A NOTICEABLE DROP-OFF IN QUALITY....

[ProSense]

A NOTICEABLE DROP-OFF IN QUALITY....

Sen.-elect Scott Brown (R-Mass.) offered an interesting peek into his worldview last night during his victory speech.

" In dealing with terrorists, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them.

"Raising taxes, taking over our health care, and giving new rights to terrorists is the wrong agenda for our country."

Perhaps now would be a good time to note that this is a Senate seat once held by John F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John Quincy Adams, among others.

It now belongs to Scott Brown -- a conservative who supports torture, opposes Wall Street accountability, supports more tax cuts for the wealthy, opposes economic recovery efforts, opposes Ted Kennedy's life's work on health care reform, and doubts that global climate change is the result of human activity.

And says things like, "In dealing with terrorists, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them."

It's admittedly tiresome to hear any political observer say, "In the good old days...." Those days were rarely as good as anyone remembers, and prominent thinkers of the day have been complaining about the next generation being less impressive than the last for as long as we've had the printed word.

But a once-storied Senate seat that belonged to Adams and Kennedy is now filled by a dim-witted wingnut, and that's a real shame -- for Massachusetts, for the Senate, and for all of us.

[Buzz Clik]

1. Is Brown aware of the health care system in his state? Apparently not.

[Clio the Leo]

4. Yep and he SUPPORTS it....

funny huh?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/01/the_only_thing_democrats_need.html

[Buzz Clik]

9. The good people of Massachusetts will be suffering from coyote love soon enough.

They chose to get in bed with this godawful thing, and they'll be willing to chew their arm off to get away from him.

[AspenRose]

2. Dry run for a presidential bid

Watch and see

And the idiots will eat it up too

[LibDemAlways]

6. He reminds me of Virginia's George "Macaca" Allen - an entirely

empty suit who only knows how to throw red meat to a bunch of wingnuts. Hopefully he'll suffer Allen's fate by getting a little too cocky when the cameras are around. These assholes are generally done in by their own stupidity.

[Sebastian Doyle]

11. I'd like to see them try.

Because all you would have to do is drag out the Repukes own broken record from 1988 and 2004....

"No way a candidate from Taxachusetts can be elected President".

Hell, at least if Willard Mittens Elohim Dog Abuser Brigham Romney was nominated, he could claim to be from either Michigan or Utah.

[Clio the Leo]

3. We're going to have problems if the terrorism issue is a legitimate concern...

.... because that's the one thing none of us what the President to move to the right on and I'd suspect HE is unwilling to move to the right on.

[msongs]

5. brown suggesting we should use weapons on....republicans lol nt

[TwilightGardener]

7. We're really going down the shitter as a nation, and fast. Like a snowball going downhill.

From John Quincy Adams to a Sarah Palin with a nutsack.

[Jennicut]

8. Because the people in Mass worried about the economy they elected a neo con in

a populist, moderate' clothing. Oh well. They will learn.

[Ildem09]

10. Brown will be gone in 2012