Terrific piece.
As someone who lives and works in Boston/Cambridge I can tell you, the libs simply DO NOT CARE about this stuff.
The moderates and independents, on the other hand, well, their mileage varies, but I don’t know if they can unseat him. People who bitch about Scott Brown have to understand we’re never going to go from Kerry to Reagan, we have to have someone who’s a centrist-right-leaner first. If we run some guns-a-balzin’ conservative, as much as I’d like that, he ain’t gonna win, and we’ll be stuck with this doofus again.
How often should I check my mailbox?
Through the years I have worked for three companies headquartered there. One was founded and run by Harvard MBAs and ex state politicians, including Dukakis, and another by MIT professors. I was continuously amazed at what nice and very smart people they were but who seemed completely out to lunch politically. They seemed to always vote against their own best interest. They seemed to have an unspoken understanding about how to be "good people" and that governed how they voted.
It gave me new insight into the "inside the Beltway cocktail circuit" and how that often sets the tone for legislation rather than any true deliberation.
Those people, and I am talking specifically about the Democrat elite, think they know what is best for "the people" and they vote in a way to care for them and to control them, as "the people" obviously aren't capable of doing that for themselves.
They would also consider it absurd that the same rules should apply to them. They specifically exempt themselves from most of the laws they pass. What is a good idea for others simply does not apply in their haughty atmosphere. While claiming to tax the rich, as a way to tax the middle class, they set up myriad loopholes to exclude themselves from those taxes. There is a wide variety of trusts, foundations, etc., through which they shield their money from taxes.
Kerry bemoans companies sending manufacturing overseas while he buys a yacht from New Zealand, ignoring ship builders near him, and parks it next door to avoid the taxes on it. It is not that he can't pay the taxes, he easily can, it is that he thinks the taxes were never intended for people like him.