WASHINGTON — Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts, right, accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a “bitter, destructive and endless” drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous.
“An entire year has gone to waste,” Brown said in the weekly GOP radio and Internet address. “Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, and many more jobs are in danger. Even now, the president still hasn’t gotten the message.”
Brown, as a state senator in Massachusetts, voted in favor of the universal-coverage law in that state, which is similar to the congressional Democrats’ bill.
But he campaigned on a promise to be the Republicans’ crucial 41st vote against Obama’s health plan and said Saturday that his victory amounted to a message from voters that Washington should “get its priorities right.”
