Posted on 01/21/2007 5:39:25 AM PST by raccoonradio
Who really wants to save a U.S. House seat for Massachusetts? You gotta be kidding. The best thing that could happen for America would be for the commonwealth to shed several districts, and it’s a damn shame we can’t cede one of our two Senate seats as well.
But if the hacks truly want to inflate the state’s plummeting population by rounding up thousands of illegal aliens, it shouldn’t be difficult. First place to check is the hospital emergency rooms. They’re the ones with translators, and a lot of them will be wearing neck braces from the phony auto accidents they’ve staged.
But if this harebrained scheme to celebrate diversity doesn’t work, which Mass. congressman will lose out in this low-stakes game of musical chairs? Come 2011, redistricting will be in the hands of the Legislature, where nothing is on the level, everything is a deal and no deal is too small.
Let’s work our way east from the New York state line. Probably No. 1 on the 2011 Hit Parade would be Rep. John Olver of Amherst. He’s old, an unrepentant Bulger hack, and I’m not saying Olver is slow, but he’s one of the few human beings in the at-risk category for contracting Dutch elm disease. Next is Richie Neal of Springfield, a former mayor. He can make a claim few other Hampden County pols can: He has never been indicted. Not once.
Moving east, we find Jim McGovern, D-Havana. This guy is so far to the left he makes Barney Frank look reasonable. Talk about your impeccable moonbat credentials - he was the first prominent hack to endorse Deval Patrick, but only because Fidel was too sick to make the run. With a Worcester County base of close to 300,000 people, he’s as entrenched as the memory of Che Guevara.
Now that the Democrats control the House again, Barney Frank is going nowhere. As a committee chairman, Dick Armey’s favorite Bay State rep hasn’t had this much fun since he responded to Hot Bottoms XXX-rated personal ad.
In the Fifth District, Marty “Midas” Meehan has $5 million and a solid base in Lowell. Plus, his district bumps up against a neighboring state (New Hampshire), which is always a good thing in redistricting, because it means there’s only so much gerrymandering that can be done. Marty’s not terribly popular on Beacon Hill right now, but you can buy a lot of friends with 5 million dead presidents.
Next door in Essex County, John Tierney won’t make waves. He also won’t make the All-Star team. Like Midas Meehan, this empty suit would have liked to run for the Senate, but with John Kerry hovering at 5 percent in New Hampshire, that ain’t in the cards.
Which brings us to the Dean, Ed Markey of Malden. After 30-plus years in Congress, most of his constituents couldn’t pick him out of a lineup, nor would they want to. Fast Eddie has outlived his district, and now it makes no sense whatsoever. Framingham?
Still, Markey always survives redistricting. When it comes to the legislature, he knows how to kiss butt and spread campaign loot around. No one knows who’ll be calling the shots at the State House in 2011, but it’s a sure bet kissing butt and spreading loot will still work very well indeed.
Mike Capuano from Somerville is the guy who should have Markey’s heavily Italian, eastern Middlesex enclave. Instead he represents a Cambridge-Boston district that skews black and gay, neither of which Capuano is. But he’s tight with Speaker Pelosi, so he’s safe.
Steve Lynch is from South Boston, and his district is the answer to the question, Where did Southie go? He’s safe, but Bill Delahunt might have a problem down the road. Technically he’s from Quincy but that’s Lynch-land. Rep. Dilettante’s real base is Venezuela. But he’ll be 70, and by then may be ready to cash out his various public pensions and succeed Bob Dole as a spokesman for Viagra.
So what do you call getting rid of one of these dolts? A good start.
Please! This is Massachusetts, are ya kidding? We would never do such a nasty thing :) And Howie has said before that losing a House seat would actually be a GOOD thing.
On the radio interest boards, the hot topic is whether or not the Fairness Doctrine should be brought back. I think my next reply there should be, "OK, you want it back-- well, how about this: we have 10 Congressmen, all Democrats. How about a rule specifying that we make 5 of them moonbats and the other 5 can be Republicans. That would be fair..."
All 10, Dems. Both senators; Gov., Lt. Gov., Treasurer, Auditor, Secy of the Commonwealth, and about 95 per cent of the Legislature, all Dems. They wonder why our population is dwindling? People like us--if they can afford to pull up stakes--are leaving...
>>They’re the ones with translators, and a lot of them will be wearing neck braces from the phony auto accidents...
Yes I remember one such fraud scheme in the news awhile back--up in Lawrence, and things went awry because the staged accident was a bit TOO real, and a Grandma got killed in the attempt...
(did a search and quickly found it. 2004):
>>Lawrence is considered to one of the nation's top hotspots for auto insurance fraud, ranking with large urban centers like New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Boston, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, which is based in Palos Hills, Ill. Romero initiated an auto insurance fraud task force after a 65-year-old Lawrence grandmother was killed last fall in a staged accident police said she helped plan.
I left MA around 2 1/2 years ago. I don't miss it. However, I still have a daughter and grandaughter there. That I miss.
and:
>> The crackdown has focused on Lawrence since a Sept. 4 staged car crash killed 65-year-old Altagracia Arias, a Lawrence grandmother police say helped plan the collision to scam money from an insurance company.
Cue that car horn Howie plays which plays "La Cucaracha" and Ted K at the illegals rally: "HASTA LA VICTORIA!"
Courtesy of Citizens for Limited Taxation and Govt
From the sampling of what they snd to the Senate ,it would be great if they could take away both seats.
Fine with me. (Long ago and far away MA actually had a
Republican Senator, and a black man at that: Ed Brooke;
though I think he was liberal wing of GOP)
Lawrence and Lowell are the state's center dumping-grounds for illegals.
I was too young to vote in '78 (I think that was the year Avi ran against Ed Brooke in the primary). But did vote for
Reagan the first year I was old enough, 1980...
I move that we put forward your view of the fairness doctrine re: representatives.
Yes, Brooke (who turns 88 this year), was a very liberal Republican. A lot of liberal activists and Black groups were angry that he was defeated in the '78 election in favor of Paul Tsongas.
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