The Aristocrats!

The Senator-elect with an impertinent demeanor has a wife with a curious hand. Gail Huff, Scott Brown’s wife and WCVB Boston reporter is also talented in “slipping a mickey“, naturalist swimming and liberating tubes of lotion as seen in this Digney Fignus video from 1982:

Americans are fascinated with celebrity, how do you think Obama actually got elected right? Which means the Brown family is the perfect fit for the times right now. With a daughter on American Idol (Ayla Brown) and another an award-winning equestrian (Arianna Brown), the Brown family have all the non-political elements to keep an American audience captivated in political theater where facts, values and issues are overrated and shock value alone keeps your name in the headlines.

“Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
~ John Adams quotes (American 2nd US President (1797-1801), 1735-1826)

Dems & Coakley are on Vacation While Brown Takes it in Mass.

Nothing in politics is certain as Hillary Clinton can attest to that, so when you have a candidate UTB’d* by liberal commentators before the election results are in, you know they’ve failed miserably: “from December 19th when Coakley had a 20 point lead, and then January 5th when her lead was cut in half… Coakley was ‘literally on vacation.'” (Nora O’Donnell of MSNBC)

Sen.-elect Scott Brown takes the interim election in Massachusetts to fill the late Senator Kennedy’s seat until 2012. Brown will be the first Republican senator from Massachusetts in 30 years which is a much bigger blow to an opposing party’s politics than when Air Force Capt. and Democrat, Bill Owens defeated businessman Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate, in upstate NY.

What the Republicans understand well and the Democrats continue to fail historically at, is if you compromise your political positions as Coakley (another Mass. politician, John Kerry is infamous for being associated with flip flopping as well) had done on the abortion and capital punishment issues, then you’ll lose resoundingly regardless of political history in the voting district.

Ted Kennedy just rolled over in his grave as this result now means major complications for any national healthcare reform. Which really makes the entire DNC look even more pathetic than ever. John Stewart says it well when discussing the death of the healthcare bill:

And the reason it will die … [pauses for effect] … Let’s continue … The reason it will die is because if Coakley loses, Democrats will only then have an eighteen-vote majority in the Senate. Which is more than George W. Bush ever had in the Senate, when he did whatever the f*** he wanted to do! In fact, the Democrats have a greater majority than the Republicans have had since 1923! But for Democrats, apparently a majority of 100 is … sixty.

“”What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system”
~ Ted Kennedy

Miles Davis – Blue Haze (right-click to download)
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*UTB – is an acronym for the phrase “Under the Bus”. It’s pronounced as it’s own word (uHt-be) much like such sonar, (created from sound navigation and ranging).

The Financial Bridge to Recovery Doesn’t Include Non-Bankers

On the news that the large wall street banks are set to make record payouts again this year, nearly 18 months after the financial meltdown, most people might have a knee jerk reaction of disgust. Alas, no. We need these captains of industry to keep our engines of capitalism running right!?! Right?

Yeah, right into the ground…

With all this talk of change, new regulation and transparency, the success of these banks has not come as a result of any of these factors so the questions continue to be asked. Why did we even bail out the banks if they recovered so quickly, yet main street is still struggling to right their own ships?

Frank Rich has an excellent piece on the “Weapons of Financial Destruction” which are still in place today, and the same result could very well happen again in the near future.

The economy is not all doom and gloom as John Stewart points out:

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JS is right, there aren’t really many songs about banks, but Henry Rollins writes a pretty good one from the view point of the Banker themselves:
Henry Rollins – Liar
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