This is why I can’t wait for more unfiltered Scott Brown in 2012. During is election kickoff media day he was quoted in the Globe with this whopper, emphasis mine:
Brown, who used a South Boston diner yesterday for a round of brief, 15-minute sit-down interviews with Massachusetts reporters, sought to paint himself as a bipartisan, moderate Republican.
He even seemed to leave the door open in the future to move away from his no-new-taxes pledge when he said was open to raising tax rates in an overhaul of the federal tax system.
“If you want to raise rates or do something as part of overall tax reform, I am all ears,’’ Brown said as he sipped a whipped-cream covered hot chocolate at Mul’s diner on West Broadway.
That seems to be a flip flop on his signing of Grover Norquist’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge(pdf), where he pledged to not raise taxes, eliminate deductions or even reduce deductions for that matter.
Scott Brown’s handlers to the rescue, you see, when Scott said that he was all ears in raising rates, what he really was saying is that he’s opposed to raising rates:
“Scott Brown is opposed to raising taxes,” spokeswoman Marcie Kinzel said in an email. “He knows that Washington is not a good steward of taxpayers dollars. Until Congress can show that it will manage taxpayers’ hard-earned money responsibly, he believes we’re better off stopping all tax increases and forcing Washington to do more with less.”
No fencing sitting here kids, now run along. Is there anything that Scott Brown actually stands for? I’m starting to doubt it.
ramuel-m-raagas says
wowed me tonight with her campaign’s full-color video-footering YouTube ad.
was the video I watched when the Liz ad came up underlining this Welcome Home Troops. This may be the first time ever an ad-buyer secured full-colored still-text footer ads for YouTube. Anyway, I have no money for Liz. I bought an Algebra book for a Christmas present.
JHM says
is “manage taxpayers’ hard-earned money responsibly.”
Like Senator Fratboy’s original “I am all ears (but no action)” there is a loophole here that could swallow a pick-up truck: the thing to do when you want to manage irresponsibly, obviously, is to muck about exclusively with taxpayers’ EASY-earned money. So, then: double or triple the rate on capital gains, and, ¡hey presto!, POTUS Romney will have a reasonable amount of leeway to prove the sterlin’ worth of a H*rv*rd Victory School M.B.A.
Happy days.