Former State Senator Scott Brown an out of-shape pretty boy, but he is a cheapskate as well.
First John Kerry (a sixty six year old cancer survivor) beats Brown's bony ass in last weekend's Pan Mass Bicycle Challenge (which raises money for cancer research) but the Senior Senator raised 106K USD compared to a paltry four thounsand raised by Junior Senator Beefcake.
Waaa-al shee-it...I thought Brownie was popular with a fifty five percent approval rating, you'd think that would transfer over to a no-brainer stunt like cancer fundraising, but I guess not.
I mean this mook could've auctioned off his damn autograph on Ebay for more money...But this is Scott Brown whose pride swollen head holds few original thoughts or so it seems.
Oh well, kudos to Kerry he at least can stand the pace.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
If the Big Dig is any measure...
then the current recession will be a memory before any of these proposed casinos are up and running in the Commonwealth.
And their cost will double during construction, the ceiling will fall in and the damn things will leak as well.
Just sayin'...
And their cost will double during construction, the ceiling will fall in and the damn things will leak as well.
Just sayin'...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
We live in an era of disposable politicians...
Case in point, Matt Amorello who got seriously pinched for DUI this weekend.
As bad a Big Dig Manager as Matt was, it is worth recalling that he was appointed to the sinecure by Governor Jane "Jingle Money" Swift mostly as a sop to the State Legislature. Her logic being that Amorello, a popular former democratic state senator was hired mostly to keep the Great and General Court's grubby investigatory mitts off the Big Dig.
Amorello was willing to play ball with Jingle Money and her crowd and the quarter of a million large didn't hurt either...and to the extent that he kept the lid on, Amorello was a success at the Big Dig til the roof caved and the damn thing sprung leaks like a depth charged submarine.
That was his job, keep the lid on, not to tell the truth to the governor or the electorate or the legislature, he certainly wasn't hired for his Herbert Hooverian management skills.
Eventually, Matt was fired, and then he got divorced, and lost his house and now is lying in the UMass Medical Center before being dragged before a judge.
It used to be a man in public live could survive even this, but no more. I'm not exactly sure why I suspect natural selection is at work in the public sphere in ways we can't yet catalogue.
As bad a Big Dig Manager as Matt was, it is worth recalling that he was appointed to the sinecure by Governor Jane "Jingle Money" Swift mostly as a sop to the State Legislature. Her logic being that Amorello, a popular former democratic state senator was hired mostly to keep the Great and General Court's grubby investigatory mitts off the Big Dig.
Amorello was willing to play ball with Jingle Money and her crowd and the quarter of a million large didn't hurt either...and to the extent that he kept the lid on, Amorello was a success at the Big Dig til the roof caved and the damn thing sprung leaks like a depth charged submarine.
That was his job, keep the lid on, not to tell the truth to the governor or the electorate or the legislature, he certainly wasn't hired for his Herbert Hooverian management skills.
Eventually, Matt was fired, and then he got divorced, and lost his house and now is lying in the UMass Medical Center before being dragged before a judge.
It used to be a man in public live could survive even this, but no more. I'm not exactly sure why I suspect natural selection is at work in the public sphere in ways we can't yet catalogue.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Whatever happened to...
Charlie "Ziplips" Baker?
Wasn't he running for somerthing?
School Committee? Public Exploder?
I forget.
These days Charlie is lucky to make page B-3 of the Metro Section of the Globe, he'd likely do better in Herald except somebody's pit bull terrier got loose in East Boston and as they say in Skowhegan "Fust things fust".
***
Okay okay I kid I kid!
I kid because I love...I love, to kid!
Likely this is calm before the storm, so far Ziplips has made little impression on the voting public, his audiences he has bored the once star struck punditry are disenchanted.
But remember he has money, lots of it, and GOP Gubernatorial aspirants are used to winning the day on the airwaves come September and October.
He has already said this campaign will be won or lost on TV so watch for it mah frenz.
Wasn't he running for somerthing?
School Committee? Public Exploder?
I forget.
These days Charlie is lucky to make page B-3 of the Metro Section of the Globe, he'd likely do better in Herald except somebody's pit bull terrier got loose in East Boston and as they say in Skowhegan "Fust things fust".
***
Okay okay I kid I kid!
I kid because I love...I love, to kid!
Likely this is calm before the storm, so far Ziplips has made little impression on the voting public, his audiences he has bored the once star struck punditry are disenchanted.
But remember he has money, lots of it, and GOP Gubernatorial aspirants are used to winning the day on the airwaves come September and October.
He has already said this campaign will be won or lost on TV so watch for it mah frenz.
Monday, August 09, 2010
There is a lot of palaver out there
about how Former State Senator Scott Brown introduced Elena Kagan to the Senate Judiciary Committee and then last week proceded to vote against her confirmation to the Supreme Court. The usual suspects in the local punditariat are all stroking their chins and theorizing.
Adrian Walker in Today's Globe thinks Brown is too enamored with his status as a political celebrity-blah-blah-blah and for that fact the Former State Senator does give off the faint whiff of having won the seat off of some ass-clown reality show.
I think this is the same sort of clumsily amateurish opportunism that characterized Mitt Romney's political career to date. Back when the Former Viceroy first seized power on Beacon Hill, I thought (along with dozens of other bloggers) that Mitt was essentially a closet conservative waiting for his moment to ideologically colonize Massachusetts.
The reality is though, that Romney is so cravenly self interested that mere ideology is a rhetoric that needs only be "gamed" in order to win.
This accounts for Romney's twists and turns on gay rights, abortion and a host of other issues, the ideological spectrum he spanned from the night he lost the New Hampshire Primary to the night he won the Michigan Primary is sets the national standard for brazen flip-floppery.
I'm wondering if Brown falls into the same category?
Neither a moderate or a conservative just a supremely selfish man with a preening ego that must needs be fed. It makes sense the only other successful Massachusetts Republican Brown could conceivably model himself on, is Romney, and Mitt is out for himself always and everywhere.
Hence the Kagan flip flop... and Like Romney, Brown couldn't care less about the appearance of cupidity because he and the Former Viceroy don't think anyone is paying attention.
Which is a sign of dangerous amateurishness to Humble Elias.
Adrian Walker in Today's Globe thinks Brown is too enamored with his status as a political celebrity-blah-blah-blah and for that fact the Former State Senator does give off the faint whiff of having won the seat off of some ass-clown reality show.
I think this is the same sort of clumsily amateurish opportunism that characterized Mitt Romney's political career to date. Back when the Former Viceroy first seized power on Beacon Hill, I thought (along with dozens of other bloggers) that Mitt was essentially a closet conservative waiting for his moment to ideologically colonize Massachusetts.
The reality is though, that Romney is so cravenly self interested that mere ideology is a rhetoric that needs only be "gamed" in order to win.
This accounts for Romney's twists and turns on gay rights, abortion and a host of other issues, the ideological spectrum he spanned from the night he lost the New Hampshire Primary to the night he won the Michigan Primary is sets the national standard for brazen flip-floppery.
I'm wondering if Brown falls into the same category?
Neither a moderate or a conservative just a supremely selfish man with a preening ego that must needs be fed. It makes sense the only other successful Massachusetts Republican Brown could conceivably model himself on, is Romney, and Mitt is out for himself always and everywhere.
Hence the Kagan flip flop... and Like Romney, Brown couldn't care less about the appearance of cupidity because he and the Former Viceroy don't think anyone is paying attention.
Which is a sign of dangerous amateurishness to Humble Elias.
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Monday, August 02, 2010
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