bullets rather than contraceptives.
GO SCOTTY GO!! Run for governor and make this a safe place for kids, unless of course, they are in school or at the mall or at the movies or at the shopping center.
Ministers and priests are busy too, mending broken hearts. Sleep well, peace.
It was written in the "tea leaves" that he could not win anything any longer. Good riddance to more bad news and soon the tea baggers will all be history. One more reason to celebrate Obama's reelection.
Yes lets celebrate King Obozo's reelection. Four more years of MASSIVE unemployment, zero growth, more government intrusion in everyone lives. Pretty soon everybody will be on food stamps. King Obozo has been really good at selling firearms and ammo.
All is good!
There it is the nasty name characterization(s) for the Presidents anme, can always tell a real bagger with no substance and credibility with the low down right wing speak. Why would any sane, rational person ever be a GOP adherent. Plenty of accusations no solution, i.e., More Government Intrusion--ah got it, W's Patriot Act comes to mind, or Obamacare a Heritage Foundation brain child, hungry kids always an easy target. Durable Goods orders up, private sector jobs up, wages up (small % but up,) unemployment up due to government jobs being slashed, Market over 14,000, lots of room for improvement but better than W's depression.
You have an interesting definition of "zero growth" - kind of fitting that you would be complaining bitterly about zero growth the day the DOW crossed 14000.
As far as "King" goes - you do realize that he won an election, don't you? You see, in the US, the guy who gets the most electoral college votes wins. But what he wins is the Presidency, not a kingship. The US doesn't have kings.
Don't you know what country you are living in?
No Kidding Byron, then you need to tell Obozo that because he thinks he is KING. Now can you explain to the class how the Dow going to 14000 is growth? That's right you can't, because it isn't growth. That is profit being made because costs have gone down----Less employees.
King Obozo has created a whole different class of Americans--the perpetually unemployed.
Oh and why hasn't King Obozo done away with the patriot act???? Now why is that???
2.2 million Jobs added in 2012
First time unemployment claims at a 5 year low
But what about the 3 million jobs lost in 2012?
"First time unemployment claims at a 5 year low" Ha ha You can only ask for "first time unemployment" ONCE!
Yep, happy days are here again.
ok
3 million jobs were lost … how about a source/link ! Perhaps you do not understand that the BLS jobs number is a net number that includes all jobs lost plus all jobs added
You qualify for “First time unemployment claim” every time you are terminated from a job for no fault of your own.
Sure Dennis, everything is just rosy. {slowly walks away} sure it is....
Like Momma used to say, Bless your heart.
So you try to be clever since you have no argument / evidence to present
Epic Fail
No its like wrestling with a pig. Just makes you tired and the pig likes it.
But we can look at your feeble attempt. "You qualify for "first time unemployment claim" every time you are terminated from a job for no fault of your own." That's somehow better?
EPIC FAIL!
You Libtards refuse to believe your boy-king Obama is incompetent. Four more years of blaming Bush.
How's the weather up there? 70 degrees here.
Unemployment benefits are insurance benefits and cover the first 26 weeks. The premiums are paid by employers and guaranteed by the State and Federal government.
The second, third, etc. time unemployment claim refers to each additional week that an individual claims that they are still unemployed.
You still cannot support you claim with any facts …
Epic Fail … keep eating the dirt
The 2.2 million new jobs are net, i.e. jobs lost plus jobs added is a positive 2.2 million jobs.
WOW! We added 2 million jobs and the real unemployment remains at 16%.
Bush's fault!
If we had the 11 million additional jobs he should have created then the "real" unemployment would be about 6% today … SO YES, Bush's fault !
5 years down the road ha ha thats pathetic!!!
All Hail King Obozo!
30 years down the road and we still suffer from the economic failures by Saint Reagan as he was the inventor of outsourcing with tax breaks for corporations that did it, the master mind behind NAFTA not to mention "Trickle Down Economics".
OOPS! Looks like the Republicans' plan backfired on them! Kerry thanks all you teabaggers for your support, though!
Way to rickroll your party, Brown!
That was a Republican Plan? Funny, with all of the reporting of news I never saw that published anywhere. Is there an article that you rewrote to show that was the case?
Hi five Brown! You have the courage to not stand up for the losing side any more. Go now, and fly a kite; for kites end up far away fro, reality.
Too busy with his beefcake gig?
Scott Brown's decision makes the Republicans look even more stupid than usual.
Haha! Is that even possible?
How's that OLD TRUCK working out for you?
Are you f--king serious? Republicans pointing to discord among Democrats? But on second thought, who better to recognize discord than Republicans. Their entire party is one of fracture and discord. I never thought highly of Scott Brown but he has moved up a notch or so on my likability scale. Any man who sees the current cesspool that constitutes the GOP and refuses to dive into it deserves greater respect.
He's (Scott Brown) going to run for President in 2016? WOW. In what election??? LOL. He is not even wanted in Massachusetts. He just need to go and crawl under a rock that will never turn over. Ha Ha Ha. There is NO more HOPE for any Tea Bagger- Time is running out.
Scott brown,once a loser always a truck driving loser
Dems rule
Hillary will be Potus in 2016,not Biden and No repuke will get in,even fatso christy ,or sp1c Rubio