Governor Patrick up to something?
His fundraising continues even though he is a "lame duck governor" by personal degree and now he and Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray are embarking on a "listening tour" of the Commonwealth.
Two of the Governor's initial stops are noted below:
SALISBURY: July 7th at 5:30 p.m. - Town Common, 17 Elm Street
MILFORD: July 12th at 6:00 p.m. - Draper Park
Why is the Lt. Governor "on tour" as well?
That seems odd.
Is the Governor trying to raise Tim Murray's profile prior to some announcement? Does that announcement involve the Governor's future political plans or the Lieutenant Governor's future political plans?
This could all be speculation on my part...But Governor's of reasonably prosperous states do not ordinarily bestir themselves in the hot weather months unless there is something in the wind.
If any of the high democratic primary towns show up on the schedule (exp. Arlington) then that would be an interesting indicator.
Just sayin' thass all.
Hell I could be wrong, anything to avoid joining the bluster about Whitey Bulger.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Michele Bachmann...
is the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to GOP Presidential contenders.
In the past week The Right Honorable Bachmann has confused John Wayne Gacy with John Wayne, tried to pass off John Quincy Adams as a founding father (Which triggered her fans to swarm wikipedia to revise the John Quincy Adams entry with a zeal unseen since the salad days of Big Brother's Ministry of Truth)and come out for a deficit doubling moratorium on the Federal income tax.
Three weeks ago, the clown-king of the GOP was Newt Gingrich, but now today, Michele has lapped the former Speaker of the US House by a country mile. Nothing she says makes the slightest sense whatsoever, every speech a goldmine of smugly delivered rubbish.
Bachmann is also the sort of brassy dingbat who'll give that stern misogynist Mitt Romney screaming shit-fits, I look forward to all the GOP debates in New Hampshire as comedy extravaganzas in extremis.
Honestly, I couldn't be happier if Earl K. Long rose from the dead and announced he challenging Scott Brown next year.
In the past week The Right Honorable Bachmann has confused John Wayne Gacy with John Wayne, tried to pass off John Quincy Adams as a founding father (Which triggered her fans to swarm wikipedia to revise the John Quincy Adams entry with a zeal unseen since the salad days of Big Brother's Ministry of Truth)and come out for a deficit doubling moratorium on the Federal income tax.
Three weeks ago, the clown-king of the GOP was Newt Gingrich, but now today, Michele has lapped the former Speaker of the US House by a country mile. Nothing she says makes the slightest sense whatsoever, every speech a goldmine of smugly delivered rubbish.
Bachmann is also the sort of brassy dingbat who'll give that stern misogynist Mitt Romney screaming shit-fits, I look forward to all the GOP debates in New Hampshire as comedy extravaganzas in extremis.
Honestly, I couldn't be happier if Earl K. Long rose from the dead and announced he challenging Scott Brown next year.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
If Deval Patrick is over-and-out done in 2014
then why is he still fundraising?
Yes indeed, I got an invite to a July 15th birthday fundraiser at the Governor's "Sweet P" vacation cottage in Richmond Mass this week, with tickets at $200 & $500 respectively.
Granted politics costs money, but since the Governor has disavowed any interest in running for the US Senate in 2012 nor has he set up a Federal campaign fund (to my knowledge), I'm assuming this is workaday gubernatorial political cash he is trying to raise.
maybe that "over-out-and-done in 2012" thing, isn't set in stone?
Mere speculation I know...Well what can I say? It is hot out and I have little to add to the Whitey Bulger affair so let flow the hearsay and innuendo!
Yes indeed, I got an invite to a July 15th birthday fundraiser at the Governor's "Sweet P" vacation cottage in Richmond Mass this week, with tickets at $200 & $500 respectively.
Granted politics costs money, but since the Governor has disavowed any interest in running for the US Senate in 2012 nor has he set up a Federal campaign fund (to my knowledge), I'm assuming this is workaday gubernatorial political cash he is trying to raise.
maybe that "over-out-and-done in 2012" thing, isn't set in stone?
Mere speculation I know...Well what can I say? It is hot out and I have little to add to the Whitey Bulger affair so let flow the hearsay and innuendo!
Monday, June 27, 2011
I can't recall the last time a leading democrat
demanded an apology from a news commentator, and got one.
For all the times that charges of communist sympathies, stupidity, arrogance or sexual deviancy or the usual epithets that get applied to liberals-progressives and democrats, never once have I ever heard apology one from the likes of Tim Russert and his ilk.
So I think it's hilarious that when Chris Wallace on Fox News asks Rep Michele Bachmann a leading question as to whether or not she is a "flake", the GOP candidate didn't catch his drift took it as an insult and demanded an apology.
Which she got, almost immediately.
Honestly, Michele Bachmann is either too stupid or too insulated by the Washington conservative echo chamber to realize she was being given a golden opportunity to deny charges of flakiness in the approved Stalinist style of Fox News.
SBachmann has had it too easy for too long, she couldn't answer a question that almost all democrats in public life have to deal with nearly every day. She couldn't even turn the situation to her advantage...stupidity or inexperience? You be the judge.
For all the times that charges of communist sympathies, stupidity, arrogance or sexual deviancy or the usual epithets that get applied to liberals-progressives and democrats, never once have I ever heard apology one from the likes of Tim Russert and his ilk.
So I think it's hilarious that when Chris Wallace on Fox News asks Rep Michele Bachmann a leading question as to whether or not she is a "flake", the GOP candidate didn't catch his drift took it as an insult and demanded an apology.
Which she got, almost immediately.
Honestly, Michele Bachmann is either too stupid or too insulated by the Washington conservative echo chamber to realize she was being given a golden opportunity to deny charges of flakiness in the approved Stalinist style of Fox News.
SBachmann has had it too easy for too long, she couldn't answer a question that almost all democrats in public life have to deal with nearly every day. She couldn't even turn the situation to her advantage...stupidity or inexperience? You be the judge.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
D'ye know who would make a dandy candidate for the US Senate?
Former US Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich.
Stop and think, he has already run for Governor, so he knows all about stumping the state, he has been to Brockton, Peru and Florida...all the big time towns and beyond the Connecticut River as well.
He is a former Secretary of Labor and a brilliant economist, he can talk about JOBSfrom a position of experience and authority. We are not gonna defeat Scott Brown without a very strong economic program, Reich gets us that just on name recognition alone.
Presumably his name is still magic among progressives, he'd bring a strong cadre of volunteers to the table. He might just clear some of the unserious names out of the race just to start.
He has a reputation as a progressive and something of a populist. Against a notorious trimmer like Scott Brown Robert Reich can very successfully run on a "You know where I stand" program. You can't run on such a slogan if people don't have a sense of your strongly held beliefs.
The strikes against Reich are two-fold:
1.) We have no clue as to what appeal he'd have for independents in this state, he has to be anchored in the progressive wing of the democratic party yes, but he also has to pull in unenrolled voters.
2.) The poor schnook has gone meshugginah and hied himself off to sunny Southern California for a mad phat gig at some academic institute. I doubt he is even registered to vote anymore in the Commonwealth. This isn't a deal breaker by any means, after all Mitt Romney had pretty much quit on Massachusetts before Crazy Christy Mihos convinced the wavering financier he was the only man who could save the State GOP from Jane "Jingle Money" Swift.
Reich could do likewise, the Massachusetts electorate is famously flexible on these matters (look at the mook we got for a Junior Senator if you don't believe me)...But the Former Labor Secretary would have to make his decision soon if he was to pile in with both feet.
Well who am I kidding here?
From all accounts Reich has lost interest in the Big Game at least as it is played in Massachusetts...Its sorta hopeless to think he'd wanna ride in and save our bacon, but he remains the type of candidate we need, eloquent, intelligent, with strong convictions and a base within the democratic party.
Bob?
Are ye tempted?
Stop and think, he has already run for Governor, so he knows all about stumping the state, he has been to Brockton, Peru and Florida...all the big time towns and beyond the Connecticut River as well.
He is a former Secretary of Labor and a brilliant economist, he can talk about JOBSfrom a position of experience and authority. We are not gonna defeat Scott Brown without a very strong economic program, Reich gets us that just on name recognition alone.
Presumably his name is still magic among progressives, he'd bring a strong cadre of volunteers to the table. He might just clear some of the unserious names out of the race just to start.
He has a reputation as a progressive and something of a populist. Against a notorious trimmer like Scott Brown Robert Reich can very successfully run on a "You know where I stand" program. You can't run on such a slogan if people don't have a sense of your strongly held beliefs.
The strikes against Reich are two-fold:
1.) We have no clue as to what appeal he'd have for independents in this state, he has to be anchored in the progressive wing of the democratic party yes, but he also has to pull in unenrolled voters.
2.) The poor schnook has gone meshugginah and hied himself off to sunny Southern California for a mad phat gig at some academic institute. I doubt he is even registered to vote anymore in the Commonwealth. This isn't a deal breaker by any means, after all Mitt Romney had pretty much quit on Massachusetts before Crazy Christy Mihos convinced the wavering financier he was the only man who could save the State GOP from Jane "Jingle Money" Swift.
Reich could do likewise, the Massachusetts electorate is famously flexible on these matters (look at the mook we got for a Junior Senator if you don't believe me)...But the Former Labor Secretary would have to make his decision soon if he was to pile in with both feet.
Well who am I kidding here?
From all accounts Reich has lost interest in the Big Game at least as it is played in Massachusetts...Its sorta hopeless to think he'd wanna ride in and save our bacon, but he remains the type of candidate we need, eloquent, intelligent, with strong convictions and a base within the democratic party.
Bob?
Are ye tempted?
Friday, June 24, 2011
I just love the fact that when the
local media rousted Billy Bulger out of bed at 6am with the news that his brother Whitey, the reputed murderer, had at last been caught, the Former Senate President more or less replied in true neighborhood fashion "I dunt know nuttin' about no one!"
Class all the way Billy Class all the Way.
Oh and I don't know if the stolen Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum paintings are in Whitey's storage space in Santa Monica, I do think it'd be funny if the Federales found fifteen years worth of Christmas cards from Billy neatly tied in a bundle.
I know Whitey will cut a deal, but I'd pay good money to see Brother Billy testify at the trial...That would be the crowning touch.
Shit I'd pay good money to see Mike Barnicle explain to a court of law whatever gave him the erroneous and idiotic notion that Whitey Bulger "protected" South Boston from hard drugs...THAT would be a "YouTube Moment".
Class all the way Billy Class all the Way.
Oh and I don't know if the stolen Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum paintings are in Whitey's storage space in Santa Monica, I do think it'd be funny if the Federales found fifteen years worth of Christmas cards from Billy neatly tied in a bundle.
I know Whitey will cut a deal, but I'd pay good money to see Brother Billy testify at the trial...That would be the crowning touch.
Shit I'd pay good money to see Mike Barnicle explain to a court of law whatever gave him the erroneous and idiotic notion that Whitey Bulger "protected" South Boston from hard drugs...THAT would be a "YouTube Moment".
Giddy Libertarian Rep. Ron Paul...
(Who is reliably anti abortion as any dues paying member of the College of Cardinals) has teamed up with Barney Frank to decriminalize marijuana at the Federal level.
The message here is you can get high and the Federales shall not mess with you, but if you are carrying Arnold Schwarzenegger's demon seed abortion is not an option.
So if Ron Paul were to spy a healthy young pregnant woman toking up in full exercise of her rights, well, I guess his head would explode.
this is my problem with libertarianism in miniature, they all draw line over what constitutes legitimate grounds for state action. But those lines are drawn by personal prejudice, opportunism, greed, foolishness, whimsy, utopianism you name it.
"Arbitrary and capricious" are the two words I'd use to describe libertarianism...Which is exactly why Ron Paul (the Cicero of US Libertarianism) can propose a law decriminalizing marijuana at the same time remaining a stalwart police presence in the wombs of women all over the country.
The message here is you can get high and the Federales shall not mess with you, but if you are carrying Arnold Schwarzenegger's demon seed abortion is not an option.
So if Ron Paul were to spy a healthy young pregnant woman toking up in full exercise of her rights, well, I guess his head would explode.
this is my problem with libertarianism in miniature, they all draw line over what constitutes legitimate grounds for state action. But those lines are drawn by personal prejudice, opportunism, greed, foolishness, whimsy, utopianism you name it.
"Arbitrary and capricious" are the two words I'd use to describe libertarianism...Which is exactly why Ron Paul (the Cicero of US Libertarianism) can propose a law decriminalizing marijuana at the same time remaining a stalwart police presence in the wombs of women all over the country.
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