What does Carlos Mencia have to do with the Big Dig? : )
Tip O'Neill wasn't a "Beaner" -- he was a typical "Masshole."
I have sympathy for him but not for those who created it, wallowed and wallow in it, and hope to continue using it to rip off everybody in the country with it. The Beaners and the mass. libs elected and re-elected at every possible opportunity the very criminals who were and are responsible for this monstrosity, like, for example, the Hero of Chappaquiddick, the "good" Bulger, Tip O'Neill, and Mikey the Tank Boy. Now the chickens are coming home to roost and it's entirely appropriate that the voters who created this mess be the ones to pay for it. You're trying to absolve those very voters of the responsibility for this fiasco that they so eminently deserve.
Speaking of Carlos Mencia, I heard a him do a routine on XM Radio Comedy Channel yesterday and I was literally in tears. Is he that funny all the time? Is his show still on?
Not really. He was a typical politician, who brought home the pork for his constituents. In his case, Tip was an extremely powerful and influencial pol--second in those days only to President Reagan himself, not by virtue of his Massachusetts origin, but because of his skills in wheeling and dealing in Washington for 34 years.
Yes the incredibly flawed Big Dig is Tip's legacy, and the Globe is just now finding this out? The project's mismanagement and corruption was an open secret from day one...where was the Globe then? In Tip O'Neill's pocket is where. Groud was broken for the Big Dig in 1991. O'Neill died in 1994, knowing he'd not only brought home the pork, but the whole pig. He never knew what a monster it would become.