conclusively something I've been saying for years, that the US Senate's GOP faction is without a doubt the dumbest most impotent collection of crackers and sky grifters since the glory days of the Ritz Brothers.
This is a once proud bunch of political strong arm men they foisted Alito and Roberts that wingnut double act on the Supreme Court, more than a few of them stood tall in the tempest for Clarence Thomas.
However, Age and sheer ideological irrelevance have made tawdry & wrinkled buffoons of them all.
Now look at them...reduced to making the equivalent of Taco Bell jokes at the first Latina nominee to the High Court.
Sad...pathetic almost.
Why the President feels he needs to compromise with this vile rabble with respect to health care is a mystery to me?
Frankly flattening them openly and honestly would be a mercy.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Another thing I'm opposed to...
Charter Schools, and of course the Governor wants to double up on them.
Waaal lemme tellya, charter schools sound nice and all, like boot-camp for youth offenders and the rock pile they tend to be the sort of third-way measure that deeply impress state legislators and local columnists.
The rest of us though, derive little benefit from them as they inevitably siphon money away from public schools and in fact creative a two tier class driven English style education system.
Proponents say that charter schools help skim off the best and the brightest from low income families....they might do that but then that is part of the mission of public schools isn't it? Along with promoting good citizenship, inculcating life skills, imparting the holy mysteries of readin', writin, rithmetic' and AP calculus.
Why divide the mission? Why not strengthen the institutions we have? Are charter schools really a good fit with the needs of democratic education?
I say no...a few might suit the needs of poor performing districts, but setting up some statewide parody of parochial schools on the public dime is a formula for disaster.
Waaal lemme tellya, charter schools sound nice and all, like boot-camp for youth offenders and the rock pile they tend to be the sort of third-way measure that deeply impress state legislators and local columnists.
The rest of us though, derive little benefit from them as they inevitably siphon money away from public schools and in fact creative a two tier class driven English style education system.
Proponents say that charter schools help skim off the best and the brightest from low income families....they might do that but then that is part of the mission of public schools isn't it? Along with promoting good citizenship, inculcating life skills, imparting the holy mysteries of readin', writin, rithmetic' and AP calculus.
Why divide the mission? Why not strengthen the institutions we have? Are charter schools really a good fit with the needs of democratic education?
I say no...a few might suit the needs of poor performing districts, but setting up some statewide parody of parochial schools on the public dime is a formula for disaster.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Zoo closure moment...
The President of Zoo New Emgland John Linehan seems to have set a new local record for sheer stridency...he seems to think Governor Patrick will be putting on a pith helmet and loading his elephant gun to go euthenizin' big game at the Stone Zoo.
The state legistlature may be crammed with slack jawed crackers to a man, but they are a famously sentimental bunch so I doubt Jerome the Giraffe will have to start reading coffin catalogues or anything.
The Stone Zoo and the Franklin Park both weathered similar cutbacks under Bill Weld sans recourse to the electric chair.
Of course, while the interests of zoo animals will be secured, I do wanna remind my gentle readers (all seven of you) that we still have homeless combat veterans wandering the streets and byways of the Commonwealth.
In fact the whole mishaugas brings this olde National Lampoon cover to mind:
The state legistlature may be crammed with slack jawed crackers to a man, but they are a famously sentimental bunch so I doubt Jerome the Giraffe will have to start reading coffin catalogues or anything.
The Stone Zoo and the Franklin Park both weathered similar cutbacks under Bill Weld sans recourse to the electric chair.
Of course, while the interests of zoo animals will be secured, I do wanna remind my gentle readers (all seven of you) that we still have homeless combat veterans wandering the streets and byways of the Commonwealth.
In fact the whole mishaugas brings this olde National Lampoon cover to mind:
Lawyers Guns and Money...
Mostly lawyers though.
In fact it seems to me, that pretty much everything that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin touches turns to lawyers.
The father of her out of wedlock grandson, has a lawyer (according to the New Yorker) he is nineteen years old fuh crissakes!
So much for the litigation free utopia Ms. Palin and her cohort had planned for us. There are some people in this life who are ineffable shit-magnets, bad karma clings to them like cheap perfume, Palin is one of these worthies. Everything they put their hands to turns into a disaster, put Sarah in charge of the MBTA we will be lucky to make the commute via ox-cart, turn NASA over to Palin and watch our inventory of rockets become the world's most expensive collection of fireworks.
In short, the GOP is well advised to steer clear of such an ill-starred person...but ah, they don't take counsel from Humble Elias do they??
In fact it seems to me, that pretty much everything that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin touches turns to lawyers.
The father of her out of wedlock grandson, has a lawyer (according to the New Yorker) he is nineteen years old fuh crissakes!
So much for the litigation free utopia Ms. Palin and her cohort had planned for us. There are some people in this life who are ineffable shit-magnets, bad karma clings to them like cheap perfume, Palin is one of these worthies. Everything they put their hands to turns into a disaster, put Sarah in charge of the MBTA we will be lucky to make the commute via ox-cart, turn NASA over to Palin and watch our inventory of rockets become the world's most expensive collection of fireworks.
In short, the GOP is well advised to steer clear of such an ill-starred person...but ah, they don't take counsel from Humble Elias do they??
Monday, July 13, 2009
Here is a question for Citizen Charlie Baker
(presumptive GOP candidate for Governor of Massachusetts) At what point in your long service to the Weld-Cellucci Administrations did you realize that the five billion dollar "cap" to the Big Dig was rubbish?
Did Governors Weld or Cellucci ever admit to you that the price of the Big Dig was bound to go higher and higher?
Did Governors Weld or Cellucci ever admit to you that the price of the Big Dig was bound to go higher and higher?
Friday, July 10, 2009
Scot Lehigh grovel-watch (part one)
Well, Scot is obviously playing it coy with the alleged moderate republican messiah to be, Charlie Baker.
Perhaps Scot was burned by all those columns he wrote as late as the summer of 2005 insisting that Willard Mitt Romney loved Massachusetts and was alert and on the job 24-7.
So the Baker infatuation is off to a slow start...But the election is almost sixteen months away so the relationship has time to flower. Moreover the two of them are on a first name basis and just let Charlie make a few speeches extolling the free market, civil rights and fuzzy little kittens and sure enough, Scot will be sighing worshipfully, count on it.
Perhaps Scot was burned by all those columns he wrote as late as the summer of 2005 insisting that Willard Mitt Romney loved Massachusetts and was alert and on the job 24-7.
So the Baker infatuation is off to a slow start...But the election is almost sixteen months away so the relationship has time to flower. Moreover the two of them are on a first name basis and just let Charlie make a few speeches extolling the free market, civil rights and fuzzy little kittens and sure enough, Scot will be sighing worshipfully, count on it.
Thursday, July 09, 2009
One of the things I am looking forward to in campaign 2010
is the sheer spectacle of watching Scot Lehigh grovel and writhe at Charlie Baker's moderate republican feet, all in a compulsive and disgustingly pathetic bid to ingratiate.
And from the likes of the above article, that column will run any day now.
Anyway in this economy what does it mean to be a "moderate republican" anyway?
That you will be driven to the poor house by a slower more scenic route?
That you will be free to starve in your own repossessed home unvexed by police or firefighters?
That towns and cities will have the decency to go bankrupt quietly and with dignity?
Or that medical inflation will be capped at only 15%...?
And from the likes of the above article, that column will run any day now.
Anyway in this economy what does it mean to be a "moderate republican" anyway?
That you will be driven to the poor house by a slower more scenic route?
That you will be free to starve in your own repossessed home unvexed by police or firefighters?
That towns and cities will have the decency to go bankrupt quietly and with dignity?
Or that medical inflation will be capped at only 15%...?
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