{"id":10943,"date":"2010-01-21T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10943"},"modified":"2010-01-21T15:58:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T22:58:46","slug":"heckuva-job-brownie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10943\/heckuva-job-brownie\/","title":{"rendered":"Heckuva Job Brownie"},"content":{"rendered":"

I believe in change.<\/p>\n

I do not believe in politics as usual.<\/p>\n

Horse trading behind closed doors isn’t change.<\/p>\n

Has Scott Brown’s election defied the norm that all politics are local?<\/p>\n

Yup.<\/p>\n

Does Scott Brown’s victory represent change?<\/p>\n

Jury hasn’t even been seated.\u00a0 However, I suspect it may actually be the first green chute to all of this change business.<\/p>\n

I can honestly say that I was pleased with the results.\u00a0 Not because I am in alignment with his Republican cohorts, but because voters sent a message – not just locally, but nationally.<\/p>\n

Now I openly profess that I voted for Obama despite the Neo-Con rhetoric bombarding me at home.\u00a0 In my short few months living back home in Texas, my father has almost convinced me that our President’s name isn’t Barack Hussein Obama, but God Damn Obama.\u00a0 While he hasn’t quite branded me with the cast iron “liberal<\/strong>” prod on my backside, he has broadly casts his brush to paint me with the same blue color – “you and your liberal friends” … needless to say, perhaps I put a smile on my father’s face after admitting Brown’s victory was a good thing.<\/p>\n

I think I am more in alignment with the 51% of Massachusetts voters who identify with the Independent political affiliation … they are still in Massachusetts, let’s not kid ourselves – perhaps they’re not blue – maybe light blue.<\/p>\n

I’m happy with the results because I want change.\u00a0 I buy that health care reform is a priority, but the option(s) presented by Congress today represent neither change nor reform.\u00a0 Again health care reform is important.\u00a0 I personally agree it’s a priority, yet under our current economic turmoil, is it job number one?<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

In this morning’s Dallas Morning News<\/span> I read an interesting article that may share a common theme with Scott Brown’s victory defying the politics is local norm – maybe all real estate is NOT local.\u00a0 While it doesn’t come as any surprise to all of us – except perhaps Congress – jobs do play a fairly significant role in driving the housing market.\u00a0 In fact, when people are employed, they tend to purchase homes.<\/p>\n

Fascinating.<\/p>\n

According to the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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