Scott Brown: Foot, Meet Mouth

(CBS)

Massachusetts' new Senator is off to a flying start. During an interview with Fox News' Neil Cavuto on Thursday, Scott Brown showed that he's every bit the political bloviator as colleagues with years more experience.

Asked by Cavuto to comment on anti-government messages apparently left by Joseph Stack before his plane plowed into an Austin building with roughly 200 federal tax employees earlier in the day, Brown offered the usual platitudes. Then his mouth started racing faster than his brain and he veered into the weeds of weirdness. Here's the relevant snippet.

CAVUTO: We have a guy who is just ranting at the system, ranting at the IRS, ranting at big government, the need for health care, not the need for unions – I mean really crazy stuff. I would just be curious of your reaction to all that.

BROWN: Well it's certainly tragic and I feel for the families obviously that are being affected by it. And I don't know if it's related but I can just sense it's not only in my election but since being here in Washington people are frustrated. They want transparency. They want their elected officials to be accountable and open and, you know, talk about the things that are affecting their daily lives. So I am not sure if there is a connection. I certainly hope not, but we need to do things better.

CAVUTO: Um, you know, invariably, people are going to look at this type of incident Senator and say `Well that's where some of this populist rage gets you – um, isn't that a bit extreme?

BROWN: Well, yeah, of course it's extreme. You don't know anything about the individual. He could have had other issues, certainly. No one likes paying taxes obviously. But the way we are trying to deal with things and have been in the past, at least until I got here, is there is such a logjam in Washington and people want us to do better. They want us to help solve the problems that are affecting Americans in a very real way....

That's some mouthful. "No one likes paying taxes?" People are "frustrated" and "want transparency? Pardon my sarong but even in Washington there are limits to pandering. Come Friday, Brown's office might want to address the suggestion of a link between paying taxes and aberrant behavior. Like a lot of Americans, I get a little grumpy just before April 15, but come on.

In the meantime, let's posit that someone who purposely flies a plane into a building is quite unhinged. After reading Stack's suicide note you don't need to be a Sigmund Freud to realize that the man was battling demons.

(Here's the video clip.)

[wakeup2021]

Job losses 2008 to 2010

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
2008 -10 -50 -33 -149 -231 -193 -210 -334 -458 -554 -728 -673
2009 -779 -726 -753 -582 -347 -504 -344 -211 -225 -224 64 -150(P)
2010 -20(P)

We need to implement the freemarket/tax cut policy of the republicans on healthcare so that we can get the same results we got on jobs.

[armchairfirebrand]

A few weeks ago, in a statement typical of his party?s propensity for propaganda, newly-minted Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) forcefully asserted that the Obama administration?s economic stimulus package, ?hasn?t created one new job.?

The problem with Brown?s declaration is that it?s objectively false. On Wednesday, the New York Times published a piece on the bill?s far-reaching impact. The results expose just how deceitful and irresponsible the senator?s remarks were.

One year on, the Recovery Act is well on its way to accomplishing all of its stated objectives. Next time the Junior Senator from Massachusetts speaks out of turn, I suggest he do his homework beforehand.

Read more @ http://armchairfirebrand.wordpress.com/

[kgdbtx]

Oh, and Cooper should change his motto at the header to "Nobody asked me, and there's a real good reason".

[kgdbtx]

Coop and all liberal democrats can't stand it still that a moderate Republican owns Teddy "socialist" Kennedy's old senate seat. Makes me so happy when I read stuff like this.

[theskeptical1]

Charles Cooper: Head, Meet Rectum

[Leaderless]

Let the smearing begins, the liberal democrats doesn't like to wait too long......

[tkarpeyjr]

scott brown is for scott brown and no one elese

[tkarpeyjr]

i cant wait the time is coomming that the gov is not going to be able to tax the worker bees anymore then they already r and ma needs to fix loop hole that allows the elected officals to get away with not payin g taxes one gov offical said the stipend they get is pocket money i wish i had 600.00 aweek to just spend i also think we should be able to fire elected officals if we feel they r not doing the will of the people and we need to stop this crap that they get a penision after 4 years of sevice after all they wanted the job no one forced them to take it

[velma179]

Scott Brown was elected by portraying himself as a political outsider, an Independent. He told the national Republican party to stay out of his campaign!
He totally downplayed the (R) next to his name on the ballot.

Now he shows up at CPAC proudly proclaiming "I am the REPUBLICAN Senator from Massachusetts" -- very telling.

I predict a very strong backlash (actually, it has started -- check local MA websites/publications/news etc) against the "bait and switch" type of politician this guy has shown himself to be.
It is unlikely to have a lot of impact in 2010... but by 2012 -- this outrage by voters who feel duped will be a huge player... and I think it will be national.
Plus, if the (R) party does wing more seats in Congress in 2010 (especially if they get a majority in either House) -- the backlash from true conservatives that see them return to what they have consistently done in the past -- they grow government faster than rabbits mate, it's historical fact -- will be resounding and perhaps, permanent.

[bcpats]

Cooper's got another one to hammer. Take that one PART of Brown's comment and blow it into something totally different than intended.

It is a fact - - no one likes to pay taxes, people are frustrated and people do want transparency.

Brown also said the incident was extreme.

Cooper -- paid to be a bama-backer and doing it to the extreme.