Posted on 03/09/2007 12:19:24 AM PST by raccoonradio
I told you so.
I told you Deval Patrick was going to be a complete disaster. Who printed up the first batch of “Don’t Blame Me - I Voted for Muffy” bumper stickers - two months before he was sworn in?
But everybody wanted to overlook the obvious fact that the guy was utterly unqualified. The electorate just wanted to feel good about itself. The voters, or at least 56 percent of them, figured if Deval got in they would feel less guilty - about what, I have no idea.
Now Deval is trying to claw his way back into the game. He’s working “feverishly” to help the illegal aliens in New Bedford who were arrested for the terribly unfair and racist reason that they were breaking the law.
Despite his feverish efforts, though, Deval had to admit that he “was informed” by the feds that they were going to raid the sweatshop. And he stood by. While the law was enforced. That can’t be a popular stand with his core constituency. Think Ben LaGuer.
Still, how can anyone be surprised by the fall of Deval? The only difference this time is that he’s worn out his welcome a lot faster than he did at Coke, Texaco or even the Clinton Justice Department.
After the Clinton interlude, Deval worked out a very profitable racket, I mean, m.o. He became a fixer. Companies had a problem - usually with allegations of racism - and they hired Deval to fix it. Steam control, novelist Tom Wolfe once called it. After Coke and Texaco, he was picked off the waiver wire by a slimy company named Ameriquest.
And so Deval found himself on the phone with Robert Rubin, another veteran of the very ethical Clinton administration. Deval was . . . fixing something. He was getting some money for the Kerry-hating Republican fat cat who paid him $720,000 as a “director” of Ameriquest.
So the call to Rubin was perfectly in character, except for one thing. Until now, Deval never fixed anything for the doughnut. He’s not a pro bono fixer. Latin was not one of his better subjects at any of those wonderful private schools he got a free ride to.
Deval is doing at the State House what he always does, which is nothing. At first glance, that seems like wonderful news if you’re a taxpayer. The problem is, if no one is cracking the whip, the hacks will run wild. Hacks abhor a vacuum almost as much as nature does. And sooner or later, they’ll run out of money to steal, and guess what happens then?
What Deval needs above all is an adult who knows how to run the state. No more social workers, community activists or moonbats. When Gov. Ed King went into a spiral not nearly as steep as this, he hired an old House speaker, David Bartley (yes, the same guy who was most recently seen trying to fatten his pension under the new Bulger rules).
Alas, the last two House speakers are convicted felons.
At this point, the best anyone can hope for is a Jane Swift-like regime - a powerless figurehead, a laughingstock beset by one minor scandal after another, as the Legislature steals everything that isn’t nailed down.
What this fiasco has proven is just how well the previous model - Republican executive, Democratic Legislature - could work. Of course it only succeeded when the GOP governor paid attention, or wasn’t just a hack Bulger Democrat who happened to have an (R) next to his or her name.
But now we’ve got Deval. Tom Reilly was wreckage on the runway from the start, but he stopped Chris Gabrieli from using his bankroll to win. And in the final, Muffy was hobbled by Christy Mihos - again, Christy, thanks for dragging all the rest of us into your nightmare.
That’s the bad news. The good news: I’m ordering up a new batch of bumper stickers that say: “Don’t Blame Me - I Voted for Muffy.”
This guy Howie Carr is excellent.
Funny story on Howie's show yesterday: A female caller
said she and her family were driving back from Philly.
They wanted to stop to eat but wanted to go to a place
where the help spoke English, if you know what I mean.
"Howie, we go to a 2-story fast food place in Connecticut.
We ask if they have a rest room and are told, _si_...
The whole staff and almost everyone in the restaurant are
aliens...So my 9 year old son, who's listened to your show with me, starts singing 'Everything free in Ame-ri-ca...'"
I cracked up at that one.
Patrick keeps screwing up and saying "I'm sorry! I'm trying!" I'm waiting for him to use that line from the old Saturday Night Live skit "The Black Shadow" in which (I believe) Bill Russell, playing a coach who kept doing drugs and getting girls pregnant, responded to every accusation with "It's because I'm black, isn't it?"
I know that I don't know the Coke story (and the only info that seems to be around is vague). I didn't even know that there was a Texaco story, much less a Clinton Justice Department story! Deval's too awful even for the Clintons???
Anyone know any of the details?
BTW, what is this $350,000 a year as a director of Ameriquest? I always thought pay for directors was pretty much nominal -- as is fitting for someone who basically goes to maybe four meetings a year. My info may be just outdated (I have no reason to keep up with what directors are paid -- more's the pity!), but that sounds awfully steep!
I experienced much the same at an Andover MA, Burger King. Anticipating crowds, I stopped early at 4PM. The place was empty, so some staff member put on a loud salsa melody and all the staff started dancing. I stood at the cash register—ignored—until it was over. >>Sigh<<
Thanks Jorge....
I heard that story as well, funny stuff and she was afraid they would spit in her food, lol, I think it's wonderful that this woman's son is so in tune with what's going on in the USA, we can thank Howie for informing the masses!
Don't blame me either, I voted for Muffy as well!
RECALL
Classic Howie!
I called it in to Howie (and VB)—maybe in 2001? Can't pin it just on Jorge.
Maybe raccoonradio remembers my BK anecdote?
Been listening and reading Howie since the 80's, wish I could get him on my XM.
'Howie' is the best radio out there...
When Rush is away, Howie should be given the opportunity to play on EIB.
And I continue in my hope that maybe, someday, the political pendulum will swing the other way in New England, and it will become a place worth living in again.
I don't like Deval, but can he be THAT bad already?? He's only been there a couple of months.
"I don't like Deval, but can he be THAT bad already?? He's only been there a couple of months."
"Yes he can!"
He refused to sign a Proclamation honoring Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday.
OMG!! How pathetic.
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