Word from Das Red Mass Gruppe is that Tim Cahill (independent candidate for Governor) has found his Lt. Governor candidate in former State Rep from Holliston, Paul Loscocco.
IF it's true then there are some interesting ideological twists in said candidacy (apparently Loscocco is waa-ay more conservative than the Baker-Tisei ticket stapled together. Nevertheless one has to wonder about his fundraising capability in an independent race where money will be a premium.
Update: The Herald confirms it is Loscocco...Waaa-al Ah swan, but at least Citizen Tim avoided the usual Lt. Gubernatorial shenanigans (nominating a filling station night manager, TV weather man or some other chowderhead).
Well it would seem the third party challenge is gonna run hard to the right, be interesting to see what the pace of fundraising is like for the Cahill-Loscocco ticket.
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Heh he IS a republican after all
Shit Charlie Baker is supposed to be raising mad phat money in his quest for the governorship.
I'd be shocked if he wasn't quite frankly.
It is the sort of news that deeply impresses newspaper columnists, the Brian McGrorys and Scot Lehighs of the world will be in simpleminded awe of Baker's two million large.
Me?
All I know is that apparently there is big money in lying like a dawg about the true price tag on the Big Dig and stiffing the municipalities for local aid back when Charlie was a toady for Bill Weld.
I'd be shocked if he wasn't quite frankly.
It is the sort of news that deeply impresses newspaper columnists, the Brian McGrorys and Scot Lehighs of the world will be in simpleminded awe of Baker's two million large.
Me?
All I know is that apparently there is big money in lying like a dawg about the true price tag on the Big Dig and stiffing the municipalities for local aid back when Charlie was a toady for Bill Weld.
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Priorities:
GOP congressional candidate Allen Quist (who is trying to unseat democrat Tim Walz in Minnesota) has asserted the following:">Allen Quist (who is trying to unseat democrat Tim Walz in Minnesota) has asserted the following:
It's because I, like you, have seen that our country is being destroyed. I mean, this is -- every generation has had to fight the fight for freedom. This is our fight. And this is our time. This is it. Terrorism, yes -- but that's not the big battle. The big battle is in D.C., with the radicals. They aren't liberals, they're radicals. Obama, Pelosi, Walz -- they're not liberals, they're radicals. They are destroying our country. And people all over are figuring that out."
In short, defeating President Obama is more important than the war on terrorism.
Thus it can be inferred by Allen Quist's potential future constituents that their very lives are forfeit in the grand apocalyptic battle to overcome the democrats and their President.
I think the operative term here is "cannon fodder", it doesn't matter how many voters get blown up as long as Allen Quist can tuck it to Obama.
H.L. Mencken once aptly described a sort of mad dog mania that befalls certain politicians as they ineffectually try to lay their hands on the collar of some person or movement they violently despise. So, clearly, Allen Quist is having himself an H.L. Mencken moment on the campaign trail.
I would pay good money to see some competent representative of the punditariat ask Quist at a press conference if terrorism comes in second to partisan insolence, what can casualties is Citizen Quist willing to countenance among his constituents on the road to GOP victory?
It's because I, like you, have seen that our country is being destroyed. I mean, this is -- every generation has had to fight the fight for freedom. This is our fight. And this is our time. This is it. Terrorism, yes -- but that's not the big battle. The big battle is in D.C., with the radicals. They aren't liberals, they're radicals. Obama, Pelosi, Walz -- they're not liberals, they're radicals. They are destroying our country. And people all over are figuring that out."
In short, defeating President Obama is more important than the war on terrorism.
Thus it can be inferred by Allen Quist's potential future constituents that their very lives are forfeit in the grand apocalyptic battle to overcome the democrats and their President.
I think the operative term here is "cannon fodder", it doesn't matter how many voters get blown up as long as Allen Quist can tuck it to Obama.
H.L. Mencken once aptly described a sort of mad dog mania that befalls certain politicians as they ineffectually try to lay their hands on the collar of some person or movement they violently despise. So, clearly, Allen Quist is having himself an H.L. Mencken moment on the campaign trail.
I would pay good money to see some competent representative of the punditariat ask Quist at a press conference if terrorism comes in second to partisan insolence, what can casualties is Citizen Quist willing to countenance among his constituents on the road to GOP victory?
Beefcake Scott hearts torture...
Details to be found here.
Y' know, muscle boy there, is in the end, an attorney.
And if an American Attorney can't come up with a single reason to refrain from torturing a suspect then the sheer majesty of the law has hit rock bottom in this man's republic.
For the record, it isn't about treating the suspect with kid gloves or being nice to alleged perps, it is all about the degraded and compromised quality of the info gleaned from said torture.
What d'ye suppose happened at the Big Moscow Purge Trials back in the 1930's? Radek Kamenev and that lot were all tortured into admitting they were in the pay of the Learned Elders of Zion and the British Secret Service and Woolworth's Dime Stores etc etc.
Y' know, muscle boy there, is in the end, an attorney.
And if an American Attorney can't come up with a single reason to refrain from torturing a suspect then the sheer majesty of the law has hit rock bottom in this man's republic.
For the record, it isn't about treating the suspect with kid gloves or being nice to alleged perps, it is all about the degraded and compromised quality of the info gleaned from said torture.
What d'ye suppose happened at the Big Moscow Purge Trials back in the 1930's? Radek Kamenev and that lot were all tortured into admitting they were in the pay of the Learned Elders of Zion and the British Secret Service and Woolworth's Dime Stores etc etc.
Monday, January 04, 2010
John McCain endorses Scott Brown for the US Senate...
I'm flabbergasted, who knew John McCain could find Massachusetts on a map?
This is Beefcake Scott's idea of a popular GOP heavyweight to buttress his campaign for the US Senate? An angry old wreck who barely cracked forty percent of the vote in Massachusetts in November of '08?
What Sarah Palin wasn't available?
Or is she next week's bid for some news ink?
I don't see why Palin shouldn't endorse Brown, they are pretty much ideological soul-mates, pro-life, genially homophobic, vain and given to utopian tax cut fantasies.
Seems like she is perfect fit really.
Bring in Sarah, Scott, Humble Elias needs the larfs right now.
This is Beefcake Scott's idea of a popular GOP heavyweight to buttress his campaign for the US Senate? An angry old wreck who barely cracked forty percent of the vote in Massachusetts in November of '08?
What Sarah Palin wasn't available?
Or is she next week's bid for some news ink?
I don't see why Palin shouldn't endorse Brown, they are pretty much ideological soul-mates, pro-life, genially homophobic, vain and given to utopian tax cut fantasies.
Seems like she is perfect fit really.
Bring in Sarah, Scott, Humble Elias needs the larfs right now.
Sunday, January 03, 2010
The definition of Insanity
is replicating the same action over and over with the intense expectation of a different outcome.
Such is the case with GOP senatorial candidate Scott Brown's current anti-recession proposal, more tax cuts aimed at the very financial cohorts that got us into this mess to begin with.
Never mind we just escaped eight years of trying to tax cut our way to Utopia (and ending up on relief all the same), forget we are at war and wars cost money and the very financials that blew us all to hell have learned NOTHING from their former profligacy despite a pricey federal bail out. Nope per Scott Brown Wall Street deserves another chance to raid the Federal treasury!
Another bailout, in the form of a tax cut, I mean talk about homeopathic economics!
Of course, the best Citizen Brown can come up with in his campaign commercials is some footage of JFK pushing his 1962 tax cut. Ah 1962, boom times compared to 2010 when the country (per William F. Buckley) was simply groaning under the weight of a 70% top rate. Well at this point what could Citizen Brown do, I doubt there is a single national republican alive or dead that could do any business at all for him in this Commonwealth. Ronald Reagan could rise from the dead on Boston Common and perform a laying of hands on Scott Brown to nigh universal apathy at this point. So Scott is forced to hide behind the late President Kennedy's tombstone and hand out smudgy pamphlets extolling ideas that were laughable when Gorgeous George was big medicine.
I say keep the money and invest it wisely and forget about Scott Brown he has nothing on offer except bad intentions and worse ideas.
Such is the case with GOP senatorial candidate Scott Brown's current anti-recession proposal, more tax cuts aimed at the very financial cohorts that got us into this mess to begin with.
Never mind we just escaped eight years of trying to tax cut our way to Utopia (and ending up on relief all the same), forget we are at war and wars cost money and the very financials that blew us all to hell have learned NOTHING from their former profligacy despite a pricey federal bail out. Nope per Scott Brown Wall Street deserves another chance to raid the Federal treasury!
Another bailout, in the form of a tax cut, I mean talk about homeopathic economics!
Of course, the best Citizen Brown can come up with in his campaign commercials is some footage of JFK pushing his 1962 tax cut. Ah 1962, boom times compared to 2010 when the country (per William F. Buckley) was simply groaning under the weight of a 70% top rate. Well at this point what could Citizen Brown do, I doubt there is a single national republican alive or dead that could do any business at all for him in this Commonwealth. Ronald Reagan could rise from the dead on Boston Common and perform a laying of hands on Scott Brown to nigh universal apathy at this point. So Scott is forced to hide behind the late President Kennedy's tombstone and hand out smudgy pamphlets extolling ideas that were laughable when Gorgeous George was big medicine.
I say keep the money and invest it wisely and forget about Scott Brown he has nothing on offer except bad intentions and worse ideas.
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Today's Iran...
is what you end up with when the native equivalent of abortion clinic bombers are allowed to make up all the rules in a society.
In essence, the Mullahs, their dragoons and attendant lackeys get to lie, cheat and steal and then defend those lies with violence.
So right now, despite the ongoing widespread protests, it is all still advantage Government. To date the Mullahs have not wavered in their commitment to shooting, jailing and or terrorizing 1/2 of the population in order to rule the other 1/2 like kings.
As of 9:52am EST the policy of the ruling partei in Tehran is no concessions, no mercy, no back talk.
Therefore in order to win, the opposition has to outlast the regime's commitment to retaining power by violence.
It worked for the Irish (who had their own special brand of violent resistance), the Indians (who went the whole "non violent" route by and large) and to a certain extent it worked for the Jews in Israel in 1948.
So far as Humble Elias can see this strategy is the oppositions' only hope in Tehran.
Nonetheless the regime hasn't flinched and the whole "outlast the bastards" meme is dependent on high expenditures in blood and manpower, sooner or later the cost of demonstrating and confronting may become too high for the disenfranchised.
So right now, it is score Mullahs, the whole thing feels less like the moment of liberation and a lot more like Tienamen Square all over again.
This has implications for US Policy in that our potential negotiating partners are likely to be the least willing to compromise, which will of course, increase tensions in that part of the world. As for Iran the international actor, they can look forward to more diplomatic isolation and economic sanctions and pressure from NGOs...All so the same old assholes can hold onto their phony-baloney jobs hassled the citizens for a few more years.
In essence, the Mullahs, their dragoons and attendant lackeys get to lie, cheat and steal and then defend those lies with violence.
So right now, despite the ongoing widespread protests, it is all still advantage Government. To date the Mullahs have not wavered in their commitment to shooting, jailing and or terrorizing 1/2 of the population in order to rule the other 1/2 like kings.
As of 9:52am EST the policy of the ruling partei in Tehran is no concessions, no mercy, no back talk.
Therefore in order to win, the opposition has to outlast the regime's commitment to retaining power by violence.
It worked for the Irish (who had their own special brand of violent resistance), the Indians (who went the whole "non violent" route by and large) and to a certain extent it worked for the Jews in Israel in 1948.
So far as Humble Elias can see this strategy is the oppositions' only hope in Tehran.
Nonetheless the regime hasn't flinched and the whole "outlast the bastards" meme is dependent on high expenditures in blood and manpower, sooner or later the cost of demonstrating and confronting may become too high for the disenfranchised.
So right now, it is score Mullahs, the whole thing feels less like the moment of liberation and a lot more like Tienamen Square all over again.
This has implications for US Policy in that our potential negotiating partners are likely to be the least willing to compromise, which will of course, increase tensions in that part of the world. As for Iran the international actor, they can look forward to more diplomatic isolation and economic sanctions and pressure from NGOs...All so the same old assholes can hold onto their phony-baloney jobs hassled the citizens for a few more years.
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