“Sissy Willis, Scott Brown doesn’t want to hear from you”
By Sissy Willis of sisu
"Sissy Willis, he doesn't want to hear from you,"
Dan Riehl just
twittered in response to our own early-afternoon tweet:
Just called Scott Brown's
local number, again as yesterday & phone mailbox full. Arggh!
But the DC office of our junior Senator did pick up, with a real person
on the other end after
a two- or three-minute wait on hold with a tasteful Mozart concerto
playing in the background. As we wrote in the comments of Dan's related
blogpost, "Usual Suspects: The Dodd-Frank Sell-Out":
When
I asked which way the calls were
trending, [the woman who answered the phone] said she couldn't say. I
asked whether that meant she WOULDN'T say, and she said yes. Sounds
to me like they're trending NO!
For a
reality check, we ran our gut reaction by Tuck, who agreed with our
assessment but had
this bit of sadder-but-wiser wisdom to add:
The no's
are the
people who WOULD call. Those who don't
call don't know what's going on anyway.
Update: Some thoughtful perspective from fellow Brown campaigner
Professor Jacobson of Legal Insurrection. Be sure to
read the whole thing:
I'm
not going to engage in the name calling some have directed at Brown.
I believe Brown was sincere in his belief that the legislation does
more good than bad. And I'm still glad that I supported his campaign,
because Brown stood firm on health care and other negative Democratic
initiatives [Also, our own view, the "Massachusetts Miracle" served as a
catalyst to break up the incumbent logjam, promising "term limits by
other means" in local and national elections this spring and come
November].But Scott Brown failed to see the forest for
the
trees on financial reform.Whatever good
the financial
legislation accomplishes could have been accomplished without another
impenetrable behemoth, sprinkled with lobbyist-induced goodies,
which
expands government for the sake of expanding government, and which
constitutes a cure which is worse than the disease.
Update II: "A Sissy Willis Scott Brown Tribute" from Dan.
Crossposted
at sisu and Liberty Pundits.
See, this goes to show America desperately needs the Mass-Smart Harvard-Inbred Billionaire Businessman with Perfect Hair to mandate his economically perfect Harvard-Inbred business plan which promises to save America from Harvard-Inbred’s manufactured-economic misery.
Mitt Romney!
The Mass-Smart politician George Will’s 30% GOP ‘highly educated whites’ want Scott Brown to be, a bamboozling fraud of epic rotten-banana proportions.
I sent the following message to his website concerning today’s vote:
“Sir,
When you were elected I held out hope that you were not simply another RINO. I now realize that I was mistaken.
Your vote on this and other issues recently continue to show that you couldn’t care less about the reason you were sent to congress. You ran on conservative principles but you are simply another John McCain or Lindsey Graham politician, you will say what you want to get elected but then act in a completely opposite manner.
I find you an embarrassment to the proud prinicples of the Republican Party and can only hope you are replaced by a TRUE conservative in the next election. I will plan to contribute to your opponent and do everything in my power to see you out of office.
You are an embarrassment sir and a liar. I hope you can live with your socialist views while pretending to be something you are not… a patriot!!
This is a very sad day for our country and you are responsible for this continued assault on our liberties.
I know you will never respond to my e-mail but you should know that this is the FIRST time in my life I have felt the need to write to a member of congress.
I would like to say something like Best Regards but that would be as phony as your actions since gaining office.
I pray for our once great Republic for as long as you and similar acting politicians vote for such rubbish we will surely leave a world to our children that is worse than it was for us.”
Another POS RINO!!
Time to clean house of these asshats!!
I think, if I read that right, this refers to FY2011, which means reconciliation will be off the table during any possible “lame duck” session after the election. They have till 9/30.
http://washingtonindependent.com/91566/in-dodging-a-budget-vote-dems-take-reconciliation-off-the-table
Bi-polar Brown’s biggest problem is our expectations of him. We were expecting the superhero, Mr. 41st Vote, to save the Republican day, but unfortunately we have seen too much of his sinister second personality, Mr. 60, in this Jekyll and Hyde drama.
All in all, though, its still better than Martha Coakley who would have been a definite Reid rubber stamp.
Ditto Brian – I don’t really care if Brown doesn’t vote the way we’d like on some things, even on some important things. He’s a Republican. In Massachusetts. In freakin’ Ted Kennedy’s former seat! Even if he votes with the Democrats 99 times out of 100, that one time he votes with the GOP is one more vote then Kennedy or Martha Coakley would have voted with the GOP. That’s good enough for me. I didn’t expect him to be the second coming of Reagan or anything, and I thought the folks talking about Brown in ’12 were insane. But he’s a hell of a lot better than Martha Coakley, and that’s one more seat the Dems have to worry about, and spend money to try to retake.
Already I see a serious case of Arlen Specter Syndrome setting in with some of the comments here. You remember…”Arlen is no conservative, but at least he votes our way some of the time”…”Better a RINO like Specter than a Democrat”…”I still believe….”
Face it – the day is coming when Brown won’t vote with you even one time in a hundred. Anyone who examined his record before he became Senator should have realized that he was nothing but another hardcore lefty, and Congress is hip-deep in them already. Centerfold Boy merely saw an opportunity, slapped a coat of paint on his liberalism, and cashed in.
As for those who still believe that having a 99%+ unreliable Brown is somehow better than Coakley, ponder the fact that Centerfold Boy gives Democrats more than just a reliable vote. He gives them the political cover of “bipartisanship” – something Coakley could never do. Don’t underestimate the damage that will do with a public that already has a hard time distinguishing between the two parties.
I think it was Dick Armey who once said, “When you make a deal with the devil, you always end up a junior partner.” Republicans made a deal with the devil to get Brown elected, and now find themselves at the mercy of his “independent” ego, at least until 2012. One would think that the GOP had learned its lesson with Specter, Snowe, Collins, Inglis, Graham, Hutchison, McCain, Bennett, Lugar, Alexander, Ridge, Crist, Powell, Schwarzenegger, Grassley, Scozzofave, Bloomberg, and a host of other lefties, but noooooooooooooo………..
It is regretful, but I am falling out of love with the Conservative Fashionistas.
You know, the cynical sideline purists, who for decades would sit and pout about this and that, calling many names, never offering anything?
Never getting on the field of play, never running for Office, never contributing anything, never doing anything but offering their condemnation.
Indeed Brown foolishly voted for this disaster.
But I feel the same fools who label many with tired class warfare terms like “Blue Bloods” – “Elite Establishment” are part of the problem.
They grew a reactionary mindset after 2004, and helped enable the very worst.
Now, they have pushed some of their own concerns with the likes of Rand Paul.
I don’t want anymore RINOS, but to chase everyone who doesn’t hold the fashionable line away is pure suicide. Best to grow the power of the GOP, thus growing the influence of the Conservative Movement, stopping the dreaded Democratic Party.
The fringe which blows with the winds will follow the POWER and the POLLS, no matter what Party you create.
If the GOP wins in NOV, and in 2012, we will see Brown, Collins and Snowe vote the other way.
It is the only pragmatic solution. Growing the potential for more self destructive efforts is not wise.
Had we admirably defended the Republican Majority in 2006, we might not be seeing any of this, and they were so deserving after defending this Nation in a post 9-11 realm.
Time to get constructive, and win some elections…
Looks nice in a suit but the suit is looking a little empty.