Posted in Massachusetts politics, State issues, Taylor Armerding on Jan 29th, 2010 View Comments
What a miracle an election year is. House Speaker Robert DeLeo is suddenly on our side, suddenly posing as a hawk on tax increases. I’m surprised he hasn’t taken a temporary membership with Citizens for Limited Taxation. The speaker declared this week that the House budget, not due until spring, would contain no new taxes [...]
As others have pointed out, there’s an interesting coattail effect developing with President Barack Obama. He goes to Virginia to campaign for the Democrat and the Republican wins. He goes to New Jersey to campaign for the Democrat and the Republican wins. And he came to Massachusetts to campaign for the Democrat, and the Republican [...]
The Rev. Pat Robertson is dangerous. Not because he’s going to hurt you or anyone else. He is dangerous first because he has a megaphone – his own TV show, The 700 Club, from which he can spew the kind of judgmental venom that he did this week after the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. Hundreds [...]
The silly season is becoming more entertaining every day, as we close in on the special election for the open U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts. Democrats, led by President Obama, claim they have nothing to do with special-interest lobbyists. But a group of some of the most powerful, well-connected special-interest lobbyists held a fundraiser for [...]
I’m sure all of you have wondered many times what we lofty journalists mean when we talk about “Astroturf.” The boring explanation is that it is a fake “grassroots” letter-writing campaign, where some special interest group sends out a form letter to its supporters, urging them to put their name on it and then send [...]
So, Mark McGwire “came clean.” He used steroids during the 1990s, including 1998 when he hit 70 homers. I’m sure you’re as shocked as I am to hear that. But, of course, he’s not really coming clean. That is not shocking either. He’s still tap dancing around the truth. In an interview with Bob Costas, [...]
Looks like the mayoral inaguration of Willie Lantigua in Lawrence was the biggest, hottest, bestest in the region. I mean, who else had Gov. Deval Patrick there to swear him in? And just in case anyone had any doubts, Lantigua reminded them of his greatness. “Leadership is here. You’re looking at him,” he declared. Kind [...]
So, did you read today that Republican Sen. and former presidential candidate John McCain is endorsing Republican Scott Brown for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Ted Kennedy? Big news, right? Almost as big as Democratic President Obama favoring Democrat Martha Coakley.
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