Rick Scott is running for the Senate against Bill Nelson. He recently released a commercial with the theme that we need a businessman to deal with all of the dysfunction in Washington. That’s hard to understand, because:
- Scott has been a politician, not a businessman, for the last eight years;
- The current dysfunction in Washington is purely the responsibility of his party, which controls the White House and Congress; and
- We elected a businessman in 2016 to make deals and drain the swamp. How’s that working out?
You could describe the commercial as a failure of imagination–the GOP always wants to play its greatest hits, even if they don’t make sense in today’s world. But really, what else can he say? Elect me so we can have a second big regressive tax cut? Elect me so we can take another run at depriving you of your health insurance? Elect me so I can enable my good friend Donnie Rotten to run a chaotic White House, offend all of our allies, and avoid impeachment?