One hopes that he will stick to his guns when it gets down to crunch time.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Representative Sean Garballey...
"declined to state his position" on the current casino bill that is meandering it's way thru the state legislature. Granted the usual pro-gaming suspects (cough...BOBDILEO...cough) are lobbying Arlington's State Representative hard nonetheless I would remind the Chimes at Midnight's miniscule readership that Candidate Garballey assured the voters back in 2008 that he was reliably opposed to casino gambling in Massachusetts.
Friday, April 09, 2010
Charlie Baker is against
higher taxes but if your insurance premiums go up 32% in one year forget about it, higher premiums are just fine by him.
And this chowderhead is running as a populist...Good Ghod!
And this chowderhead is running as a populist...Good Ghod!
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Citizen Baker to the Commonwealth's Independents...
"I was for state regulation of health insurance premiums, before I was against it".
Honestly, if Mihos had a bare half a mind to draw on he could beat Baker like a gong, the man is a stiff and an inept stiff at that.
Ah but Crazy Christy just can't pull it together, Baker's poor stump performance, indecision and tendency to pussyfoot is creating opportunities that Mihos just can't seem to properly exploit.
Mitt Romney is a better flip-flopper than Charlie Baker, and the Former Viceory is a rank amateur at it!
Mihos should be out there pounding the podium about Charlie's golden parachute from Harvard-Pilgrim, his deaf-n-dumb performance on the Big Dig etc etc etc.
Alas no, right now the odds are fifty fifty whether or not Mihos will even get on the GOP primary ballot he has had worse publicity than Baker and his campaign operation is mired in pure chaos.
Unless of course he was gonna bolt the party again and make this a four way race, but honestly even Humble Elias doesn't deserve a heaven sent boon like that.
I dunno call me crazy, but this fall does not look like a done deal for the GOP as far as the Governor's race is concerned.
Honestly, if Mihos had a bare half a mind to draw on he could beat Baker like a gong, the man is a stiff and an inept stiff at that.
Ah but Crazy Christy just can't pull it together, Baker's poor stump performance, indecision and tendency to pussyfoot is creating opportunities that Mihos just can't seem to properly exploit.
Mitt Romney is a better flip-flopper than Charlie Baker, and the Former Viceory is a rank amateur at it!
Mihos should be out there pounding the podium about Charlie's golden parachute from Harvard-Pilgrim, his deaf-n-dumb performance on the Big Dig etc etc etc.
Alas no, right now the odds are fifty fifty whether or not Mihos will even get on the GOP primary ballot he has had worse publicity than Baker and his campaign operation is mired in pure chaos.
Unless of course he was gonna bolt the party again and make this a four way race, but honestly even Humble Elias doesn't deserve a heaven sent boon like that.
I dunno call me crazy, but this fall does not look like a done deal for the GOP as far as the Governor's race is concerned.
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Scott Brown is off to Asia...
per the Boston Globe, the first of many junkets to exotic foreign lands no doubt.
Fine, but when is he gonna find time to make a junket to the Bedford VA Hospital, maybe he could inspect the somewhat cramped & spartan conditions in the Long Term Care wards?
Just a thought y' unnerstan'.
***
Meanwhile the Boston Globe catches up to what the Chimes at Midnight has been saying for months now... Funny how that works eh?
Oh and no wonder all the Health Insurance Providers are backing Baker, clearly he will give then their 32% premium hikes.
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Thought for the Day: Charlie Baker can raise all the money he likes, so far at collecting cash he is waa-ay out front, but if he has to divide his money to fend off Tim Cahill and simultaneously surge past Governor Patrick...Then the math dictates a more level financial playing field.
Fine, but when is he gonna find time to make a junket to the Bedford VA Hospital, maybe he could inspect the somewhat cramped & spartan conditions in the Long Term Care wards?
Just a thought y' unnerstan'.
***
Meanwhile the Boston Globe catches up to what the Chimes at Midnight has been saying for months now... Funny how that works eh?
Oh and no wonder all the Health Insurance Providers are backing Baker, clearly he will give then their 32% premium hikes.
***
Thought for the Day: Charlie Baker can raise all the money he likes, so far at collecting cash he is waa-ay out front, but if he has to divide his money to fend off Tim Cahill and simultaneously surge past Governor Patrick...Then the math dictates a more level financial playing field.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
We can add "Pussyfooter" to the ever lengthening list of
Citizen Charlie Baker's sins.
This quote, from the above Boston Globe story is particularly relevant:
"The tea party seems to me to be another example [of] civic engagement, which is always a good thing,’’ Baker wrote during a wide-ranging, hourlong chat with readers on Boston.com. “And most folks I know who are tea party members are terrified about deficit spending, taxing, and jobs. Me, too.’’
They are also terrified that President Obama is a closeted member of the Taliban.
And was it "civic engagement" when the Tea Partei spat at Representative Lewis and called him a "n*gger" to his face? When they howled "faggot" at Representative Frank?
And when they ,march on the Washington Mall with sidearms? Nothing nefarious about that eh Charlie?
***
Let me speculate in a hypothetical vein...IF Charlie "Ziplips" Baker was elected Governor and I, Elias Nugator started a fraternal organization called "The Butcher Boys" whose activities included wearing blacks hirts, jackboots and training on Boston Common with rifles...by Bakerian definition above, that would be mere civic engagement...right??
***
Honest to Ghod, Charlie Baker is spineless and inept, he really thinks he can persuade these people to vote for him without being tarred with their paranoia...
This quote, from the above Boston Globe story is particularly relevant:
"The tea party seems to me to be another example [of] civic engagement, which is always a good thing,’’ Baker wrote during a wide-ranging, hourlong chat with readers on Boston.com. “And most folks I know who are tea party members are terrified about deficit spending, taxing, and jobs. Me, too.’’
They are also terrified that President Obama is a closeted member of the Taliban.
And was it "civic engagement" when the Tea Partei spat at Representative Lewis and called him a "n*gger" to his face? When they howled "faggot" at Representative Frank?
And when they ,march on the Washington Mall with sidearms? Nothing nefarious about that eh Charlie?
***
Let me speculate in a hypothetical vein...IF Charlie "Ziplips" Baker was elected Governor and I, Elias Nugator started a fraternal organization called "The Butcher Boys" whose activities included wearing blacks hirts, jackboots and training on Boston Common with rifles...by Bakerian definition above, that would be mere civic engagement...right??
***
Honest to Ghod, Charlie Baker is spineless and inept, he really thinks he can persuade these people to vote for him without being tarred with their paranoia...
Monday, April 05, 2010
Boston Globe columnists are usually
about two weeks behind the zeitgeist, or in the case of Jeff Jacoby more like a full century.
However, Adrian Walker's column in today's Globe pointing to a uptick in Governor Patrick's political fortunes would seem to indicate that the Incumbent has "bottomed out" and something of a rebound is in the making.
But as I said, this news is some fourteen days old, already the Governor has loped further along facing down Howie Carr on his own radio show and disallowing hikes in Health Insurance Premiums.
The latter puts Cahill and Baker both in a quandrary, they can't say the current plan doesn't control costs nor can they safely pledge to do likewise and the same and keep their bona fides with big money backers in the insurance industry.
As for doing the Howie Carr Show, that gains Patrick no votes among the Shock Jock's base, but he also has many casual listeners whose minds are not yet made up and can be persuaded by the Governor's willingness to go mano a mano with one of his most vocal critics.
You can bet Charlie Baker and Tim Cahill won't be doing the Jeff Santos' Show (unless they have and I wasn't listening...feel free to correct me) as a consequence.
Advantage, Patrick.
All I can say is, "Give em' Hell Deval!"
However, Adrian Walker's column in today's Globe pointing to a uptick in Governor Patrick's political fortunes would seem to indicate that the Incumbent has "bottomed out" and something of a rebound is in the making.
But as I said, this news is some fourteen days old, already the Governor has loped further along facing down Howie Carr on his own radio show and disallowing hikes in Health Insurance Premiums.
The latter puts Cahill and Baker both in a quandrary, they can't say the current plan doesn't control costs nor can they safely pledge to do likewise and the same and keep their bona fides with big money backers in the insurance industry.
As for doing the Howie Carr Show, that gains Patrick no votes among the Shock Jock's base, but he also has many casual listeners whose minds are not yet made up and can be persuaded by the Governor's willingness to go mano a mano with one of his most vocal critics.
You can bet Charlie Baker and Tim Cahill won't be doing the Jeff Santos' Show (unless they have and I wasn't listening...feel free to correct me) as a consequence.
Advantage, Patrick.
All I can say is, "Give em' Hell Deval!"
Thursday, April 01, 2010
Allegedly
Scott Brown spent some time up in Lexington on Monday night, filling sandbags for the National Guard.
That must be a helluva GPS gimmick in his All American Truck, normally Scott Brown couldn't find Lexington (or any other liberal leaning community in Middlesex County) to save his life.
Mark those sandbags well, they are likely the only good Scott Brown will be doing for communities like Lexington for the foreseeable future.
Of course, he could just ditch the TV news cameras, return to DC and see if there was any stimulus money available to get the Commonwealth's many many aging and substandard dams and spillways fixed...But that is too big a job for Scott, best to just fill up sandbags and leave it at that.
Given his performance on HCR, I'm looking forward to all the roads and bridges money that'll shortly be flooding the state thanks to our Junior Senator.
That must be a helluva GPS gimmick in his All American Truck, normally Scott Brown couldn't find Lexington (or any other liberal leaning community in Middlesex County) to save his life.
Mark those sandbags well, they are likely the only good Scott Brown will be doing for communities like Lexington for the foreseeable future.
Of course, he could just ditch the TV news cameras, return to DC and see if there was any stimulus money available to get the Commonwealth's many many aging and substandard dams and spillways fixed...But that is too big a job for Scott, best to just fill up sandbags and leave it at that.
Given his performance on HCR, I'm looking forward to all the roads and bridges money that'll shortly be flooding the state thanks to our Junior Senator.
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