1.) Call up Charlie Baker, possible GOP candidate for Governor in 2010.
2.) Get NOTHING out of him about running for Governor in 2010...save the usual palaver.
3.) Write a column sighing and rolling your eyes at the spectacle of Charlie Baker's alleged indecisiveness.
Well all Humble Elias can say is, at least she is doing it to someone other than John Kerry.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Edward Maximus, Peer of the Realm...
So Teddy Kennedy collected an honorary knighthood. Elias Nugator Senior (once one of FDR's noble & courageous Myrmidions) asked why the Senior Senator rated such an honor?
I told him, "On account of his hard work promoting peace in Northern Ireland"...
To which he responded "Well...a fellow has to have a hobby, even Teddy Kennedy".
Such is the Kingdom of Heaven in the Magickal Village of Menotomy.
I told him, "On account of his hard work promoting peace in Northern Ireland"...
To which he responded "Well...a fellow has to have a hobby, even Teddy Kennedy".
Such is the Kingdom of Heaven in the Magickal Village of Menotomy.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Does State Treasurer Tim Cahill want...
to run for Governor or something?
Is that why he is suddenly grandstanding on the issue of casino gambling?
I have to question whether three pissmire slot machine parlors are a worthwhile platform for a gubernatorial race?
Moreover, with revenues plunging, taxes about to rise (on gasoline at least)and more cuts in spending to follow who the hell would ever want the top job at this point?
I can tell you right now, be it a contested gubernatorial primary challenge or in the general election itself, 2010 is going to be all about wringing more local aid out of the State House...more than a few corner office aspirants will be clouding with air with thick noxious plans to double our money at half the cost.
In other words, the bullshit will fly like artillery rounds in a barrage.
Here is hopin' that Governor Patrick sticks to a truth-telling agenda.
Is that why he is suddenly grandstanding on the issue of casino gambling?
I have to question whether three pissmire slot machine parlors are a worthwhile platform for a gubernatorial race?
Moreover, with revenues plunging, taxes about to rise (on gasoline at least)and more cuts in spending to follow who the hell would ever want the top job at this point?
I can tell you right now, be it a contested gubernatorial primary challenge or in the general election itself, 2010 is going to be all about wringing more local aid out of the State House...more than a few corner office aspirants will be clouding with air with thick noxious plans to double our money at half the cost.
In other words, the bullshit will fly like artillery rounds in a barrage.
Here is hopin' that Governor Patrick sticks to a truth-telling agenda.
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Lackeys assessing the sincerity of toadies...
It is worth noting thaton the Imus program today, Mary Matalin (in-house wingnut courtier to La Famiglia Arbusto) thought Michael Steele's groveling bootlicking apology to Rush Limbaugh was insufficiently sycophantic in tenor.
Apparently she had some mental image in her head of the current RNC chair writhing in a compulsive attempt to ingratiate at the bloated feet of the radio tyrant.
Honestly that is what she said and sincerely believed....I can't make stuff like that up truly.
Apparently she had some mental image in her head of the current RNC chair writhing in a compulsive attempt to ingratiate at the bloated feet of the radio tyrant.
Honestly that is what she said and sincerely believed....I can't make stuff like that up truly.
Rock Bottom, are we there yet???
The Dow is making like a sinking submarine....
Promises of new money to buy stakes in ailing financials have availed us nothing...promises of fiscal discipline once prosperity returns yield up much the same.
Forget what Freud said about women, the key question here is, what does Wall Street Want?
Bailouts clearly, they just don't want socialism or nationalization or any restrictions on their entirely phantom notions of a future freedom of action.
This at a time when the USA owns 40% of Citibank once the biggest baddest global bank of them all.
Seems to be a tension there between the reality and the expectation.
It occurs to me, that we have already begun the process of nationalization...we just won't call it that. Other than that all the factors are there, the government owns shares, shares control board of directors which now answers to the Treasury Department.
The only question in my mind is, how do we organize this ad-hoc process to the benefit of the American people? By that I mean the proverbial little guy and little gal...da plain folks.
Promises of new money to buy stakes in ailing financials have availed us nothing...promises of fiscal discipline once prosperity returns yield up much the same.
Forget what Freud said about women, the key question here is, what does Wall Street Want?
Bailouts clearly, they just don't want socialism or nationalization or any restrictions on their entirely phantom notions of a future freedom of action.
This at a time when the USA owns 40% of Citibank once the biggest baddest global bank of them all.
Seems to be a tension there between the reality and the expectation.
It occurs to me, that we have already begun the process of nationalization...we just won't call it that. Other than that all the factors are there, the government owns shares, shares control board of directors which now answers to the Treasury Department.
The only question in my mind is, how do we organize this ad-hoc process to the benefit of the American people? By that I mean the proverbial little guy and little gal...da plain folks.
Monday, March 02, 2009
Layoffs at the Globe part II
Or maybe the Globe will toss that laughing young senescence Jeff Jacoby over the side?
I mean, the man can't even reconcile himself to daylight savings time...a notion so laughably idiotic that it surges right past the partisan divide into pure 19th century yokel-dom.
Maybe it is time to wipe the slate clean and start over with a new house conservative...although who they could get that wouldn't be contaminated by power worship, hypocrisy or fraud is an open question.
To imagine a world without Jeff Jacoby's column, one has to imagine a world without the Boston Globe...and right now it looks like we are gonna get both whether we like it or not.
I mean, the man can't even reconcile himself to daylight savings time...a notion so laughably idiotic that it surges right past the partisan divide into pure 19th century yokel-dom.
Maybe it is time to wipe the slate clean and start over with a new house conservative...although who they could get that wouldn't be contaminated by power worship, hypocrisy or fraud is an open question.
To imagine a world without Jeff Jacoby's column, one has to imagine a world without the Boston Globe...and right now it looks like we are gonna get both whether we like it or not.
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Layoffs at the Globe?
The Phoenix reports that the Globe needs to jettison about fifty employees this month, if they can't get them via a buy-out then stronger measures will be taken.
Well this is a sad sad comedown for a great regional news powerhouse with a fistful of Pulitzers on it's wall. At the end of the day Humble Elias fears the Globe will become little more than a Shopper and an uninteresting one at that.
As I said, sad.
***
I wonder if Joanie Vennochi will take the buy-out? I wonder if any of the bigger op-ed names will take the hint?
I don't think Joanie would be missed if she made for the lifeboats and chanced all in the open sea....she hardly belongs on the Op-Ed page of the Globe anyway.
To be a political columnist you have to have an opinion, Joanie doesn't have any or even one to speak of, she has resentments.
And the era of resentments is drawing to a close mah frenz, politics is destiny once again with a lot more at stake than mere personal hypocrisy on the part of individual politicians.
Maybe it's time for Joanie to write a novel or something, a expose of a hypocritical liberal democrat, get it out of her system once and for all.
Well this is a sad sad comedown for a great regional news powerhouse with a fistful of Pulitzers on it's wall. At the end of the day Humble Elias fears the Globe will become little more than a Shopper and an uninteresting one at that.
As I said, sad.
***
I wonder if Joanie Vennochi will take the buy-out? I wonder if any of the bigger op-ed names will take the hint?
I don't think Joanie would be missed if she made for the lifeboats and chanced all in the open sea....she hardly belongs on the Op-Ed page of the Globe anyway.
To be a political columnist you have to have an opinion, Joanie doesn't have any or even one to speak of, she has resentments.
And the era of resentments is drawing to a close mah frenz, politics is destiny once again with a lot more at stake than mere personal hypocrisy on the part of individual politicians.
Maybe it's time for Joanie to write a novel or something, a expose of a hypocritical liberal democrat, get it out of her system once and for all.
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