What Deval said - and what he means (new Dem. MA gov.)/ Howie Carr live thread 1/5/07

Boston Herald ^ | 1/5/07 | raccoonradio

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(We'll just do the Howie Carr live thread from this column post! Death pool today.--RR)

Let the record show, there was a full moon Wednesday night. Perfect weather, in other words, for moonbats, and that’s who was out in force yesterday on Beacon Hill.

Gov. Deval Patrick was sworn in, and as he does every four years, Secretary of State Bill Galvin got to yell out, “God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts!”

Some years that phrase resonates more than others. Yesterday was one of those days.

If you listened to the entire 17 minutes or so, you don’t have to go to church Sunday. You’ve heard your sermon for the week. Every time he said, “Let’s reach for that!” (four times, if you were keeping score at home), I reached for my wallet. There are going to be a lot of second collections over the next four years.

Perhaps you missed the inaugural address because you had to work, because you are a - to use a word missing in the speech - taxpayer.

Property tax relief? Didn’t Deval mention something about that during the campaign? Forget about property tax relief - did you ever hear the one about the Amistad, or the Mendi Bible? The moonbats lapped it up.

“It will take more community-based patrols, after-school and enrichment programs - ”

I’ve got an idea. Midnight basketball!

“ - summer job and volunteer opportunities for young people.”

Anyone remember the old Youth Activities Commission - YAC? Or the CETA program? Training tomorrow’s hacks today.

“ - training and pre-release preparation for inmates, and sensible reform of both CORI and sentencing.”

Message from Deval to Ben LaGuer: I haven’t forgotten you, even though I am now going steady with Arline Isaacson. The pardon will soon be in the mail.

“We know what to reach for. And we ought to know that either we invest today or we will surely pay excessively tomorrow.”

High taxes today, even higher taxes tomorrow.

Oh yeah, Deval is going to reorganize the executive branch. Stop me if you’ve heard that one before. Just don’t mess with the ABCC and the jobs of Rep. Binienda’s son or Rep. Kujawski’s brother.

“I see the young talent and jobs leaving our state, driven away by the high cost of housing.”

And you’ll be seeing a lot of it, too. By the way, wouldn’t that have been the perfect opportunity to mention something else that’s out of control around here, namely taxes? But new taxes are an “investment” in the future, as the new governor said at least once.

In his speech, he mentioned the ex-governors up there on the stage, but did Deval consider the fate of Dukakis, Weld, Cellucci and Swift?

Two words come to mind: Situation wanted. These people all need jobs. Something for Deval to ponder is that the last person to really use the governorship as a steppingstone to any greater elective office was Leverett Saltonstall, and he had a bit of help from World War II, when Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge resigned his seat to go off to fight The Big One.

“For a very long time we have been told that government is bad, that its job is not important enough to be done by anyone competent, let alone committed.” Deval has apparently met some toll takers on the Mass. Pike.

“Our constitution is the oldest, and one of the most explicit about individual freedoms.”

That’s why Deval felt so bad Tuesday telling the Legislature to feel free to ignore it.

At the end, Deval threw out a laundry list of Democrat-type occupations - student, teacher, bus driver, governor clerk, firefighter. But someone on the staff must have noticed that you’re supposed to at least kiss the taxpayers before you bleep them, so he threw in “small-business owner.”

You can’t have a speech like this without mentioning the “city on the hill.” Deval sees it. So will a lot of other people - in their rear-view mirrors.

God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts!

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Now here's an early Howie Carr ping: 10 hours before show time! (Posted just before 5 am) But it's his column which I usually include anyway.

btw from another article in Herald: on WRKO, Todd Feinburg will at least be doing the 9-noon show for the time being until a permanent replacement for DePetro can be found (Todd will also do his weekend shows). As for nights:

When no Celtics or Red Sox: Savage at 7 pm, Jerry Doyle at 10 pm

When a 7 pm or similar game happens: Savage at 10 pm and no Jerry Doyle. Presumably when there's a "west coast" game, Savage at 7 pm...

[Cheapskate]

hehehe I'm not used to seein a howie thread this early.Here in ILLinois, we have this dirtbag Blago. But Devil is a LOT funnier. They're not talkin new taxes here yet,

but the Chi town Machine has picked up buddies

and they're gettin ready to forcefeed us downstate a main course of new gun laws.

so don't feel like the lone ranger!

[islander-11]

Howie was funny yesterday as he debated using the name "Urkle" vs. his choice, The Deval-uator. Good stuff.

My entire financial plan involves the property value of some Mass. real estate ten years from now. How sad was I yesterday to see this bozo being sworn in...

Thank God for Cap'n Howie Carr.

[indcons]

Deval Patrick is a rapist enabler. His brother-in-law, a convicted rapist, lived under Patrick's "protection" without registering as a sex offender.

Additionally, Patrick himself has a sordid record of being a defender of rapists and murderers during his legal career.

Of course, he won in MA without any problems. I think this tells the average person much more about the perverted state of affairs in MA.

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Terry McAwful's new book blasts Kerry for his '04 campaign:

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WASHINGTON - Former Democratic Party boss and Clinton friend Terry McAuliffe is lambasting John Kerry's unsuccessful presidential campaign, calling his effort to unseat
President Bush "one of the biggest acts of political malpractice in the history of American politics."

In his scrappy memoir, McAuliffe criticizes the 2004 campaign that he was responsible for defending but ultimately lost to what he describes as a more organized Republican machine. McAuliffe calls the Kerry campaign gun-shy, distracted and incompetent.

McAuliffe is close to Bill and
Hillary Rodham Clinton and will support her presidential bid if the New York senator runs in 2008. McAuliffe's book, published by Thomas Dunne Books, could serve as the opening salvo against a potential Clinton rival as Kerry weighs another bid. However, McAuliffe has kind words for other possible candidates, such as Sens. Barack Obama and Chris Dodd and Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack.

(snip)

"I thought the decision of the Kerry campaign to back off any real criticism of Bush was one of the biggest acts of political malpractice in the history of American politics," he said.

Meanwhile, Republicans went on a sharp tirade against Kerry at their convention. But when Bush said in an interview on the first day that he didn't think the U.S. could win the war on terror, Kerry did not respond. The Massachusetts senator was windsurfing off Nantucket, unaware of the president's comments.

McAuliffe said Kerry later told him that was one of the biggest mistakes of his campaign. "I should have gotten off the island," McAuliffe quotes Kerry as saying.

McAuliffe said he was "flabbergasted" to learn after the election that Kerry had $15 million left that he could have spent in the final push. "It was gross incompetence to hoard that money when the race was bound to be so close," McAuliffe said.

McAuliffe said Republicans told him they were shocked that Kerry just took the attacks on his military record, but also overjoyed. He said Bush called President Clinton while he was recovering from his heart attack in September 2004 and said, "The Kerry campaign is the most inept group I have ever seen in politics. Don't let them ruin your reputation."

He said Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., asked him why Kerry wasn't fighting back more. "My guy (Bush) is no great shakes, but your guy (Kerry) looks like a wimp," McAuliffe quotes McCain as saying.

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Romney in the White House...Back during the Nixon years at least (with his parents and wife...)

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re-pinging everyone, it's showtime

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Finneran started crying? Getting no jail time...(but may wind up working for 'RKO)

"Gets no jail time--stop me if you've heard this before.
Remember Good Time Charlie Flaherty? In halls of justice
only justice is in the halls."

DEATH POOL STARTS AT 4:07 everyone

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Great piece by the Cap'n today.

[maryz]

Howie's going through the pathos now! How sad it all is! How can he even go on . . .? :)

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Dear Sir:

Hiring Democratic politicians who've committed perjury
to be talk hosts? What has the world come to.

Sincerely,

William J. Clinton
Chappaqua, NY

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Howie yelled How does it feel to be a convicted felon at him? :)

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"Where's he gonna make his money?"

[Cheapskate]

Howdy Rac, I'm going to try to get in the death pool

I'm going with Paul harvey!

[raccoonradio]

Bob Barker (soon to retire anyway)

[Cheapskate]

Mabye he'll get mauled by a pitbull that doesn't want to be spayed and neutered.

[raccoonradio]

>>Paul Harvey Aurandt (born September 4, 1918)
>>Robert William "Bob" Barker (born December 12, 1923)

good source to see if someone may already BE dead and is
in movies or TV:
http://www.imdb.com

or do wikipedia
(also if you're curious to see how old they are)

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