Scott Brown And Jeff Bingaman To Be Added To Senate Armed Services Committee

Scott Brown And Jeff Bingaman To Join Senate Armed Services Committee
Sens. Scott Brown (R-MA) and Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) will be soon given plum positions on the Senate Armed Services Committee, according to a report. Brown, who has been Lobbying for a spot on the Committee, will fill the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's (D-MA) old spot, according to ThinkProgress. Bingaman will also reportedly be added to the Committee to maintain the ratio of Democrats to Republicans.

Scott Brown Committee Assignments Announced
Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass) has been assigned to serve on the Veterans' Affairs Committee, the Armed Services Committee and the Homeland Security Committee, his office announced in a statement Tuesday. "As a 30-year member of the National Guard, I am honored to have received these appointments. We are currently involved in two wars, and these Committees are critical in keeping our country safe, as well as protecting the men and women who defend us," Brown said in a statement. "It is equally...

Is Tom Foley Connecticut's Scott Brown?
It has now been over a month since Scott Brown stunned Martha Coakley to take Ted Kennedy's old seat in a Special Election in Massachusetts.  There was no doubt that Republicans across the country would do their best to duplicate his strategy to win other unlikely seats. It would seem that no other state would provide such a strategy more so than Connecticut, another left-leaning state in close proximity to Massachusetts.  Enter Tom Foley, former Ireland Ambassador, who...

Scott Brown gets armed services post
Pull off an historic upset, get a plum Committee assignment -- three actually. Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), a longtime national guardsman, has scored a hat trick on national/Homeland Security Committee assignment, gaining a coveted seat on the Armed Services Committee, along with posts on the veterans and Homeland Security Committees. Which goes to show: For all the talk about Brown's election and its relevance to heath care and domestic issues, Brown thinks his path to Reelection in...

Congressman Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts: Pompous, Pretentious, Ineffective. Going The Way Of Martha Coakley. Or Worse.
Republican Scott Brown beat Democrat Martha Coakley by 5 points in the senatorial contest to succeed Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts. But, in William Delahunt’s Congressional District, Brown beat the lady by 20 points. This was not good news for Delahunt, not good news at all. He’s serving his seventh House term in a state delegation that is all Democratic (which, alas, it won’t be come Election Day 2010). The tenth C.D. has been Democratic since Gerry Studds won it in the...

This Thursday: How the GOP Dominated Online to Win MA Senate Race
Just a few short weeks ago, Scott Brown's Republican upset in the race to fill the late Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat had many wondering if the age of liberal Internet dominance is over. Is the GOP gaining an online advantage? Certainly, " the Internet seems to have equipped Brown to catch, collect, and amplify the enthusiasm that grew around his campaign -- both pro-Brown energy, and anti-Coakley, anti-Obama, anti-health Care reform (and anti-Republican establishment)...

Half of zero
You have to hand it to the conservative movement. For the utter hypocrisy if nothing else. For months, conservatives have been crowing about the election of Scott Brown in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a sign of an impending conservative re-ascendancy. After all—if a true conservative like Senator Brown could win Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, there was proof that the anti-Obama movement sweeping the country could result in a return to Republican (or perhaps, Tea-party...

Paul decries challenge in "my own primary"
Scott Brown likely won his Special Election to the US Senate through his retort to David Gergen in the final debate that he was running for “the people’s seat” in Massachusetts, not “Ted Kennedy’s seat,” when Gergen challenged his opposition to ObamaCare.

Scott Brown (R-MA) Wore Pink Leather Shorts on His First Date With His Wife
Next Sunday's New York Times Magazine features Frank Bruni's profile of Scott Brown, victim of Internet bullying and actual Massachusetts senator. Before Scott Brown was a congressional celebrity, he was an Internet celebrity, and before that, sort of an actual celebrity who appeared as a Cosmopolitan magazine centerfold, like celebrities do. All this is important background information for understanding why the Episode of Scott Brown's Pink Leather Shorts is so delightful. Bruni talked...

2010 Midterm Senate Election Round Up ... Republicans Lead in many Races to Take Back Senate?
  US Senate Races in 2010 Midterm Elections. How much will the economy, Unemployment, federal spending, taxes, record deficits and a Democrats attempt to force Obamacare on “We the People” affect the 2010 Elections? Following the Scott Brown victory in the Special Election in Massachusetts, Democrats presently have a 59-41 advantage in the Senate as independents Lieberman, CT and Sanders, VT both Caucus with the Democrats. Republicans and Democrats will each be defending 18...

Brown Scores a Trio of Committee Seats
Scott P. Brown , the newest member of the Senate, has received his committee assignments, and there seems to be a theme: The Massachusetts Republican has been given a slot on the Armed Services, Homeland Security and Veterans' Affairs panels. Mr. Brown, a member of the National Guard for three decades, said in a statement: “We are currently involved in two wars, and these committees are critical in keeping our country safe, as well as protecting the men and women who defend us. It is...

Scott Brown, Steady Hand
His debut on the cover of the NY Times Magazine . The new Republican Senator from Massachusetts takes over Teddy Kennedy's spacious office. (He's already made a shrewd vote establishing his independence in that still pretty Blue state.) Caution--the NY Times recycles a few smears. Rebuttal to that once again. And they dig up a story about pink leather shorts. Nice try, Frank Bruni. But there's a grudging admiration as well: By all accounts, Brown is prouder of his long marriage and...

Brown Gets Seats on Armed Services, Homeland Security
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) named newly elected Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) to three Senate committees Tuesday, including the powerful Armed Services panel.

Senate Armed Services Committee talking DADT repeal with Chiefs of Navy and Marines
While most of the political media is focused on the White House Health Care summit today, there are other things happening in the nation's capitol today. One important event for the future of Don't Ask, Don't Tell is taking place at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the 2011 Defense Authorization. The witnesses are: The Secretary of the Navy Raymond E. Mabus, Jr., Admiral Gary Roughead, USN, who serves as Chief of Naval Operations and General James T. Conway, USMC Commandant of the...

Romney's 'No Apology' Outlines Foreign Policy for Fantasy World
Mitt Romney (UPPA/ZUMApress.com) Mitt Romney’s just-published book, “No Apology: The Case For American Greatness,” is a bid to bolster the former Massachusetts governor’s nonexistent National-security and Foreign Policy portfolio ahead of a possible 2012 presidential run. But a glance through the remarkable conflation of conservative shibboleths, paranoid global fantasies and deterministic myopia in “No Apology” makes it difficult to avoid the conclusion that...

Ron Paul Revolutionizes CPAC
In the nation at large, independents are the sexiest voters around. Both Republicans and Democrats are wooing them as if every Day is Valentine's Day. And all the polls show that the independents are “fiscal conservatives” who put economic issues above social issues. In the GOP, the three big victors this year " in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts " placed more emphasis on economic issues than social issues, and won by capturing the independent vote. Indeed, Scott Brown...

Romney has the momentum right now
Are Republican voters across the country viewing Mitt Romney differently in the wake of Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts? We've found a lot of good polling news for him lately: -For the first time he came the closest to Barack Obama in our monthly 2012 survey, trailing by 2 points compared to 3 for Mike Huckabee and 7 for Sarah Palin. -His favorability among Republicans nationally went from 51% in December to 57% in February while Palin's (73% to 72%) and Huckabee's (57% to 56%) more or...

RFK's grandson decides against run for US House
A top state Democrat said Saturday that Kennedy was weighing a race if Rep. William Delahunt were to decide against seeking re-election in the 10th Congressional District, which encompasses the Massachusetts South Shore and Cape Cod. Delahunt and the rest of the Massachusetts Democratic establishment were rocked in January when Republican Scott Brown staged an upset to win the U.S. Senate seat held for more than four decades by Kennedy's uncle, Edward M. Kennedy. While Kennedy's widow, Vicki,...

Rick Perry taps into fear of Washington
Bob McDonnell , Chris Christie and Scott Brown scored recent Republican victories by singing from the same political hymnal: focusing on kitchen-table issues, criticizing Washington without demeaning the president and keeping their distance from the GOP’s most polarizing figures. Their strategies resounded in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts and won plaudits from GOP establishment voices as the way to win in the Obama era. Meanwhile, Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry has embraced the...

Romney and Brown Conservative enough
Terms of Use FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2010 file photo, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, is announced onstage by Sen. Scott Brown, R, Mass., at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), in Washington. Romney is ready to step back into the public spotlight after working earnestly behind the scenes the past two years to help his fellow Republicans, and lay the groundwork for a second presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)  

'Birther' Conspiracy Roils GOP Campaigns
Still from an advertisement by John McCain's re-election campaign (YouTube) In the wake of Sen. Scott Brown’s (R-Ma.) upset victory in Massachusetts, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee issued a memo to campaign managers suggesting a few ways to prevent their candidates from becoming the next Martha Coakley. “Create sufficient pressure for your moderate opponents to be forced to weigh in on the positions of your far right opponents,” argued the memo writers. The...

Special interests: Tea Party, Coffee Party & Texas Republicans
It's hard to contemplate the modern Republican Party and bypass a discussion of Texas, especially when an Election is happening in Texas today.  It may seem of little consequence to Massachusetts that a ferociously fought Republican Primary for Governor is going on in Texas but events in Texas will have an impact here.  Some of the impacts will be immediate, the rabid enthusiasm of the Tea Party Protesters, already pumped up by a Scott Brown victory, will be insatiable if Rick...

AP: Unions Stymied Under Obama?
The Associated Press posted a story lamenting that Big Labor has failed so far to get Obama to heel by their commands. Big Labor has said “jump” and Obama has but skipped. The article is correct, though, that Big Labor has failed in its two biggest goals: socialist healthcare and card check. At least, they’ve failed so far. A third failure has also been forced upon Big Labor. As a result of newly seated Republican Senator Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts, Big Labor...

For Online Left, Leadership Vacuum Looks a Lot Like an Opening
The Nation's Chris Hayes does a short summary of the efforts of the online (and, of course, offline) left to reinsert a Public Health Care option back into the Public debate long after official Washington had passed the policy through its internal mechanisms and deemed it unworthy, a provocative topic we've hit on in the past. Here's Hayes: In the wake of Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts and the chaotic, shellshocked response from Democrats, PCCC [Progressive Change Campaign...