Irresponsibility is one of the perks of being in the minority. You don't have to pass anything or govern. But there are limits. If you're for tax cuts and you're against cutting spending on Medicare and defense, you shouldn't be able to call yourself a deficit hawk. And if your reaction to the biggest financial crisis and the deepest recession since the Great Depression was to refuse to assist the rescue efforts, you shouldn't be taken seriously as a policy thinker.
Brown is entirely in tune with his future Republican colleagues. He has railed against the proposed $500 billion cuts in Medicare and opposes the proposed tax on banks. In this op-ed, he says that the stimulus has failed to create a single job, rages about the rising debt, and advocates an across-the-board tax cut while offering no specifics on how to reduce the debt.
Nothing constructive, nothing coherent, nothing concrete, and no support for anything President Obama has done or plans to do. Brown will fit right in.
Thought provoking article. I've wondered the same thing. It's telling that they can call congressional offices and ask for specifics on what the officials would like to do and get nothing.