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We, not Big 3, have the bailout blues

Posted in Taylor Armerding on Dec 8th, 2008 Comments

I think the Big 3 auto CEOs got close to exactly what they wanted.
They said they needed $34 billion. They’re only getting $15 billion. Sounds like Congress was really tough, giving them less than half what they needed.
But that ignores the standard opening gambit of any negotiation - you ask for at least twice what [...]

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Bonus babies - at your expense

Posted in Massachusetts politics, State issues, Taylor Armerding on Dec 3rd, 2008 Comments

My apologies for the complete absence of posts on this blog for the past month. My advance New Year’s resolution is to visit it much more often. And thanks to you who have stopped by, weighed in and debated with one another. There is not much better than a good argument that sticks to the [...]

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Yes you can - vote them out

Posted in Local politics, State issues, Taylor Armerding on Oct 31st, 2008 Comments

I’m voting for Question 1, to eliminate the state income tax, which shouldn’t surprise anybody. Every time I hear from its opponents that it would be “reckless” or “irresponsible,” I wonder, “Do these people ever stop to look in the mirror?” Reckless and irresponsible is the way they have been spending, demanding spending or enabling [...]

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Slouching toward socialism

Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding on Oct 3rd, 2008 Comments

Brief thoughts after the Palin-Biden set-to in St. Louis.
I wonder if Sarah Palin’s last name was really Paling at one time, and the family just decided to drop the “g” because, y’know, they weren’t usin’ it anyway. By the end of the debate, I was likin’ some of what she was sayin’, but I was [...]

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Don’t look too closely … we’re just helping you out

Posted in Taylor Armerding on Oct 2nd, 2008 Comments

They - the all-knowing “they” - say you should never watch the legislative process too closely - that it’s a bit like watching sausage get made. That seems to be a pretty substantial “ick” factor.
But, let’s take a peek anyway, at the latest version of the now $800 billion-plus bailout package passed by the U.S. [...]

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Just a brainlock away …

Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding on Sep 25th, 2008 Comments

So, did you hear what that Alaska hockey mom ditz, Republican vp candidate Sarah Palin said this past week? In an interview with CBS anchor Katie Couric, talking about the economic meltdown, she said, “Part of what a leader does is to instill confidence, is demonstrate that he or she knows what they’re talking about [...]

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Bama, you can’t drive my car

Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding on Sep 11th, 2008 Comments

I don’t want to base my vote for president on personality, age, race or gender. I want to base it on the critical issues of our time.
In that spirit, here’s my own, anecdotal, defining moment in presidential politics. True story. Two events. Happened on the very same day. In the morning, while traveling south on [...]

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Thin, thin community skin

Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding on Sep 8th, 2008 Comments

Memo to the everyone-is-special, everyone-gets-a-trophy, everything-gets-posted-on-the-refrigerator defenders of community organizers: Cool the faux outrage.
There’s so much crying going on here I’m afraid the members of the Democratic grievance industry are going to rust out the floors of their luxury hybrids. The skin is getting so thin that we’re starting to see the blue blood underneath. [...]

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Ooops, she said it again …

Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding on Aug 27th, 2008 Comments

It’s been said many times before - especially during the past eight years - by people who can’t stand their party being out of power. But it carries a bit more, uh, weight, when it’s Hillary Clinton telling members of the Hispanic Caucus at the Democratic convention this past week, “We are not fighting to [...]

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Can’t debate - I’m working too hard

Posted in Massachusetts politics, Taylor Armerding on Jul 29th, 2008 Comments

Gee, glad to see how intensely concerned our junior U.S. Senator John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, is about doing his job in the Senate.
With just eight weeks to go before the state Democratic primary election, Kerry’s opponent, Gloucester attorney Edward O’Reilly, is trying to get the senator to agree to a series of debates | 23 in [...]

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