Supposedly, talk radio megamouth Rush Limbaugh is the best weapon Democrats have. Democratic strategists James Carville and Paul Begala said they discovered in polls conducted last fall that Limbaugh was “deeply unpopular,” particularly among young people. Even more unpopular than “God-damn-America” Jeremiah Wright.
So, when Limbaugh famously said recently that he wanted President Barack Obama to [...]
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Bulletin: Dissent no longer patriotic
Posted in Taylor Armerding, Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2009 Comments
Remember, not so long ago, when dissent was “patriotic”? Remember when Democrats who favored immediate withdrawal from Iraq - who hoped the U.S. would lose the war because it would make President Bush look bad - would throw tantrums if anybody called them on it, because, they said, this was an unfair questioning of their [...]
Big Brother Deval
Posted in Pension Tidal Wave, State issues, Taylor Armerding, Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2009 Comments
I didn’t expect, for a moment, that Gov. Deval Patrick would bring anything resembling tax relief to Massachusetts. He never really promised to, anyway. If you listened to what he said during his campaign, it was that if the income tax was reduced to 5 percent after 18 years of a “temporary” surtax, then property [...]
How disgusting is it that President Bush is still trying to ram things through Congress with the same, tired old politics of fear? I mean, first it was the weapons of mass destruction, and now it’s that we’re going to sink into an irreversible depression if we don’t hand him $840 billion for some kind [...]
Ethical clouds? What ethical clouds?
Posted in Massachusetts politics, State issues, Taylor Armerding on Jan 28th, 2009 Comments
If you had any lingering doubts about the Statehouse being a palace of delusion, listen to some of your elected representatives defend their vote for Sal DiMasi as House Speaker, just three weeks before he resigned under an ethical cloud that grows blacker by the day. Read about it here.
Rep. John Keenan, D-Salem: “I don’t [...]
The money is in contracts, not ‘efficiencies’
Posted in Local politics, Municipal meltdown, Taylor Armerding on Jan 5th, 2009 Comments
I agree with those who say that the few thousand bucks area school districts spent last November sending their superintendents and some school committee members to a conference on Cape Cod (read about it here) was no big deal - at least when it comes to breaking budgets. The top outlay of $4,500, which Methuen [...]
Lots of stories this week on how President-elect Barack Obama is going to have to do something about global warming in a hurry, because we’re already tipping past the tipping point, according to all credible scientists.
The most interesting factoid came late in these apocalyptic reports, however, where it noted that 2008 was going to be [...]
I guess among the things we’ll be bidding farewell as 2008 draws to a close is the Christmas party. Not the party, of course, just the label. Yes, we’ve been trained to say “Happy Holidays” now for the better part of a decade, so as not to offend blah blah blah. But it seemed like [...]
I’m just guessing here, but I think it’s a pretty good bet that before Tuesday, the number of Americans who could pronounce Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s last name was something below 5 percent. And after today, it’s probably better than 95 percent.
Oh, and you might have to search in some mainstream media accounts to find [...]
Unhappy with a vote? Take a day off
Posted in Massachusetts politics, Taylor Armerding on Dec 9th, 2008 Comments
That’s a great idea that the gay marriage jihadists have. It’s not enough, in the wake of the democratic referendum in California to preserve traditional marriage, for them to harass and threaten the Mormon church or hurl insults at African Americans that would get anybody else branded as McCarthyite. The next big protest is for [...]
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