Bill Press unloads on Scott Brown

[ProSense]

Scott Brown blows opportunity to lead

By Bill Press

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What a huge disappointment. With Elena Kagan, Brown had an opportunity to prove his potential as a real leader — and blew it.

At her confirmation hearing, Brown sat alongside John Kerry and praised Kagan as a person with exceptional legal qualifications. Later, to his credit, he stepped up and defended her against charges by fellow Republicans that she was anti-military.

But then, when push came to shove, in the final vote on confirmation, he voted against her. Based, he said, on the lame excuse that she had no prior judicial experience.

What a weenie. What a cop-out. What nonsense. Even a high-schooler knows that some of the greatest Supreme Court justices — including Chief Justices William Rehnquist, Earl Warren and John Marshall — never served in the courtroom before joining the nation’s highest court.

We all know Scott Brown voted against Elena Kagan for only one reason: because he was told to do so by Mitch McConnell.

Poor Scott Brown. He looked like a statesman, but he turned out to be just another party hack.

[BeyondGeography]

1. You won't see a better use of the term "weenie" in serious political analysis

K&R

[gateley]

4. +1

[Blue Owl]

2. It would be wise to lower your expectations when it comes to Scott Brown

He'll be the next Lieberman someday -- a wishy-washy slimeball who always fucks the left wing over in the end.

[karynnj]

14. He would need to IMPROVE to become Lieberman

He is a Republican who only occasionally votes with us.

[zulchzulu]

3. Brown is a brown noser for the Party of No Ideas

Big surprise.


Not.

[gateley]

5. K&R - I like Bill Press! nt

[Kolesar]

6. Voinovich gave the same lame excuse--no judicial experience...eom

[Botany]

8. And why did she have no judicial experience?

Republicans wouldn't hold the hearings when Clinton picked her for the Federal Bench.

[Ikonoklast]

9. I didn't expect anything more from him.

What a complete and total waste George was for Ohio...biggest do-nothing politician on the planet. Just floated along, and voted the party line, fuck Ohio, fuck the country, I got it made.


I guess he couldn't figure out a way for his brother to get rich off federal contracts, so George lost interest and retired on active duty years ago.

[napi21]

7. A caller to Thom H's show yesterday askedBernie Sanders WHY

the Pubs always seem to stick together & vote as a bloc & the Dems can rarely get everybody on their side to do the same? Bernie said "First, McConnell is a very strict leader & DEMANDS unison". He didn't say how Mitch does that, but I sspect some kind of threats. That seems t me to b the Pubs way of doing things. Remember Tom Delay?

[sellitman]

10. Maybe these threats need to be exposed

Im sure there are people who can find out what the threats the Republican leader place on their minions and that information will only
make them look the fools they already are?

[ProSense]

11. Wonder what he's threatening them with because

on this vote, five Republicans ignored him.

Scott Brown = Weenie.

[karynnj]

15. Might go back to the differences in the people drawn to each party

Remember when Lakoff spoke of the right as expecting an authoritarian father figure to set the rules - why we didn't. It might be that even among their elected figures leaders are given more respect.

[SunsetDreams]

12. K&R and love this line

"Poor Scott Brown. He looked like a statesman, but he turned out to be just another party hack."

[wisteria]

13. He is a weenie, but it may just be possible he knows nothing at all about the history

of those who have served on the Supreme Court. He actually seems like a dim bulb to me.

[secondwind]

16. his days are numbered. We here in MA don't intend for this fiasco to be repeated EVER AGAIN.!

[wisteria]

17. I hope you are right. n/t