Posted on 02/25/2007 5:20:43 AM PST by raccoonradio
It’s the $72,000-a-year secretary for your wife, stupid.
That’s what’s people are really going to remember about Gov. Deval Patrick’s very bad week. What a first and lasting impression to leave - Mrs. Patrick, who has a full-time mid-six-figure job, now gets a chief of staff, a woman from Wellesley named Amy Gorin who was one of Deval’s earliest rich moonbat supporters.
Amy Gorin needs another $72,000 like Deval needs, well, a Cadillac DTS.
The way he ignores the issue, Deval must grasp what a public-relations nightmare Mrs. Gorin has become. In this week’s podcast - Deval’s direct communication to the moonbats - he starts out saying amiably that he wants to address “a subject of great concern to the people throughout the Commonwealth and, no, I don’t mean the official car or the new desk at the governor’s office
Note the two words he didn’t use: Cadillac and drapes.
Even more significantly, he ignored the festering Amy Gorin problem, which only got worse this weekend with the news that she accompanied Deval and his wife, Diane, to Washington, D.C., for a National Governors Association junket.
Because it really bugs people, especially working people (as opposed to moonbats), who have real jobs that don’t pay 72 large a year. I got calls all week about it, including one from a guy who works at Stop & Shop, which is embroiled in contract negotiations with its union. “We’re fighting over nickels and dimes,” this guy said. “And he wants to pay $72,000 for his wife’s secretary?”
Diane Patrick is a partner at Ropes & Gray. This is a law firm that puts the white back in white-shoe (figuratively, of course). They represented the Somerset Club when the Boston Licensing Board tried to pull its liquor license. And now they’re getting pelted with spitballs from the cheap seats, just because a partner’s husband has morphed into Chuck Berry in the old song “No Money Down.”
“I saw a Cadillac sign saying ‘No Money Down.’ Dealer came to me, said trade in yo’ broken-down ragged Ford, I put you in a car that’ll eat up the road.”
Coupe Deval should be tooling around in his Caddy in Hollywood today, not D.C. He should be picking up an Oscar for Best Short Subject: his administration. You know you’ve got a problem when you want to change the subject, and the only thing you can think of to talk about is your plan to jack up taxes by $400 million a year.
I’m sure that Deval wants to make sure that Diane has the very best, just as his hero Mike Dukakis provided for Kitty, at the taxpayers’ expense, naturally. Recall Dukakis’ words at a 1984 press conference in Room 157 at the State House:
“I don’t know about the pillow talk at your house, but I go to sleep at night with Kitty’s advice, counsels and urgings ringing in my ears.” Does Deval need his own dose of pillow talk? I think not. Amy Gorin stays.
But now the Legislature has figured out the play. There’s yet another patsy in the Corner Office. How quickly things change. Seven weeks ago, when Deval was sworn in on the steps of the State House, the solons were terrified.
They looked out toward Beacon Street and the Common and saw a veritable Hempfest of moonbats. Deval’s shock troops - trust-funded middle-aged zonked-out-on-prescription-meds bloggers.
But Deval squandered his moment. The moonbats are depressed; they’re gobbling Xanax like M&Ms. Meanwhile, Deval unveils his new budget Tuesday night. The two Ways and Means committees begin their joint hearings Thursday morning.
From Tuesday night to Thursday morning. Saddam Hussein got more time to prepare a defense than they’re giving Deval. His budget is DOA, just like Mitt Romney’s, or Jane Swift’s.
Did someone say curtains?
Is Amy related to the real estate person Rosalind Gorin? Big money.
Here's the Cadillac song once again--this one's for Deval!
By Mr. Nick's Blues Mafia
http://wmwm.250free.com/LookAtThatCadillac.mp3
One of the very first actions of incoming Democrat Governor Deval Patrick was to rescind a federal and state agreement enabling Massachusetts State Troopers to investigate immigration status and arrest illegal aliens they encounter during the normal course of their duties. (Governor Romney, ICE Sign Immigration Enforcement Pact, Dec. 13, 2006)
What can I say, [expletive deleted] Democrats!
Howie is T3h Phunny.
The medals, you forgot, he won the MEDALS!!!
The mob on Beacon Hill is out for Deval's scalp because he's just a commie -not a corrupt, putrid to the bone commie like them.
The Legislature is at the root of every problem in Massachusetts - and its voters have nobody to blame but themselves.
Deval is not one of the boys, and I predict that they are going to skin him alive for it.
It was 16 seats from 1913-1933. 15 from 1933-1943. 14 from 1943-1963. 12 from 1963-1983. 11 from 1983-1993. 10 from 1993 to date.
Gay folks on the Cape ain't exactly a new thing. When my folks and I visited Provincetown in '94, I think we were the only straight people there.
I refer to the word "pissah" as a second grade word because that's when I learned it and started using it (1947).
Anything that was good was "pissah."
I noticed my children use the phrase "wicked pissah" when they were about 14 - 16, which would have been around 1980.
Thanks -- I guess I remembered my mother telling me or something! I just knew "16" was rattling around somewhere!
It's not the 'three dollar bills' that bother me. It's the MARRIED 'three dollar bills' that bother me.
I'm a tad more outraged by the judicial midgets that allowed that abomination. While you can't stop people from inserting their parts into the wrong slots, we can and should stop these robed fools from giving it the thumbs-up.
Drinan, not Dornan. You're thinking of the Congressman from California of a distinctly different ideology.
If you are an incumbent card-carrying liberal socialist officeholder in this state, you pretty much have to get drunk and drive some young girl who is not your wife off a bridge and drown her in order to not get reelected.
Oops, scratch that last.
You're preaching to the choir. Sadly, this was all no surprise. C'est la vie en Ratsachusetts.
"king deval! seated on his throne."
I would make that "Affirmative Action king devil, seated on his throne."
I'm glad someone said it! For all those posters on this site that think the people of MA are 'getting what they deserve', think again. The people have voted for a number of things (lower income taxes, anti-gay marriage, etc.) that the legislature has used parliamentary procedures to block. The reason the rats keeping getting re-elected is the lack of any competition. The GOP abandonded MA a long time ago. Most of these hacks have never had a real job and a disturbingly large percentage of them still live in their parents' basement. They're ripe for the picking, yet no money or infrastructure is ever provided by the GOP. I don't understand this, but it needs to change ASAP.
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