Scott Brown uses the Austin plane crash to pimp his own election: "People are frustrated"
Cavuto interviewed Scott Brown today (he touted it as an exclusive interview) and asked him to comment on the tragedy that struck Austin, Texas. The news has swirled around Joseph Stack's suicidal action. Instead of denouncing it as a domestic terrorist act or a lone wolf nut---he didn't hesitate to use it for his own political advantage and said this:
Brown: and I don't know if it's related but you can just sense not only in my election and being here in Washington, people are frustrated. That they want transparency. They want their elected officials to be accountable and open and talk about the things that are affecting their daily lives. So I'm not sure if there's a connection there I certainly hope not..We need to do things better.
If he hopes that there's no connection to his "people are frustrated" routine then why did he bring this up in the first place? He uses this catastrophe to pump up his own election. How sweet. Wow. It reveals a lot about the man, doesn't it?
With a penis.
Brown/Palin 2012!
You, and Scott Brown, are essentially declaring this event was done by a teabagger/ neocon, etc??
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You know, most transgendered people are fine human beings. They do not deserve the continued association with ghouls likes Sarah Palin (or, more commonly, Ann Coulter), whenever the opportunity for such humor arises.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
To all the transgender people, I did not mean to compare you to Palin. It was a sad attempt at humor and unfortunate.
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Ted Kennedy doing the same....What a noble successor!
Not.
..a right-winger using a disaster to further (and conceal) their own agenda and hoping Joe Public is too distracted or too stupid to notice the difference (or lack thereof) between the "enemy" and themselves.
Where have I seen this happen before?
*Kaff*9/11*kaff*
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So........what is Scott Brown going to do about the IRS / TAX CODE SYSTEM, specifically, seeing how THAT was the only clear thing this guy was "frustrated" with and having no voice for representation?
Oh, that's not what you meant, Mr Brown? Oh....so you're another worthless shill like everyone else? Thanks
No, it's not just a "right-wing" ploy at politics, it's the AMERICAN response to politics. What a shock a politician using a disaster by a lone NUT JOB with obvious anger management issues to further their own agenda!!! What next??? Used car salesmen pushing odometers back???
What a clown. I like how he connects the frustration of his constituency and suicide attacker by saying, "Nobody likes to pay taxes."
You know, while we all wish that we didn't have to pay anything for anything we buy, decent people don't mind contributing to the commons if they get something from the commons. People like it when good government gets you good roads and bridges, quality public education and health care. Not everyone actually minds paying into the commons for the common good. We know that we're part of the commons, so we'll reap benefit by contributing.
But not in the minds of the Scott Browns of the world. Why are there so many of them here? They think the ultimate patriotic act is to run headlong into a battlefield "in service to one's country," no matter how dubious the morality of the war, but they see no patriotism in contributing their money into the commons. That's fucking crazy!
There's an old Hollywood line, posed by armed robbers in TV shows and movies: "Your money or your life."
My new definition of a Republican: He who when asked at gunpoint, "Your money or your life," will elect to keep his money.
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
"I'm THINKING!!!! I'm THINKING!!!"
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Drives a truck to demonstrate that he understands everyones frustration!
Yeah frustration that due to global economic forces and the fact that gasoline is a FINITE resource, they're going to have to stop driving big stupid fucking trucks.
. . . to take full advantage of this tragedy and slant it to their own ends.
Shame.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
...I'm going to by a big digital billboard here in Oklahoma to try and break these rednecks free from the conservative propaganda...
I know that's hardly related to this post but, it is really...
Does he include members of his own party in that statement?
Saw an article today, on Politico (A semi-conservative rag), that the top 2 earmarkers were REPUBLICANS! You know those guys so concerned about passing on debt to our children and such...
It's that type of information that does not reach the ears of Oklahomans and that's the point of my post. Just something to make these people wake up from their brainwashed conservative dreamland.
...the new American dream?
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
Just kidding. But barely.
(and I'm not kidding)
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I wonder how it'd go over if someone said that about Al-Queada and Arabs. Just imagine a Democrat on MSNBC saying "the reason why Al-Queada flew those planes into the WTC is because the Arabs are tired of Americans meddling."
I think all those patriotic sites like Maklin, Free Republic etc..would go nuts even though it's true.
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If this man had Arab descent, then the FBI would be more closely on the case with his behavior and radicalization. All too often there is some kind of double-standard between Arab-terrorists and white American domestic terrorist. A wise man once said, "we have found the enemy, and it is ourselves," much like the Maple St. Twilight Zone episode.
The Monsters are due on Maple Street.
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THEY'RE ALREADY HERE!!!
2/18: The day they declared war on America.
Umhhh, they did say that. Everybody said that.
Instilling fear and hate are the only things GOP knows. Guess folks have forgotten who brought us into all this mess. Where the hell were these folks like Brown when Paulsen watched as the economy failed and said only weeks before it crashed that the economy was essentially sound.
Are people really this dumb that the party that created the mess now blames it all on President Obama and now they just got religion and are going to save us all. Instilling fear and hate is working for them and if we Americans give into it again then we deserve what ever insanity follows including " declaring a war on Iran" which the Tea Party followers heartily agreed with. It is breaking my heart to watch it all unfold. Dems in Congress you need to start shouting and pushing back and push hard you may have only one shot here to make it right. The party of hate is out if full force and they have Fox pushing all the way. Of course they pushed hard for 2 years to defeat Mr. Obama but it failed. I hope Americans can overcome the yelling and hate speech as they did before. We have new dreams to dream and things to do. GOP is the party of old white men who have ceased to dream and want to go back in time to the good old days which are not there anymore. I want to go forward. Bold steps like Soc. Security and Medicare and the Civil Rights acts which gave dignity to all of us. If we stop going to war every few years we would have more than enough to fund folks for the living. Dems promote people. GOP promotes themselves and the corporate world including Health Care Providers and Big Pharma making enormous profits.
2012 will come all to soon for Mr. Brown.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
(which I think he is smart enough to do), he will be re-elected in 2012 by a landslide.
If he goes against the wishes of the voters, he'll be out on his ear.
The proof will be in how he handles himself in the committees and his votes.
Period.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
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Study the symptoms not the virus...
The IRS has been driving Americans to commit suicide for decades.
(this is nothing new)
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Another Republican scum bag , sincere , has integrity and speaks from the heart . America's finest , yup , you betchya .
Brown: "I don't know any of THE DETAILS about that poor guy down in Texas... but IT SURE MAKES ME LOOK GOOD, doesn't it?"
you'd see I've got wood."
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Cosmo = Brown
Playgirl = Levi
Get your naked men straight......no...wait...don't.
but I figured I'd be corrected here soon enough.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I am so near tears right now.
NOBODY 2012
Turning tragedy into political currency. Disgraceful.
Absolutely sickening to see someone who represents us all politically giving any kind of validation to this killer and a perceived 'cause' that I am not sure was the reason.
He mentions that a lot of people are frustrated as though this is was just a normal thing for those same people to do- a reasonable conclusion. Am I the only one that caught that?
Give the new kid in the box props for jumping onto that which is current, I guess.
"..Get the widow on the set!"
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Yes, I'm frustrated that the voters of mass. chose to vote into office a conservative... as a wake up call to O'bama's administration to get moving on the changes promised....
Brown is a one term wonder, although he'll try like hell to be re-elected....best of luck with that...
The Democratic leadership needs to grow a spine...The republicans are a self-centered obstructionist party that needs to be knocked out of the way in order to get things done....as Bush and friends did to the democrats during his tenure...
Massachusetts may be the "bluest" state in the country, but let's not forget that they elected Mitt Romney, a REPUBLICAN, as their governor.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Terrorism is darn' tootin' you betcha!
Teagagger kamikaze begins Civil War II.
Secessionist suicide pilot attacks US.
America holds all resluglicons responsible, especially the hatemongers on amradio and FAUXNEWZ.
2/18 is our battle cry. "Remember 2/18," the day The Right declared war on our country. We will never forget.
Require all resluglicons and hatemongers to denounce this traitor and his act of terrorism.
Translation: Rightard extremists are frustrated that we have a black man in the White House. Flying aircraft in to IRS Federal buildings is unacceptable but understandable since we have a black man in the White House.
Who told him that, his wife?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"I'd like to say a word to all the lone, violently angry "White" men out there; or, as I like to call them, my base."
Now, I'm not saying anybody should do it, but if a plane crashed into the big CPAC hatefest, it would be okay because people are frustrated with resluglicon hatemongering.
He can go full teabagger if he wants without recourse.
These guys love to prove that there is not a single republican who has an ounce of common sense or compassion.
It's interesting that Scott Brown would compare his election with a suicidal attack on the Federal Government. Now that he mentions it, I do see the similarity.
Except in one respect: Scott Brown is a dickwad.
But the pilot who flew into that building?
My opinion: Anyone who thinks this isn't first rank BLOWBACK is just whistling in the dark. His suicide note was intelligent and articulate. Many people I know have faced worse problems and didn't go killing themselves and taking others with him. But I know 3 people who have committed suicide in the past year because they were bankrupt and saw no future for themselves or their family.
Now, get some bankrupt unemployed dork who's all hopped up on his own misery and can't understand why things are all so fucked up because dammit his parents told him HE WAS SPECIAL!!! And then let him get a clue as to what's going on (i.e. CLASS WARFARE and the rich are winning, big time) and you will see more people like this. A lot more.
You heard it here first - it doesn't take Albert Einstein to put that together.
The fascist news services are correct. This is not Terrorism. This is a person (and soon to be people) making rational and completely insane choices, based on inadequate information and insufficient personal community resources.
If you want the Taliban and al Qaeda to leave you the hell alone GET OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST. If you want crazed and desperate former members of the middle class to not do crazy fucked up stuff like Mr Stark, then do what needs to be done: nationalise the banks, regulate wall street, cut the military budget by 80%, and make these monstrous idiots act like adults. That would go a LONG way to making the USA a tolerable place to live. Until then, you're going to have more and more people doing this, as they become increasingly desperate and increasingly well armed.
don't like it? Tough. Deal with it. Blowback's a bitch, babycakes.
It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
-George Carlin
Truer words were never spoken or written. The question is, how many people have the mental grasp to get your points. Very few, I'm afraid.
"GET OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST"
What about Israel?
Don't forget the Patriot Act is up for renewal isn't it?
Blowback, unfortunately works both/many ways.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
The teagaggers' civil war started today. Austin was their Pearl Harbor, Joe Stack already their hero. Anyone who doesn't loudly condemn this act of domestic terrorism for the treason it was must be assumed to support it.
Remember Austin. Remember 2/18.
Liberals, buy guns and learn to shoot them well. The civil war started today.
2/18
2/18
"Brown: and I don't know if it's related but you can just sense not only in my election and being here in Washington, people are frustrated. That they want transparency. They want their elected officials to be accountable and open and talk about the things that are affecting their daily lives. So I'm not sure if there's a connection there I certainly hope not..We need to do things better."
I wouldn't pooh-pooh what Scott Brown says so cavalierly. There ARE angry and frustrated people in this country. There are even some in this place who run the risk of the wrath of the Obama Worshippers when they post comments. But I -- and many of them, I surmise -- voted for Barak Obama for one specific reason -- we believed him. We bought his bill of goods. And many of us who are disillusioned with Obama have voiced our readiness and willingness to vote on the Republican side of the ballot this fall. So to the writer of this post and all like-minded followers, I would simply say one thing: Don't be so willing to dismiss Scott Brown so cavalierly. He just MIGHT have a point -- or seven hundred -- that merits consideration.
Brown speaks far more eloquently for me than any Democrat or liberal has spoken in the past 10 years.
Disillusioned after one year? When it took eight to get us here?
Sure. Vote for Republicans, the people who helped create this mess our country is in. But seeing that you think Brown speaks more eloquently than any Democrat or liberal, you obviously watch too much Fox News.
He needs cooperation.
I guess you and I see what the conservatives are doing to the government... differently?
Then again, I'm not exactly sure, who is making the rules in Washington DC anyhow.
I'll bet the first people to start crumbling will be the [me & mine] type and it's perfectly understandable, though a pity nonetheless. It's said, money makes the world go-round... I'd like to audit the FED and give them a clean bill of health and then address corporations' effect on society.
I also believe churches should be taxed accordingly. If they can't support themselves... then like any entity, they should go bankrupt and be free to start over.
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"We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God)."
Study the symptoms not the virus...
Man , if this isn't a sign of the times and where this country is heading , Ted Kennedy is gone and this guy takes his place . Thought the nightmare might be over once Bush / Cheney vacated the White House and Obama was in office , now it looks like the nightmare is only beginning .
To make it sound like this man was suffering from "justified" frustration is very reckless and totally irresponsible.
So I guess AlQueida is frustrated too?
Let's review; How did Obama get elected? Oh right, playing off of peoples frustrations and then promising change. I've been wondering how Obama got elected, until I read these comments. Geez people, get a life!
It was not "Domestic Terrorism".....It was a "Domestic Man Caused Disaster".
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