Republican Senator Brown suggests plane attack pilot's big government frustrations were similar to those of the voters who elected him

In a Fox News interview a few days ago, newly-elected Republican Senator Scott Brown from Massachusetts was asked about the recent plane attack on a building that housed IRS offices in Austin, Texas. Senator Brown quickly associated the plane attack to the kind of voter dissatisfaction from which he was elected. 

 Brown said his support came from those voters who, like the Austin pilot, are enormously disturbed by the size of government and higher taxes. He continued that they voiced their frustration by voting against the "establishment" candidate Martha Coakley and electing him. 

Senator Brown may not recall that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed in 2009 cut $ 237 Billion in taxes for all Americans making $250,000 or less per year, when he highlighted voter concerns for higher taxes in the interview.

In the Austin plane attack Joseph Stack conveyed his aggravation by crashing his plane into an IRS building. Many are pointing to Brown's comments to show that he not ready for prime time, since only recently serving as back-bench state senator.

Throughout the special election campaign Brown had been very critical of the Obama administration's response to the underwear bomber.  Brown accused the administration of not reacting quickly enough and being too soft on terrorism.  Now others are similarly accusing Brown of being soft on terrorists as it relates to the Austin plane attack.

In a related story Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told a crowd at CPAC on Saturday that he could "empathize" with the suicide bomber who last week attacked an IRS office in Austin, and encouraged his listeners to "implode" other IRS offices, according to a staffer from Media Matters covering the event.

See the interview here:

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