Arkady's Thoughts

Scott Brown, Republican extraordinaire can make political history and shake 200 years of politics to their core.  He can overnight transform his name and become truly the man of the people immortalized as the most selfless, thoughtful and generous man in political history.   He can do all this literally in one day, by dropping out and supporting independent candidate Joe Kennedy!  Like Scott Brown said, this is the people's seat and with the most selfless gesture he can change everything by handing the race to a tea party activist Joe Kennedy.  With Joe's 3-5% support coming from Massachusetts anti-war progressives and small government aficionados Brown's voters and money will give Kennedy enough votes to beat Coakley.   Brown will be able to drive a stake through the two party system as the independent and free thinking man he claims to be and dismantle the Democratic establishment in one swoop.  Overnight the media p...

Below is a video of a very comfortable Joe Kennedy chatting it up with Neil Cavuto.  We should applaud for Fox News and Cavuto in providing an outlet for someone like Joe to speak his mind  while exposing Joe's positions and character.  Considering that our local "conservative" talk radio station WTKK has become Scott Brown's personal podium, this seems only fair.  In general, third party candidates will always be shunned and kicked to the side because the media has recognized a fact that escapes a lot of Americans.  A fact that is paramount to understand if we are to ever escape the shackles of two parties engaged in the most elaborate kabuki dance known to man.  The dance of course attempts to paint the Republicans as the conservative opposition party to the big government spending Democrats.  Hogwash.  Republicans only pretend to be conservatives when they are the minority party, give them a chance to spend and they will put the Democrats to s...

According to the best pollster on the net this race has done the impossible, tightened to a point where a Republican could actually win this.  Coakley (D) is at 49%, Brown (R) is at 47%, Kennedy (I) is at 3% and 2% are still undecided.   This represents an 8% jump for Brown in what appears to be undecided voters breaking for the Republican.  At this point a ripple is spreading through the internet and the country as a whole, expect in a few hours engines firing on all cylinders from the two major parties.  Conservative websites will be all over themselves declaring this race a done deal while prepping for the next Reagan revolution and liberals will be contemplating how to take their own lives in the fastest and most efficient manner.  Sadly another group will be watching idly by, lacking representation and acknowledgment.  This group understands that a Brown victory accomplishes exactly nothing as they watch the two party system dismantl...

It was sometime yesterday in the evening shortly after I finished watching the debate that I get a call from my friends over at PatriotRoom.  Now our friendship has been strained slightly due to their, what I would call, acolyte-like following of Scott Brown.  Still, Bill and Clyde are two damn fine patriots and unlike the rest of the Republican Blogosphere are willing to listen to an opposing view point.  The call was not them conceding how wrong they were about Scott Brown or finally admitting that they are supporting a big government spending RINO, no it was to ambush me!  Writing in the privacy of my own home is easy, I get to say any asinine thing I wish and almost never deal with the aftermath.  Having two conservatives breathing down your neck as you bash the first Republican possibility coming out of Massachusetts is difficult.  Still, it was a slightly warmer reception than over at FreeRepublic.  For your enjoyment, the audio is below...

Today Scott Brown raised over one million dollars, an impressive feat for a Massachusetts Republican.  Of course one's amazement dissipates upon discovery of Brown's legislative record.  Brown not only wrote and supported socialized medicine in Massachusetts, but spoke out against ending the income tax while supporting every fee hike under the Romney administration.  But if you have been reading this blog for any extended period of time you already knew that!  Today we are going to get philosophical, because as my latest piece suggests about the danger of voting for Brown - people DO NOT GET IT. Now most of Brown's support stems from him being their perceived 41st vote to stop ObamaCare and impulsively this may sound like a good idea.  However ObamaCare will most likely get accepted by Pelosi as is and it will be on Obama's desk before you can say RINO.  Another alternative, Democrats will simply stall for an extra week or so and cram some version of...

Are you positively giddy over the prospect of Scott Brown winning in the upcoming Massachusetts special election? Are you currently supporting Scott Brown through time, money or both? Do you believe that limited government policy over the past thirty years failed, leading us to ever growing government? Are you partial to the Tea Party movement? If you have answered yes to all these questions then allow me to prove to you that your support for Scott Brown is a contradiction to everything you believe in and will hurt this country more than any rubber stamp liberal. Living in Massachusetts the excitement over a Republican taking the mysterious Kennedy seat has generated what appears to be a political frenzy last witnessed only during the Obama campaign. Many advocates of small government and individualism have thrown their support to Brown including prominent talk show hosts like Michael Graham and Jay Severin, multiple prominent conservative websites like HotAir, RedState and PatriotR...

There was a story I covered one year ago ago where several lawmakers met to hear a proposal of an outright 401K takeover modeled after the Argentine policy.  At the time it seemed like a far fetched notion, but BusinessWeek ran a story hinting that the threat still exists.  Now the story itself does not outright suggest a takeover, but the following should give you pause. The U.S. Treasury and Labor Departments will ask for public comment as soon as next week on ways to promote the conversion of 401(k) savings and Individual Retirement Accounts into annuities or other steady payment streams, according to Assistant Labor Secretary Phyllis C. Borzi and Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary Mark Iwry, who are spearheading the effort. So as of now the idea is to gently inquire as to whether people would be interested in converting their existing accounts into steady revenue streams.  For laymen this simply means investing into the treasury market and this shou...