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January 19, 2010
Cliff Clavin on the State of The Democrat Party
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at January 19, 2010 6:48 AM
John Ratzenberger --- not the Pope --- made an impassioned speech in favor of Scott Brown the other day, in which he spoke some harsh truths.
This isn't the Democratic Party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock -- I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut-butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.
He may be a B-List celebrity, but he's making sense here.
The Democrat Party, if it ever was a working man's party, certainly isn't any more. They make a few rhetorical feints in the direction of "working families," but, invariably, their policies leave real working families worse off. They have become, simply, the party of big government. And the last time I looked, small business owners and working families were getting hammered by the recession... while Tim Geithner's buddies at Goldman Sachs were making out like bandits, thanks to deficit-funded bailouts.
There's a reason Scott Brown shakes hands outside Fenway Park, and his rallies are filled with middle class working people, while Martha Coakly surrounds herself with fatcat lobbyists, Democrat pols, and union goons.
