Teabaggers' media director calls Scott Brown's career "slightly longer than the shelf life of milk"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Scott Brown falls out of favor with Tea Party

By David Edwards
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 -- 11:08 am



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.

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," Shelby Blakely 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 took credit Monday for foreseeing the split. "The trouble that Senator Scott Brown faces right now could have been predicted and indeed was predicted on this news hour when he was elected: the inevitability that he would infuriate the Tea Party that helped get him elected," said Olbermann. "Senator Brown is toast to the Tea Party and impact on getting other favored candidates elected may be in serious question."

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0525/scott-brown-falls-favor-tea-party/

[Joanne98]

1. The teabaggers think they're soooo powerful. Delusions of grandeur!

[TommyO]

2. So, they're upset that he's representing the people of Massachusetts, and not them.

Brown knows who put him into office, and he knows that if he were a lock-step Repuke, he wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of being re-elected.

[bullwinkle428]

3. The teabaggers are a cruel mistress, indeed - eh, Scott?

:rofl:

[Mike Daniels]

4. Brown's opponent put up such a weak-ass effort I don't think he needed the baggers

Provided that he serves the whole state well enough he can probably tell the baggers to take a hike when he's up for re-election.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. He had virtually no competition.

Sad, but true.

[nichomachus]

6. Don't worry -- he's going to vote against DADT repeal

So, that will get him some brownie points with the hate crowd.

[Divine Discontent]

9. wouldn't suprise me at all, but, he may be trying to score all the points he can to get re-elected

in a general nov. ballot, because if he does, he probably won't ever be voted out with all the name recognition, 'trust', and seniority he'd gain in another term.

[gratuitous]

7. Well, that didn't last long, did it?

Nobody could have foreseen . . . :rofl:

Never mind.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Teabaggers' victory lap "slightly longer than the length of the track"

:rofl:

[JBoy]

10. Actually, his career will have exactly the shelf life of Kool Aid.

[EFerrari]

11. Suckers.

[Soylent Brice]

12. perfect response.

:thumbsup:

[Contrary1]

13. He's the crash-test dummy for all the Teabagger candidates...

Think about it. The Baggers are unhappy with the Repubs too. If elected, who are their candidates going to side with that will make them happy?