This is what a fifty five percent approval rating and millions of dollars

in contributions from bailout-battened Wall Street players gets you, A Junior Senator From Massachusetts who is willing to go to the mat on behalf of chiseling bankers who don't wanna pay for their fare share.
I don't think the Commonwealth knows how to deal with a Junior Senator so blatantly bought and paid for by nefarious Out-Of-State interests, it is, to the say the least a new experience.
Scott's drama queen antics aside, there is a very practical reason for Scott's actions yesterday, the secessionists and the Tea Partei wingnuts may not fatten his campaign accounts in 2012, but Brown can always count on millions in contributions from our unbound financial institutions if he is willing to look out for their interests.
One hand washes the other especially when corporations can make nigh unlimited contributions to their hirelings on Capitol Hill these days.
Sick
Demented
Typical...

Senatorial Bloviation is Dead

It will be "all sound bites and one liners all the time" now that Senator Byrd has been measured for his harp.
Klansman episode and all, I will miss the olde bastard, any man who can drum up two billion large for his home state in two years time has to be some sort of an Earl K. Long class public pork ubermenschen.
And besides, Byrd could talk some shit, he was olde timey in a long winded Sinclair Lewisian fashion, oratorical references to Pep, Punch, Go, Vigor, the Superiority of West Virginia Womanhood, Lyrics to Spring in the Ozarks, State's Rights, The Sublime Joys of the Yankee Dollar Cunningly liberated from the Federal Treasury and the Primacy of the King James Bible, Headstone of the Republic.
Truly the man could talk about it all and for hours at a time in a style that best befit the vanished Leviathans of the US Senate Henry Cabot Lodge Senior, George S. Hoar, Daniel Webster and that Unfailing Cataract of Rhetoric, Robert La Follette.
They say finance reform is doomed without him, but I have my doubts, Healthcare was doomed with Martha Coakley, but somehow it got passed. The Junior Senator from Wall Street Scott Brown can squeak" No No NO!" into CNN's microphones all he wants and it'll never register with a tenth as much power as Robert Byrd praising the merits of fresh beef in the County Orphanage. Somehow it will pass....

"Blah blah blah Fifty Five Percent, Blah Blah Blah"

Former State Senator Scott Brown's approval rating stay solid per the Boston Globe.
I'm sure the very headline stirs most of our local radio talk show tyrants to long forgotten self abuse.
Of course his numbers are good, but then again no one has let shaken on January's election to make the case against him. After all this is the same Scott Brown who just screwed over the unemployed of the Commonwealth and screwed us out of $500 million in Federal Medicaid cash...So I'd say yes a case can be made.
Otherwise I'd say a fifty five percent approval rating will have a sobering effect on most incumbent officeholders who might wanna challenge the Tea Partei Favorite. That might be a good thing, if we are gonna beat Brown in 2012 we are gonna need a new face with a new approach and someone who can self finance to a certain extent would be helpful.
Now on the other hand, it'd be in-teresting to see what kind of numbers Scott was racking up in New Hampshire....just curious thass all. Can't hurt to check...I'd be intensely curious to see how Brown did in a hypothetical polling match up with his proclaimed and current candidate for 2012 Mitt Romney.

Charlie "Ziplips" Baker arrests

his slide in the polls at  bargain basement cost of 2 million USD which bought him enough mudslinging commercials to knock Tim Cahill into single digits.

To think four months ago, Charlie was looking to be sloppy thirds in this race but he climbed onto the airwaves early and in a nasty form (which pretty much the classic Weld-Cellucci-Romney game plan) and got back in the game.

It is worth remembering that Baker's default position is a certain craveness, faced with badgering from his own tea bagger right or even some pointless teasing from a D-List radio talk show ranter, Charlie will flop over on his back and piss himself every time in a compulsive bid to ingratiate.

But it is also been my observation that the most craven and spineless of candidates will usually hire the most ruthless campaign staffers and initiate the most outrageous attack adverts imaginable. Partly it is compensation in the Freudian sense of the term, partly it is because they have some morbid self knowledge of their own cupidity and can see no other way to win.

So all this is merely a word to the wise to the Patrick campaign that they can expect a deluge of attack ads ere' long.

Lets hope they have a counter strategy in place.

"Senator" Scott Brown to Massachusetts...

"Drop Dead!"

Literally, unemployment extensions and 500 million in Medicaid have been tossed out thanks to Scott and his unnatural devotion to Mitch McConnell's interests and political fetishes.
Well what of it?
Scott is a wingnut, 100 editorials by Brian McGrory cosigned by the Archangel Michael wouldn't persuade me otherwise.
Therefore all these petitions and protesters at his offices accomplish just exactly nothing, as a Movement Conservative, Scott takes a visceral delight and telling off hippies and beatniks and community organizers and the poor and infirm too.
I say go back to your precincts and start organizing, get lists together, get crackin' 30,000 of our fellow citizens have been left high and dry by Brown's decision to toady up to the GOP Senate leadership, and 30,000 is a very comfortable statewide margin of victory in any election.
Think about that mah frenz.

McChrystal Outski...

Whatever the hell happened, the right thing happened.
Whether he was "advised" to bring his resignation along or not, the primacy of civilian control of the military has been reaffirmed and respect for the chain of command down to the company level restored.
and if Stanley McChrystal feels himself to be a wronged man then there is millions to be made crying victim and poor mouth on the conservative welfare circuit.
Although, it is very interesting to me that fort he most part the GOP bigfeet in Congress have backed this decision sans demure, hell Joe Lieberman never loses and opportunity to break with the admin and he thinks this was a necessary outcome.
Hum!
In-teresting.

McChrystal should be a man about it and resign

if he hasn't already.
He ran his fat yap off about his Commander in Chief like he was George McClellan or some damn thing and he has to pay the same price.
Otherwise, it validates disrespect for all duly constituted authority from within the ranks of an army at war. McChrystal's barber wouldn't be allowed to mock his Commanding Officer's bald spot to a reporter from "Buzzcut" magazine nor would the General's bookblack be allowed similar liberties with "The Shoeshine Gazette".
The General stepped over the line, a Commander in Chief may put up with this shit from a winning General but from an officer presiding over an unpopular war with indifferent support from the American people, it is an intolerable outburst.
Harry Truman put up with a lot of prima donna behavior from Douglas MacArthur, til Mac's military genius ran dry and he started writing freeperish letters to the Republican Speaker of the US House.
Dunno what is gonna happen here, we will soon know...I merely make my own feelings plain, it is worth noting that George S. Patton that freeper wet dream ran his pie hole in all kinds of hair-raising ways but he never once let slip a derogatory word about FDR.
He knew better than that.
McChrystal if he resigns will do fine, the tea baggers will throw him a nice profitable pity party from sea to shining sea, he will hardly do without lavish rations.