O'Neill's crumbling legacy

boston globe ^ | July 19, 2006 | Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist

[ninonitti]

Jacoby nails the Bay State Delegation to the cross.

[IncPen]

What state does John Kerry represent?

Oh yeah, I forgot.

[bfree]

Little chrissy matthews worked for old Tip and bragged about the tunnel. Indite him too.

[VOA]

... a 38-year-old newlywed from Jamaica Plain...

Newlywed?
Now there's something I did NOT hear on TV news.
Wonder if that was squelched by sectors of the MSM to protect their
liberal buddies in Massachussetts?

[lafroste]

Newlywed?

Yep. She and her husband were on their way to the airport for their honeymoon. How's that for suck?

[Thebaddog]

They are too freaking smart in Bosstown. How did they screw up the bolts?

[flixxx]

thanks for the post!

[Plains Drifter]

To bad Ted and John K. weren't in that car instead!!!!!

[RedRover]

There is a parallel of course between the culture of corruption in Boston and New Orleans. Public works=snoots in the trough=cutting corners in construction.

[Maeve]

Pretty good.
(On another note, I wonder if that tropical storm is going to hit Mass.)

[peeps36]

We have a bunch of ignorant and arrogant idiots at every level of our government.I look forward to a time when drunken bums and traitors are spit on by voters.This country will keep going down the tubes if we keep on electing degenerate blow-hards like Kerry and Kennedy.

[Cobra64]

To bad Ted and John K. weren't in that car instead!!!!!

They're the ones who built it!

[caisson71]

Too smart for their own good, obviously.
With names like Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry as their congressional representatives for years, the people of MA get exactly what those names imply - lies, corruption, graft, waste, incompetenence, pandering, ripoff, etc.

[Thebaddog]

But they were intelligent about it.

[IronJack]

In Massachusetts, corruption permeates the entire civil structure. It is systemic, cancerous, and deadly. Nothing gets done unless palms get greased, and the only interest anyone has in any "public works" project is the laxity of the overseers. In most cases, they're on the take too, so workmanship is second rate, jobs aren't done, twice as many resources are used as budgeted (even though nobody can demonstrate where any of those resources went), ghost armies of workers are paid, and a sloppy, dangerous piece of bloated, super-expensive junk is rolled out years late and below acceptable standards.

Then, when the inevitable argle-bargle starts over accountability, the same thieves that fleeced the public originally step in and "fix" the defects, again at a cost of millions.

Boston is the gift that keeps on giving. If you're a mobster, a politician, or a flim-flam man.

[IronJack]

By the way, Ted Kennedy, John Murtha, and Tip O'Neill ought to get together at the Big 'N' Drunk men's exchange to swap fashion ideas. And martini recipes. I understand Teddy's got one that's made with gin, more gin, and a secret ingredient made from juniper berries ...

[VOA]

She and her husband were on their way to the airport for their honeymoon.

Incredible.
Just part of Democratic Big Government looking out for The Little Guy
with great public works (snort!).

I'm not shocked that the first time I hear the victim was a newlywed
was in a column by a stand-up guy like Jeff Jacoby.

[mhx]

I think anyone in Congress, Republican or Democrat, would take that amount of money for a project in their district if they could get away with it.

[Richard Kimball]

Man, he must mail these in from another state. In Massachusetts, it is now illegal to run against a Kennedy or speak ill of Tip. It used to just be considered to be in bad taste.

[Clintonfatigued]

True, but a conservative Congressman would want the money to be spend effectively on worthy projects, not thrown into a rat hole.