Humble Elias doesn't blame Charlie Baker one bit for

skipping out on the annual Saint Patrick's Day breakfast in South Boston, it is as I've said before it is the greatest gathering of gasbags in one place since Kaiser Wilhelm reviewed Germany's Zeppelin fleet in 1915.

But ditching Southie for a ham-n-egger in Scituate? 

That is ba-ad politics in an election year.

Trust me Deval Patrick is chortling at all the free shots he'll be taking tomorrow, a two hour long "Baker is a Bum" informericial to be sure.

 Oh don't worry, Scott Brown and Tim Cahill will pump some serious arrows into the Governor's hide...But I doubt that bothers Patrick one whit.

It all helps him move to the center, into the "Harry Truman Position", the guy who stands athwart the trimmers and the utopians and sez "Nope!"

I think he is hoping Tim will carry South Boston and let Baker carry Scituate as long as he, Governor Patrick clears the board in his targeted precincts.

As of tomorrow the game begins in earnest...

Word on the street is...

That Governor Deval Patrick is open to making appearances on various local wingnut radio talk shows, notably the Howie Carr Show.
I would pay very very good money to hear the Governor tenderly and solicitously promise to send in the Ancient and Honorable Hibernian Artillery Company to fire a volley of grapeshot over the heads of those allegedly drunken Wellesley teens who have so irked Howie's second wife.
"Rabble" Wife #2 calls em', with a Hanoverian disdain that only the trophy wife of a radio talk show host can summon...
Well, seems like the Governor has some experience in sorting out bullies of all ages...Maybe he can be of some assistance here.

Alls I kin say is...

HIT HIM annuder sockodoggler Deval!  Bash him a good one right in the kisser!!!
That stiff Charlie Baker said nothing as the Commonwelth was denuded of it's Federal Highway funds and as a HMO CEO he has been naught but a "Robin Hood in Reverse", rob from the sick to the pay the shareholders, an appalling record of "accomplishment" all told.
Bloody him up good I say, let Baker know early this game is fuh real.
Honestly, other than raise a whole bunch of money and making a couple of pundits swoon just what has Charlie Baker done so far? Based on Scott Brown's victory in January, Charlie ought to be enjoying a Roman Triumph thru the streets of the Commonwealth, instead he is piping heavy anesthesia into all his campaign speeches, the insomniacs of Massachusetts are finding lasting relief in the arms of morphia thru the spoken rhetoric of Citizen Baker.
Go fer it, Deval, this guy is a maundering punk, smack him again sez I.

Shrill on the Potomac

It didn't take long for Senator Brown to morph into a rather irritating specimen of DC Drama Queen....

Good grief, whatever happened to that olde rule "Freshmen Senators are seen and not heard"?

I would argue that The President and  the Senate Democrats (after the usual two weeks of hand wringing) have internalized well the lessons of Scott Brown's election in January. Scott and GOP have staked all on obstruction and fair minded people let along democrats cannot negotiate with obstruction hence the current drive to pass healthcare via reconciliation.
The sad truth about democracy is that politicians can easily claim contradictory "mandates" from the exact same voters.
Scott sez the voters of Massachusetts by a two point margin elected him to delay obstruct and derail the very health care reform process he once voted for as a State Senator. The President claims a national mandate to get that same health care reform passed.
Personally I have a feeling that Scott's new round of bluster indicates that in the end he wants to be  the Commonwealth's answer to Rick Santorum, the former Senator from Pennsylvania and notorious wingnut whose nigh psychotic whine enlivened many a staid Senatorial debate.
Good luck with that Scott.

I can't think of a

better reason to pass comprehensive health care reform than this...

Honestly, all you freepers out there don't worry your pretty little heads about it, even if Rush carried out this entirely empty threat, he'll be back as soon as he runs out of cheet-ohs and canned cherry pie filling.
The man can barely get out of his seat without setting off EKG alarms he isn't going to Costa Rica for anything less than free dilaudid believe me, public option or no public option.

The richer they are...

the bigger the moocher.

Ever noticed that some of the wealthiest people are at the same time the biggest welchers & chiselers?

Well, what they and by extension Christy Mihos are telling us is that they didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks.
True dat...But it is a hard road to getting elected Governor of Massachusetts unless you lay out some long green.
Mihos doesn't get that, but then Humble Elias doesn't call him Crazy Christy for nothing.
It is a shame really because Mihos could beat Baker, Charlie is running like molasses up hill at this point, sure he has raised big money but so did John Connolly who recalls his Presidential inaugural, anyone?
Trust me, Mihos could beat this stiff.
Alas as long as the meme is about Christy's pathological inability to pay his god-damned bills Baker will get a free pass to the nomination, at this point I am not sure I'd give Mihos even money to get on the GOP primary ballot.
He needs to square up, stop shouting and buckle down...All things alien to Crazy Christy I think.

America is a wonderful place

anyone can rise in our society given time and talent and perseverance, anyone.  And if you hate liberals to the point of homicidal dementia, are a misanthropic loudmouth in general and most importantly weight over four hundred pounds, don't worry, never fear, WTKK has an on air job just waiting for you.

Honestly where do they find these bloated mesomorphs? And more importantly what kind of Presidential Level Healthcare are they getting off of talk radio to keep them alive all this time?
Whatever it is, it must be incredible, a round the clock medical team in constant attendance most likely, given the actuarial tables the above example should've eaten himself to death years ago.
Given that, I no longer what the coverage available to a US Senator, I want the coverage that WTKK's "talent" gets, clearly it is preemo in extremis.