( PS, Mitt's selling his 'home' town home in Belmont. Cue;'On The Road Again')
Posted on 04/17/2009 12:42:17 PM PDT by Leisler
I never thought I’d be writing these words, but Mike Dukakis is no longer the most clueless hack ever to serve as governor of Massachusetts.
Deval Patrick, come on down!
Think about what Ed King and Angelo Berlandi did to the Duke before the Democratic primary in 1978. They put slow-moving trucks on the old Central Artery during rush hour, slowing traffic to a crawl. On the back of the trucks were giant signs: Blame Dukakis for this Traffic Mess!
That was a dirty trick. What happened Sunday on the Mass Pike produced even worse traffic jams, but the Pike debacle was orchestrated not by political foes, but by Deval’s own coatholders. They pulled a dirty trick on themselves, and then sent Alan LeBovidge, which sort of rhymes with Blagojevich, out to giggle in front of the cameras.
This is like the last days of Dukakis, Sen. Richie Tisei was saying Wednesday night. The wheels are coming off.
Nobody’s home. Doug Rubin, the chief of staff, is busy writing job descriptions for worthless hacks. The lieutenant governor’s campaign spending reports look like a Zagat’s Guide. It used to be, hacks would settle for jobs for themselves. Now they want ’em for themselves and their sisters. Right Jim Aloisi? What say ye, John Walsh?
Deval Patrick - he’s putting the “good wages” back in “good jobs at good wages.”
Yesterday the county bailout bill was flying through the state Senate. Say what you will about M. Stanley Dukakis, at least he understood how worthless county government was. He didn’t understand much, but with the help of the crooked sheriffs he appointed, the Duke finally did figure one out. Not so Deval - this bailout is his legislation.
Here’s the deal: The state will now pick up the tab - $36 million - for the sheriffs in the remaining independent counties. That way, in places like Norfolk, Plymouth and Bristol counties, the county commissioners can then take the money the sheriffs have been relying on to preserve those really important jobs like county dog officer, and county tourism director, and county treasurer, and director of the county golf course, and the mosquito control board, and the custodians of the courthouses owned by the counties.
No wonder nobody takes Deval seriously when he says state government is tightening its belt.
Still, unlike the Duke in ’78, Deval can probably win the Democratic primary next year.
( PS, Mitt's selling his 'home' town home in Belmont. Cue;'On The Road Again')
Patrick's royal lifestyle, far from the working proles
Deval Patrick's coddling of stone killers
Patrick backs bill allowing developers to set-up their own governments
I think that is crediting Mitt with Machiavellian political skills, something which with all his efforts, money and years spent, he shows no evidence of having.
Until proven otherwise, I work with Mitt’s framework of being cultural and political cluelessness.
I disagree on that first part, especially after having observed him since 1994. He really has been deliberate and calculating (although it has harmed both him and us) with some of his actions (the Rappaport thing). His big mistake was that he chose the wrong party to pull this off under if it was going to advance him (although his single most brilliant calculation was in ‘94. He was quite correct in presuming if he beat Ted Kennedy, we’d have handed him the ‘96 Presidential nomination on a silver platter). But enough of the party tends to figure out the con artists. If this guy had run with the Dems, he’d probably have been President (or VP) already. No, he was too interested in f**king over the Republicans. This is personal to him, going back to his daddy’s rebuke in ‘68. I shudder to think what this guy would’ve done to us as President.
The GOP DC establishment approves of Romney. They like how he travels around the country raising money for GOP candidates. For the 1st Qtr of 2009, Romney’s PAC raised $800,000. Its really sad that a PAC is outraising some long time GOP incumbents - Bunning, Blunt, and Coburn. Romney may get the 2012 nomination just because the rest of the GOP is weak. With Romney as the nominee, the question is will he do worst than Goldwater of 1964?
And that really tells you all you need to know. They sure have a death wish.
"With Romney as the nominee, the question is will he do worst than Goldwater of 1964?"
Thankfully we won't have to find out.
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