Call it The Audacity of Golf.
I read that this morning and tried to remember just how it was that we arrived at this sorry state of affairs. When I finally did, I decided the best thing to do was to get drunk in an effort to forget, but then remembered that I don't really drink, anymore. Maybe I'll take up heroin?
President O-Blah-Blah is really not up to this job. Personally, I think he's wanted to quit for quite some time, and I thought to myself that this is what happens when you elect an inexperienced person with no real qualifications to do such an important job, and then are stupid enough to believe that he might, at least, give it the Ol' College Try.
Or at least appear to be trying.
And then I had another thought (that's three in one day! Someone make it stop!) regarding some of the navel-gazing that's going on vis-a-vis the 2012 GOP nomination, and one Marco Rubio.
If I have to listen to one more 'conservative' (by the way, they don't exist anymore) scream the name 'Marco Rubio' in a presidential context this week, I'm going to start shooting people. Marco Rubio got elected to the Senate like five minutes ago, and his instant branding as Presidential Timber reminds one of the same 'conservative' ecstasy over Senator Scott Brown two years ago. Brown turned out to be just another politician --even if he was against ObamaCare.
I mean, really, you at least squeeze the bread, smell the melon, and kick the tires before you buy stuff, right? I'll bet more people put more effort and thought into buying a new cellphone then they do into their decision to pick a President.
How about we stop anointing people this-that-or-the-other before they've proven themselves? If there's anything we should have learned over the last three years, it's that jumping on the band wagons of the Tabula Rasa class of politicians -- just because they aren't part of the Washington Establishment -- sometimes just doesn't work, no matter how good it sounds? That's how we got Barry Soetoro, the Great (half-) White Dope, after all.
Just ask Ambassador John Bolton, who should be someone's Secretary of State one day, about what happens when your current Secretary of State is, like her boss, without the right experience and temperament for the job at hand. Being able to roll over and ask Bill for advice (assuming he isn't already sharing his bed with something with a barely-discernible pulse and room-temperature IQ) is not a qualification for anything, either.
If Barack Hussein Odouchebag has proven anything it's that when you elect your leadership based on the Cult of Personality rather than upon solid qualifications, you end up with a lot more to complain about and your quality of life simply shrinks under the oppressive cloud of stupidity and apathy.
Was there really anything in B.O..'s past that led you to believe he was going to fix the national economy? Was there anything there to instill confidence in his leadership skills? Did he display an extraordinary grasp of the truths of the modern world? Or were you simply desperate enough that anyone who had no discernible connection to what had gone on before in the previous two decades of American political life seemed that much a better choice? Even if he had spent a whole year-and-a-half voting "Present' on the great issues of the day, and had a Walking Menstrual Cycle of a wife (who probably gives him his orders) you'd like to feed to the wild boars one piece at a time?
Granted, the alternatives weren't all that much to write home about, either. Here were your choices in 2008:
A) Aging Cold-Warrior-Fence-Straddler with the Sexy Poster Girl for Pro Choice Governor (before she quit) of a State with More Polar Bears than People in tow. John McCain couldn't find his own ass with both hands, on a good day, and Sarah Palin finally found hers when Katie Couric and Charles Gibson (no shining lights, themselves) handed it to her on national television.
B) Carpetbagging, media-proclaimed Smartest Woman in the World who somehow didn't know her husband was screwing everything within range of his crotch, and the rancid smell of corruption clinging to every business venture in her life A woman who was so unacquainted with truth and candor that she felt compelled to invent an easily-disprovable yarn about how her parents came to decide her name?
By the way, on the subject of Hillary, Chris Matthews is getting all tingly again. My, how fickle that man can be.
That's what we had to choose from, so I guess I can see why Obama was, in retrospect, so attractive to so many dingbats. I guess they'd figure he'd grow into the job, but it's apparent that now that he has it, he doesn't want it anymore. Being President is hard work and people expect you to, you know, do stuff.
So don't give me the Marco Rubio/Paul Ryan/Eric Cantor bullshit. Those guys are in the same boat; they talk a good game, but what have they actually done, and in those achievements, can you show me something that is even remotely a qualification for POTUS? Give that crowd some more time to season -- and us more time to figure out who and what they are -- before you start putting them on national ballots.
Otherwise, you end up with a President who leaves the business of governing to the Senate and House leadership (and we see how well that's worked out), or to a bewildering array of non-elected Unknowns, and then goes on vacation every time there's an oil spill, natural disaster, war, revolution, economic emergency, or when the wife decides it's time they went to a sunny beach someplace, and took 1,000 sycophants along for the ride.
I do a lot of Obama bashing here, I admit, and I know some readers get upset over it. I want you to know that it isn't because I think Barack Obama is a bad man, it's because he's an extremely ineffectual President. I wasn't happy when he was elected, but I thought it was at least a shining moment for America, and the man had enough trouble heaped upon his plate to at least be given the benefit of the doubt. He lost that benefit the day the word ObamaCare entered the lexicon, which was like, four days after the inauguration.
It took 16 months to eventually pass that legislation, and it's been a year since it has passed, and still, no one can explain it. Fiscal year 2010 went by without a budget bill for 2011, and I'm still waiting to hear if there's going to be one coming from the White House for 2012. The national debt has nearly tripled. Unemployment is still over 10%, regardless of what the media tells you. We're still in two wars, and now have taken on a third in Libya. And I can't recall a single accomplishment of the Obama Administration since ObamaCare (a dubious one) that is actually worth a bucket of warm spit.
Gays can serve openly in the military? Yay.
A trillion-dollar stimulus which has turned out to largely be a waste of money? I'm astounded.
Naming over-budget, barley-used train stations after Joe Biden? Stop! I can't take no more!
Filing a lawsuit against BP in the teeth of one of the greatest industrial disasters in recent memory? Pure genius!
A Michelle Obama diet plan for the nation's chubby youth? My, our cups runneth over.
This is why you have to carefully weigh whether or not your candidates are truly up to the task of governing, and shouldn't be so easily seduced by the mere appearance of leadership without anything to suggest even the substance of it.
Showing posts with label Scott Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scott Brown. Show all posts
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Be Careful What You Ask For, Part 4,257...
To those of you who got all hot and bothered by Scott Brown, and his "real conservative values", I'm wondering why it is you've all gone suddenly and mysteriously silent?
Oh right...because Brown's vote ultimately meant nothing vis-a-vis ObamaCare, and within three weeks of taking office, Brown suddenly revealed himself as a JAP (Just Another Politician). That took all the wind out of the We-Heart-Scott-Brown sails.
If there's one thing that can be said of "Real"Conservatives, it's that they're at their most gullible when a presented with a crisis, real or manufactured. In this regard,they suffer from the same mental illness as most Lefties do; they'll buy any crap at all if it's presented a s threat to the Republic, a repudiation of the Founders, or has a religious tint to it, in the same way that Libtards fall for outdated notions of "fairness" and"it's for the Children...". That illness causes them to react emotionally instead of with reason, and that's why they bought all the crap about Scott Brown's "Real Conservative Credentials" hook, line and sinker.
Brown's only real value to the Right was as a vote against ObamaCare, and the dems made him irrelevant to the process by finding an illegal means of getting that passed.
After being made irrelevant, Brown quickly conformed to herd behavior of the rest of the RINOS (Republicans In Name Only). He jumps on the democratic party band wagon when it suits his purposes as much as anyone else. The lesson of Scott Brown to the Republican Voter is this: The more desperate the perceived need, the easier it is for "Real" Conservatives to swallow anything that's presented to them the right way: the right buzzwords (tax cuts, small government, family values, et. al.), lots of family snapshots, make as many "Founding Father" references as you can, make sure you say "God" twice every paragraph. If Barack Obama was marketed to the American people as a Transformational Figure, then Scott Brown was pushed as no less than a Savior of the Republic, a would-be Brutus to Barack Obama's Caesar.
Historically, Brutus was the last to stab Caesar --in the back -- and only after a dozen or so other men had already mortally wounded the Dictator. His contribution was mostly symbolic, and ultimately, pointless.
The truth of the thing is that Scott Brown won because a) Ghengis Khan with a bad rash could have beaten Martha Coakley, b) After TARP, people would have gladly tarred-and-feathered any "establishment" republican who ran against Coakley, and perhaps even Coakley herself, and c) the Public Mood was (and still is) "Throw the Bums Out!". Short of massacring his own children with a chain saw on national television, Scott Brown was almost an automatic in that kind of climate (spare me the come-from-behind-victory bullshit. Coakley was such a bad candidate that she lost it more than he won it). These same factors were in play, to varying degrees, in the Governor's Races in New Jersey and Virginia, and it's easy for the GOP Upper-Crust to assume a landslide victory in November based on these three races.
But those who would do so might be making a major mistake; Brown didn't win because he's A conservative, he won because he beat a bad candidate. Christie was a definite improvement over Corzine, but then again, I could have run with the slogan"Ebola in Every Household!" and beat Corzine handily. Virginia's gubernatorial race took place in the direct aftermath of TARP, Porkulus, and ObamaCare -- just when public outrage was getting into full-swing. In those three cases, the Republican was simply the only obvious choice, and in two, simply the lesser of two evils.
That "Throw the Bums Out!" mentality applies equally to BOTH parties, provided there's a viable alternative, which is why the Tea Party, more than the GOP or Dimwits, will really decide who stays, who goes, and where the New Blood gets injected. The GOP had better not get cocky, because it has so little to get cocky about; where it wins, it will do so largely by default, where there is no competition or a weak democrat. Pol Pot would probably still beat half the R's on the ticket this fall in this electoral climate. But anyway, back to Mr. Brown...
Brown's plaintive cry of "Why do I always have to be the one to work with the democrats? Bipartisanship is a two-way street, you know?" tells you all you really need to know about Scott Brown and his brand of Conservatism and just where his head really is at -- Brown would rather conciliate and come to terms with the Lefty fringe, than see them removed -- and that's exactly what no one noticed when Brown was being pushed as the Indispensable Man, the American Values Posterboy.
Pragmatism is a good thing, but not when you're talking about the very continuance of democracy and freedoms, themselves. Bi-partisanship in this day and age is simply siding with the avowed enemies of all good men; the democratic (small 'd' intentional) party.
I may have issues with "Real" conservatives, but I still consider myself conservative where it counts on most issues. If Scott Brown-style Conservatism is something to be celebrated, then I must have missed the memo. If it's not in vogue anymore because of his subsequent actions, then do me a favor and stop rubber-stamping the Flavor-of-the-Week as the Next Reagan. It seriously sucks to listen to you whine and bitch after your Champion-of-the-Week suddenly shows his true colors and you realize that you were lied to.
Caveat Emptor, something about counting chickens, and all that. Of course, the worst of you will descend deeper into psychosis because you got played on Brown; every candidate this fall will be subjected to a series of litmus tests so severe that many a good person shan't survive the process. The object will be on finding the "Perfect" Conservatives, rather then "the Best Available Conservatives". It's predictable -- like when Muslims lose wars and blame it on a lack of piety -- "Real" Conservatives blame defeat on a lack of orthodoxy (a quality they despise in Libtards, by the way), and the response is the same; more fervor, less thought.
Yeah, that always works. I'd rather look the other way when a "Real" Conservative tells me that This Guy is"one of us", because I've learned that people who garner that imprimatur from out of nowhere only do so because they hold the"right" position on whatever happens to be the crisis-du-jour, and because the same Regal Personages said they were worthy of it: usually Anne Coulter. I love Anne dearly, but she was all hot for Scott Brown, and if I recall, Mike Pence was supposed to be the New Reagan like eight years ago, which tells you all you need to know about her record in picking winners.
Oh right...because Brown's vote ultimately meant nothing vis-a-vis ObamaCare, and within three weeks of taking office, Brown suddenly revealed himself as a JAP (Just Another Politician). That took all the wind out of the We-Heart-Scott-Brown sails.
If there's one thing that can be said of "Real"Conservatives, it's that they're at their most gullible when a presented with a crisis, real or manufactured. In this regard,they suffer from the same mental illness as most Lefties do; they'll buy any crap at all if it's presented a s threat to the Republic, a repudiation of the Founders, or has a religious tint to it, in the same way that Libtards fall for outdated notions of "fairness" and"it's for the Children...". That illness causes them to react emotionally instead of with reason, and that's why they bought all the crap about Scott Brown's "Real Conservative Credentials" hook, line and sinker.
Brown's only real value to the Right was as a vote against ObamaCare, and the dems made him irrelevant to the process by finding an illegal means of getting that passed.
After being made irrelevant, Brown quickly conformed to herd behavior of the rest of the RINOS (Republicans In Name Only). He jumps on the democratic party band wagon when it suits his purposes as much as anyone else. The lesson of Scott Brown to the Republican Voter is this: The more desperate the perceived need, the easier it is for "Real" Conservatives to swallow anything that's presented to them the right way: the right buzzwords (tax cuts, small government, family values, et. al.), lots of family snapshots, make as many "Founding Father" references as you can, make sure you say "God" twice every paragraph. If Barack Obama was marketed to the American people as a Transformational Figure, then Scott Brown was pushed as no less than a Savior of the Republic, a would-be Brutus to Barack Obama's Caesar.
Historically, Brutus was the last to stab Caesar --in the back -- and only after a dozen or so other men had already mortally wounded the Dictator. His contribution was mostly symbolic, and ultimately, pointless.
The truth of the thing is that Scott Brown won because a) Ghengis Khan with a bad rash could have beaten Martha Coakley, b) After TARP, people would have gladly tarred-and-feathered any "establishment" republican who ran against Coakley, and perhaps even Coakley herself, and c) the Public Mood was (and still is) "Throw the Bums Out!". Short of massacring his own children with a chain saw on national television, Scott Brown was almost an automatic in that kind of climate (spare me the come-from-behind-victory bullshit. Coakley was such a bad candidate that she lost it more than he won it). These same factors were in play, to varying degrees, in the Governor's Races in New Jersey and Virginia, and it's easy for the GOP Upper-Crust to assume a landslide victory in November based on these three races.
But those who would do so might be making a major mistake; Brown didn't win because he's A conservative, he won because he beat a bad candidate. Christie was a definite improvement over Corzine, but then again, I could have run with the slogan"Ebola in Every Household!" and beat Corzine handily. Virginia's gubernatorial race took place in the direct aftermath of TARP, Porkulus, and ObamaCare -- just when public outrage was getting into full-swing. In those three cases, the Republican was simply the only obvious choice, and in two, simply the lesser of two evils.
That "Throw the Bums Out!" mentality applies equally to BOTH parties, provided there's a viable alternative, which is why the Tea Party, more than the GOP or Dimwits, will really decide who stays, who goes, and where the New Blood gets injected. The GOP had better not get cocky, because it has so little to get cocky about; where it wins, it will do so largely by default, where there is no competition or a weak democrat. Pol Pot would probably still beat half the R's on the ticket this fall in this electoral climate. But anyway, back to Mr. Brown...
Brown's plaintive cry of "Why do I always have to be the one to work with the democrats? Bipartisanship is a two-way street, you know?" tells you all you really need to know about Scott Brown and his brand of Conservatism and just where his head really is at -- Brown would rather conciliate and come to terms with the Lefty fringe, than see them removed -- and that's exactly what no one noticed when Brown was being pushed as the Indispensable Man, the American Values Posterboy.
Pragmatism is a good thing, but not when you're talking about the very continuance of democracy and freedoms, themselves. Bi-partisanship in this day and age is simply siding with the avowed enemies of all good men; the democratic (small 'd' intentional) party.
I may have issues with "Real" conservatives, but I still consider myself conservative where it counts on most issues. If Scott Brown-style Conservatism is something to be celebrated, then I must have missed the memo. If it's not in vogue anymore because of his subsequent actions, then do me a favor and stop rubber-stamping the Flavor-of-the-Week as the Next Reagan. It seriously sucks to listen to you whine and bitch after your Champion-of-the-Week suddenly shows his true colors and you realize that you were lied to.
Caveat Emptor, something about counting chickens, and all that. Of course, the worst of you will descend deeper into psychosis because you got played on Brown; every candidate this fall will be subjected to a series of litmus tests so severe that many a good person shan't survive the process. The object will be on finding the "Perfect" Conservatives, rather then "the Best Available Conservatives". It's predictable -- like when Muslims lose wars and blame it on a lack of piety -- "Real" Conservatives blame defeat on a lack of orthodoxy (a quality they despise in Libtards, by the way), and the response is the same; more fervor, less thought.
Yeah, that always works. I'd rather look the other way when a "Real" Conservative tells me that This Guy is"one of us", because I've learned that people who garner that imprimatur from out of nowhere only do so because they hold the"right" position on whatever happens to be the crisis-du-jour, and because the same Regal Personages said they were worthy of it: usually Anne Coulter. I love Anne dearly, but she was all hot for Scott Brown, and if I recall, Mike Pence was supposed to be the New Reagan like eight years ago, which tells you all you need to know about her record in picking winners.
Monday, March 08, 2010
I Made a Mistake...
It happens from time to time, and when it does, I try to do the right thing and make a correction.
I assumed that soon-to-resign (if the current reports are right) Representative Eric Massa (Sexual Harasser - New York) was actually in favor of ObamaCare, and that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would run interference for Massa in an effort to keep his vote.
It turns out the Rep. Massa was not in favor of ObamaCare. I'm not certain of the particulars, the whys-and-wherefores of his opposition, but I will make an effort to find out.
The Representative is now suggesting that he has been specifically targeted by Pelosi, Hoyer, et. al., in retaliation for his opposition to the Federal Eyedrops and Bandaids for Brothers plan, with his tormentors going as far as to invent charges with which to smear him.
He then intimates that he did, indeed, suggest that he should bump uglies with a male staffer, but that was in the context of drunken bonhomie and that in the grand scheme of "Dudes being Dudes" that this doesn't really mean anything -- and when it isn't that, it's all about someone getting rabidly politically correct and being unable to recognize a joke when they see one.
Except when it isn't about that. Then it's about Massa being pressured into changing his vote, or to keep his seat (he says he was planning on retiring due to health issues), probably to keep it from going republican. Like Scott Brown, Eric Massa has undergone some form of invisible transformation until he now considers himself to be the deciding vote against ObamaCare, and Pelosi wants his scalp for that reason alone.
Considering that Massa has changed his story eleven times, it's becoming increasingly clear that he probably does have something to hide (we just haven't been privy to all the salacious details...yet). He's all over the place; he's retiring, he's resigning, he's suddenly not doing either, and then he's fight-fight-fightin', and painting himself as a martyr and an innocent victim of a great Left-wing Conspiracy to Enslave the American Republic with Health Insurance.
Whatever.
Eric Massa is still an embarrassment to the people of New York -- no matter what the fine distinctions may be in his case -- and he probably still needs to go for that reason alone. Married men do not proposition other men, or lay hands upon them in familiar fashion unless there is absolutely no question of having this mistaken for a sexual proposition (it's why you can make 'gay' remarks and mimic 'gay' behavior with your closest, manliest friends, but not with Bob the Copier Guy at the Office. Your friends know you and your sense of humor, presumably, Bob doesn't).
The fact that his aides (not AIDS), presumably people who have worked with him for a long period of time and could be expected to know his sense of humor, found his behavior shocking and disturbing enough to file a complaint tells you much. They either know he's on the Down Low, have their doubts, or they just hate his fucking guts enough to destroy his career and reputation.
And none of that has much to do with a Congressional vote at all.
But I was wrong to assume he was in lock step with the socialized medicine crowd, and for that, Representative Massa, I do apologize. I don't claim to be a journalist (like that's even a real profession anymore?) but I really should make certain that what I put here is as close to the truth as I can manage.
Now, about getting around to finally tendering your resignation....
I assumed that soon-to-resign (if the current reports are right) Representative Eric Massa (Sexual Harasser - New York) was actually in favor of ObamaCare, and that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would run interference for Massa in an effort to keep his vote.
It turns out the Rep. Massa was not in favor of ObamaCare. I'm not certain of the particulars, the whys-and-wherefores of his opposition, but I will make an effort to find out.
The Representative is now suggesting that he has been specifically targeted by Pelosi, Hoyer, et. al., in retaliation for his opposition to the Federal Eyedrops and Bandaids for Brothers plan, with his tormentors going as far as to invent charges with which to smear him.
He then intimates that he did, indeed, suggest that he should bump uglies with a male staffer, but that was in the context of drunken bonhomie and that in the grand scheme of "Dudes being Dudes" that this doesn't really mean anything -- and when it isn't that, it's all about someone getting rabidly politically correct and being unable to recognize a joke when they see one.
Except when it isn't about that. Then it's about Massa being pressured into changing his vote, or to keep his seat (he says he was planning on retiring due to health issues), probably to keep it from going republican. Like Scott Brown, Eric Massa has undergone some form of invisible transformation until he now considers himself to be the deciding vote against ObamaCare, and Pelosi wants his scalp for that reason alone.
Considering that Massa has changed his story eleven times, it's becoming increasingly clear that he probably does have something to hide (we just haven't been privy to all the salacious details...yet). He's all over the place; he's retiring, he's resigning, he's suddenly not doing either, and then he's fight-fight-fightin', and painting himself as a martyr and an innocent victim of a great Left-wing Conspiracy to Enslave the American Republic with Health Insurance.
Whatever.
Eric Massa is still an embarrassment to the people of New York -- no matter what the fine distinctions may be in his case -- and he probably still needs to go for that reason alone. Married men do not proposition other men, or lay hands upon them in familiar fashion unless there is absolutely no question of having this mistaken for a sexual proposition (it's why you can make 'gay' remarks and mimic 'gay' behavior with your closest, manliest friends, but not with Bob the Copier Guy at the Office. Your friends know you and your sense of humor, presumably, Bob doesn't).
The fact that his aides (not AIDS), presumably people who have worked with him for a long period of time and could be expected to know his sense of humor, found his behavior shocking and disturbing enough to file a complaint tells you much. They either know he's on the Down Low, have their doubts, or they just hate his fucking guts enough to destroy his career and reputation.
And none of that has much to do with a Congressional vote at all.
But I was wrong to assume he was in lock step with the socialized medicine crowd, and for that, Representative Massa, I do apologize. I don't claim to be a journalist (like that's even a real profession anymore?) but I really should make certain that what I put here is as close to the truth as I can manage.
Now, about getting around to finally tendering your resignation....
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Scott Who: 2012?
I do hate to be the one to say "I told you so..." ...but, fuck it! It's just too good to pass up: I fucking told you so! The Exuberance, as Alan Greenspan would have said, was a bit irrational. You should have done a little more research on this guy and asked some important questions first. All that exuberance gone to waste. I'll bet half the Tea Partiers lost their boner for his daughters when they heard the news.
What did you expect? I mean, how much vetting of this guy did you do before you jumped on his bandwagon and christened him a "real" conservative, and started printing the "Brown 2012" posters? Honestly, there was less info on this guy than there was on Barack Obama; many people thought of him as the Second Coming simply because they saw him as both the anti-Ted Kennedy, and as the way to prevent Harry Reid getting that 60th vote without having to resort to murder.
Scott Brown may yet "save" America from the Horrors of Obamacare, if only because stranger things have happened, like when life accidentally evolved from a random mixture of amino acids. Monkeys have been known to bang away at typewriters, and completely by accident, manage to re-create the works of Shakespeare, so the precedent is there certainly. The 60th vote is now irrelevant, in retrospect, it maybe always was: the dems look set to pass Obamacare bit-by-bit -- as earmarks and such buried within appropriations bills with the tactics of "Reconciliation" -- which only requires 51 Senate Votes. Honestly, $15 billion is not even an awful lot of money when you stop to consider that Obama's spending frenzy threatens a $2 trillion deficit, and a trillion a year deficits after that for as long as you care to count. But you have to wonder just how much of that $15 bil is going to Scott Brown's constituents. After all, he promised to be an independent voice for the people of Massachusetts; nowhere did he say he wouldn't vote for a Barack Obama boondoggle, or not take money the Tea Party folks consider taboo if that meant he couldn't do that.
He even repeated that "I will be an independent voice..." routine today, see:
"I came to Washington to be an independent voice, to put politics aside, and to do everything in my power to help create jobs for Massachusetts families," Brown said in a statement after the vote. "This Senate jobs bill is not perfect. I wish the tax cuts were deeper and broader, but I voted for it because it contains measures that will help put people back to work."
I mean, really, have we become so desperate and some so detached from reality that they were willing to toss their metaphorical panties at any political hunk that spoke the magic words? Because that's what the euphoria over Brown was akin to. You would have thought The Greatest Conservative Since Reagan was elected up there in the People's Republic of Taxachusetts, but he's turned out, very quickly to be...gasp!... a Politician.
There's this quote:
"They expected him to be a conservative when he's always been an independent..."He's representing his constituents".
Yeah, and I'll bet he just got struck off a whole shitload of Christmas Card Lists, too. "I'm serving my constituents" is the classic dodge, but I really loved this part:
"...(Willis) compared the mania over Brown to that which surrounded President Obama's campaign, saying that with both, there was an inevitable letdown.Supporters "weren't using their brains, they were using their hearts," she said. "When he didn't turn out to change the world, they felt betrayed."
Ouch, that fucking stings!
Tea Party folks, I'm with ya, really. But you gotta calm down a bit, and unbunch yer panties long enough to actually begin to think about what you do or say before you anoint someone The Next Reagan.
What did you expect? I mean, how much vetting of this guy did you do before you jumped on his bandwagon and christened him a "real" conservative, and started printing the "Brown 2012" posters? Honestly, there was less info on this guy than there was on Barack Obama; many people thought of him as the Second Coming simply because they saw him as both the anti-Ted Kennedy, and as the way to prevent Harry Reid getting that 60th vote without having to resort to murder.
Scott Brown may yet "save" America from the Horrors of Obamacare, if only because stranger things have happened, like when life accidentally evolved from a random mixture of amino acids. Monkeys have been known to bang away at typewriters, and completely by accident, manage to re-create the works of Shakespeare, so the precedent is there certainly. The 60th vote is now irrelevant, in retrospect, it maybe always was: the dems look set to pass Obamacare bit-by-bit -- as earmarks and such buried within appropriations bills with the tactics of "Reconciliation" -- which only requires 51 Senate Votes. Honestly, $15 billion is not even an awful lot of money when you stop to consider that Obama's spending frenzy threatens a $2 trillion deficit, and a trillion a year deficits after that for as long as you care to count. But you have to wonder just how much of that $15 bil is going to Scott Brown's constituents. After all, he promised to be an independent voice for the people of Massachusetts; nowhere did he say he wouldn't vote for a Barack Obama boondoggle, or not take money the Tea Party folks consider taboo if that meant he couldn't do that.
He even repeated that "I will be an independent voice..." routine today, see:
"I came to Washington to be an independent voice, to put politics aside, and to do everything in my power to help create jobs for Massachusetts families," Brown said in a statement after the vote. "This Senate jobs bill is not perfect. I wish the tax cuts were deeper and broader, but I voted for it because it contains measures that will help put people back to work."
I mean, really, have we become so desperate and some so detached from reality that they were willing to toss their metaphorical panties at any political hunk that spoke the magic words? Because that's what the euphoria over Brown was akin to. You would have thought The Greatest Conservative Since Reagan was elected up there in the People's Republic of Taxachusetts, but he's turned out, very quickly to be...gasp!... a Politician.
There's this quote:
"They expected him to be a conservative when he's always been an independent..."He's representing his constituents".
Yeah, and I'll bet he just got struck off a whole shitload of Christmas Card Lists, too. "I'm serving my constituents" is the classic dodge, but I really loved this part:
"...(Willis) compared the mania over Brown to that which surrounded President Obama's campaign, saying that with both, there was an inevitable letdown.Supporters "weren't using their brains, they were using their hearts," she said. "When he didn't turn out to change the world, they felt betrayed."
Ouch, that fucking stings!
Tea Party folks, I'm with ya, really. But you gotta calm down a bit, and unbunch yer panties long enough to actually begin to think about what you do or say before you anoint someone The Next Reagan.
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