Point .08 and a Donkey in his post last thursday raises the interesting possibility that Mitt Romney might duck the pending "morning after pill" legislation by leaving the state at a judicious moment and allowing Kerry Healey to sign it into law as Acting Governor.
Healey of course has already signaled her own support for said bill so its once of those plausible-on-paper type things.
Of course, I doubt Kerry Healey is allowed to go to the ladies room without a signed permission slip from the Governor but be that as it may.
Well, its an intriguing scenario and even funny when you consider the image of the famously conservative Mitt sneaking off to Utah or New Hampshire to avoid signing or not signing a bill he opposes but i doubt this will happen.
Even a dilettante like Romney has to realize what an indecisive spectacle he'd be making of himself under those circumstances...the wowsers and his constituents would both have to see him as more than slightly hapless.
Still and all that, a moment of truth is arriving for Romney, he has few options left to play in this state regardless of his Potomac Fever.
Monday, July 18, 2005
Friday, July 15, 2005
Culture Notes...
I was taking the bus home yesterday when I discovered that the driver was listening to the "Howie Carr Show". He didn't have the sound up too loud so all I caught was Howie's unmistakable snarky dulcet tones droning on about fags, lesbians, hacks etc etc etc blah blah blah!
This gave me to wonder, why in the world would a well compensated public employee, a member of one of the strongest remaining labor unions on the Eastern seaboard would wanna listen to the famously anti-labor anti-public service Howie Carr?
Well, allegedly Howie is funny.
I think he is the dreariest little putz imaginable but lets face facts, it is a Pauly Shore world out there. Of course, Howie's main targets are the usual sexual others, gays, lesbians and the like. In fact, far as I can tell, Howie is fairly obsessed with homosexual practices great and small.
And clearly his audience digs that the most, why else would he keep harping on it?
One of the things we liberals haven't seemed to assessed yet, is the sheer power or certain conservative cultural signifiers, in this case fag-bashing.
So far as I can see, it can quite easily lead a man far astray from his economic or political interests.
Homo Economicus versus Homo-Phobus...and it looks like the latter is winning by a country mile.
The answer isn't hard to see, the white working class in America has been propagandized on fear for nigh on fifty years now, fear of communists, fear of blacks, fear of women and now fear of faggots and liberals.
Reaction formation posits we often laugh at we are afraid of, hence the endless stream of gay gags from out talk radio.
Fear is also a great source of confusion when it comes to sorting out long term versus short term interests.
So really, behind those signifiers is a great roiling fear...so the challenge therefore is to somehow come up with our own fear-dispersing signifiers.
How to do that is beyond Humble Elias.
Such is the Kingdom of God
On the Congressionally Licensed
Public Airwaves and Elsewhere.
7-14-05
5:45pm EST
God Save the Republic
God Save the Commonwealth.
This gave me to wonder, why in the world would a well compensated public employee, a member of one of the strongest remaining labor unions on the Eastern seaboard would wanna listen to the famously anti-labor anti-public service Howie Carr?
Well, allegedly Howie is funny.
I think he is the dreariest little putz imaginable but lets face facts, it is a Pauly Shore world out there. Of course, Howie's main targets are the usual sexual others, gays, lesbians and the like. In fact, far as I can tell, Howie is fairly obsessed with homosexual practices great and small.
And clearly his audience digs that the most, why else would he keep harping on it?
One of the things we liberals haven't seemed to assessed yet, is the sheer power or certain conservative cultural signifiers, in this case fag-bashing.
So far as I can see, it can quite easily lead a man far astray from his economic or political interests.
Homo Economicus versus Homo-Phobus...and it looks like the latter is winning by a country mile.
The answer isn't hard to see, the white working class in America has been propagandized on fear for nigh on fifty years now, fear of communists, fear of blacks, fear of women and now fear of faggots and liberals.
Reaction formation posits we often laugh at we are afraid of, hence the endless stream of gay gags from out talk radio.
Fear is also a great source of confusion when it comes to sorting out long term versus short term interests.
So really, behind those signifiers is a great roiling fear...so the challenge therefore is to somehow come up with our own fear-dispersing signifiers.
How to do that is beyond Humble Elias.
Such is the Kingdom of God
On the Congressionally Licensed
Public Airwaves and Elsewhere.
7-14-05
5:45pm EST
God Save the Republic
God Save the Commonwealth.
.08 Acres (and a Donkey) had an interesting
post yesterday about SCot Lehigh's potential source within the State GOP's high command. G'wan over there and read it, he raises some interesting and suggestive issues.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Gotta Give High Pitched Rick Santorum credit
he has the courage of his convictions. Faced with mounting criticism of his 2002 remarks blaming the catholic clerical sex abuse scandal on godless Boston based liberalism...he shrugged and simply restated his voices in that nasty psychotic whine of his.
No doubt, all over the nation he is getting the usual "sez what he means means what he sez props" from the usual suspects.
Of course there is a double standard at work here, if say John Kerry had spent the lead up to Campaign 2004 denouncing "gun toting white trash" in Spartansburg SC or refering to Texas as "a lawless wasteland inhabited by Bible-corrupted peasants" he wouldn't have survived to shake his first hand in New Hampshire.
Alas politics in this country has degenerated to such an appalling degree that Senator Santorum being a proper example of homo conservatus, may indulge in the sin of sectionalism sans serious reproach....at least from his fellow so called conservatives.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
No doubt, all over the nation he is getting the usual "sez what he means means what he sez props" from the usual suspects.
Of course there is a double standard at work here, if say John Kerry had spent the lead up to Campaign 2004 denouncing "gun toting white trash" in Spartansburg SC or refering to Texas as "a lawless wasteland inhabited by Bible-corrupted peasants" he wouldn't have survived to shake his first hand in New Hampshire.
Alas politics in this country has degenerated to such an appalling degree that Senator Santorum being a proper example of homo conservatus, may indulge in the sin of sectionalism sans serious reproach....at least from his fellow so called conservatives.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Ghod I love Scot Lehigh...
no one else has his talent for abolishing the summer doldrums with sycophantic piffle.
Indeed today's column is a veritable symphony of awestruck groveling. You see it is Lehigh's contention that Mitt Romney really is engaged with his Very Important Job As Governor.
(Please...stiffle those giggles)
For proof, Scot faithfully recycles a shopworn collection of Admin press releases, photo ops with the legislative leadership, a phone call to Dan Grabauskas, a TV appearance and the elevation of a few lackey's to Cabinet rank. To Scot this sort of thing, usual Romneyan show biz dreck, is nigh Churchillian leadership.
I give Lehigh credit, in spite of everything he is still shilling for Mitt week in and week out. If tomorrow, the Governor set fire to the Commonwealth as a burnt offering to Gary Bauer, Lehigh would sigh with sheer worship.
Nothing else matters except that Romneyus August shall be glorified in hot weather as in cold.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Indeed today's column is a veritable symphony of awestruck groveling. You see it is Lehigh's contention that Mitt Romney really is engaged with his Very Important Job As Governor.
(Please...stiffle those giggles)
For proof, Scot faithfully recycles a shopworn collection of Admin press releases, photo ops with the legislative leadership, a phone call to Dan Grabauskas, a TV appearance and the elevation of a few lackey's to Cabinet rank. To Scot this sort of thing, usual Romneyan show biz dreck, is nigh Churchillian leadership.
I give Lehigh credit, in spite of everything he is still shilling for Mitt week in and week out. If tomorrow, the Governor set fire to the Commonwealth as a burnt offering to Gary Bauer, Lehigh would sigh with sheer worship.
Nothing else matters except that Romneyus August shall be glorified in hot weather as in cold.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Marshall Wittman
seems to have his head on straight.
He pretty much sums up my own feelings towards the emerging Rove Affair in DC. Its a mere matter of watching to see how Karl will escape punishment....nothing more.
He pretty much sums up my own feelings towards the emerging Rove Affair in DC. Its a mere matter of watching to see how Karl will escape punishment....nothing more.
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