“Shame on Massachusetts” via Ames, Iowa

It can be an interesting past time to attempt to understand the mind/thought process of liberals. Opening the Opinion section of The Tribune today gave me the occasion to see the current thinking of one such liberal.

As I am not certain how many Iowans will have the opportunity to read a letter such as this one by Dan Douglas, I will post it here.

Perhaps there are Iowans who are feeling “shamed” by electing someone like Scott Brown to replace “one of the greatest legislators in our nation’s history…”

For the record, I am not ashamed and my conservative brain is very pleased that “so-called independents voters” had the intelligence to vote for Scott Brown.

Read on:

Shame on Massachusetts

The people of Massachusetts should be ashamed. On Tuesday they gave a metaphorical slap in the face to one of the greatest legislators in our nation’s history, an advocate for the poor and disadvantaged, and replaced him with a man who will go to Washington and do nothing but mindlessly cast negative votes on all bills proposed by the Democratic majority or the President and jeopardize final passage of the hard-won health insurance reform bill.

This should serve as a lesson to all of us. If you want a legislator who will do nothing but sit on his or her hands and obstruct progress, vote for a Republican.

If you want someone whose only policy is to vote against any bill presented by a Democrat, vote for a Republican.

If you want negativity to return us to the deregulation of the financial industry that got us into this economic mess in the first place, vote for a Republican.

If you want someone whose negative mantra of lowering taxes and cutting government spending gave us crumbling highways and collapsing bridges, vote for a Republican.

If you want a Congress that will take us back to the negative isolationism of the previous eight years, vote for a Republican.

The so-called independent voters of Massachusetts have a lot to answer for.

Dan Douglas

Ames