Ziplips can sure raise the moolah

can't he?

But that wasn't any indication that he has the common sense ghod gave a Jersey Cow.
And given his actual performance in the month of April (stabbing Richard Tisei in the back, pussyfooting the teabaggers, firing his campaign manager in a dead panic and blaming his battle-ax wifey for his former support for prop 2.5 overrides in Swampscott), I gotta say a Jersey Cow would give Baker a run for his money in the current GOP primary.
I mean other than the money and nailing Crazy Christy Mihos' coonskin to the wall Charlie doesn't have much to show for the effort does he?

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Honest to Ghod...

Charlie Baker's handlers need to keep him away from the fourth estate, every time he gives a press conference he makes a braying jackass of himself.
Tuesday he tried to sound tough on the issue of homelessness by insisting tramps and bums had to produce identification proving they were Massachusetts' residents before receiving aid.
Then some bow-tie in his campaign reminded him "they are homeless, they don't have residences or ID or any of that rubbish".
Nitwit...
And so the inevitable craven retraction, this is like the third one Ziplips has issued in the past thirty days, first he publicly stabs Richard Tisei in the back regarding the transgender civil rights bill then he claims his wife nagged him into supporting Prop 2.5 overrides in Swampscott, now this mishaugas.
Charlie Baker is so inept he can't even pull off Spiro Agnew's old floorwalker act something that has keep all sorts of dubious teachables in the game for decades now.
I don't think Governor Patrick's swift pointed response is "playing politics with homelessness" it is however playing politics with Charlie Baker's almighty stupidity, different animal entirely.
I dunno kids, seems to me this may yet become a showdown between Cahill and Patrick, with Baker flailing for the bronze medal...A few more weeks like this and Charlie is gonna be in serious Bozo the Clown territory.

Well despite the fact that the back up water supply

was eminently potable, I still think the great 2010 water crisis is a cautious win for team Patrick. He stayed calm, the targetd communities stayed calm (for the most part) and we got thru it quickly.

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And now at least we know that the state has a very effective crisis-communications system in place, useful to know if something even worse happens (and I devotely hope it does not).
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Meanwhile, we wuz saved by blue collar guyz in tee shirts...congrats to our trained and experienced mechanics...Just don't let Mike Barnicle climb up yer porch or anything.

Why in Ghod's Name...

Does Jeff Jacoby persist in defending the indefensible practice of disaster related price gouging?

Shaking people down for a few more shekels at a time of panic & crisis is pretty goddamn low on the morality scale if you asked me.

But no, when the shit hammer comes down on us all, Jeff goes charging out there under the Dollar Sign Flag desperate to convince he is John Galt.
Pathetic really.
Honestly, he'll never become the next David Brudnoy if he keeps this up, he will be lucky to be stuck at the bottom of the bill with the cheap acts like R. Emmett Tyrell.
BTW whatever happened to Bob Tyrell? He looked like the next big monster back when Clinton was in office a natty combo of The Raisuli and Westbrook Pegler, now today pfft! Nothing the man couldn't get arrested if he solicited an immature donkey act.

Drinking from the tea kettle...

Well lets run down the list shall we?

The Gulf of Mexico is about to be covered with an oil slick that British Petroleum assured us would never happen offa one of their rigs.

Someone tried to blow up Times Square.

Last month it was too much water (in the form of rain) this month it is not enough potable H2O....

Oh and Calvin Borel won the Kentucky Derby...again. Truly he is the a Man on Horseback, no one has enjoyed winning more since the Empire Days of Muhammad Ali.

Well, nothing left to do but treat it all like an adventure. The summer is off to a helluva start sez Humble Elias.

Gotta Love Barbara Anderson

She is older than dirt, hasn't had a new thought in twenty years and pretty much she is relegated to the bottom of the bill with the cheap acts..but damn the lady does have the courage of her restrictions.
With the zeal of Chekist Anderson mercilessly grilled Citizen Charlie "Ziplips" Baker on his former support for Prop 2.5 overrides in Swampscott until he broke down and blamed his wife for his apostasy.
Satisfied that Citizen Baker is appropriately craven and spineless she endorsed his gubernatorial candidacy with all the smug self satisfaction one would expect from say the House of the Romanovs.
Ah but Barbara has a history of this sort of thing, she also has opportunistic side to her as well, she had the sheer effrontery to tour the  NH primary introducing Mitt Romney as an anti-tax zealot never once mentioning all the bewildering fees Mitt increased as Governor of Massachusetts.
Ditto she extracts abject groveling from Charlie Baker before endorsing him, artfully skipping over his penchant for increasing premiums at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
In truth, Barbara Anderson reminds me of the old "Anti-Saloon League" from prohibition days when they'd happily trade votes with every drunk in the US Congress...I'm sure all those chowderheads blamed their wives too.