Posted on 11/27/2015 1:52:19 AM PST by raccoonradio
This just in to the newsroom — Deval Patrick is no longer governor of the commonwealth.
We are reminded of these glad tidings by a simple press release that was issued Thanksgiving Eve.
It announced that next Tuesday evening, the new governor will be lighting a “Christmas tree†at the State House.
No muss, no fuss, no controversy. It’s Christmas, so a Christmas tree is going up on Beacon Hill. Merry Christmas!
Granted, it’s a small step on a long road, but after eight years of the PC malaise that marked Deval Patrick’s disastrous tenure, at least a bit of normalcy has returned to Massachusetts.
Unlike previous years, this weekend the governor won’t have to be hunted down by reporters and asked why the tannenbaum was initially described as a “holiday tree.†Not for Deval such patriarchal, Eurocentric, transgressive, heteronormative rites as a Christmas tree lighting.
This year reporters don’t need to scour YouTube for video of the governor issuing his annual effusive Eid greetings to Muslims, thereby demonstrating Deval’s double standard of diversity celebrating. Gov. Charlie Baker didn’t have to be shamed into grudgingly doing something that 99 percent of his constituents, Christian or otherwise, have no problem with.
Namely, calling the state Christmas tree a Christmas tree.
In his final, fiasco-plagued years, Deval learned to grit his teeth and spit out the C-word. But such resentment — you’d have thought Deval was actually being asked to appoint someone minimally qualified, or at least not corrupt, to work in his bust-out administration.
Another new twist to the annual tree lighting press release: It includes a quote from the lieutenant governor, one Karyn Polito. You may recall, Deval didn’t have an LG his last few years, after his boon companion and fellow bar-exam flunker Tim “Crash†Murray was engulfed in his own scandal.
Of course, business as usual continues at the State House — illegal aliens are still being coddled, now even allowed to apply for the John and Abigail Adams college scholarships paid for by law-abiding taxpayers. As always, hack judges are being promoted to presiding justices of local district courts.
Sure, maybe Charlie’s heart really isn’t into trying to stop the influx of thousands more welfare-collecting “refugees†into the state. Yes, he’s relying on the unindicted co-conspirator in the Speaker’s office to spare him from having to take a stand on the let’s-let-guys-into-the-ladies’-bathroom bill.
But at least Baker is trying to clean up some of the messes he inherited from Gov. Grinch. Boston 2024 is DOA. Then there’s the MBTA, which for Deval was nothing more than a dumping ground for his layabout friends, from “Dr.†Beverly Scott on down.
So it could be worse, it has been worse. Remember how close we came to having as governor a woman who said, “Technically, it is not illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts.â€
Imagine what Gov. Marsha Coakley would be doing this morning with the “migrants.†She’d probably be at that Worcester mosque personally handing out EBT cards, Sect. 8 certificates, WIC vouchers and drivers’ licenses, meeting some young fellas, as Deval would say.
But instead of that PC photo op, the State House gets a Christmas tree.
As the old song goes, it’s the little things that make a (State) house a home.
Howie Carr list ping
What, they ousted David Axelrod’s client in January?
Good by Deval you muzzie POS.
May the other muzzie in the White House and his ghetto trash family follow you into the great UNKONWN very soon.
May their names, like yours, never be spoken or remembered in American history or if remembered, spat out and on.
Good riddance to Cadillac Deval.
The edifice is about to crumble, to borrow a Farage construct. Wait until the extent of the MBTA pensions fraud/shortfall comes to light; you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Deval chose not to run for re-election. Baker beat Martha Coakley.
Thanks for the ping.
Is Cadillac Deval Mink DeVille's cousin?
Thank goodness he’s gone, however it happened.
Actually it’s Coupe deVal.
Slowly but surely we are turning the tide.
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