[libstripper]

Ronaladus Magnus was so right to veto this monstrosity. I've mostly finished reading Howie Carr's, The Brothers Bulger: How they Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century, which is immediately available on Amazon.com. It's a compelling read that shows what a completely corrupt political cesspool Boston politics was at the very time the Big Dig was proposed and approved. Throwing billions of Federal dollars into that shark tank was guaranteed to produce the very fiasco the Big Dig has become. I have no sympathy for the Beaners in this.

[Freedom_no_exceptions]

I have no sympathy for the Beaners in this.

What does Carlos Mencia have to do with the Big Dig? : )

Tip O'Neill wasn't a "Beaner" -- he was a typical "Masshole."

[FDNYRHEROES]

All politics is local.
All warming is global...

[FreePaul]

The Big Dig was never about transportation. It has always been about diverting government money to a socialist city and state government which otherwise couldn't support itself. The sad part of the whole affair is that the politicians who reaped the benefit of this fiasco will go scott free. In fact they will get all of the credit for the money distributed and none of the blame for their corruption.

[pointsal]

BTTT

[Zman]

The last line of this piece reads "Ironic, isn't it, that the son's client stands to undermine the father's legacy?"

Umm, well, really sorry, but as much as Tip had an engaging personality, he and his ilk have always held the banner high for profligate spending and no accountability. Tip's legacy will remain the same.

[metesky]

Yet, even in victory, ``Tip came to worry that the Artery would be known as Tip's Folly," Farrell wrote.

From the very start, when all the locals began referring to the Big Dig as "The Tip O'Neill Good-bye Kiss", everybody knew this was a fiasco.

[IronJack]

The legendary Democrat from North Cambridge stoked it with federal dollars, spurred by his belief that it was a transportation necessity and an economic boost.

Highways are a transportation necessity. Gold-plated highways are not.

By "economic boost," read "pool of graft for my union cronies and payoffs for 20 years of covering my fat, drunken, Irish a$$."

[Doctor Raoul]

Democrat Culture of Corruption.