Scott Brown Store Front Window Dummy Congressional Deadwood
As I write this it is voting day in Massachusetts (did I spell that right) and Ted Kennedy’s senate seat is still vacant. Sending Scott Brown to fill it is the same as keeping it that way. As much as we all love Scott Brown you can take a dummy from a store front window, put it in Ted’s seat, and get the same results.
And maybe it’s better that way. Maybe the less the Senate accomplishes the better off we’ll be. Certainly this heath care legislation is worse than doing nothing. That stimulus package was so bad we would have been better off had it never passed. Scott Brown could have been counted on to oppose these ill conceived measures.
That has more to do with Scott Brown not having a brain than to his conservative values, but nevertheless the result are the same. The Senate has been unable to get anything done for years now and Scott Brown will work tirelessly to continue that proud tradition.
Scott Brown is against health care reform and for cutting taxes. That’s it. There’s nothing more inside that brain of his. Nobody not even liberals want this heath care bill to pass. What started out as reform morphed into another entitlement program, and nobody can support that. Cutting taxes is another matter all together.
We have a trillion dollar deficit and Scott Brown wants to cut taxes. Sorry Scott, that just isn’t going to happen. Why you ask? Because we would have to borrow more to fund the deficit and China just isn’t going to keep lending us money. Imagine a treasury sale where there are no buyers. “Your credit’s no good anymore Scott. Go back and balance your budget and then we’ll talk.”
The best chance a peasant like me had for a significant tax cut was when Bush decided to return the budget surplus to the people during his first term. Because he didn’t target his tax cuts to the middle class most of the money went to the already wealthy beneficiaries of the Regan tax cuts. Once those taxes cuts passed it eliminated the possibility of me ever seeing another tax cut in my lifetime (and the lifetime of my children and their children).
As I write this on the morning of Scott Brown’s election, the stock market is having a big day. The NASDAQ is up almost 24 points. Wellpoint, the health insurer is up over two bucks. All in anticipation of the defeat of heath care. Brown will be a win for Wall Street.
However, there are good reasons to vote for Brown. I can’t tell you what they are but I’m sure his supporters are ecstatic. It’s not that I dislike republicans, I just wish there was one who good speak intelligently to the issues that confront us and offer serious solutions that everyone could support. Scott Brown isn’t that guy.
So if Scott wins this will be a victory for the right. It will be a hollow victory since adding more dead wood to the Senate will only improve its ability at failing to govern.
