In Horrible Gaffe, Scott Brown Straightforwardly Explains Conservative Philosophy

[applegrove]

In Horrible Gaffe, Scott Brown Straightforwardly Explains Conservative Philosophy

by Paul Waldman at the American Prospect

http://prospect.org/article/horrible-gaffe-scott-brown-straightforwardly-explains-conservative-philosophy

"SNIP........................

Former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, who is now hoping to return to the Senate from New Hampshire, got caught by the busy little candidate trackers at the Democratic group American Bridge saying what everyone will now acknowledge is a "gaffe" when he said, in response to a question about what he would do to create jobs: "Here's the thing, folks say, what are you going to do to create jobs? I am not going to create one job, it is not my job to create jobs. It's yours. My job is to make sure that government stays out of your way so that you can actually grow and expand." No doubt someone's preparing an ad right now based on the quote:

......

It may have been just a momentary slip of the tongue, maybe because he's gotten used to talking to audiences full of business owners, but when Brown talked about the government getting "out of your way so that you can actually grow and expand," you would have thought he was addressing the Chamber of Commerce. But from the video, this looks like an ordinary town meeting, the audience made up in large part of retirees, who probably aren't looking to "grow and expand."

This too is a longstanding Republican problem; as I've written about before: They've put business owners at the top of their moral hierarchy for so long that they've all but forgotten that most Americans are not actually entrepreneurs whose greatest concern is the top marginal tax rate. It just so happens that the people who can get immediate help from Republican policies are the businesspeople who would benefit in the short run from a tax break or a regulation that disappears. But other people—the kind who work for someone else and would like it if the government actually took affirmative steps to help them—are going to listen to arguments aimed at their bosses and shake their heads.

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[montanacowboy]

1. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

from the guy who still isn't sure what state he is running in

what a loser

[PatSeg]

29. Yes, yes he does

Its the "Live Free and Die" state!

People in New Hampshire just love when you screw up their motto!!!!

[MADem]

2. I'll bet that jerk Kelly Ayotte wishes she never did that ad (never mind officiated at his

daughter's wedding--really).


She looks miserable, like she's sitting on a hot poker...."Yer gunna do this commercial, see....SEE? Or ya don't git any more campaign cash....see...SEE? Ya just read the words exactly as ya see 'em on the cue card, get it? Do as you're told if you want that Koch dough!!"

[PatSeg]

30. "She looks miserable,

like she's sitting on a hot poker" - That's pretty much how she always looks.

[MADem]

31. Ha ha ha! nt

[PatSeg]

32. Its usually because

John McCain or Lindsay Graham are pulling that string on the back of her neck. Worst ventriloquist dummy EVER!

[LiberalAndProud]

3. That wasn't a gaffe.

You knew that, right?

[Jim Lane]

4. It fits Michael Kinsley's definition of a gaffe.

"A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say."

Brown committed a gaffe by revealing the truth about the right-wing attitude toward the problems of the unemployed and underemployed.

[Mopar151]

5. This bum is the gift that keeps on givin'.....

Kinda like a social disease.

[Art_from_Ark]

19. Or the gaffe that keeps on giving

[PatrynXX]

6. and as he's driving

or whoever is driving him and the bridge goes out. oops did I forget to create jobs to fix that.

or the normal one. driving down the road and your axil's are somewhere behind you in a pothole

[hifiguy]

7. The only thing in history that has ever "created jobs"

(Gads, I fucking hate that phrase) is demand from masses who have money in their pockets to buy things they want. People who are broke or barely scraping by - i.e., the vast majority of citizens in this dessicating republic - create zero demand because they have no disposable income.

[nomorenomore08]

18. Hence why raising the minimum wage is generally *good* for the economy. n/t

[lark]

8. His personal job definition:

Create more wealth for the wealthy so they can give me money and I can stay in power.

[geretogo]

9. Wrong Scott . It's government's job to promote job production by promoting pro American trade

policies , tax policies , and other incentives to grow jobs in the U.S , not China .
Isn't 34 years of government hands off Reaganomics with all the poverty and broken homes ,
debt , and out sourcing proof enough . Your an idiot Scott .

[whathehell]

26. Exactly...

Glad Scott was stupid enough to expose bankrupt GOP "policies".

[ColesCountyDem]

10. Same thing Sen. Turkey Neck says. n/t

[Dont call me Shirley]

11. We're growing and expanding alright, Scott; our waistlines! Because of GOP

promotion of unhealthy foods. And lack of subsidies for healthy foods.

Monopolies=less jobs.

Which part of that Scotty do you not get?

[A Simple Game]

12. Oh suck it up New Hampshire, what's the matter, Massachusetts rejects aren't good enough for you?

That's the way I would bill him. Just because Massachusetts thought they deserved better, why should you? It's not like New Hampshire can raise anyone good enough for the job.

[JEB]

13. Note to Repukes: Trickle down is bullshit scam.

Only the dumbest rocks still are buying that load. I guess it's too much work to come up with a new scam.

[DirkGently]

14. They've done so well by hinting around at their

ludicrously simplistic rationale that the only way to accomplish anything at all is by giving money to rich people that they sometimes run out of euphemisms. Or just plain elect someone who doesn't realize that the proper rhetoric is only ALMOST 100% blatant.

Old school oligarchs like Poppy Bush knew they had to at least ensconce their power mongering with a nod toward doing things that made some kind of actual sense. Or work in some way.

But they've raised an entire generation of conservative true believers that actually don't understand how little basis there is for any of this.

They're kind of like religious fundamentalists that don't understand that mythology without some kind of metaphorical wiggle room is just plain absurd.

Also, Scott Brown seems kind of stupid.

[applegrove]

15. You nailed it.

[baldguy]

16. He's forgotten that "Bread & Circuses" includes bread...

[DirkGently]

23. They make up for it in extra clowns?

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. lol. couldmake a good campaign ad for opponent

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

20. "No doubt someone's preparing an ad right now based on the quote"

If they're not, they should be. Rarely do the election gods give such a generous gift.

[tooeyeten]

21. Business owners?

Whoa! There is a huge difference between the family run dry cleaner, the local plumbers, etc than the guys who are Wal-Mart, Koch Industries, or Big Oil, big pharma,

"They've put business owners at the top of their moral hierarchy...."

The GOP doesn't give spit for the business owner in the 99%!!

[Helen Borg]

22. My job is not to do my job

[ChiciB1]

24. But Isn't He Ahead In The Polls?? n/t

[Orsino]

25. In getting it so utterly wrong, he gets it right.

Wish he would run with the perfectly correct notion that we are the job creators, and champion policy that invests in us rather than in the already-wealthy.

But he won't. Every word out of his mouth is just another excuse for doing nothing, which is what he'll do if elected.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

27. Republicans act like there are only two types out there....

Those who own there own business and idiots who haven't woken up yet to realize they can own their own business.

Workers expecting to be paid for their labor amounts to private sector welfare.

[Paper Roses]

28. OOps, his bad..... n/t

[yortsed snacilbuper]

33. Scott Brown Begs David Koch For Money

[redruddyred]

34. cos the wealth will... trickle down.

working hard to get ms shaheen re-elected here in nh, and it's terribly depressing how underfunded we are. what with gas, homecare bills (someone has a sick relative), my boss and I are *paying* to do this work. you read that right.

there's a reason these assclowns win even tho their policies only benefit the select few.

[radiclib]

35. This is not a "gaffe", nor is it news

It's simply stated conservative philosophy. Why should it surprise anyone? Scotty's not being disingenuous for once.