spoiled baby Senator refuses to shake potential opponent's hand in parade

[karynnj]

http://bluemassgroup.com/2011/05/scott-brown-keepin-it-classy/

This was the Newton Memorial parade. Brown had to know that Warren Setti would be there - he's the Mayor and, if he is the nominee, the only real combat veteran in the race. It seems the self styled people’s Senator thinks he’s too good to even exchange handshakes with a possible opponent.

[Mass]

1. He also has an editorial explaining it is Obama's fault he cant vote for the Ryan plan.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55477.html#ixzz1NAhxNQrR

Why I don't back Paul Ryan's Medicare plan

Second, Medicare has already taken significant cuts to help pay for Obama’s health care plan. The president and Congress cut a half trillion dollars to the private side of Medicare — meaning seniors are at risk of losing their Medicare Advantage coverage.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55477.html#ixzz1NBFIfrcf

...

[karynnj]

3. Not even logical

Not to mention that the bulk of the cuts were to eliminate the very fraud that he refers to as needing to be removed. (In addition, it does reduce excess payments to the private medicare advantage insures, who have received far more than the cost within the public Medicare segment.)

It seems like he is just throwing sand around to try to disguise that he has never had a coherent policy based position on this.

Not to mention, if jobs is his focus, why does he never seem to be at the open Small Business hearings? I scanned most of the ones this year, and no Scott Brown. In his case, it is not like he has huge committee responsibilities.

[Mass]

4. He ran yesterday for a medical event in Boston and was interviewed at some point

It was painful to hear him speak as he was even less coherent than usually.

It seems May has been a particularly bad month for him (Osama's photo, the Ryan plan, and now the Newton event). For him who is used to the undying love of our media, it must have been quite a shock.

[karynnj]

7. Has he always been this incoherent?

I was scanning some of his committees to get a better idea of how he is out of the spot light. From the few segments I've found, he seems to read his questions quickly in a monotone looking down in a very soft voice. Here's an example from the Homeland Security committee - he is at about 52 minutes. http://www.senate.gov/fplayers/I2009/urlPlayer.cfm?fn=govtaff051911&st=1035&dur=7380 (Joe Lieberman following him actually seems engaged, normal and personable in comparison.

[Blaukraut]

5. Other than the obligatory 'tort-reform'...

(What is it with republicans and tort reform anyway?) Brown's other suggestions on how to fix Medicare sound like they came straight from President Obama's plan. Which Brown is the real one? The 'I'll vote for Ryan's budget' one, or the one who basically endorses Obama's Medicare fix?

[Luftmensch067]

2. Thanks for the link!

Wow, that looked completely involuntary on Brown's part -- he must have known in the instant he did it that it was a dumb thing to do, but that was a move straight from the real guy hidden under the glitz. Love Setti's reaction!

[karynnj]

6. I watched it a couple of times - trying to figure out if there could be a

different interpretation. However, he did see Warren and he had to know who Warren was. If he did NOT know who Warrren is, the normal politician thing would be to reflexively shake all hands extended in such a small crowd.

Setti Warren's response is perfect - a bit of surprise and then a laugh. Also cool, that after appearing non stop in his Barn coat, Brown is in the expensive suit and Warren has a more real jacket than the barncoat.

[karynnj]

8. The BH is whining that he is not getting a fair shake

On this - because what really happened was Warren asked him to meet with teh Newton vets he walked with and Brown declined. No handshake offer was involved.

and on the Ryan issue - they are trying to make a fake BG internet only quote appear to be why he seems to have waffled.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/2011_0524brown_i_just_want_a_fair_shake_globe_wbz_blunders_bite_senator/srvc=home&position=recent

My view, both fail.

The fact is that he waffled on Ryan, but settled against it. He will be hurt by the former and likely helped by the latter. On the parade, can you imagine what would be said if this were a Republican mayor and Senator Kerry? (Not to mention, would Kerry decline to meet with vets less than a minute away?)

[Luftmensch067]

9. Personally, I think it's worse

that he declined to talk to the vets!

[karynnj]

10. Same here - especially if you rewatch it knowing that is what happened

Brown went out of his way to ask to match in this parade - although he asked just 3 days in advance leading the city to have to explain that it was too late to publicize that the Senator was coming. He walked WITH those vets - associating with their status. Yet declined to spend less than 5 minutes or so that would have meant so much to some? From our own experience, we know how much that means.

The funny thing is that any of those vets reading this now know the Senator brushed them off AND he did so because he thought saying he did that was better than people thinking he brushed off the Mayor. Not the people's Senator and not the Vet's Senator.