Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding on Sep 8th, 2008 View 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 [...]
Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding on Aug 27th, 2008 View 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 [...]
Posted in Massachusetts politics, Taylor Armerding on Jul 29th, 2008 View 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 [...]
Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding on Jul 11th, 2008 View Comments
This week’s idiotic political firestorm comes courtesy of former Texas senator Phil Gramm, an economic adviser to GOP presidential candidate John McCain, who said that we are in more of a “mental” recession than an actual one, and that America has become a “nation of whiners.” Democrat Barack Obama and his surrogates gleefully pounced, trotting [...]
Posted in Massachusetts politics, State issues, Taylor Armerding on Jun 18th, 2008 View Comments
Question: When is a tax break for the wealthy not a tax break for the wealthy? Answer: When a Democrat calls it an “economic stimulus plan.” Of course, it’s still a tax break for the wealthy – calling it by another name doesn’t change the reality – but most Democrats are loathe to give even [...]
Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding on May 22nd, 2008 View Comments
It’s touching – or it would be if there was anything genuine about it – to hear Hillary Clinton drone on about how anti-democratic it would be if the Democratic primary election results in Florida and Michigan are not counted. Clinton, who has been singing this song since she “won” those primaries, is now ramping [...]
Posted in Local politics, State issues, Taylor Armerding on May 2nd, 2008 View Comments
Haven’t we hear this song before? Bills get passed, or killed, at the Statehouse that directly benefit good friends of those in power, and it’s all a complete coincidence. Nobody influenced anybody. So it’s a familiar melody coming from the lips of the surrogate subordinates of House Speaker Sal DiMasi. Among the scandals currently distracting [...]
Posted in Massachusetts politics, State issues, Taylor Armerding on Apr 15th, 2008 View Comments
Gov. Deval Patrick, in yet another example of political courage, has allowed a bill to become law that would hit employers with triple damages if they lose wage disputes with workers. The governor didn’t sign it, saying he had “concerns” that it could be “unfairly punitive.” But those alleged concerns didn’t prompt him to veto [...]
Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding on Apr 7th, 2008 View Comments
Interesting – now that Mark Penn, the pollster and senior strategist for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, has been forced to resign, at least from the strategist gig, we’re finally hearing from the mainstream press what we should have been hearing long ago. Penn was pushed out for one specific conflict of interest – he [...]
Posted in Massachusetts politics, Municipal meltdown, State issues, Taylor Armerding on Apr 4th, 2008 View Comments
I don’t blame cops for wanting to make more money. Heck, I want to make more money. But I do blame them for constantly cloaking their desire for more money by pretending to be altruistic. Their frenzied efforts to protect their monopoly on road details, as the Legislature considers transportation reforms that would take some [...]
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