Whenever the going gets tough, a nervous “Captain Queeg” like quality infects Mitt Romney’s so called leadership. Faced with an accident that injured three students due to an unplowed sidewalk, Mitt fired the Secretary of Conservation and Recreation, Katherine Abbott. Yesterday the Herald discovered that the Governor shook down DCR for 45Gs to pay for a New England Patriots rally. Now the Globe has found out that Katherine Abbott allegedly refused to hire one of Mitt’s many defeated state legislature candidates, one Mary Connaughton. Did she incur Romney’s redoubtable wrath? Who knows? We do know that Pam DiBona, DCR’s chief of staff has been fired as of yesterday.
Can you hear the rattle of the two steel ball-bearings in Decaf’s sweaty shaky palm?
Of course the other hilarious aspect to this capering grotesque, is the notion that Abbott allegedly incurred The Viceregal displeasure by being on a retreat after the latest blizzard. Hell, all Katherine did was follow the dilettantish example set by her boss-whats the problem? Apparently, under the Romney-rules fleeing the state on the slightest pretext is an exclusive gubernatorial right.
And another thing, you can bet the next time the wreckage of “Team Reform 2004” comes around with a job application the appointed pay-triots in the bureaucracy will sit up and take notice! Such is the example set by our chilly puritanical reform minded so called Governor. Wasn’t he elected to put a stop to nonsense like this? Look at the lousy example Romney sets, firing cabinet members whose funds he has pilfered and trying to load up said department with some whiny loser. Talk about creating a culture of entitlement!
Really honestly the value of the governorship of the Commonwealth is degrading daily thanks to Mitt Romney.
He can’t do anything right his amateurism reeks like a dead mackerel. The State Legislature sets all priorities and can pretty much dispatch most of the Massachusett’s important business sans recourse ot the corner office. Meanwhile, Romney fusses, fumes, and seems to be good only for firing HIS FELLOW REPUBLICANS! Frankly the governorship has been systemically reduced to naught but a geographically serendipitous platform from which to seek the presidency.
Sick
Demented
Typical
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Monday, February 07, 2005
Item...
He is old, he is hated, he is feared...and he is running for re-election next year.
Dats da word on the street as of Friday night.
It comes as no surprise, he knows no other job and as long as his wits stay keen why leave?
Dats da word on the street as of Friday night.
It comes as no surprise, he knows no other job and as long as his wits stay keen why leave?
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Condi "speaks"...
Closemouthed Condi, the Sphinx of the Potomac, is now touring Europe assuring our allies that invading Iran is not “on the agenda at this point”. Love that passive-aggressive qualifier, “at this point” so quintessentially Condi in all her gruff impotence. Given the Secretary of State’s inability to head off a bad idea and her general air of utter craven spinelessness, London and Paris are well advised to take her pronouncements with a grain of salt.
What else can anyone do? This Administration routinely lies about its intentions with a sneering brazenness. Quite literally if they are saying “we have no plans to invade” you can assume they’ve already penciled in Rick Santorum as Caliph of Tehran.
Think of it, an empire built on the specious notion that democracy can literally impregnate a region, all enacted by a crew of embittered illiberal intellectuals-unheroic and unforgiving, yet animated but a messianic sense of destiny. And ghod help us, Condi is their willing tool, mouthpiece, henchwoman.
Is it too late to move to the Baja?
What else can anyone do? This Administration routinely lies about its intentions with a sneering brazenness. Quite literally if they are saying “we have no plans to invade” you can assume they’ve already penciled in Rick Santorum as Caliph of Tehran.
Think of it, an empire built on the specious notion that democracy can literally impregnate a region, all enacted by a crew of embittered illiberal intellectuals-unheroic and unforgiving, yet animated but a messianic sense of destiny. And ghod help us, Condi is their willing tool, mouthpiece, henchwoman.
Is it too late to move to the Baja?
Friday, February 04, 2005
Meanwhile...
the Globe's op-ed page has entered the awful midwinter doldrums. Scot Lehigh fruitlessly attempts to draw his hero Mitt Romney and Senator Kerry into a fight. Jeff Jacoby recycles his old "Bush-hatred-is-a-ba-ad-thing" rap for the umpteenth time in the past five years.
Humble Elias has his doubts, the Bible rails against "bearing false witness" and suchlike, but it doesn't have much to say good or bad about hating and hatred. Nowhere in the ten commandments does it say "thou shalt not hate"...let alone "thou shalt love with all your heart the delights of Jeff Jacoby's paltry life".
On the other hand, the Bible does explicitly decry pagan idolatry and the worship of false Gods. Guven the veneration poured over the President by his followers, is it any wonder that old-timey true believers out there should denounce and defy his curiously un-christian cult of personality?
What is worse Jeff? Bush hatred or Bush idolatry?
Humble Elias has his doubts, the Bible rails against "bearing false witness" and suchlike, but it doesn't have much to say good or bad about hating and hatred. Nowhere in the ten commandments does it say "thou shalt not hate"...let alone "thou shalt love with all your heart the delights of Jeff Jacoby's paltry life".
On the other hand, the Bible does explicitly decry pagan idolatry and the worship of false Gods. Guven the veneration poured over the President by his followers, is it any wonder that old-timey true believers out there should denounce and defy his curiously un-christian cult of personality?
What is worse Jeff? Bush hatred or Bush idolatry?
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Petulant, insincere, bored,
and obnoxious (tingedalso with a slight hint of incoherence)...boy love him or hate him George Bush Jr. is just a spellbinding speechmaker isn't he?
:)
Last night's state of the union came across like all the others, full of bromides, mendacity, distortions, poll-tested buncombe...and all delivered in a sneering tone that suggests an overindulged elementary school bully who has grown weary of his own lies.
And that, rhetorically speaking, is a good day for our own boy emperor.
:)
Last night's state of the union came across like all the others, full of bromides, mendacity, distortions, poll-tested buncombe...and all delivered in a sneering tone that suggests an overindulged elementary school bully who has grown weary of his own lies.
And that, rhetorically speaking, is a good day for our own boy emperor.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
The State of the Union etc...
The President is reading his State of the Union Address to both Houses of Congress tonight. Pity the poor reps and senators who must listen to this cheap, cruel, puerile man as he stumbles through a lifeless text written at a fifth grade level. Dumbing down starts at the top don’cha know.
Meanwhile, we read with the utmost hilarity that the RNC has inserted a fawning courtier into the White House Press Corpse whose job it is to ask abjectly groveling questions of the Commander in Chief. Jeff Gannon is the White House correspondent for “TalonNews.com” an affiliate of GOPUSA.com, itself a web site dedicated to ideological warfare (a’la the Chimes at Midnight). In a briefing that deals in the opposition of senate democrats to Bush’s social security privatization scheme, Jeff’s job is to ask “How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?” Even more blatant howlers are on the record if anyone would care to look them up.
Has there ever been a President so dependent on flatters, courtiers, and outright worshippers to function? Why is it that Bush needs to pack every room and institution he interacts with be it the CIA or the White House Press Association with grinning toadying henchmen? Sycophancy cheapens discourse and corrodes excellence in the Aristotelean sense of the term.
Yet somehow like some declining Hapsbourg Emperor Bush-an alleged grown adult man, can’t seem to accomplish anything without his Imperial Court and servile lackeys. It is a disgusting spectacle for anyone raised in the austere tradition of our flattery hating founding fathers.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Meanwhile, we read with the utmost hilarity that the RNC has inserted a fawning courtier into the White House Press Corpse whose job it is to ask abjectly groveling questions of the Commander in Chief. Jeff Gannon is the White House correspondent for “TalonNews.com” an affiliate of GOPUSA.com, itself a web site dedicated to ideological warfare (a’la the Chimes at Midnight). In a briefing that deals in the opposition of senate democrats to Bush’s social security privatization scheme, Jeff’s job is to ask “How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?” Even more blatant howlers are on the record if anyone would care to look them up.
Has there ever been a President so dependent on flatters, courtiers, and outright worshippers to function? Why is it that Bush needs to pack every room and institution he interacts with be it the CIA or the White House Press Association with grinning toadying henchmen? Sycophancy cheapens discourse and corrodes excellence in the Aristotelean sense of the term.
Yet somehow like some declining Hapsbourg Emperor Bush-an alleged grown adult man, can’t seem to accomplish anything without his Imperial Court and servile lackeys. It is a disgusting spectacle for anyone raised in the austere tradition of our flattery hating founding fathers.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Planks for 06'
You can’t beat somebody with nobody so the old saying goes. Similarly, you can’t beat something with nothing. By that, Humble Elias means a program is necessary to beat Mitt Romney next year. All well and good to compare Deval Patrick, Joe Kennedy, Tom Reilly, or Billy “The Prince of Darkness” Galvin on the charismatron. Nonetheless, whoever is nominated is gonna need a platform, preferably elegant, terse, and most of all easy to remember.
Therefore the Chimes at Midnight offers up a few notable planks for the delectation of candidates, conventions, primary and general election voters:
1.) Jobs: Since the start of the last recession, Massachusetts has lost two hundred thousand jobs to the vagaries of an uncertain market. Moreover, Fleet Bank, Gillette, indeed anything worthwhile and local has been bought out, downsized, and shipped out to the wild blue yonder. “bought out and shipped out: welcome to Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts” so the bumper sticker should read. Any democrat with brain one has to talk about jobs and Decaf’s butterfingered inability to hold onto any of them. Lets not forget Mitt’s answer to all this is to cut unemployment benefits thus driving down the purchasing power of underclass even further. The Commonwealth cannot compete with Thailand and Mexico, to do so is itself deflationary suicide. No, the answer for better or worse is growth, so the dems must seize hold of this simple concept.
2.) Pot holes: Humble Elias is not kidding around, the roads in Massachusetts are utterly deplorable. The only thing we seem to be producing at a rapid clip are deep axle busting furrows in the streets. At our current rate we will all be driving to the polling places in 2006 on blown shock absorbers and then hobbling into the voting booths with our broken ankles. This may seem like a provincial and even silly issue, but Mitt’s suburban independents love commuting to work by car, and its a very bumpy ride they are taking of late. Potholes, artfully underscore the lavish undeliverable promises Romney has made in so many other areas anyone remember his vow to reform auto insurance, child health care, or his missionary scheme to rehabilitate ignorant parents? A pattern of unfulfilled promises has begun to emerge with Romney, those pot holes though, give the lie to his entirely fraudulent “reform agenda”.
3.) Continuity of Governance: Romney’s weak point is his vanity and crude ambition, he wants very badly to be President and will happily sell out the Commonwealth in the attempt. A wise democrat will vow loudly and early on to seek no “higher” office whilst serving as Governor and to refuse all entreaties to do likewise and the same. Always and everywhere the notion must be reinforced that the voters can’t trust Mitt, that given a choice between their interests and the White House, Romney will surrender to his ambition every time. A smart democrat might go far on a promise to give Massachusetts a “rest” from Presidential politics.
Therefore the Chimes at Midnight offers up a few notable planks for the delectation of candidates, conventions, primary and general election voters:
1.) Jobs: Since the start of the last recession, Massachusetts has lost two hundred thousand jobs to the vagaries of an uncertain market. Moreover, Fleet Bank, Gillette, indeed anything worthwhile and local has been bought out, downsized, and shipped out to the wild blue yonder. “bought out and shipped out: welcome to Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts” so the bumper sticker should read. Any democrat with brain one has to talk about jobs and Decaf’s butterfingered inability to hold onto any of them. Lets not forget Mitt’s answer to all this is to cut unemployment benefits thus driving down the purchasing power of underclass even further. The Commonwealth cannot compete with Thailand and Mexico, to do so is itself deflationary suicide. No, the answer for better or worse is growth, so the dems must seize hold of this simple concept.
2.) Pot holes: Humble Elias is not kidding around, the roads in Massachusetts are utterly deplorable. The only thing we seem to be producing at a rapid clip are deep axle busting furrows in the streets. At our current rate we will all be driving to the polling places in 2006 on blown shock absorbers and then hobbling into the voting booths with our broken ankles. This may seem like a provincial and even silly issue, but Mitt’s suburban independents love commuting to work by car, and its a very bumpy ride they are taking of late. Potholes, artfully underscore the lavish undeliverable promises Romney has made in so many other areas anyone remember his vow to reform auto insurance, child health care, or his missionary scheme to rehabilitate ignorant parents? A pattern of unfulfilled promises has begun to emerge with Romney, those pot holes though, give the lie to his entirely fraudulent “reform agenda”.
3.) Continuity of Governance: Romney’s weak point is his vanity and crude ambition, he wants very badly to be President and will happily sell out the Commonwealth in the attempt. A wise democrat will vow loudly and early on to seek no “higher” office whilst serving as Governor and to refuse all entreaties to do likewise and the same. Always and everywhere the notion must be reinforced that the voters can’t trust Mitt, that given a choice between their interests and the White House, Romney will surrender to his ambition every time. A smart democrat might go far on a promise to give Massachusetts a “rest” from Presidential politics.
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