During
his fight to win Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts, Scott Brown was
hailed as the Tea Party candidate. Now the newly elected junior senator is
under fire from the very groups that are credited with his victory.
Members
of the Tea Party are infuriated that Brown has helped Democrats pass several
key pieces of legislation. In February, he voted with
the majority party to pass an important jobs bill. And just last week, Brown's
vote gave Democrats the edge to
break a filibuster on financial reform legislation.
Shelby
Blakely the executive director of the media arm of the Tea Party Patriots is
livid; "His career as a senator of the people lasted slightly longer than
the shelf life of milk," she told The Boston Globe.
"The
general mood of the Tea Party is, 'We put you in, and we'll take you out in
2012.' This is not something we will forget," Blakely said.
MSNBC's
Keith Olbermann said, "Senator Brown is toast to the Tea Party and impact
on getting other favored candidates elected may be in serious question."
"If
the Tea Party crowd's mantra was fiscal responsibility, that's the first thing
if you gave them a list they say they're concerned about, why go after Senator
Brown about financial regulatory reform, which is also known, I believe, as
fiscal responsibility?" asked Olbermann.
The Wall Street Journal's
Thomas Frank joined the MSNBC host to help answer that question.
"They
aren't really about fiscal responsibility, right? Where were they during the
Bush administration when he was -- when the Bush people were running up these
colossal deficits?" wondered Frank.
"What
they're about is anti-government," he continued. "So, of course, they
don't like what Scott Brown did. Whenever you empower government to regulate
market participants, that's -- you're stripping away our valuable freedoms
every time you come down hard on poor Goldman Sachs," Frank joked. "A
lot of people thought he was a [Republican In Name Only] from day one...The conservative
movement has this sense of themselves as forever being played."
Watch Keith Olbermann and the Wall Street Journal's Thomas Frank talk about Senator Brown here:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann#37326132
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