Posted on 12/09/2012 3:30:11 AM PST by raccoonradio
Howie tjread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column
Are we certain that BK Jr. is a “reformed” junkie?
breaking via news talk 96.9
>Just in: A judge has declared a mistrial in former Massachusetts treasurer Tim Cahill’s corruption case after jurors failed to reach a verdict during seven days of deliberations.
Special Wed column ping. btw a tweet from Mark Schnyder of
Boston Radio Watch:
>>No one touches Howie Carr on local news days like this. There are many days like this in Boston.This why 96.9 is being donated to the Mayans
Who knew a kid from Quincy could be this lucky?
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Photo by Mark Garfinkel
Youre Tim Cahill, and you just hit the Lottery.
A tie may be like kissing your sister, but a hung jury means youre okay...
Youre Marsha Coakley, and what a revolting development this is.
Youre oh-for-three Scott Brown, Scott Campbell, and now Tim Cahill.
You hired a new anti-corruption guy to get you a hacks scalp or two, and what do you have to show for it? Just another run of those same old jokes.
If you want to hide something real good, just stick it in one of Marshas law books.
When it comes to finding crooked pols, Marsha will leave no stone unturned... except the one the perps are hiding under.
Youre Marsha Coakley, and youve havent been this embarrassed in court since Tooky Amirault got sprung.
Youre Tim Cahill, and you know every other ex-treasurer is breathing a sigh of relief.
Who knew in 2010 that Marsha had decided that putting your name and photo on the Unclaimed Money List was now a felony? Certainly not you, or Shannon OBrien, or Joe Malone, or Bob Crane.
If your attorney, Brad Bailey, had been as good at politics as he was at criminal law, hed still be the High Sheriff of Middlesex County.
Youre Tim Cahill, and thank God none of the jurors apparently noticed that monogram on your shirt on the front page of the Herald this morning makes you look a little less the poor street kid from Quincy youve been pretending to be all these weeks.
Youre Marsha Coakley, and you know, you just know, that down on Northern Avenue, Carmen Ortiz is having a good chuckle right now.
Youre Marsha Coakley, and how come every other prosecutor with a million e-mails to wade through always gets a conviction, and you cant.
To paraphrase John Kerry, can I get me a hunting license for a House speaker here?
No? You mean Carmen Ortiz has first dibs on that too? Is it too late to ask Deval for one of those judgeships hell be handing out as soon as Mary-Ellen Manning is gone from the Governors Council?
Youre Tim Cahill, and does anyone need any leaves raked?
You used to have a little restaurant Fisticuffs, er, I mean Handshakes so maybe you could open a pub like Sen. Bob Hedlund.
Youre Marsha Coakley, and is it too late to indict Dianne Wilkerson and Chuck Superfly Turner?
Youre Marsha Coakley, and why, oh why didnt you skip that premature victory tour to Washington at the end of 2009? Why didnt you just keep campaigning for the Senate seat Brown won?
Youre Tim Cahill, and why, oh why didnt you just skip that run for governor in 2010? Why didnt you just keep running for re-election for treasurer?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1061181485
Thu column ping—a bit of yesterday’s web exclusive
re-written with at least one idea from a listener!
(”Technically, it is not illegal to be Tim Cahill in Massachusetts.) And Howie put in one quip he made
during the Chumpline, about Mistral/Mistrial.
Chalk up yet another flub to Marsha
By Howie Carr | Thursday, December 13, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Youre Martha Coakley, and youre wondering, who the hell talked you into indicting Tim Cahill.
You set up this whole new anti-corruption unit to get yourself a hacks scalp or two, and what do you have to show for it? Just another round of those same old jokes about Marsha Coakley.
If you want to hide something real good, just stick it in one of Marshas law books.
When it comes to finding crooked pols, Marsha will leave no stone unturned ... except the one the perps are hiding under.
Somewhere Tooky Amirault is smiling.
Old Marsha Coakley quote: Technically, it is not illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts.
New Marsha Coakley quote: Technically, it is not illegal to be Tim Cahill in Massachusetts.
Tim Cahill is a laughingstock, but suddenly when he goes up against Marsha, he turns into Scott Brown the Scott Brown of 2010.
Is it too late to indict Dianne Wilkerson and Chuck Turner one more time? To paraphrase John Kerry, can I get me a hunting license for a House speaker here?
If only you could have charged Cahill with open and gross stupidity. ...
But now he gets to limp back to the hospitality industry.
Theres already that chi-chi joint on Columbus Avenue named Mistral, so maybe Cahill can call his place Mistrial.
Meet your friends in the Unindicted Coconspirator Room! Order the hottest new drink in town, the Mad Marsha Martini.
Youre Marsha Coakley, and AG seemed like such a comfortable gig. All you had to do was go along to get along, like the corrupt sheriff in Jim Thompsons novel Pop. 1280, who knew he had it made as long as I didnt arrest no one unless I just couldnt get out of it and they didnt amount to nothin.
You know, someone like ex-state Rep. Brian Wallace of Southie.
Why didnt you just go the Wallace route with Cahill refer the case to the State Ethics Commission and settle for a heavy fine ($35,000). Brian Wallace, a poor little fat guy, his life ruined for unitemized Twinkie purchases.
Youre Marsha Coakley, and you know, you just know, that down on Northern Avenue, Carmen Ortiz is having a good chuckle right now.
And you also realize that Gov. Patrick really does want her to succeed him, because for one thing, shes not from Massachusetts, and you are, which means you can never really be part of the Deval gang.
How come every other prosecutor with a million e-mails for evidence can get a conviction, and you cant?
Youre Marsha Coakley, and why didnt you skip that fundraiser in D.C. at the end of 2009? Why didnt you shut up about standing outside Fenway Park [map] in the cold? Why didnt you know that Curt Schilling [stats] was not just another Yankee fan.
Why oh why oh why?
If wishes were horses, Marsha Coakley would fly.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1061181602
btw the latest
AP/Herald
A law enforcement official says the suspect in the Connecticut school shootings is 24-year-old Ryan Lanza and that his younger brother is being held for questioning as a possible second shooter. The law enforcement official says the boys mother, Nancy Lanza, works at the school as a teacher. The official also said Ryan Lanzas girlfriend and another friend are missing in New Jersey. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said the suspect is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the source was not authorized to speak on the record about the developing criminal investigation.
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Setting the stage for Scott Brown vs. the world
Friday, December 14, 2012
Im going to see U.S. Sen. Scott Brown tomorrow afternoon in Orleans. It was just supposed to be a book signing for both of us. Now maybe itll be the unofficial kickoff to the 2013 U.S. Senate race.
Not that were all hoping U.S. Sen. John Liveshot Kerry is finally, finally on his way out. Hey, Senator, heres your hat, whats your hurry?
What a great secretary of state Liveshot will make if only Obama will give him the nod. Talk about impeccable judgment. This is a guy who wanted John Edwards to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Last year he trekked to Damascus and assured everyone that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was a reformer and a very decent man.
Liveshot can really pick em, cant he?
But the man can get things done. Just ask that fire hydrant that used to be in front of his mansion.
What matters is that, knock on wood, Kerrys gone, and now Brown has another shot. Sure, hell be the underdog again, but what else is new? Hes a Republican in Massachusetts.
A lot of what remains of the local GOP is still shell-shocked from Nov. 6. They cant believe Scott lost to an empty pants suit like Granny Warren. But he just happened to be standing on the beach when the tidal wave hit.
Assuming the Democrats dont change the Senate succession law for the third time granted, a big if the election to replace Kerry will probably take place sometime in May or June. Can John Walsh and his pinky-ring union thugs reassemble their EBT coalition?
The next question is, whos Brown running against? Last time out, the Democratic machine was able to muscle aside everyone for the fake Indian (and then raise her $42 million). But now they wont have a state convention with its 15 percent requirement for a candidate to get on the primary ballot.
This time, its every moonbat for himself. This time, itll be more like, gulp, democracy.
Deval Patrick? No, hes about money. A Senate seat wouldnt enable him to live in the style his adventures in steam control (as Tom Wolfe would say) at Coke and Texaco have accustomed him to.
Lets go down the congressional list. Ed Markeys wanted this seat since 1984, but he could never risk his safe seat, lest he lose and starve to death. One of his only jobs in the Dreaded Private Sector was driving an ice cream truck. Now Mr. Frosty will have a free shot.
Ditto, Mike Capuano. Hes morphed from an unrepentant Somerville hack into a twitchy, MoveOn mouth-breather. Remember his exhortations to his union thugs on the Common about spilling a little blood?
Then theres Steve Lynch. What would have once been his electoral strengths are now a toxic stew of liabilities Irish-Catholic, South Boston, heterosexual, former ironworker.
To more than half of todays Democrats, Lynch is a walking hate crime.
Scott Brown will be at the Booksmith Musicsmith in Orleans at 1 tomorrow.
Bring signs. Also bring money.
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2012/12/setting_stage_scott_brown_vs_world
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