What is to be done?


I read in today’s Globe a long review of allthe political options facing Governor Romney this year and in the years tocome. They include a high level cabinet post in the Bush Admin if the Presidentis re-elected, a presidential campaign in 2008, and as predicted by this blog a run for John Kerry’s vacant senate seat next year.
Nowhere in this exhaustive epistle was the possibility of Mitt simply serving as Governorin an honest and straight forward fashion addressed. The reason for that seems simple, Decaf wants out and it is mere matter of what opportunities he either creates or receives that’ll send him out the door.
The Kolobian Viceroy in short, is getting ready to leave.
His parting insult to us, the sublime governing style of Kerry Healey, dubbed by my local GOP as “Swift-lite”.
It is an abiding notion of this blog that Massachusetts has been grossly misgoverned nigh these past fourteen years.
The cost of living keeps rising, forests are being denuded to create tacky duplexes for debt ridden knowledge workers, the bureaucracy is thick with knaves and laggards.
We have communities outside metropolitan Boston that are rapidly degenerating into appalling wastelands pure and simple.
Where once the Bay State stood proud and alone, we are now a commonwealth wracked with loud and reflexive self loathing.
We are short on leadership and flush with demagogues and rampant tricksters.
And what is worse, we’ve had four no FIVE governors in fourteen years each a bigger fool than the last.
We started off with a defeated presidential candidate, moved on to a hopeless dilettante, then a sort of bankrupt blustery coward, then a corrupt ineptoid,thence to the incumbent, a worthless ambitious sociopath.
The problems faced by the state pile ever higher and we still content ourselves with playing musical chairs in the corner office.
Well, The Chimes at Midnight stands athwart the whole process and howls “STOP!”
Restoring the Commonwealth requires a revival of continuity of governance…we needless ambition from our governors and more hard work.
I realized nothing can be done over the short term, Romney can resign to run for the senate or take Tom Ridge’s job sans let or hindrance.
However I do think it is time toforce 2006’s gubernatorial candidates to publicly pledge to serve out their terms and not to seek higher office whilst still under oath to the Commonwealth.
This notion of the governorship being a way station on the path to glory must come to an end.
As for Kerry Healey, it seems inevitable that a person as ill prepared as she simply must become acting governor.
It has become, ghod help us, a local tradition
Butwe can damn sure put and end to the whole rotten process of short time governors once and for all-pressure must be put on ALL likely aspirants in 2006.
And I mean all of them.