Let Humble Elias suspend mere politics for a fleeting moment

and urge my audience to give generously to the American Red Cross as they are moving heaven and earth to get real relief to earthquake ravaged Haiti.
I realize that my audience is small, but whether you come here to sneer or to cheer, we are a feeling species at the core, and a catastrophic event like the Haitian quake ought to evoke our sympathies.

Last night I managed to see

the Coakley campaign's "attack ad" against their GOP rival Scott Brown. It is to say the least a tame thing that mostly identifies Beefcake Scott as a conservative republican and lists his heartfelt opinions on issues of the day.
I mean ignore the ominous music and graphics, this ain't no "Daisy Commercial" believe me. And yet this morning, there was Scott Brown's counter advert on the TV in which he whines piteously that "Martha Coakley's negative ads are wrong and go too far".
Good grief all they do is remind the voters that Scott is in the end a Republican more amenable to say Wyoming than the Commonwealth...and that gets his goat??
Thin skinned little bitch isn't he?

And another thing...Martha Coakley didn't start with the negative adverts, groups amenable to the candidacy of the right honorable Scott Beefcake Brown have clouded the airwaves with denunciations of the Attorney General. If she responds in kind who is Scott to protest?
Imagine if the dems went after him Willy Horton style? Scott would likely fall over in a swoon.

Am I to understand...

that in last night's senatorial debate, Citizen Scott Brown (GOP candidate for Teddy Kennedy's vacant seat) actually made the argument that the only women in the Commonwealth who ought to have access to the "morning after pill" on an emergency basis are his own two daughters?
Everyone else can go stuff it sez Beefcake Scott, but Ayla and Whozis to the top of the line (hypothetically speaking)?
Well, inadvertently Brown has touched on the sheer narcissism that colors the abortion debate. By that Humble Elias means that some of the most die hard anti-abortionists will still qualify their own opposition in their own minds and in their own lives.
They can't rule out malign happenstance so it seems, Scott Brown least of all.

The Globe reports (as always)...

some daunting numbers for Governor Patrick's re-election. They don't seem so insuperable to me though.
He is gonna need to run as an underdog and like Harry Truman though to win this thing. So far he is getting the three way race he needs, but some progress on job creation is required and the Governor is gonna need to get on his hind legs and bellow with regards to his considerable accomplishments.
Well "Have at it Virgie" as the late Marshall Dodge used to say.
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Meanwhile Charlie Baker's chief qualification for office seems to be his fundraising prowess and the wrists ghod gave a Muppets operator.

Dishonesty is the Best Policy...

Someone, who is awfully anxious to foist Scott "Beefcake" Brown onto Massachusetts as a US Senator, is doing a nasty little push-poll on his behalf tonight.
My grey haired old mother got a call tonight from some half-mumbled polling firm that proceeded to "remind" the Coakley-leaning respondent that the AG wants to kill babies and bankrupt the universe thru the current health care bill.
Mi Madre hung up with the utmost indignation.
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Class all the way Scott, class all the way. He can bellow and coo righteously in the debates all he wants, but when Citizen Brown thinks the Commonwealth's back is turned he is a different fellow isn't he?
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Anyway I don't get Brown's stance on the current health care reform bill in the US Senate, he sez he'd vote to kill if elected. But he voted for the same exact bill for the citizens of Massachusetts not two years ago.
Why won't he give to the rest of nation what he was perfectly willing to bestow on the Commonwealth in 2006?
Well, to put it bluntly, Scott Brown is a devious, narcissistic & dishonest hack who couldn't care less about what good he did in 2006 if it impedes his path to power in 2009...That is why.

The Bill of Lading on Scott Brown:

1.) He is a relentless proponent of economic catastrophe in the form of tax-cut give aways to the very same Wall Street Wizards who lead the country into it's current recession.

2.) He all for torturing terrorists, thus placing mere vulgar retribution above intelligence gathering to say nothing of that fast fading anachronism called Justice.

3.)He is a political homophobe (which is the worst kind), took time out of his busy schedule in 2007 to co-sponsor a bill to outlaw gay straight alliances in our high schools. Quite literally Scott wanted to prevent straight teens from befriending gay teens, which is the worst sort of pestering holier than thou, witchburning politics in the opinion of Humble Elias.

4.) He opposes the current Health Care Reform legislation, in fact killing it forms a major plank of Brown's platform. That may be fine for him, Scott has excellent coverage after all but killing said bill is bad news for thirty million of his fellow citizen who nothing to speak of for health insurance.
Scott might make a great US Senator someday, but for Wyoming not Massachusetts.

Only in America...

can a candidate for the US Senate in Massachusetts present himself as the consummate warrior without ever having run a greater risk than a paper cut in the Judge Advocate's office.
And that my friends is Citizen Scott Brown in a nutshell, qualified as a paratrooper, infantry rifleman and in the arcane disciplines of the Quartermasters corps (ALL supremely applicable to front line conditions) and yet somehow despite three wars in eight years Scott has managed to dodge combat service.
Remind you of a certain Air National Guard pilot from Texas at all?
I mean its great that he joined the National Guard and all but it is nothing more than a resume builder for an aspiring politician unless he ever got off his ass and actually did something.
And as of 1-7-10 8:55am all Beefcake Scott seems to have done with his service is polish apples, which is apparently his game plan for the US Senate polish apples to get ahead.