Sometimes the truth tends to leak out in unexpected ways. According to the State House News Service, state Rep. Michael Moran, D-Boston, co-chair of the Election Laws Committee, was describing the multiple challenges of redrawing the district lines for House and Senate seats – a job that he said will begin after lawmakers are sworn [...]
Gotta thank VP Joe Biden for injecting some of his peerless comic idiocy into what was otherwise a very depressing day for the future generations of whatever half-baked America he and President Barack Obama will be leaving. By now, virtually everybody in the world with a TV or computer has seen Biden introduce Obama at [...]
Posted in Massachusetts politics, State issues, Taylor Armerding on Mar 18th, 2010 View Comments
No surprise, the Connector Authority board, which oversees insurance programs under RomneyCare, the 2006 health care law, was not pleased at comments by state Treasurer and unenrolled gubernatorial candidate Tim Cahill that Obamacare could bankrupt the nation in four years, because it is modeled after the Massachusetts reform. Cahill said Tuesday that the Connector had [...]
Posted in Massachusetts politics, State issues, Taylor Armerding on Mar 17th, 2010 View Comments
More tales from the abuse of plain language at the Statehouse: Chapter 9,621. The bottom line is that the infamous Hack Holidays – Evacuation Day (which happens to fall on St. Patrick’s Day, but so named to give it some alleged historical flavor) and Bunker Hill Day on June 17 will live for at least [...]
Posted in Massachusetts politics, Taylor Armerding on Mar 4th, 2010 View Comments
I know that all of our local reps and senators have to express horror and high dudgeon at the prospect of New Hampshire putting toll booths just inside its borders on Interstate 93. If they didn’t, their constituents might actually get angry enough at them to vote for somebody else. But I can’t help but [...]
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