Friday, April 29, 2005

Weld for Something Part II

Oh geez, Bill Weld gives one little press conference down in New York hinting at new ambitions and not forty eight hour later Scot Lehigh is practically pissing himself with raw happiness. Oh yes, Scot can't wait for his hero the slovenly drunken bizarrely detached Bill Weld to bust a move in New York.

It is to be expected, William Weld has always had a strange mesmeric hold over Boston Columnists...the mere mention of his name causes everyone from Lehigh to Howie Carr to fall into a strange sentimental trance.
It is not hard to see why, with his mixture of liberal social views, leavened with a fetish for low taxes, Weld is the perfect embodiment of the columnist ideology. Truly Weld is the perfect candidate for a generation of op-ed hacks who crave both personal license and fiscal puritanism.
I of course, am having second thoughts about the whole mishaugas. I'm wondering if Weld is really serious about running for Governor/Senator in the Empire State? He has no money and few real props with New York voters...he is literally one moderate too many in a state GOP divided between George Pataki and Rudy Guiliani. I think Big Bill is biding himself up for some appointive federal sinecure, maybe that ambassadorship that eluded him in 1997.
Think about it, the current congress is a complete White House thrall-dom in every way, but their term potentially runs out in January 2007. So now is the time to make a pre-emptive move in New York Politics in order to induce Guiliani/Pataki to call in a favor from La Famiglia Arbusto and get Weld the Embassy in Jamaica or Trinidad-Tobago- really any place where the rum is cheap and his ex-wife is far away.
That is what I suspect is going on here, Bill wants a cushy Federal gig and is willing to make ambitious noises to get it.

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