Posted on 08/25/2010 12:49:43 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black - M. Stanley Dukakis is accusing Mitt Romney of being “a lousy governor.”
Takes one to know one, Pee Wee.
“After a year and a half,” the Duke told the State House News Service, “he just walked away from the job.”
Excuse me, is this the same guy who during the 1988 election once told reporters, “If I were a sitting governor . . .”
Uh, you were, Duke. You just forgot, you’d been out of state for so long, running for president in your tank. I mean, when you talk about terrible governors in Massachusetts, they fall into two classes. Acting governors - Jane Swift wins hands down, and elected governors - paging the Duke.
Where to begin? How about corruption? How about his appointees as high sheriff who went to federal prison - Honest John McGonigle and Chuckles Reardon? Another was fined by the State Ethics Commission. His education adviser, Gerry Indelicato, a gangster’s nephew, went to the can for corruption as president of Bridgewater State.
Dirty tricks were his specialty. You could ask Joe Biden about that. And yet the Duke whined when Al Gore mentioned that he had a furlough policy that let first-degree murderers such as Willie Horton and Jimmy Flemmi escape and commit yet more mayhem.
Let’s talk about welfare. Dukakis is the guy whose administration gave out fake Social Security numbers to illegal aliens so they could go on welfare. He’s the guy whose appointees OK’d the state paying for a sex-change operation for a guy from New Hampshire, then sent him off for all-expenses-paid post-op recovery . . . in Montreal.
Remember how the state was paying for fertility treatment for welfare moms so they could drop more burdens on taxpayers?
Dukakis was first elected as a “reformer,” and then he set up the biggest hackerama in state history. Billy Bulger - Whitey’s brother - was president of the state Senate. Most of Whitey’s drug dealers had hack jobs, or were out on disability from them. Nationwide searches, as they are still known. The husband of a governor’s councilor got a judgeship, the divorce lawyer of another councilor got early retirement on the bench. Billy Bulger’s coatholder was put on the bench.
But Dukakis said, “Mitt Romney’s the biggest disappointment I think I’ve ever seen.”
Taxes? How about his lead-pipe guarantee not to raise taxes? Yeah right, think Deval Patrick’s property-tax cut promise.
Then he said he wanted to raise sales taxes on services - just four services. Really? A Democrat state rep started reading the list of the “four services” and 90 minutes later he wasn’t through the hundreds of new levies.
Did I mention on top of everything else Pee Wee was, as an old lady on the Common once called him, “a henpecked little wimp” - a perfect description, by his own telling one afternoon.
“I don’t know about the pillow talk at your house,” he said at a State House press conference, “but I go to sleep at night with Kitty’s advice, counsels and urgings ringing in my ears.”
By the way, this hack’s hack has been collecting a state pension since January 1991. That’s the bad news. The good news, it’s “only” $30,753.72 a year. That’s how incompetent the Duke was - he couldn’t even finagle himself a six-figure kiss in the mail like the Corrupt Midget and all the rest of his era’s fellow, uh, statesmen.
DUKAKIS FOR WHAT?!?!? (cartoon of man busting a gut laughing)
-- Sat Night Live, fake Dukakis-Bush debate
Bush (Carvey): So in conclusion, stay the course, thousand points of light...stay the course.
Dukakis (Lovitz): I can't believe I'm losing to this guy.
--- On Jerry Williams Show (Howie's predecessor) (Woman singing to the tune of "Unforgettable"): "Unelectable...that's what you are..."
(To tune of Duke Of Earl): "Duke, Duke Duke Duke of Mass Mass Mass... "And you, you are my Kitty... my future first lady..."
Mitt Romney was a pretty lousy Governor though, that is why he left with a 34% approval rating, and had a Democrat replace him.
Mitt Romney was a pretty lousy Governor though, that is why he left with a 34% approval rating, and had a Democrat replace him.
He and Kerry Healey were worth every cent we paid them...
...that is, zero. They refused to take a salary.
Though he did fire Fat Matt Amorello, at least.
Howie could of continued on for hundreds of pages on this subject.
He used to play a sound clip of the Duke saying, “Carr? He’s a nutcase.” Howie hung the nickname Pee Wee on Dukakis and
brought up phrases like “nationwide search”, “national
model”, “Massachusetts Miracle”...
Another Jerry Williams bit:
PEE WEE HERMAN: Now here’s today’s secret word
DUKAKIS: Taxes..
(Woman screams)
PEE WEE HERMAN: So when you hear today’s secret word...
scream real loud!
I like Howie Carr.
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