Charlie Baker piles in...

With a hearty & manly squeal of "ME TOO!!", Charlie Baker, former Secretary of Whatever in the Weld Admin, has announced for Governor.

Charlie wants to make the state "more friendly for business" there at least he has a superlative record. Back when Weld was the darling of the Globe's Op Ed page Charlie and the admin did their best to ensure that Bechtel Parsons got very friendly treatment indeed from the Commonwealth as the cost of the Big Dig went up and up and up.

Indeed, Charlie kept his lips zipped as Bill Weld and Penniless Paul Cellucci went claghorning all over the state insisting the Big Dig's costs were under control and that Bechtel Parsons as prime contractor thereon was the honestest outfit going.

Only the Glory Days of Dick Leche in Louisiana can beat a record like that.

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Ah but this is mere snarkage, in larger sense, there seems to be a contradiction at the heart of Baker's platform he promises to do everything that Governor Patrick has been forced to do to keep the budget in line but do it painlessly and with a tax cut and all the usual rubbish thrown on top as well.

Like I said, a contradiction...

If it is a Sunday after a

setback for the democrats then it is time for one of Joanie Vennochi's patented "death of liberalism" columns.

This time she has decided to throw the entire Kennedy family into the cauldron and weep crocodile tears about the "sundown of a dream", such rubbish.

I think she has written some two dozen other columns along the exact same lines since Bush seized power in 2001.

Joanie perfectly exemplifies the columnista dogma that proclaims that when liberals win it is an accidental aberration, when conservatives rally it is the leading edge of the inevitable historic backlash...One that will crush all liberals like insects.

In other words, nothing new from Joanie, the usual personality driven snarkage and defeatism, and tomorrow she'll go on the Jeff Santos show and make nicey nice because Joanie wants a radio berth of her own someday.

Same old same old.

Let the Groveling Begin...

Brian McGrory, not three weeks into his new/old gig as a columnist for the Boston Globe has (right on schedule) found a new Moderate Republican Independent to worship.
Ghod it is like he wants to have Scott Brown's baby or something.
 Well these pundit types are fickle, they groove on one hero then another, Brian was once Mitt Romney's most stalwart apologist, remember that.
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Otherwise the I-word, that phantom position of equivalence between the democrats and republicans (which is naught but a comfy velvet closet for GOP marks) will get a lot of play in the fall campaign here in the Commonwealth. You will be hearing it a lot from Charlie Baker as the year progresses. Governor Patrick should take heed. 
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BTW has anyone seen Charlie's web-ads over on Boston.com, he looks terrible! Blotchy skin, zombie pale and his handlers need to tell him to stop flapping his wrists when he talks, he isn't Oprah after all.  And what the hell does he know about job creation anyway? Just exactly jack-shit sez Humble Elias. His plan seems to be give away enough tax cuts to the same financier class that got us in this fix and then wait for the utopia to trickle down.
Sheer genius, only California can beat a record like that for evasion and visionary rubbish.

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Oh and Humble Elias wants to note, apparently Scott Brown did call on Mayor Menino after the election, so technically he did make a stop in Suffolk county, my bad.
They must've met and conferred at Hynes Auditorium though, what other venue could have comfortably fit  those two bloated egos?

Scott's victory lap..

Apparently, Scott Brown is taking three days off to drive around the state and thank all his new constituents for the votes etc.
It is an odd itinerary to say the least as he seems to skip over Middlesex and Suffolk counties entirely.
Seems to me he ought to make some time to drive up to Derry New Hampshire and thank all those voters for swarming down into Massachusettst to make his rallies look so big and energetic.
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Okay all snarkage aside, if Citizen Brown was interested in something else other than wallowing in self congratulation he could drop by the office of the Veteran's Agent for the Town of Arlington and maybe have a chat about all these young veterans that are entering civilian life these days. Failing that he could just zip up the road to the Bedford VA's LTC unit and say hello to the brave & elderly men therein dwelling. That would be, by the way, the same VA hospital George Bush Jr tried to shut down back in the day...

When the arrogant and the stupid

have some measure of success, even if it is by accident, they inevitably move on to complete debacles like this hilarious little incident.

If James O'Keefe hadn't had all that wingnut notoreity on Youtube et al, he'd a never attempted outright trepass & infiltration.
Well, I say the solution is simple, when a young kid like Messr. O'Keefe is weird, proud, insolent & criminally inclined, the best solution is for him to hear the crash of iron.
A few years in the chow line at Leavensworth will straighten his ass out...He will meet new people from all walks of life, a veritable 24-7 therapeutic program.

Okay dis is just plain meshugginah....

Now the god-damned Red Mass Group has been added to the roster of Lexington Rep Jay Kaufman's Open House tomorrow.
The Red Mass Group?
THE RED MASS GROUP!
Those freaks all hear voices!!
What am I, chopped liver???
One of the longest running liberal blogs in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, six days a week since 2003, seven years in the making, from the Banks of the Vistula to Glory...and I'm not invited???
Dozens of other bloggers, have gone the way of the passenger pigeon, but Humble Elias soldiers on!
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There is nothing left to do to combat this undeserved state of obscurity and derision but to Think Big Thoughts and leave the rest to fate.
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Let me just reiterate though, to Messrs Quinn and Eno, the snack table at these Open House events is usually pretty sparse...Just sayin' thass all.

So the State Legislature wants to outlaw bullying?

Does that mean WEEI and Howie Carr would have to cease and desist from broadcasting on election day?