The Boston Globe reports that Candidate Romney has revised his lifelong passion for hunting with the following proviso:
"I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints if you will. I began when I was 15 or so and I have hunted those kinds of varmints since then. More than two times."
If they are "small varmints" Governor Romney, then why spend all that money on a firearm and the requisite paperwork it requires and instead simply set out some traps for the pesky vermin in question?
Cause, the "National Small Varmint Trappers Association" has no bigfoot imprint within the GOP that is why.
Moreover the use of the neologism "varmint" is just plain silly coming from an educated former Governor of Massachusetts and a Bishop in the Church of Latter Day Saints.
Not a week seems to go by that Mitt Romney doesn't indulge some head-scratching craven-ness in his increasingly bizarrre quest for the Presidency.
"Varmints"....yeah yer a real mountain man with that one Mitt.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Friday, April 06, 2007
Saw Mitt Romney's much ballyhooed campaign commercial last night...
bumptious nonsense is what it amounted to.
Much of the advert is given over to a convoluted explanation of his plan to sign a budget that is fixed a 1% below the rate of inflation or some such rubbish, I couldn't figure it out and I have a master's degree, what the ordinary bloke in NH makes of it can be easily imagined.
The rest of the commercial was full of truculent threats to veto bad ideas and bad budgets citing his experience as Governor of Massachusetts where he supposedly eight-sixed all kindsa stuff.
Truth is, the legislature pretty much over-rode Mitt's vetoes at their leisure...they knew he hadn't the votes to sustain his veto and he knew it as well, this where our current health insurance law came from.
As an advertisement, I give it a C-plus, the narration was confusing, the threats laughable however the footage of Romney made him look shiny and pretty enough to get some traction up in NH.
We will see how well he wears over time.
Much of the advert is given over to a convoluted explanation of his plan to sign a budget that is fixed a 1% below the rate of inflation or some such rubbish, I couldn't figure it out and I have a master's degree, what the ordinary bloke in NH makes of it can be easily imagined.
The rest of the commercial was full of truculent threats to veto bad ideas and bad budgets citing his experience as Governor of Massachusetts where he supposedly eight-sixed all kindsa stuff.
Truth is, the legislature pretty much over-rode Mitt's vetoes at their leisure...they knew he hadn't the votes to sustain his veto and he knew it as well, this where our current health insurance law came from.
As an advertisement, I give it a C-plus, the narration was confusing, the threats laughable however the footage of Romney made him look shiny and pretty enough to get some traction up in NH.
We will see how well he wears over time.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
So the Governor wants to build a Boston
to Fall River-New Bedford rail link?
This is a good idea, opening up commuter resources could bring new housing to bear in the Commonwealth...raise incomes...generate new revenue for the state...a host of good things.
Moreover, cheap reliable rail travel is the dream of even the dumbest troglodyte columnist here in the over-compressed north east.
BUT....
This sensible notion is top of the twenty billion vigorish we need for the wear and tear on our current transportation resources over the next two decades, without mentioning the MBTA's current cash strapped condition.
Again I plaintively wail all and sundry are good ideas or even desperate necessities...but where will the money come from?
Where??
This is a good idea, opening up commuter resources could bring new housing to bear in the Commonwealth...raise incomes...generate new revenue for the state...a host of good things.
Moreover, cheap reliable rail travel is the dream of even the dumbest troglodyte columnist here in the over-compressed north east.
BUT....
This sensible notion is top of the twenty billion vigorish we need for the wear and tear on our current transportation resources over the next two decades, without mentioning the MBTA's current cash strapped condition.
Again I plaintively wail all and sundry are good ideas or even desperate necessities...but where will the money come from?
Where??
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
The Ongoing Revenge of John Forbes Kerry....
Apparently JK sez, Senator McCain was inquiring after the DEMOCRATIC Vice Presidential nomination back in 2004!
Geez John Kerry seems to be starting on a second career as a champion sh*t-stirrer isn't he?
And supposedly McCain is his friend no less...stories like this do nothing but reinforce conservative unease with the Arizona Senator and keep the GOP primary-cauldron a-bubbling.
Of course, I can recall that for all his manly veteran bona fides, John McCain didn't speak out against the whole "Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth" mishaugas...so turnabout is fairplay.
Geez John Kerry seems to be starting on a second career as a champion sh*t-stirrer isn't he?
And supposedly McCain is his friend no less...stories like this do nothing but reinforce conservative unease with the Arizona Senator and keep the GOP primary-cauldron a-bubbling.
Of course, I can recall that for all his manly veteran bona fides, John McCain didn't speak out against the whole "Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth" mishaugas...so turnabout is fairplay.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
Tommy Thompson piles in...
The GOP Presidential field is rapidly coming down to the afterthoughts and fantasists as Former Wisconsin Governor, Tommy Thompson bad hairpiece and all, jumps into the race as a "reliable conservative".
Well, thanks to George Bush the bar is set mighty low for "reliable conservatives" these days, no doubt the Former Governor will content himself with promising the vast horde of midwestern bankrupts and evictees a nice piddlin' tax cut to assuage the sudden drop in their standard of living.
Otherwise, Thompson is the sort of genial big business governor whose innovative hatred of the poor earns the usual plaudits from the perpetually amazed Time Magazine.
He might make a good VP choice if some yappy chowderhead like Gingrich catches a wave, but other than that, Thompson is a third rater in every way.
Humble Elias doesn't expect Thompson to go anywhere, he is a man of the past even among atavistic ranks of the current GOP field.
Well, thanks to George Bush the bar is set mighty low for "reliable conservatives" these days, no doubt the Former Governor will content himself with promising the vast horde of midwestern bankrupts and evictees a nice piddlin' tax cut to assuage the sudden drop in their standard of living.
Otherwise, Thompson is the sort of genial big business governor whose innovative hatred of the poor earns the usual plaudits from the perpetually amazed Time Magazine.
He might make a good VP choice if some yappy chowderhead like Gingrich catches a wave, but other than that, Thompson is a third rater in every way.
Humble Elias doesn't expect Thompson to go anywhere, he is a man of the past even among atavistic ranks of the current GOP field.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
If the Iranian seizure of fifteen British Tars
on the high seas can drive the price of gas to $2.65 a gallon plus at the pump here in America, imagine the cost-per-barrel spike when the US Air Force starts dropping daisy-cutters in and around Tehran.
And what...has Jeff Jacoby, Dick Cheney, their so called President and the rest of the war party's giddiest done to prepare the American people for the possibility of an oil-drive recession here at home?
Patently nothing.
The can't do anything like that because it would tip their hand since their policy to sneak this new war up on the citizenry.
I'm sure the stealth and guile of their scheme seems very impressive to the casual observer, but it is built on the fatally naive' premise that victory is mere matter of willpower (in the crudest Allen Druryean sense) and careful press management.
The reality is, no such policy can long be sustained if it results in economic paralysis at home and a concurrent drop in the standard of living.
As a matter of fact, if the price goes up far enough and fast enough, I wouldn't give two plugged nickles for any of the President's celebrated truculence and clarity of vision.
And what...has Jeff Jacoby, Dick Cheney, their so called President and the rest of the war party's giddiest done to prepare the American people for the possibility of an oil-drive recession here at home?
Patently nothing.
The can't do anything like that because it would tip their hand since their policy to sneak this new war up on the citizenry.
I'm sure the stealth and guile of their scheme seems very impressive to the casual observer, but it is built on the fatally naive' premise that victory is mere matter of willpower (in the crudest Allen Druryean sense) and careful press management.
The reality is, no such policy can long be sustained if it results in economic paralysis at home and a concurrent drop in the standard of living.
As a matter of fact, if the price goes up far enough and fast enough, I wouldn't give two plugged nickles for any of the President's celebrated truculence and clarity of vision.
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