So now we finally know who Scott Brown really works for -- and it's not the people of Massachusetts.
Turns out out-of-state financial service execs pumped almost half a million dollars into Brown's campaign coffers in the last week, fueling the anti-democratic hysteria and public execution of Martha Coakley.
Martha Coakley aggressively pursued the greedy, unethical financial giants that had much to do with the unraveling of our economy and ensuing job loss. The corporate and financial sector definitely did not want Coakley to get elected. They wanted Scott Brown, paid for Scott Brown, and got Scott Brown.
Old news. But why would the people of Massachusetts vote against their own interests?
Scott Brown, like all of his Republican counterparts who will and have always represented the interests of the corporate sector, managed to convince the masses that it would be he -- and not Coakley -- who would represent the people of Massachusetts. He did this in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Hell, days after the election, the ding dong was out promoting bigger tax cuts for the corporate sector, and rejecting President Obama's efforts to regulate the financial companies that fleeced our nation. Yes, the companies that fleeced the people. And the masses still seem to like him. Is our drinking water that bad?
The masses in Massachusetts are asses. I used to harbor a bias that the people of this state were too educated or street-smart to be hoodwinked by a no-name corporate-biased Republican homeboy posing as a man of the people. But they're not so hip after all.
Forget about ther fact that nobody heard of Scott Brown before Jan 1 or that he did nothing for the people of Massachusetts during his tenure as a state rep and state senator. It's not what someone does. It's now what they say that matters?
All the ad execs have to do is present a pretty face, nice body, preferably a white boy, and then toss in pics of the American flag and a pickup truck, and the morons are off and running to the polls. This cocktail, perfected by the Republicans, is politically Pavlovian -- and pathetic.
It still blows my mind that this Republican spin trick still hasn't been exposed for what it is. Reagan's people concocted the mix to convert hard-core socially conservative Democrats to the Republican fray in the 80s and it's worked since then -- even as life for those former Democrats consistently gets worse under Republican rule and better under Democratic governance.
How are the Republicans able to sell sensible hard working people to vote against their own interests? When will these people figure out they've been had?
Maybe they never will. If the masses in Mass can elect a Scott Brown after Ted Kennedy's 40-plus year fight for the people, fresh off an eight-year republican nightmare for the same people, anything is possible. Let's hope the people of Illinois have better drinking water.
My mother is fond of quoting my grandfather, an Irish immigrant and laborer, who advised his children to never vote Republican (unless they struck it rich, of course). He advised his children to vote for the party that would best represent their interests, and the Republicans don't represent the middle-class, and lower classes. "All the Republicans do is start bad wars and get us into recession," he'd say. Then the Democrats come in, take all the blame, clean up the mess and right the ship.
Hmm, looking back now, I see that he was right.
You bet Ted Kennedy rolled over in his grave on January 19. But so did all of our immigrant grandparents, who were smart enough to know who buttered their bread and see who was a wolf in sheep's clothing. They'd be embarrassed that their grandchildren voted for a wolf like Scott Brown. I didn't.
