in a lather about President Obama's speech to the nation's school children this week which is nothing but mute testimony to his fearsome powers of persuasion. Neither they nor even I, as a liberal blogger could care less when it was George Bush Jr. touring elementary schools making a patent simian fool of himself in every way as the ex-President was a stupid unpersuasive man and a bit of a fraud.
But Obama, he is different, he might actually put a useful idea or two into the children's wee noggins and since the remnants of movement conservatism are profoundly anti-rational, this then becomes an intolerable state of affairs for the rightical chic among us.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Monday, September 07, 2009
GAWD DAMMNIT!
Joe ain't gonna run!
I had my Grenadier's uniform dry cleaned and my assegai professionally sharpened!
***
All bombast aside, today officially marks the end of the Kennedy dynasty one or the other in that family has represented this Commonwealth in DC since 1946, the curtain has at last fallen.
***
Well there is nothing else for it, we could well have a ten way primary as a consequence of this, a lot of congressmen from Massachusetts can hear the wings of destiny beatin' over their heads tonight...Between all the money they've raised for uncontested re-elections and redistricting next year at least four of ten could pile in before next Friday. Oh and Marty Meehan hasn't ruled it out either!
Yeeesh!
***
Barney Frank seems to be strangely quiet all of a sudden, very much out of character.
I'd love it if he piled in, smartest and ablest man in the congressional delegation. The wise guys will wail about his religion and his orientation but if a meshuggah yap like Romney can go wild state wide why not Barney?
Well the answer is obvious, Barney Frank has a good thing goin' in congress why risk all the superlative work he has been doing for a gaudy ten way brawl in the Commonwealth? The only force that might change his mind is redistricting and he has survived that challenge before.
Pity...Hope I'm reading this wrong but suspect time has made Frank too good a congressman to chance all on a seat as a Junior Senator from Massachusetts.
I had my Grenadier's uniform dry cleaned and my assegai professionally sharpened!
***
All bombast aside, today officially marks the end of the Kennedy dynasty one or the other in that family has represented this Commonwealth in DC since 1946, the curtain has at last fallen.
***
Well there is nothing else for it, we could well have a ten way primary as a consequence of this, a lot of congressmen from Massachusetts can hear the wings of destiny beatin' over their heads tonight...Between all the money they've raised for uncontested re-elections and redistricting next year at least four of ten could pile in before next Friday. Oh and Marty Meehan hasn't ruled it out either!
Yeeesh!
***
Barney Frank seems to be strangely quiet all of a sudden, very much out of character.
I'd love it if he piled in, smartest and ablest man in the congressional delegation. The wise guys will wail about his religion and his orientation but if a meshuggah yap like Romney can go wild state wide why not Barney?
Well the answer is obvious, Barney Frank has a good thing goin' in congress why risk all the superlative work he has been doing for a gaudy ten way brawl in the Commonwealth? The only force that might change his mind is redistricting and he has survived that challenge before.
Pity...Hope I'm reading this wrong but suspect time has made Frank too good a congressman to chance all on a seat as a Junior Senator from Massachusetts.
Friday, September 04, 2009
Joanie Vennochi in Love?
It would appear that the Boston globe columnist has found her candidate for the US Senate, and that would be Attorney General Martha Coakley.
No venom aimed at the candidate's supposed bullying tendencies, no snarkage at their lack of political courage...I mean you'd think Joanie had fallen in love or something.
It is a big change from her usual diet of sour grapes.
So if this somehow becomes a two way race between Ed O'Reilly (remember HIM?) and Candidate Martha Coakley disdains to pay him much attention with a debate Joanie won't hav a problem with that will she?
This paragraph though, is a partcular gem:
Kennedy’s role in electing the country’s first black president is an important part of his legacy. By endorsing Obama, Kennedy built a bridge to the next political generation. It happened because Obama had the audacity to not only hope, but run for the White House; and because Ted Kennedy had the audacity to back him up.
Well never mind the fact that John Kerry endorsed Barack Obama first and then went to work on Edward Maximus, where does all this luv for Barack Obama come from??
Back in July in 2008 all Joanie had to say about Citizen Obama was that he was a narcissisist of the first order, now however The President has become in Vennochi's mind, an avatar of hope.
"Wow" is all I can say, forget Martha Coakley's audacity for the moment, Joanie's sheer gall takes the cake.
No venom aimed at the candidate's supposed bullying tendencies, no snarkage at their lack of political courage...I mean you'd think Joanie had fallen in love or something.
It is a big change from her usual diet of sour grapes.
So if this somehow becomes a two way race between Ed O'Reilly (remember HIM?) and Candidate Martha Coakley disdains to pay him much attention with a debate Joanie won't hav a problem with that will she?
This paragraph though, is a partcular gem:
Kennedy’s role in electing the country’s first black president is an important part of his legacy. By endorsing Obama, Kennedy built a bridge to the next political generation. It happened because Obama had the audacity to not only hope, but run for the White House; and because Ted Kennedy had the audacity to back him up.
Well never mind the fact that John Kerry endorsed Barack Obama first and then went to work on Edward Maximus, where does all this luv for Barack Obama come from??
Back in July in 2008 all Joanie had to say about Citizen Obama was that he was a narcissisist of the first order, now however The President has become in Vennochi's mind, an avatar of hope.
"Wow" is all I can say, forget Martha Coakley's audacity for the moment, Joanie's sheer gall takes the cake.
Thursday, September 03, 2009
This just in...
Apparently per Massachusetts electoral statute, Curt Schilling can't run in the special election for Ted Kennedy's seat as a republican.
It seems that he is still a registered independent and missed the deadline to change up before the primary...
If so, I bet the Schilling for Senate meme dies out by Sunday, I doubt the Knight of the Bloody Sock is so quixotic to attempt an independent bid for Senator.
It seems that he is still a registered independent and missed the deadline to change up before the primary...
If so, I bet the Schilling for Senate meme dies out by Sunday, I doubt the Knight of the Bloody Sock is so quixotic to attempt an independent bid for Senator.
Jock Itch...
Curt Schilling wants in as a GOP candidate for Edward Maximus' senate seat?
Didn't see that one coming...
On paper though it makes some sense, he can self finance a race and as far as the local republican's are concerned he is a reliable wingnut in his views.
However, a born again christian has never gone state-wide in Massachusetts (that I know of, feel free to correct) and that is a unknown factor to be sure.
On the other hand Romney's Mormonism was no great impediment but then he knew how to market his religion as an advantage.
I think Schilling could do some populist business out there until he started saying dumb-ass stuff on the stump. I mean, solicit his views on Darwin's theory of evolution or Asimov's three laws of robotics if you wanna find out.
But the man is a hero a veritable Knight of the Bloody Sock, let us give him that, however politics is a great breaker of heroes.
Didn't see that one coming...
On paper though it makes some sense, he can self finance a race and as far as the local republican's are concerned he is a reliable wingnut in his views.
However, a born again christian has never gone state-wide in Massachusetts (that I know of, feel free to correct) and that is a unknown factor to be sure.
On the other hand Romney's Mormonism was no great impediment but then he knew how to market his religion as an advantage.
I think Schilling could do some populist business out there until he started saying dumb-ass stuff on the stump. I mean, solicit his views on Darwin's theory of evolution or Asimov's three laws of robotics if you wanna find out.
But the man is a hero a veritable Knight of the Bloody Sock, let us give him that, however politics is a great breaker of heroes.
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Coakley Piles In...
Kudos to the AG for decisiveness, she has made up her mind while others mull & dither.
She has clearly internalized that notion that a long tenure as Attorney General of the Commonwealth can be an impediment to a wider career in politics, you just make too many enemies in that job. Besides how often does a shot at the big time open up in the Bay State...the temptation is a strong one to hazard all in an off year election wherein one's power base is not at risk. Hell, I can barely resist the urge to announce and I'm an obscure rhetorical incendiary with a bizarre pseudonym!
Among the Spartans up in Menotomy, Martha (Who has been an ubiquitous presence at local democratic event nigh these ten years) has many many admirers in and around Spy Pond many of them women who went to the mat for Hillary in 2008. On the other hand Seventh District Congressman Ed Markey is counting on a good show in the Northwest suburbs to get himself nominated should he announce for Edward Maximus'seat. Thus Coakley & Markey share the same base in some respects.
Of course if Victoria Reggie decides to bid on her late husband's sinecure then it becomes really interesting from the perspective of gender politics in the democratic primary.
Meanwhile, back at the Boston Globe, Scot Lehigh shows his true colors with a snarling incontinent attack on Former Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy.
This would be the same Scot Lehigh who repeatedly tried to convince the Globe's readership that Mitt Romney was a nice toothy moderate republican even as the Viceroy was touring the nation howling imprecations at the Commonwealth.
This would be the same Scot Lehigh who thought Scary Kerry Healey was a "nice girl" who fell in with a bad crowd in campaign 2006...in short this is the same old dupe who has been wrong about everything since the Fall of Man, pay him no mind Joe.
She has clearly internalized that notion that a long tenure as Attorney General of the Commonwealth can be an impediment to a wider career in politics, you just make too many enemies in that job. Besides how often does a shot at the big time open up in the Bay State...the temptation is a strong one to hazard all in an off year election wherein one's power base is not at risk. Hell, I can barely resist the urge to announce and I'm an obscure rhetorical incendiary with a bizarre pseudonym!
Among the Spartans up in Menotomy, Martha (Who has been an ubiquitous presence at local democratic event nigh these ten years) has many many admirers in and around Spy Pond many of them women who went to the mat for Hillary in 2008. On the other hand Seventh District Congressman Ed Markey is counting on a good show in the Northwest suburbs to get himself nominated should he announce for Edward Maximus'seat. Thus Coakley & Markey share the same base in some respects.
Of course if Victoria Reggie decides to bid on her late husband's sinecure then it becomes really interesting from the perspective of gender politics in the democratic primary.
Meanwhile, back at the Boston Globe, Scot Lehigh shows his true colors with a snarling incontinent attack on Former Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy.
This would be the same Scot Lehigh who repeatedly tried to convince the Globe's readership that Mitt Romney was a nice toothy moderate republican even as the Viceroy was touring the nation howling imprecations at the Commonwealth.
This would be the same Scot Lehigh who thought Scary Kerry Healey was a "nice girl" who fell in with a bad crowd in campaign 2006...in short this is the same old dupe who has been wrong about everything since the Fall of Man, pay him no mind Joe.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Orrin Hatch on Imus in the Morning today...
Despite the recent death of his best pal Teddy Kennedy, the Senator for Utah remains remarkably sound of wind and even a bit fey.
He combined a sentimental remembrance of his old friend Edward Maximus with a long sorrowful denunciation of "government run healthcare on a single payer plan". His dissection of the numbers when it came to the thirty five or so million who have no health coverage whatsoever was breathtakingly discalcular. For sheer effrontery delivered in a hurt and earnest tone, Hatch has no equal. He might've missed out on being GWB's Vice President but he will definitely be in line to drive a stake thru health care in the US Senate this year, count on it.
The man's devotion to spreading illness, despair and bankruptcy among the uninsured is shining example to us all.
Which does raise an important point, if Orrin Hatch (normally a fawning pouter pigeon of a man) cannot display soo much as an ounce of compromise, then why are we as democrats wasting so much breath on this phantom utopia called bipartisanship? Nothing accomplished in a spirit of bipartisanship has pretty much the same malign outcome as ye olde partisan gridlock, the American people get screwed thass all.
It is worth remembering that when the GOP had a fifty five vote majority in the US Senate they did nothing but run their electoral steamroller over the democrats amid demented screams in praise of the coming One Partei Conservative State.
We have to accept certain realities, they are hard to internalize when they lead us away to the natural tendency to dicker and compromise. Right now though, the partisan divide is so wide and deep we as liberals and democrats have no one with whom to negotiate. What GOP Senator would dare with three hundred de-facto Rwandan DJ's waiting to howl up a lynch mob outside their offices?
He combined a sentimental remembrance of his old friend Edward Maximus with a long sorrowful denunciation of "government run healthcare on a single payer plan". His dissection of the numbers when it came to the thirty five or so million who have no health coverage whatsoever was breathtakingly discalcular. For sheer effrontery delivered in a hurt and earnest tone, Hatch has no equal. He might've missed out on being GWB's Vice President but he will definitely be in line to drive a stake thru health care in the US Senate this year, count on it.
The man's devotion to spreading illness, despair and bankruptcy among the uninsured is shining example to us all.
Which does raise an important point, if Orrin Hatch (normally a fawning pouter pigeon of a man) cannot display soo much as an ounce of compromise, then why are we as democrats wasting so much breath on this phantom utopia called bipartisanship? Nothing accomplished in a spirit of bipartisanship has pretty much the same malign outcome as ye olde partisan gridlock, the American people get screwed thass all.
It is worth remembering that when the GOP had a fifty five vote majority in the US Senate they did nothing but run their electoral steamroller over the democrats amid demented screams in praise of the coming One Partei Conservative State.
We have to accept certain realities, they are hard to internalize when they lead us away to the natural tendency to dicker and compromise. Right now though, the partisan divide is so wide and deep we as liberals and democrats have no one with whom to negotiate. What GOP Senator would dare with three hundred de-facto Rwandan DJ's waiting to howl up a lynch mob outside their offices?
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