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Time for a quick reality check on state Senator Scott "$#%@ you, kids" Brown. The evidence argues he is a George W. Bush Republican; he should be honest about it. Stand up, sir, stand up!
Just like George Bush, he claims to be a compassionate centrist but is in fact a ferociously partisan Republican. "I have a history of working as an independent thinker and voter having over 6,000 votes and working across Party lines ..." he told WGBH's Emily Rooney in 2009 (1'40" in this clip). Rooney swallowed the claim in the interview, but the Coakley campaign checked the facts and found that Brown has voted with the Republican leadership 96 percent of the time. Last week, true to form, he announced that if elected he will be the "41st Senator".
He believes, just like Dick Cheney, that torture is a fine way to gather information, and thinks it makes us stronger to ditch the rule of law and principle of checks-and-balances for anyone the government claims is a terrorist. Indeed, interestingly, he appears to have an almost unlimited faith in the effectiveness of government programs and his fellow government workers in the area of national security.
Finally, he has put political expediency ahead of stated principles. In the same interview with Rooney, he said he opposed health care reform primarily because it contained a public option, and also because it would increase costs. The public option has now, of course, been dropped as a practical matter and the Congressional Budget Office says the Senate plan will reduce premiums 14-20 percent for individuals who currently buy insurance. But Brown still opposes it just ... because.
