Posted on 09/04/2010 9:32:08 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Herald column
2006 called, it wants its governor’s debate back
By Howie Carr | Sunday, September 5, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Here’s the big question for the first televised governor’s debate Tuesday night:
Is it going to be three-on-one, or two-on-one on Republican Charlie Baker?
My guess is two-on-one. Jill Stein, the Green-Rainbow, or is it Rainbow-Green candidate, may be a Prius-driving moonbat, but she’s smart.
She knows any votes she’s getting come out of Deval Patrick’s hide. The word is she beat him like a rented mule at the Cape Wind debate. She’s figured out her path to that big 3 percent she’s aiming for in November.
So that leaves us with Baker taking on Deval and his real running mate, Tim “Don’t Me Call Christy” Cahill. Thanks for the ink yesterday, Tim, and let me reciprocate by congratulating you on your marvelous return on investment last week.
What is it with these Democrats named Tim - first Tim Geithner, now Tim Cahill? They apparently don’t believe they have to pay taxes unless they get caught. Tim got bagged, so he coughs up $15,000 to the state, and a couple of days later he’s eligible for more than $700,000 in “matching funds” for his campaign. So whenever you see any of Tim’s TV spots from now on, remember . . . you paid for ’em.
And here I thought Cahill was a boob after Bernie Madoff relieved him of $12 million in state pension funds.
Charlie Baker says he’s spending part of this weekend watching the 2006 debates, in which Deval Patrick and Tim Cahill - I mean Christy Mihos - double-teamed the Republican candidate, Muffy Healey.
I assume it’ll be the same M.O. on Tuesday night. Good cop-bad cop, with Cahill reprising Christy’s role, nipping at Charlie’s heels, yapping about the Big Dig, forcing Baker to waste time that he could be using to talk about, oh I don’t know, the 25 percent sales tax increase.
Meanwhile, Deval will be trying once again to float above the fray. He has a scheme - I mean, dream. And he must be concerned about Stein peeling off moonbat votes, the way he’s been veering ultra-left lately.
Which is why I have one final request for you this weekend. Jill Stein could sure use some of that free Tim Cahill state money to dust up Deval. But she has to raise $125,000 before she can climb on the Cahill welfare wagon, and right now she’s only got $60,000. And she has to raise it in increments of less than $250.
Can you help? Think of it as what Ch. 2 calls a “pledge challenge.” You give her a finn, she ends up with a sawbuck. If Tim Cahill can get free state money to kill Charlie Baker, why shouldn’t Jill Stein get dough to slam Deval?
Give a dime to Stein. Do it . . . for Howie’s kids.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1279266
Great post.
NO ROMNEYCARE. NO ROMNEY. Therefore, NO BAKER.
That’s OK, 4 more years of Patrick will be fun:
After repeatedly dodging the issue, Gov. Deval Patrick yesterday pledged to implement a state sales-tax rollback if ballot Question 3 is approved by voters in November.
“I will respect the will of the voters,” Patrick told the Herald at a late afternoon campaign stop, after twice refusing to answer the question hours earlier.
“But I think any responsible candidate and any responsible public official has got to be straight with people about what a calamity this will create in their lives.”
Wed column ping
Deval Patrick would OK tax rollback (wink,wink)
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, September 8, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
The good news is, Gov. Deval Patrick is promising to go along with the will of the voters if they cut the sales tax in November from 6.25 percent. The bad news is, nobody believes him.
Look at the Herald Web poll - 68 percent say he’ll figure out a way to slither out of it. On my radio-show poll, the numbers were a bit higher - 97 percent. Oh sure, I know, both of these are “self-selecting samples” - you know, people who follow the news and pay attention and remember candidates’ reputations for veracity.
Kudos to Richard Weir, for stalking Deval and finally getting him to say: “I will respect the will of the voters.”
That he said this on the eve of the first televised gubernatorial debate is purely not coincidental.
“But I think any responsible candidate and any responsible public official has got to be straight with people about what a calamity this will create in their lives.”
Maybe, if you’re a hack, or an illegal alien. Otherwise, it’s a payraise. But boy, does Deval suddenly love the word “calamity,” or, last week, “calamitous.” Look it up in the dictionary. The definition of calamity is: “what half the state’s population thinks another four years of Deval Patrick would be.”
Now, earlier in the day, Deval had been doing his traditional tap dance: “I think as long as we talk about wholesale tax rollbacks - ”
May I interrupt here? How come we never hear about the dangers of “wholesale” tax increases? Apparently there’s no other kind. But “wholesale” tax rollbacks - very, very dangerous. Possibly even a calamity, to coin a phrase. Back to Deval.
“- without talking about what services have to be cut, education, local aid or public safety, I think the candidates who are pushing those things are not being candid with the public.”
Not being candid with the public? A little bit of projection here, Deval?
You know what he’ll say if he wins in November? What did his old boss Bill Clinton say in 1992 when he reneged on his pledge to cut middle-class taxes: “I’ve worked harder on this than I’ve ever worked in my life.”
I guess it all depended on whether the meaning of the word worked, worked.
Now Deval can say he was for disregarding the will of the people before he was against disregarding the will of the people.
Not that this is anything unusual. As we told you last week, in 2006 Tim “Don’t Call me Christy” Cahill endorsed Deval saying he had the “courage” to defy the 1 million voters who endorsed rolling back the state income tax to 5 percent.
Last week, Christy Cahill was asked on the radio when he’d come out for cutting the income tax rate.
“When this campaign started,” Cahill replied.
Now that Deval is on the record, it just means his pinky-ring union thug allies will have to shake down their membership for more money to put scare ads on TV. If Question 3 passes.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1279851
Howie Carr was running a call-in to answer the question
“What KIND of dog do you think Obama IS?”
My favorites:
IsmellaRat Terrier
Jackass Russel
OpenBorder Collie
Great Drain
FullofBull Mastiff
UnAmerican Bulldog
Fri column thread. I heard Cahill on Howie’s show and the thought, “NOT a BAD...GUY” came to mind. That’s what Jerry
Williams, Howie’s mentor, would say about certain politicians, in jest (?). I thought, y’know, Cahill doesn’t seem like a bad guy. I thought he’d be angry at Howie for that column but he sounded like he was in a good mood. Of course his presence in the race could take enough votes away from Baker to give Deval four more years.
And of course many here have problems with Baker and would vote for Cahill instead. Up to you. I’d rather have a flawed Republican who might help us a bit than a very
flawed Democrat who would cause great harm. Sorry, my opinion. Three, or four, lousy choices for gov? Sigh.
Lesser of four evils?
Or maybe he’ll fade at the end and Baker would win, or
maybe Deval won’t need his help to get in. But Cahill is
a former Democrat who will take a Dem ballot on Tue.
and despite the fact that he left the party, would probably
consider himself closer to them than to the GOP. Deval sure seemed to like him the other night, it’s been said. I don’t
think Cahill has enough to win (but who knows) but we have to wonder, is the Deval we know better than the devil
we don’t?
But hey, Timmy, you’re not a bad guy.—raccoonradio
on to Howie.
Tim Cahill shows primary colors
Despite ads, gov hopeful feeling blue
By Howie Carr | Friday, September 10, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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I’m confused - Tim Cahill is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell us why he “left” the Democratic party.
And yet, next Tuesday he’s going down to his precinct in Quincy to pull a primary ballot.
A Democratic ballot.
“What am I gonna do, not vote?” the lifelong Democrat said Wednesday night. “Then I’d be knocked for not voting. This is my rep, my senator, my district attorney, from my district.”
He just plain can’t help himself. He’s spending millions to prove he’s independent, but he just can’t pass up that crucial state rep’s fight. See, Quincy is a hackerama’s hackerama. It’s a Hibernian version of the Hatfields and McCoys. And after all these years, Tim Cahill is still, deep down, a Quincy city councilor.
So Cahill, the alleged independent, pulls a Democrat ballot. The big fights in Quincy this year aren’t for Congress, they’re for state senator and Norfolk County district attorney. In the district attorney’s fight, state Sen. Mike Morrissey of Quincy is running against state Rep. Joe Driscoll, a foreigner (he’s from Braintree). See, Driscoll took state Rep. Joe Sullivan’s House seat when Cahill made Sullivan boss of the Lottery, at the behest of the crooked speaker, Felon Finneran.
Once the G-men started lobbing in the tear gas on Finneran, it was sayonara Sully at the Lottery. I asked Cahill who he was voting for, Morrissey or Driscoll, but he refused to say. Mark him down for Morrissey. Unlike Driscoll, he’s from Quincy.
Now Morrissey’s Senate seat is open. In one corner we have state Rep. Steve Tobin, son of former mayor Arthur Tobin and former Mayor Phelan’s brother-in-law. Rep. Tobin is running against John Keenan, who is the brother-in-law of the current mayor Koch, who ran against the Tobin-Phelan cabal, and is now trying to set up one of his own.
Welcome to Tim Cahill’s world. Planet Reform it’s not.
“I won’t tell you who I’m voting for,” Cahill said, so I’ll tell you. He’s for Keenan.
Now Tobin’s House seat is open. There’s an ex-cop running against a guy named Chan, who’s tight with Morrissey and lately was working for Martha Coakley. That was another fight I wanted a pick in - which connected group did Treasurer Tim want to alienate, the cops or the Asians?
“I like ’em all. That’s the hard part. I really do.”
This from a guy who’s running ads around the clock attacking the Democrats, but ... he likes ’em all, which is why he’s going to vote for them Tuesday.
You can take the boy out of Quincy, but you can’t take the Quincy out of the boy.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1280335
Howie was running a call-in to answer the question
“What KIND of dog do you think Obama IS?”
My favorites:
IsmellaRat Terrier
Jackass Russel
OpenBorder Collie
Great Drain
FullofBull Mastiff
UnAmerican Bulldog
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