Dumb Idea: Put the Guys Who Caused the Problem in Charge
Some big news coming out of MA: looks like Scott Brown worked as a real estate attorney and title agent for the parent company of a company named LPS, which happened to be one of the very worst offenders in the foreclosure fraud industry (so bad that one of their subsidiaries was featured on a 60 Minutes profile of mortgage fraud practices). And he did this during the peak of the housing bubble and all the mortgage fraud that was occurring in those years. We don't know exactly what Scott Brown did for the company in those years, but with the loose morality of the company he worked for it would be interesting to depose him and find out what he knows.
Now at least Scott Brown, who shares many of his main consultants and advisers and donors with his close friend Mitt Romney, wasn't the CEO of one of these companies that pillaged through the American economy like Genghis Khan on a bender the way Romney was. But Brown is exactly like Romney in this way: they are both arguing that voters ought to put in charge of government the same people who worked for the companies that created our economic problems.
There are way too many politicians who carry water for wealthy and powerful corporations that have damaged our economy -- that is bad enough. But to make the argument, as Romney has repeatedly done in terms of his Bain Capital experience, that working for these kinds of companies is what gives you the experience you need to fix the economy? I'd say the only way that makes any sense at all is if you are claiming a Road to Damascus type of conversion experience where you have fallen on your knees and realized that your values were warped and you needed to completely change your life. I haven't noticed any of that going with either Brown or Romney.
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