Posted on 03/27/2009 10:52:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The voters are restless - and they’re angry.
There’s no other spin that can be put on the latest 7News/Suffolk University poll numbers.
Right now most of their anger is directed at Gov. Deval Patrick, with 47 percent of those surveyed saying, it’s “time to elect someone else,” compared to 34 percent who think he deserves re-election.
And more broadly 51 percent believe the state is on the wrong track and 71 percent believe Massachusetts will become “Taxachusetts” once again.
The poll number landed at the same time as a revealing column on the oped page of The Boston Globe authored by the former executive director of the Massachusetts Health and Education Facilities Authority, Robert Ciolek, and vice chairman of the board, Marvin Gordon.
The two take issue with the naming of Sen. Marian Walsh as assistant executive director at HEFA - whether her salary is $175,000 or $120,000.
“She would be filling a position that is vacant, purposeless and unneeded,” they wrote.
Thus we have two insiders confirming what most of us on the outside had assumed.
But the two insiders also revealed the governor’s broader - and quite hidden - agenda. The plan is to put HEFA out of business by folding it into the Massachusetts Development Finance Authority, a similar agency, but one run under the Executive Office of Administration and Finance.
Hmmm. Now it’s all beginning to make sense. And the more sense it makes, the more anger it can and should generate. This isn’t simply a patronage grab, it’s a secretive power grab that is simply deplorable.
Speaking of “dirty, little” when Mass voters become disenchanted with Barney Frank, John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, that will be a great day.
It won’t happen.
Massachusetts ping
Once again??? When wasn't it? The Mass voters will never learn.
As long as they keep electing liberals nothing is going to change.
Sometimes I think that they send the Franks, Kerrys and Kennedys to Washington just to irritate the rest of us.
I now worry about the same “political patterns” occurring at the national level! I’m seriously not convinced that conservatism makes any kind of decent political comeback in, both, ‘10 and ‘12, no matter how screwed up the entire country gets on all of the issues. Also, the entire GOP is still “running around with their head cut off”, and Michael Steele isn’t leading the GOP out from their political wilderness, as of yet. Where’s the positive future for all of “U.S. conservatism”?
Isn’t Patrick another Alexrod “appointee”?
It is extremely rare for a chairman, of either party, to have much effect on individual political races.
You need to lighten up on that issue, a little bit.
Deval Patrick is the Obamanation’s Mini Me..
The people haven’t changed. They just don’t have a messenger. Republicans behave too much like neutered old men. People are upset on the ground, the independents are abandoning Obama. There is growing hatred towards Washington. What we need is a central speaker to get the ball rolling for another Continental Congress. We need a conservative movement like what occurred in the 60s and I believe it is happening. The Tea Party movement is taking root. I believe we need a Continental Congress II. We need to re-boot America. Clean the virus called liberalism from the hard drive and start again. We can’t go on the way we are unless we desire a slow death for the country we love.
I believe they are mad but, I agree they won’t change parties
to get rid of them and there is no way the party gets rid of them or they lose a primary election.
After spending 12 years in MA I am convinced they are totally programmed liberalbots who automatically defend anything the likes of a John F’n Kerry or ‘Swimmer’ Kennedy do or say.
Patrick was elected for the same reason the ‘empty suit’ was, because he is black and like the ‘empty suit’, Patrick is an unmitigated disaster. Also like Obama, those who voted for him are loathe to admit how awful he is doing and how big a mistake they made voting for him.
With that thought in mind you can, imo, toss the polls out the window because his disapproval numbers in MA are most probably 15 points or more less then shown.
Two fags and a killer?
Great job voting there Mass. You are represented appropriately as these three mirror your state.
That was my thought. When did it stop being Tazashusetts? Who knew?
Elected Republicans ARE COWARDS. I've known that, since they caved into MSM/Democrat pressure by "starving the children" by only increasing school lunch spending by 8% instead of 12% back in early 1995, when the first took over Congress.
Assume the GOP pols are cowards, unless proven otherwise.
I really suspect that above a certain level in society people care less about the core principles we follow than we do. They are "end justifies the means" philosophers. As long as the bucks keep coming in, they don't much care which side is in charge.
We no longer create much wealth, our mills are shut down, we are importing much of our food, we depend on foreign ships for transport, and the service economy we are stuck with isn't going to keep the nation strong, we just shuffle other peoples stuff and collect commissions. Good paying jobs are now out of the question for too many people.
My younger brother supported the republican party, as I have, since he was old enough to take an interest. He now is supporting, and counting on, Obama. He has 2 young kids, lost his job 6 months ago, and there is almost nothing here but flipping burgers. He is a qualified heating and AC technician, they aren't hiring.
I don't think Obama can solve the problem, but my brother looks at his kids, and the incoming bills, and he's scared. His wife is an R.N, but one paycheck won't keep a roof over them forever.
My daughter and son in law are both computer wizards. They work from home, good paychecks coming in, but, they must always wonder how long it can hold on, their jobs could be handled from Calcutta.
We have "leaders" in the GOP who have been complicit in, or ignored, much of the chain of events that put us here. It can't be denied. It will hurt us more, and cost us more, than it will them. Many of them will just change sides, it is happening now.
I won't, but I don't have 2 small kids at home, a big mortgage and 2 car payments.
I reckon this rant sounds confused, I am confused. I'm 66, thought I had most things figured out, but they keep changing the rules.
My kid brother's troubles began on George Bush's watch, while thousands of illegals swarmed in to take American jobs. It's sort of hard to claim that George Bush, or the party hierachy, were worried about my brothers prospects.
I don't really know if the damage is repairable or not. It looks like they are now trying to blend in with the democrats, but that isn't going to work. The votes they gain by selling out conservative principles will be lost, from those of us who will not compromise.
The arrogant fools simply should not have led us into this mess in the first place, but their money kept rolling in, and they thought all was hunky dory!
Snort. When did it ever stop?!
“We can’t go on the way we are unless we desire a slow death”
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Old Jed leans on his hoe handle, spits on the ground, pushes his straw hat back, wipes the sweat off his brow with a red bandanna and replies, “Hit ain’t looking all that slow to me.”
“His wife is an R.N, but one paycheck won’t keep a roof over them forever.”
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God bless the nurses but this is becoming all too common, you wouldn’t believe how many families I know who are depending on the nurses income to survive. As necessary as they are nurses don’t produce food, clothing, houses etc. We need all these other things so that we can afford to have skilled nurses, instead we are depending on nurses to support the unemployed and underemployed. It ain’t going to work forever.
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