re: #208 Killgore Trout

I thought the Tea Partiers were claiming that Brown’s election was blowback against Obama’s radical socialist agenda, now he’s voting for it. I just checked the Hot Air thread and they don’t seem very upset about it. Oh, well. I’d love to see the Republicans participate in solving the country’s problems but I though more people would be upset. Maybe we can get healthcare reform passed after all.

The Tea Party people (and some non-Tea Party people) seized on the blowback theory of Scott Brown like it was a bottle of Aquafina and they’d been in the desert for forty years. It proved the American people hated Obama, it proved that no one wanted healthcare, it proved Fermat’s Last Theorem…a whole lot of stuff.

I suspect that many of the TP people didn’t know Scott Brown from a hole in the ground, they were just high on the idea of getting a Republican into Teddy Kennedy’s seat. Which, all things considered, was probably a better approach than the NY-23 disaster, where they seized on an ideologically suitable candidate that no one wanted.

Now we find out what Brown does. Hopefully, a good job.