On the promo circuit with a new bio LINK, Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts must be preparing for a 2012 presidential bid. His gooey, self-pitying tome describes a childhood of misery that included welfare, physical abuse by a number of his mother’s boyfriends or husbands, pedophilia and a short stint in the soft porn industry. Many additional details, like cocaine, Rick James and Studio 54, that would have been burdensome to the political hucksters who will manage his campaign, are disclosed in the book in order to give the erstwhile candidate plenty of time to generate bullspin.
The life Brown describes is worthy of page six in the National Enquirer and is as sleazily superficial as only American lives can get. Admittedly, a dose of narcissism is a necessary trait for those who lust after the White House. But the only CV that is more lurid than this one belongs to Sarah Palin.
John Boehner’s biography is hardly better than these, and is probably the source of his lachrymosity. He has good reason to burst into tears today, as his leadership was rebuffed by his own House members LINK, as well as sensible Democrats, who passed an amendment defunding the second jet engine to be built for the F-35–in Boehner’s home state of Ohio. Of the jobs to be lost as a result? Well, to quote the speaker, “So be it.”
