Comments on: Politics as Usual http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/2009/06/25/politics-as-usual-3/ Snarl\'s Humble Webpage Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:14:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Lise http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/2009/06/25/politics-as-usual-3/comment-page-1/#comment-92845 Lise Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:34:58 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/?p=2086#comment-92845 I believe Woody Allen said it best - the heart wants what it wants..... or the peñe does at least. I believe Woody Allen said it best – the heart wants what it wants….. or the peñe does at least.

]]> By: Fred http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/2009/06/25/politics-as-usual-3/comment-page-1/#comment-92822 Fred Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:26:03 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/?p=2086#comment-92822 Well, Karl, a big part of the problem in Massachusetts IS that everyone's a Democrat, and the legislators are pros to Patrick's amateur...one-party rule leads to rampant cronyism and corruption. I'm no fan of the latter-day Republicans in Mass...Romney's a complete creep, Swift was a joke, and then all the old--school Malone gang were just cretinous thugs (most of whom resurfaced in power under Romney, go figure...), but the thing Weld and even, to some extent, Cellucci, were good for was keeping some balance and the legislature on notice that the popular will wasn't always in favor of their old-school tax-and-graft methodology...remember being called "Taxachusetts" when we were kids?! Haven't heard it in a long time, have you? Well, you will again, and soon... RI is like Massachusetts of old - if there had never been a Weld - ridiculous socially-conservative Democrat corrupt legislature, high taxes, stagnation and idiocy everywhere, and, yeah, we have a Republican (in name) Governor, but he's just the fancy-suburban version of the rest of 'em (and a vocal opponent of gay rights,etc...lovely...thank heavens for term limits...he's gone in the next round...)....Just depressing. As to the guy in SC, in reference to Randy's comment yesterday, yeah, the affair shouldn't matter on his governing, but good point on how his secrecy and disappearance IS a big competence/fire-his-ass issue... I must say, it's utterly delightful to see all this sex scandal (pity it was a woman in Argentina, not a hot polo player, lol) fall on a social-conservative Republican - let's hope for more! Sigh...business as usuall... Well, Karl, a big part of the problem in Massachusetts IS that everyone’s a Democrat, and the legislators are pros to Patrick’s amateur…one-party rule leads to rampant cronyism and corruption. I’m no fan of the latter-day Republicans in Mass…Romney’s a complete creep, Swift was a joke, and then all the old–school Malone gang were just cretinous thugs (most of whom resurfaced in power under Romney, go figure…), but the thing Weld and even, to some extent, Cellucci, were good for was keeping some balance and the legislature on notice that the popular will wasn’t always in favor of their old-school tax-and-graft methodology…remember being called “Taxachusetts” when we were kids?! Haven’t heard it in a long time, have you? Well, you will again, and soon… RI is like Massachusetts of old – if there had never been a Weld – ridiculous socially-conservative Democrat corrupt legislature, high taxes, stagnation and idiocy everywhere, and, yeah, we have a Republican (in name) Governor, but he’s just the fancy-suburban version of the rest of ‘em (and a vocal opponent of gay rights,etc…lovely…thank heavens for term limits…he’s gone in the next round…)….Just depressing.

As to the guy in SC, in reference to Randy’s comment yesterday, yeah, the affair shouldn’t matter on his governing, but good point on how his secrecy and disappearance IS a big competence/fire-his-ass issue… I must say, it’s utterly delightful to see all this sex scandal (pity it was a woman in Argentina, not a hot polo player, lol) fall on a social-conservative Republican – let’s hope for more!

Sigh…business as usuall…

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