Archives for the 'Boston' Category
Belichick’s KSM Moment
Published on 17 Nov 2009 at 8:46 am.
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Filed under Boston, Obama, sports.
How bad was it? So bad that Ed Morrissey at Hot Air ventured out of war and politics to bash Bill Belichick over the last-minute bollixing of the Pats-Colts game.
Big Guns Make Bad Neighbors
Published on 7 Nov 2009 at 8:26 am.
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Filed under America, Boston, guns, history, military.
I say, Muffy, that deuced gunnery is flattening the bubbly! Old Ironsides’ la-di-da waterfront condo neighbors want to muffle the guns … a.m. and p.m. salutes to the flag, unsettling. Boston Herald:
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Happier Hours
Published on 31 Oct 2009 at 12:50 pm.
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Filed under Boston, beer, booze.
Boston mayoral candidate Mike Flaherty’s drink ticket looks like the place to crawl for a later “last call” in bluest Beantown, where the Irish and Italians took over from the Yankee bluebloods a long time ago, but Puritan Blue Laws never quite gave up their deathgrip on the nightlife. Boston Herald: Bar group backs Flaherty in [...]
Lawful
Published on 29 Oct 2009 at 9:53 pm.
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Filed under Boston, courage, guns, medicine.
An armed, licensed off-duty security guard’s shooting of a mentally ill man with a knife who was attacking his psychiatrist was not only lawful, it probably saved other lives, DA says. Boston Herald:
Maybe We Can’t!
Published on 24 Oct 2009 at 9:12 am.
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Filed under Boston, Obama.
The recently elected Democratic President of the United States can’t fill a room in bluest Massachusetts. Surveying the nearly half-empty Westin Copley ballroom, 2008 “Yes We Can” Hope-and-Changer Barack Obama says on behalf of his longtime political doppelganger Deval Patrick, who in 2006 was the “Together We Can” template O drew on:
“There really should be [...]
Perv Free!
Published on 24 Oct 2009 at 9:10 am.
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Filed under Boston, justice, pervs.
Sung to the tune of “Born Free.” Lyrics below. It’s the judicial anthem of Massachusetts, where a familiar face is back in the news, having been free to follow his heart thanks to judges who could not bear to confine him. Boston Herald:
Welcome To Moonbat Nation, Mr. President!
Published on 23 Oct 2009 at 9:24 am.
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Filed under Boston, Obama, moronocy.
Howie Carr does the honors as Obama arrives in Beantown to the boos of the moonbat peanut gallery. Boston Herald:
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Fear No Evil
Published on 21 Oct 2009 at 12:31 pm.
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Filed under Boston, terrorists.
Just be aware it exists. It turns out you don’t have to go all the way out to Amherst to find a jihadi. The feds claim they’ve nabbed one in Sudbury. Charming little bit of old New England just upstream from that rude bridge in Concord where once embattled farmers stood. Boston Herald:
Layoffs For Thee
Published on 20 Oct 2009 at 9:26 am.
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Not for “we.” Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s layoff plans clarify who the “we” was in “Together We Can,” his 2006 slogan that was echoed in Obama’s “Yes We Can,” like much of Patrick’s campaign rhetoric. Boston Herald: Patrick dumps 91, keeps pals.
Bash Of The Titans
Published on 19 Oct 2009 at 10:03 am.
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Filed under Boston, kids, moms and dads, sports.
Patriots set all kinds of league and franchise records in 59-0 blowout vs Titans. Boston Herald. I set a record at Gillette Stadium, too. Least time spent at a game.
The Woman Who Would Be Kennedy
Published on 16 Oct 2009 at 9:09 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
Apparently would prefer a coronation. Ducks tough questions. Even lets a reporter chase her. Hey … maybe she’ll make a great Kennedy after all. Boston Herald.
Meanwhile, the Herald’s Lauren Beckham Falcone goes all “high school” on the wannabe United States senator. I dunno, I wouldn’t take Becks up on that meet in the girl’s room if I were [...]
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From The State That Brought You Willie Horton
Published on 15 Oct 2009 at 8:22 am.
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Filed under Boston, crime, moronocy, punishment.
Massachusetts inmates to get swine flu vaccine before law-abiding taxpayers. Boston Herald:
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Do Or Die
Published on 11 Oct 2009 at 9:13 am.
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Filed under Boston, Obama, baseball.
Red Sox down a deep post-season hole. Boston Herald: Been there, done that. Don’t much like the look of those Yanks, though, who stopped screwing up right around the time the Sox started this year.
Howie Carr: There’s only one thing that can save them. Put “O-bel” Prize winner Barack Obama on the mound. Is there [...]
Universal Health Care Mecca …
Published on 8 Oct 2009 at 11:24 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
Is like health-care hell for one universal health care advocate. The premiums in Massachusetts are too high, and the much-lauded universal health care system system … even a relatively conservative one pushed by a Republican, Mitt Romney … is a financial trainwreck that is dragging down the state budget and driving up my taxes. Former [...]
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The Kennedy Seat
Published on 24 Sep 2009 at 1:33 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
UPDATE: It’s done. Kennedy hanger-on Paul Kirk gets the interim gig. Boston Herald. Kirk accepts with “sincere humility,” managing to sound suckuppy about being the beneficiary and instrument of utter arrogance. Back to the original post. Change all “woulds” and “ifs” to “hases” “dids” and “wills” below:
I don’t know who died and made that a Kennedy seat [...]
Bring Us Your Pimps, Your Hos, Your Scamming Community Organizers Yearning To Breathe Free
Published on 18 Sep 2009 at 7:58 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
In the 345-75 vote to cut ACORN off at the knees, the Massachusetts delegation votes agaist cutting off ACORN, with the exception of John Tierney, who voted no, and Barney Frank, who didn’t vote. via Boston Herald.
That means eight of the “No” votes, or better than 10 percent, were provided by the Bay State.
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Guests, Monkeys Back in Hotel …
Published on 16 Sep 2009 at 2:08 pm.
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After Beantown carbon monoxide scare. Boston Herald with this breaking simian news update:
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As Goes Massachusetts
Published on 10 Sep 2009 at 10:10 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
So goes the nation. I’ve said it before, turns out it’s true. And we’re getting ready to bollix another one.
Legacy
Published on 29 Aug 2009 at 9:25 am.
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Filed under Boston, history, pols.
As they hold a funeral mass for Ted Kennedy and bury him today, here’s some praise for the dead. It’s why they loved him. A couple of quick links to demonstrate the good he did as he attempted to redeem himself from the shame of Chappaquiddick, and to demonstrate his application of his considerable influence and political skills [...]
Dems In Mourning
Published on 27 Aug 2009 at 9:20 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
His friend of many years’ body not yet cold, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shows the depth of his grief. Boston Herald:
The Bay State political landscape Sen. Edward M. Kennedy dominated for four decades has been thrown into disarray by his death, as local pols face national pressure to appoint a temporary replacement and potential successors quietly [...]
Ted Kennedy
Published on 26 Aug 2009 at 8:34 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
Won’t be down to breakfast. Boston Herald covers it, from iconic liberal lion, life of privilege marked by tragedy and scandal, dead in his sleep at 77 after a brave battle with cancer, to the succession fight/posturing/charade to come. The fix wasn’t quite in yet, but the hacks are putting their heads together to overturn the 2004 Kennedy-backed legislation [...]
Cash For Cons
Published on 25 Aug 2009 at 10:23 am.
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Filed under Boston, Obama, hacks, money, moronocy.
Sounds like an “Only in Massachusetts” kind of thing, but even the hacks in Taxachusetts couldn’t believe it when the feds mailed economic stimulus checks to state prison inmates. Boston Herald:
Federal economic stimulus cash was handed out to cons behind bars in Bay State prisons after a bureaucratic snafu resulted in $250 checks being sent to some [...]
Case In Point
Published on 13 Aug 2009 at 1:49 pm.
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Filed under Afghanistan, Boston, cops, media, military.
While the Boston Globe waxes hysterical about the dangers letting veterans be cops, the New York Times weighs in with some news on what the presumed babykillers have been up to while earning their veterans’ civil service preference. It’s an informative article on the military’s adaption to Taliban tactics and finetuning of the counterinsurgency. Sounds like the Army expects a pretty high degree of sophistication [...]
Lefty Rag Opposes Minority Preferences
Published on 12 Aug 2009 at 11:22 pm.
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Filed under Boston, bigotry, cops, media, military.
No, not race, gender or sexual-orientation preferences. Don’t be ridiculous. It’s the Boston Globe, slamming civil service police preferences for that other much-abused minority, Military-Americans, in a bigoted, ill-informed editorial that plays on some of the worst stereotypes about veterans, and has the Boston police commissioner singing in tune:
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Mystery Fog Over Boston
Published on 12 Aug 2009 at 1:55 pm.
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Filed under Boston, hacks, taxes.
My worthy adversaries at the Boston Globe marvel at the “mystery fog” that settled over Boston yesterday afternoon, shutting down Logan International Airport for several hours. It wasn’t that big a mystery. As the fanciful, horror flick-citing weather story eventually gets around to partially explaining, when you have a mass of hot humid air over cold water, you [...]
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Bad O-men
Published on 27 Jul 2009 at 8:42 am.
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Filed under Boston, Obama.
Entrails of chickens, rotten! Reports of a three-legged cow born in the hills! Dire portents!
They campaigned for each other, wanted to make sure you knew how much they are like each other. And the historic, ground-breaking, popular reforming outsider, gaffe-prone, tax-hiking, hack-enabling tenure of Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, kicking off two years ahead of Obama’s presidency, has proven to [...]
Quote Of The Week
Published on 15 Jul 2009 at 11:12 pm.
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Filed under Boston, men, moronocy, pervs, women.
Goes to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who says this about a bill that would allow men to use the women’s room, if they declare themselves to be women. via Boston Herald:
”Somehow we manage at home with bathrooms that don’t have ’men’ and ’women’ on them. And we can probably figure that out on public spaces, too.”
Sure, if [...]
Free The Herald One
Published on 12 Jul 2009 at 10:57 am.
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Filed under Boston, hacks, media.
The Boston Herald’s Howie Carr had to be handcuffed to his hospital bed to keep him down. The scourge of hacks, hoods, deadbeats, welfare queens, etc., is also a hard-working, highly professional, old school Tabloid-American who is a pleasure to work with. He may have already turned in his column for the day, or it may [...]
Hate To Keep Rubbing It In
Published on 26 Jun 2009 at 10:57 am.
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It’s not like I’m feeling nostalgic. But how can we stop laughing at him if he won’t go away? It’s John Kerry again. The Boston Herald’s Howie Carr catches the action as Kerry calls the plays:
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His Inner Kerry (UPDATED: Adieu, Jacko)
Published on 25 Jun 2009 at 8:35 am.
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Filed under Boston, hacks, moronocy.
WE INTERRUPT OUR NORMAL PROGRAMMING WITH THIS BREAKING NEWS:
Heat’s off Sanford … Michael Jackson’s dead. Do you remember where you were when you heard? Sanford does … off the front page.
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Get Your At-Risk On
Published on 29 May 2009 at 9:51 am.
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Filed under Boston, Obama.
Got a teen who needs a job this summer? Help is on the way. Yes, he or she can. Here’s what they need to do.
Stop studying. Get pregnant. Get court-involved. Offend. Drop out. Run away. Forget you ever knew English. Be from elsewhere.
Boston Herald:
30 Percent Rage
Published on 22 May 2009 at 8:38 am.
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Filed under Boston, hacks, moronocy, taxes.
Howie Carr’s “Hate To Say I Told You So” to the 70 percent of Massachusetts voters who blocked the elimination of the state income tax last November. Boston Herald:
Value Not Added
Published on 20 May 2009 at 9:55 am.
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Filed under Boston, Europe, hacks, taxes.
Nor expected any time soon. Commenter Simonwise helpfully notes in the “I just got mugged” post below that Massachusetts’ 6.25 percent sales tax is nothing. It’s 21.5 percent Value Added Tax in Ireland.
He’s got a point. Theoretically, if they tried that around here, they’d have to add some value. With our pending 25 percent hike in the sales [...]
And Another Thing …
Published on 20 May 2009 at 8:45 am.
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Filed under Boston, hacks.
About that mugging, here’s the mob who did it. In another profession, the following would be called “Omerta.” via Boston Herald:
More than three-quarters of Beacon Hill lawmakers - including the House speaker and Senate president - threw up “a veil of secrecy” when pressed for the size and salaries of their taxpayer-paid staff, even as [...]
I Just Got Mugged
Published on 19 May 2009 at 10:10 pm.
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Filed under Boston, taxes.
Massachusetts’ one-party government just passed a veto-proof sales tax hike … up 25 percent from 5 percent to 6.25 percent. The corrupt bastards did not care to do any heavy lifting on pensions, bennies or do-nothing jobs. Too traumatic. Better to chisel it out of people – voters or taxpayers if you like, around here you might [...]
Machine Gunning The Lifeboats
Published on 26 Apr 2009 at 8:02 am.
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Filed under Boston, hacks.
Howie Carr with a great 10-point plan to resolve Massachusetts’ $400 million budget crunch … which may not sound like much with the numbers thrown around lately in DC, but for a state with 6 million people, legally obliged to balance the budget each year, it’s a pile.
His plan has a lot of great ideas. It centers on firing hacks, [...]
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It Was About Hope, And Change …
Published on 20 Apr 2009 at 8:21 am.
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Filed under America, Boston, Britain, history, military.
Patriots Day may be the least known American holiday, and the day most deserving of our recognition. Observed by schools and government today in Massachusetts and Maine only. Don’t know it? It marks the day, April 19, 1775, on which Americans took up arms against their king, and bled, at the crack of terrible dawn.
The following collection of first-person [...]
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Beloved Competition
Published on 17 Apr 2009 at 9:56 am.
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Filed under Boston, media.
Recently, my newspaper’s reporters forced the Boston Globe to acknowledge what it had not told its rank-and-file employees, and what Globe union leaders had neglected to tell their members, that the New York Times had demanded that the unions at its vassal property come up with $20 million in cuts or face closure within a month. I took the [...]
Lights Out
Published on 9 Apr 2009 at 9:13 pm.
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Filed under Boston, money.
I’m not sure if they are trying to impress us or punish us. Probably a little of both. But the spendthrifts at the Massachusetts Turnpike, who literally cost Massachusetts and federal taxpayers billions upon billions of dollars in wasteful cost overruns on the Big Dig, turned off the blue lights on the Zakim Bridge’s suspension cables tonight [...]
Transportation Reform, Massachusetts Style
Published on 7 Apr 2009 at 12:00 pm.
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Filed under Boston, cars, illegals, law & order, moronocy.
Includes a measure to give drivers licenses to illegal aliens. Boston Herald. Commentary on that and other local moronocy (with fun Truther-mocking art) via my pal Michael Graham.
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Cynicism Decried!
Published on 2 Apr 2009 at 11:19 am.
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Filed under Boston, hacks.
Huffy hack lashes out at the shrill tabloid coverage/public outrage that forced her to resign from her $175,000 do-nothing job that had been vacant for 12 years at the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority, an agency no one ever heard of. Massachusetts state Sen. Marian Walsh, sounding hurt, whines to the Boston Herald’s Margery Eagan:
“We live in [...]
Non-Unrepentant Ex-Non-Terrorist* Uninvited
Published on 28 Mar 2009 at 8:38 am.
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Filed under Boston, academia, terrorists.
Boston College disinvites Ayers, who was due to speak Monday on education reform and civic engagement at the invitation of Americans for Informed Democracy and the College Democrats. Boston Herald.
Ayers could not be reached last night, but before the decision was announced, he said: “This isn’t Saudi Arabia or Cuba. Speech is something we believe in [...]
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Obama Lite Update
Published on 20 Mar 2009 at 12:40 am.
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They wanted you know how much alike they are … right down to the tin ear, as it turns out.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, when asked by an ink-stained wretch in a State House presser how he summons the gall to shake down the citizenry for more $$$ while lavishing pay raises on hacks and cronies, says he concentrates [...]
Mind Your Daughters
Published on 18 Mar 2009 at 11:01 pm.
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Filed under Boston, Hollywood, Internet, pervs.
Staties intercept 12-year-old runaway curbside at Logan International Airport, as she steps out of her cab, ticket in hand, headed for Hollywood with dreams of stardom. The ”16-year-old girl” she met on MySpace promised to introduce her to teen heart throbs. Boston Herald. Irony alert: She was saved by text messaging. Kids alarmed by the farewell [...]
St. Patrick’s Day
Published on 17 Mar 2009 at 7:17 am.
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Filed under Boston.
Dan Collins at Protein Wisdom (sounds like corned beef and stout, keep your damned cabbage) does the honors. Your Irish eyes will smile.
In Suffolk County, Massachusetts, it’s Evacuation Day … an important day locally. No, not because it marks the day in 1776 when Washington’s siege* forced the British to evacuate Boston, dumping their guns and baggage unceremoniously off [...]
Obama Lite
Published on 13 Mar 2009 at 9:15 am.
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Barack Obama and Deval Patrick campaigned for each other, wanted to make sure voters knew these two race-barrier-battering Chicago guys are the same, and a while back I cautioned that the Massachusetts governor might be a good indicator of what the Obama admin might look like. So it’s always good to check in.
Deval: upgrades to a Cadillac, [...]
Unclear On The Concept
Published on 10 Mar 2009 at 10:21 pm.
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Filed under Boston, art, cops, crime.
“Hope” artist Shepard Fairey just got slapped with another 29 charges by Boston cops regarding his artwork’s exhibition space … other people’s property. In an e-mail to the Boston Herald, the persecuted artist writes:
“I can only assume that the gratuitous piling on of felony charges by the Boston Police related to my long-standing advocacy as [...]
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime
Published on 10 Mar 2009 at 10:26 am.
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Filed under Boston, Bums, money.
Boston aims to crack down on “aggressive solicitation,” aka obnoxious panhandling, possibly up due to hard times. It’s been chronic. I wrote about it in boom times in the mid-1990s,* when chi-chi Newbury Street organized to broom the bums. Have noticed an uptick at some intersections lately, though I have to say a lot of [...]
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Great Depression
Published on 8 Mar 2009 at 10:26 am.
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Filed under America, Boston, history, money.
A couple of comparisons, macro and micro, at the Boston Herald.
Danger Attack Elephant
Published on 6 Mar 2009 at 8:26 am.
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Filed under Boston, pols.
The aggressive lameness of the Mass GOP is cruelly mocked. Boston Herald here and here. As goes Massachusetts so, lately, goes the nation.
“This is the kind of thing where, if the Democrats were doing it, the Republicans would send out a snippy press release.”
All chiefs and no Indians, first link, notes the Dems pretty much do do [...]
