voted "No" on the casino bill that cleared the House yesterday.
So I guess he remembered where he came from after all.
Click here for a PDF of who voted yes and who voted no.
Well I'd say Rep. Garballey deserves some congratulations, he stuck by his stated campaign position right to the end.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
What I saw of the Tea Partei....
Beautiful day yesterday to get out on Boston Common and watch wingnuts wallow in triumphalism.
Truly, these are H.L. Mencken's proverbial "believing minds" they believed in George Bush Jr's commitment to "small government" and they believe in Barack Obama's status as a diabolical communist as well.
Mostly white, mostly lower middle class, middle aged, suburban, a good chunk of ringers from out of state, cowboy hats, a couple of grim aryan sophomores from BC, in all it was aa very raucous pity party thrown by McCain voters.
Twenty thousand attendees were predicted by some hammerhead, I think they were lucky to get four and as I said, a good chunk of them came from out of state.
Sarah Palin came and went long before I got there, but still even at 12:40pm EST the roster of speakers and boosters ranted on and on about God, Family and Country, the MC (a rare African American) claimed that Barack Obama got voted in due to his "pigmentation" while tchotches hawkers sold buttons that said "I'd Rather Be Waterboarding".
Class all the way folks, class all the way.
I'd be interesting to see if Crazy Christy Mihos and Tim Cahill (Conspicuous attendees at yesterday's rally) really agree with the notion that Obama got in due to his complexion...Make a good query at their next press conference sez Humble Elias.
I blame Ronald Reagan for the current alienation on the hard right, he preached an "inclusive gospel" that said in effect "C'mon along, as long as you bash liberals yer welcome with us". A generation later having bankrupted themselves politically, financially and spiritually the Tea Partei is left with liberal bashing as it's last best ideological bulwark.
Other than that pigmentation remark I saw no racially motivated placards nor was their any gay baiting in evidence, although one need not speculate as to the crowd's real feelings about gay marriage given all the windy homages paid to "traditional marriage" up on podium.
I don't think the Tea Partei phenom is an incipient fascist movement, preachers of violence just don't go far in US Politics and most of the people are poor storm trooper fodder from what I could see. Old weary and bit shopworn leavened with a few autistic sounding undergrads are hardly the type to start street fighting any time soon.
No, this is the rejectionist thirty precent that has been around since the inception of the Republic they were the Know Nothings, the Nativists the Liberty Lobby, the Share the Wealth Clubbers, The American Legion....In short they have always been with us, Palin or no Palin.
Truly, these are H.L. Mencken's proverbial "believing minds" they believed in George Bush Jr's commitment to "small government" and they believe in Barack Obama's status as a diabolical communist as well.
Mostly white, mostly lower middle class, middle aged, suburban, a good chunk of ringers from out of state, cowboy hats, a couple of grim aryan sophomores from BC, in all it was aa very raucous pity party thrown by McCain voters.
Twenty thousand attendees were predicted by some hammerhead, I think they were lucky to get four and as I said, a good chunk of them came from out of state.
Sarah Palin came and went long before I got there, but still even at 12:40pm EST the roster of speakers and boosters ranted on and on about God, Family and Country, the MC (a rare African American) claimed that Barack Obama got voted in due to his "pigmentation" while tchotches hawkers sold buttons that said "I'd Rather Be Waterboarding".
Class all the way folks, class all the way.
I'd be interesting to see if Crazy Christy Mihos and Tim Cahill (Conspicuous attendees at yesterday's rally) really agree with the notion that Obama got in due to his complexion...Make a good query at their next press conference sez Humble Elias.
I blame Ronald Reagan for the current alienation on the hard right, he preached an "inclusive gospel" that said in effect "C'mon along, as long as you bash liberals yer welcome with us". A generation later having bankrupted themselves politically, financially and spiritually the Tea Partei is left with liberal bashing as it's last best ideological bulwark.
Other than that pigmentation remark I saw no racially motivated placards nor was their any gay baiting in evidence, although one need not speculate as to the crowd's real feelings about gay marriage given all the windy homages paid to "traditional marriage" up on podium.
I don't think the Tea Partei phenom is an incipient fascist movement, preachers of violence just don't go far in US Politics and most of the people are poor storm trooper fodder from what I could see. Old weary and bit shopworn leavened with a few autistic sounding undergrads are hardly the type to start street fighting any time soon.
No, this is the rejectionist thirty precent that has been around since the inception of the Republic they were the Know Nothings, the Nativists the Liberty Lobby, the Share the Wealth Clubbers, The American Legion....In short they have always been with us, Palin or no Palin.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
This is freakin' hilarious...
You just knew, that Jeff Jacoby had to come runnin' to the defense of the Tea Partei in his column today...
Y'know that vast gathering of inconstant deficit hawks that are congregating on Boston Common today. We heard not a peep from them when blocks of US currency went missing in Iraq, but let President Obama spent one silver dollar on health care reform and they shriek like stuck pigs.
Anyhow, the Globe's own Laughing Young Senescence had this howler to share with us:
"Head over to the Boston Common this morning, however, and you will find neither fascists nor Klansmen, but a sea of sincere and energized citizens worried about the direction in which their country is headed and alarmed by the Obama administration’s vast aggrandizement of government power."
Well gee Jeff is this is nothing but a vast love-in of "civic engagement" why would the likes of Richard Tisei, Charlie Baker and Scott Brown all stay away from the "Tea Partei Express?
Do you honestly think Richard Tisei could walk thru that crowd and be treated civilly?
Would Sarah Palin really want to share the podium with an out-and-proud gay Republican?
Just sayin'...
And anyway Jeff who the hell are you to whine about the "Obama Administration's vast aggrandizement of government power",? You were FINE with the PATRIOT act, with wireless wiretapping of US Citizens, with Guantanamo Bay all of it quite frankly. Hell til' now you've been a faithful cheerleader for the "Vast Aggrandizement of Government Power" whats the problem??
***
The Tea Partei is the myth of grievance on the march nothing more and as usual Jeff Jacoby (despite his sporadic attempts to chart a course as a serious public intellectual) can do nothing but squeal with glee even as the haters and baiters go marching by.
Sad really.
Nope it is hilarious.
Y'know that vast gathering of inconstant deficit hawks that are congregating on Boston Common today. We heard not a peep from them when blocks of US currency went missing in Iraq, but let President Obama spent one silver dollar on health care reform and they shriek like stuck pigs.
Anyhow, the Globe's own Laughing Young Senescence had this howler to share with us:
"Head over to the Boston Common this morning, however, and you will find neither fascists nor Klansmen, but a sea of sincere and energized citizens worried about the direction in which their country is headed and alarmed by the Obama administration’s vast aggrandizement of government power."
Well gee Jeff is this is nothing but a vast love-in of "civic engagement" why would the likes of Richard Tisei, Charlie Baker and Scott Brown all stay away from the "Tea Partei Express?
Do you honestly think Richard Tisei could walk thru that crowd and be treated civilly?
Would Sarah Palin really want to share the podium with an out-and-proud gay Republican?
Just sayin'...
And anyway Jeff who the hell are you to whine about the "Obama Administration's vast aggrandizement of government power",? You were FINE with the PATRIOT act, with wireless wiretapping of US Citizens, with Guantanamo Bay all of it quite frankly. Hell til' now you've been a faithful cheerleader for the "Vast Aggrandizement of Government Power" whats the problem??
***
The Tea Partei is the myth of grievance on the march nothing more and as usual Jeff Jacoby (despite his sporadic attempts to chart a course as a serious public intellectual) can do nothing but squeal with glee even as the haters and baiters go marching by.
Sad really.
Nope it is hilarious.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Last week...
Citizen Charlie "Ziplips" Baker praised the Tea Partei as an example of public spirited activism and "civic engagement". This week however, Baker has declined to civilly engage with the Tea Partei's reigning pin-up Sarah Palin at their projected rally on Boston Common Tomorrow.
Regrets have also been tendered by a scattershot of local Republicans including most notably Scott Brown who will be busy combing his hair or tying his shoes or some damn thing per his overcrowded schedule.
Crazy Christy Mihos will be there, straitjacket and all (But that is to be expected) as well as independent guberatorial candidate Tim Cahill who'd eat compost on live television at this point if it meant twenty thousand votes in Middlesex County.
Well no matter what, tendered regrets or not, Palin's partei tomorrow promises mad phat fun good solid bloggabel chaos, Humble Elias will try and do a lunch hour recon as he works in the Back Bay.
The whole thing will be a good test of this "Kinder Gentler Tea Partei" rubbish that has been peddled down in the DC in the wake of all the post HCR death threats received by congressional democrats.
Regrets have also been tendered by a scattershot of local Republicans including most notably Scott Brown who will be busy combing his hair or tying his shoes or some damn thing per his overcrowded schedule.
Crazy Christy Mihos will be there, straitjacket and all (But that is to be expected) as well as independent guberatorial candidate Tim Cahill who'd eat compost on live television at this point if it meant twenty thousand votes in Middlesex County.
Well no matter what, tendered regrets or not, Palin's partei tomorrow promises mad phat fun good solid bloggabel chaos, Humble Elias will try and do a lunch hour recon as he works in the Back Bay.
The whole thing will be a good test of this "Kinder Gentler Tea Partei" rubbish that has been peddled down in the DC in the wake of all the post HCR death threats received by congressional democrats.
Monday, April 12, 2010
So much for Palin-Brown in 2012 eh...
The Herald reports that Senator Scott Brown's schedule has become too tangled a thing for him to make time and appear at Wednesday's Tea Partei rally with Sarah Palin.
Geez last week Brown was a conservative, this week he is running like a rat in a firestorm from movement conservatism's most committed cohorts...what gives?
He isn't scared of the GOP's loyal base is he?
Naa-aw not Scott Brown, the man is profile in courage down to his neatly pressed camo fatigues.
Geez last week Brown was a conservative, this week he is running like a rat in a firestorm from movement conservatism's most committed cohorts...what gives?
He isn't scared of the GOP's loyal base is he?
Naa-aw not Scott Brown, the man is profile in courage down to his neatly pressed camo fatigues.
Say what you like about Green Partei Gubernatorial Candidatee Jill Stein
that she is a moonbat and a spoiler but at the very least her god-damn mind is firmly set against casino gambling in Massachusetts.
This is more than we can say about Democrat-Of-Convenience Grace Ross (herself a former Green Partei candidate for Governor) who told the Globe she is neither for nor against the current bill as it pits "different good forces against each other".
Grace, that is what politics is all about per Aristotle, the allocation of perpetually scarce resources...And if you really wanna be Governor yer gonna have to make hard decisions like this every day.
Just make up your damn mind and be done with it, you can't be wobbling like this out of some irrational belief your are really goinf to be nominated and then elected Governor of Massachusetts can you?
Cuz I gotta tell ya, it looks like a rocky uphill climb for you from where Humble Elias sits.
This is more than we can say about Democrat-Of-Convenience Grace Ross (herself a former Green Partei candidate for Governor) who told the Globe she is neither for nor against the current bill as it pits "different good forces against each other".
Grace, that is what politics is all about per Aristotle, the allocation of perpetually scarce resources...And if you really wanna be Governor yer gonna have to make hard decisions like this every day.
Just make up your damn mind and be done with it, you can't be wobbling like this out of some irrational belief your are really goinf to be nominated and then elected Governor of Massachusetts can you?
Cuz I gotta tell ya, it looks like a rocky uphill climb for you from where Humble Elias sits.
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