Are pot-holes an impeachable offense?

Whilst governor Romney soars over our heads, eager to laugh it up at the expense of his allegedly beloved Commonwealth, the roads in Massachusetts continue to deteriorate. Unwary drivers run a pretty little gauntlet just before exit 52A on Route 2 westbound. Totten Pond Road in Waltham is a shuddery patched mess, Lexington Street is riddled with nasty little chugholes with a nice collection of craters sprouitn right across the street from the Star Market. Suffolk Street in Medford sports a nice collection of crevasses, the envy of Norway's Fjords.
You get the picture? Have your springs,struts, and shocks checked, no doubt Romney's numberless holes are doing a fine job keeping your local auto body shop in business.
Why would any outside investors wanna locate new business in Massachusetts given Romney's verbal disdain for the state? Moreover, one can SEE his contempt in the deplorable and wasted condition of our public roads. I say ditch Mitt, and elect someone who will spring for some damn asphalt!

Michael Medved was on the

"Eternal Word Television Network" last night, pissing and moaning because the "Passion of the Christ" was overlooked for Oscar kudos this year.
Well shit Michael, so was "Citizen Kane", ditto "Jaws". For that fact, a lot of blood soaked fear-fests get cut dead at Oscartime, the Academy is notoriously cool to horror films.
Whiny as ever, Michael insisted that the "snub" symbolized Hollywood's dislike of revealed religion or some such boilerplate twaddle like that. Medved was also up in arms about the alleged sympathetic depiction of assisted suicide in "Million Dollar Babies". He got a good ten minutes out of this topic, tinseltown's beloved "Culture of Death".
Good grief but Michael Medved is a fatuous flabby little rat! Is there any doubt he was the biggest smarmiest snitch in his High School?

Nothing else to say except he looked terrible in this appearance, pasty faced, squinty eyed, and his skin was cracked and looked like weathered papyrus. Either Michael has been easing the lonely pain of the American Conservative toady with oxycontin or else EWTN nneds to hire better lighting technicians and make up artists.
Since I am a humane polemicist, I'm going with the latter explanation at least until an indictment is unsealed.

Sick
Demented
Typical...

Mitt goes Mental...

A few days ago, I speculated that Romney’s chief problem was stupidity-the sort of stupidity that chronically afflicts inexperienced amateur politicians.
Now however, having read the many many quotes from his latest out of state speeches I’m wondering if Mitt isn’t simply stark raving crazy?
Consider this ominous howler from his South Carolina oration “Every child has a RIGHT to a father and mother”.
A right? Like a constitutional right? Nowhere in the State or Federal Bill of Rights is a right to a father or mother anywhere established. What next a right to brothers, sisters, a white picket fence, and a tire swing in the backyard?
Good Ghod is this yap gonna try to outlaw divorce in the Commonwealth? Retroactively repeal trial separations etc? Force divorcees to move back in with each other? Just what the hell is this lunatic talking about???
Clearly, running for president, even thinking about running for president has deranged Mitt Romney’s wits. This is a good indication of just how tempermentally unsuited Decaf is for the pressures of the Presidency. if he can’t hold himself in check in front of a few GOP spear carriers, how will he react if there is another major terrorist attack in the USA?
He is exiting the Commonwealth practically on a weekly basis and ranting and raving in a disassociated fashion in front of any collection of wowsers he can throw together.
The man needs a psychiatrist quite frankly.

And there is his grotesque ongoing hatred of Massachusetts, now even the Globe is reporting that Decaf chuckles at these get-togethers when the local witchburners crack ugly on the Commonwealth. If Mitt Romney is so disdainful of Massachusetts and its citizenry then for Ghod’s sake let him resign his position and move to a state whose electorate has his viceregal approval!
And when he gets to this hypothetical state, the inhabitants therein are well advised to meet Willard at the airport with a nicely tailored straitjacket.

Notes to the "Values Racket"

We have just passed through a presidential campaign that heavily emphasized the notion of “values”. Indeed to hear Messr’s Bush and Kerry tell it, nigh on every policy matter is defined and shaped by one’s own personal values.
It follows then, that all contemporary political debates are merely discussions about values. This is where the GOP screws us every time. The praetorian class in America always defines a value as a stark and bilateral choice between good and evil. Since no one rationally choses to do evil in public life, (Unless of course you are Ming the Merciless) the right thinking conservative always chose to do good. Therefore both his motives are good (since they are defined by values) and his policies are good because they too are indicative of the right values.
Since there can never be a real debate between good and evil, the GOP uses the term “values” to a means to stifle discussion. Ghod forbid anyone should have a simple disagreement about politics, no, our differences must always run deep according to the conservative zeitgeist and indeed are articulations of the gulf between right and wrong. This is a perfect catastrophe since our elections are now reduced to the repeated chanting of certain focus-group tested power words.
See how they do it? The drunks, drug fiends, and pervy market worshippers of the GOP pre-rig the debate by using a definition that automatically favors them. This is how a heartfelt man of goodwill like John Kerry gets tarred with brush of indecision and vacillationb (among other things)-because the "values debate" he is forced to participate in is sham from start to finish. The very term favors conservatism by definition.
Back in the 1950’s the term “sincerity” got worked to death by the jurassic spin doctors around Eisenhower and Nixon. In our era, “”values” is rapidly becoming one of those ominous Orwellian terms whose meaning is controlled by the intentions of the user. Frankly I think the term ought to be stricken from the political lexicon, the whole reign of values has done nothing but bring down on us the iron fist of the crudest, ugliest, and greediest bastards in the country.

Romney suddenly wants to spend 600 million large

on a "jobs creation program", apparently he is still getting the Boston Papers out on the hustings and is worried about persistent unemployment in his fiefdom. Preditably, the proposal is the usual mixture of conservative boilerplate: i.e. cuts in the unemployment tax, business tax incentives, a bigger billboards that SHOUT the imperial glory of the Bay State, and of course a cut in unemployment benefits-saw that one coming now didn't you?
The usual policy dreckola, the same old crap from the governor and his smirking staff of smart-alecks and know it alls. Ghod even Decaf's ideas are boring and tattered.

Just once I'd like to see the GOP deal with a pressing economic or social problem without recourse to their favorite universal panacea, the tax cut. Still and all that, the govenor is doing hsi fair share to keep us working, certainly he is keeping the curbside baggage handlers at Logan Airport busy with all his goings and goings and goings.

If only we could quietly move the state without leaving any forwarding address the next time Romney is out sucking up to the wowsers in Utah or Kentucky. Of course that would leave us with Kerry Healey's name on the letterhead, but she has to ask for a hall pass to use the little girl's room so lets not worry about her shall we?

Gravitas?

I’m beginning to think that Mitt Romney’s real problem is that he is just plain dumb. Consider, even after three full years of public life Romney cannot get the hang of the GOP’s “moderate racket” the easiest best paying sinecure in modern politics. In return for posing no threat to the internal dominance of the praetorian class in the GOP, a canny republican moderate can grab off committee chairmanships in congress and make excellent money as cable chat show talking head. Sheer dopes like Senator Lincoln Chaffee and utter laggards like Senator Arlen Specter can do the classic “moderate shuffle” in their sleep for ghod’s sake. Romney however, is perfectly hopeless, every time he opens his mouth about some burning social issue he sounds like a poor pathetic passage aggressive nerd.
In the last week alone we have discovered that Governor Romney is against gay marriage and partner benefits except where cirumstances force him to favor civil unions. Thanks to his speech in South Carolina on monday we now know that Mitt becomes a unswerving opponent of abortion whenever he crosses the state line on an outbound flight. In truth the Governor has been both for and against abortion in rapid and bewildering succession depending on whats at stake and where he is located in the continental U.S.A. Lastly his stem cell research policy, is naught but embarassingly incoherent buncombe.
A true blue GOP moderate, would excuse these equivocations and evasions as the natural consequences of charting the middle course and go back to playing the grinning toadying token without a qualm. Yet for all that, Mitt is collecting few kudos for his alleged moderation. Probably because moderation is nothing but a sham and a pose in the GOP and so therefore it harms Romney’s Presidential prospects to have too moderate an image.

On the other hand, if Mitt was a mainstream conservative he’d simpy, denounce all homosexuals, abortions, and cloned embryos and then retire to his office to await the usual plaudits from Scot Lehigh for his devotion to principle. This stance would at least get him some traction in Iowa and New Hampshire, it is a formula for impotence on Beacon Hill, but the long term benefits are easy to see.
Then why all the ifs ands and buts?? Easy, Mitt still has to get re-elected and being an inexperienced amateur politician he making the sort of mistakes that common to a county commissioner in their first term. Alas poor Willard, his compuslive need to sound off on everything gets him not credit either as squish or a neanderthal-something that must bug him assuming he is smart enough to recognize his own damn foolishness.
Frankly, the man is a amateur and it really shows at times like this. All his sinister reptilian aides and sycophants cannot do anything else with him, Romney just lacks the requisite grand political instincts. Mitt’s dad George Romney the former Governor of Michigan was dopey like this too. He ran his mouth off about Viet Nam and was out of the running for President before a single vote was cast in 1968. A more seasoned Governor, a Dukakis or a Sargent, would have stayed out of South Carolina and the seductions of out of state wowsers until they had their own ducks in a row.
Not Mitt, every time he opens his mouth his lack of gravitas becomes more and more apparent.

Romney hates Massachusetts (in South Carolina at least)

Under the “other skills” section of his resume, do you suppose Mitt Romney lists “brazen toady”?
His speech to the Spartanburg County SC GOP was incomparably worse than anyone could imagine, full of groveling and shameless ass-licking of the lowest variety.
He also took the Commonwealth to task for legalizing gay marriage and embryo cloning for use in stem cell research. My Ghod, if he has such a low opinion of the Bay State then why in hell is he so desperate to be re-elected as governor???
We suffer from a pathological lack of pride in Massachusetts, and the toadying self loathing likes of Willard Mitt Romney is the inevitable result. We think the state legislature is full of crooks, the judiciary is full of kooks, and so therefore why SHOULDN’T the governorship belong to an inept and greedy amateur?
From the looks of his speech monday, Decaf is quite literally running against the Commonwealth itself next year. The Viceroy is always at his best when he is being insufferably haughty and derisive, his hatred of Massachusetts and his compulsive need to brown nose out of state wowsers could not be clearer. Of course, his audience ate it up, indeed there nothing more entertaining for republicans that are drunk on triumphalism to watch a grown man grovel like a well whipped dog.
Rick Betram, the local GOP chair made an ugly comment about the cost of the Big Dig and Mitt sat there like a house broken poodle saying just exactly nothing. Beltram also offered to help Mitt turn Massachusetts into a Red State...insults and bitchy remarks being somehow the first step.
Geez, I wonder how much of my tax dollars have been flushed away on agricultural subsidies for marginal farmers in South Carolina? Probably billions now over my forty year life span to date. Not to mention the gujillions in federal taxpayer dollars that S.C. has grabbed off for roads and highways.
And still Mitt sat there, laughing no doubt at every insult flung at the Commonwealth, he allegedly represents. Well, I’m sure monday’s appearance went off without a hitch, but if the GOP is looking for a hero in 2008, then they’d better pass Mitt over. The man is utterly spineless in every way.

Sick
Demented
Typical...