Someone has to hold politicians accountable to some reality-based standard. If the press won’t do it, even by quoting their own reporting, at least there is the BMG Twitter feed:
@ScottBrownMA says Dems “voted with him” 0% of the time. http://bmg.ma/bHofr9 FALSE: http://bmg.ma/9PCVyL Come on, Scott. #masen #mapoli
Which, expanded from 140 characters into the English language, means that estimable Globe reporter Matt Viser, long may he flourish, quoted Brown today as follows:
Brown also criticized Democrats for not being more willing to work with him. “Since I’ve been down there, I’ve been reaching across the aisle,” he said, when asked about President Obama’s call for bipartisanship. “I’ve had many meetings with the president and the majority party, trying to work across party lines to get things done. I’ve voted with them probably about 29, 30 percent of the time. They’ve voted with me zero. So it’s a two-way street.”
Ha ha ha Senator 41, he of the 96 percent partisan MA voting record. On 8 March, the very same Matt Viser reported: “Kerry, Brown on same page on jobs amendment:”
The amendment failed, but the precedent should not go unnoticed: US Senator John Kerry joined onto a proposal that was being pushed by his new Republican colleague, US Senator Scott Brown.
Friends don’t let friends live in a surreality-based world, and reporters need to help politicians who fall into spin cycles of this magnitude, not enable them.
