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AMERICA CHEERS FOR SCOTT BROWN |
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Written by Sarah Palin
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
Congratulations to the new Senator-elect from Massachusetts!
Scott Brown's victory proves that the desire for real solutions transcends
notions of "blue state" and "red state". Americans agree that we need to hold
our politicians accountable and bring common sense to D.C.
Recent elections have taught us that when a party in power loses its way, the
American people will hold them accountable at the ballot box. Today under the
Democrats, government spending is up nearly 23 percent and unemployment is
higher than it's been in a quarter of a century.
For the past year they've built a record of broken promises,
fat cat bailouts, closed-door meetings with lobbyists, sweetheart deals for
corporate cronies, and midnight votes
on weekends for major legislation that wasn't even read. The good citizens of Massachusetts
reminded Democrats not to take them for granted.
Americans cheered for Scott Brown's underdog campaign because they viewed his
candidacy as a vote against the Democrats' health care bill. You know that
there's something wrong with this legislation when opposition to it inspired a
Republican victory in a state that currently has no Republicans in Congress and
last sent a Republican to the Senate nearly 40 years ago.
Clearly this victory is a bellwether for the big election night ten months from
now. In the spirit of bipartisanship, let me offer some advice to the Democrats
on how to stem this populist tide.
Scrap your current
health care bill and start from scratch. We all want true reform, but
government mandated insurance is not it. Scott Brown campaigned against this
top-down bureaucratic mess.
We need common sense solutions like reforming malpractice
laws, allowing people to purchase insurance across state lines, giving
individual purchasers the same tax benefits as those who get coverage through
their employers, and letting small businesses pool together to provide
insurance for their employees.
Focus your efforts on jobs, not on job-killing legislation.
Such a change in approach would show Americans that you're listening.
My best wishes to Senator-Elect Brown. When you go to Washington,
may you never forget the ordinary citizens you met while driving that truck
through the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Sarah Palin
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