We have a new resident in New Hampshire. Fresh from his sound whipping in Massachusetts by Elizabeth Warren, he has decided he can't bear to be away from the expense lunches and billionaire donors and has come to New Hampshire. Calling his vacation home his long term ownership in the state, he has packed his carpetbag and come looking for his Golden Ticket to Washington.
Patently predictable is his effort to portray himself as "one of us". We already have fond memories of him in his truck from the campaign over the state line. Now he is saturating the airwaves in an ad that explains how his Mom and Dad are good old local folk, and he loves this state - which he needs to give him next job. So far - all very predictable. He has to make himself look like one of us.
Less predictable however is that he has hitched his star to bashing Obamacare. His latest ad, even at the first viewing, has one blatant lie and one blatant mislead. Give me time - when I see it again I will spot more.
The mislead is the "correct" statement that 10 of 26 NH hospitals are not available under the state program at the moment (with only Anthem as the insurance provider). It is misleading however because four more insurers have announced they are coming into our program in the Fall -Harvard Pilgrim, Minuteman Health, Assurant Health, and Maine Community Health. But do you think he mentions that in his bloody ad? - Nooooooooooooooooooo!
The lie is that Jean Shaheen was the "deciding vote" in the votes for the Affordable Care Act. If I recall correctly, 60 senators voted for the act. Unless Senator Shaheen had 11 votes, she couldn't have been the deciding vote!
I have news for Scott Brown - The Affordable Care Act is working. It isn't perfect. But it is huge leap forward from having patients bleeding from their nipples into their shirts from a tumor, then being denied by her insurance company because it wasn't an emergency.
So Scott Brown can't count, can't read a newspaper to figure out what is happening in the Fall and plonks his carpetbag down where it suits him. When he gets beaten in the Fall, I pity the next state he fixes his eye on