N.H. should shun our fiscal phony (Mitt Romney)

Boston Herald ^ | Februrary 13, 2007 | Virginia Buckingham

[massgopguy]

Mitt did rock the boat. He backed 100+ Republican legislative candidates. We got our hats handed to us by a favorite son running for president. The lunatic Mihos used this as an example of Mitt not trying to work with the legislature.

[HEY4QDEMS]

The Romney-bot once tried to win Teddy's senate seat, must have had a programming glitch.

[LiveFree99]

Thanks for the reminder, I knew the name was familiar. Did he leave Massport on less than amicable terms with Mitt?

[HEY4QDEMS]

He's a she.

[tiger-one]

I need to spell it out?

[HEY4QDEMS]

I need to spell it out?

Not to me.

[Leisler]

Chris Rock, the black comedian, has a rift where he comments on black welfare mothers and fathers saying, "I take care of my chill-der-ins". To which Rock replies, what are you supposed to get credit for what you are suppose to do anyways?

Mitt didn't rock the boat. He did nada about the Big Pig Dig. Half the elected and 3/4 of appointed office holders are out an out right, paper bags stuffed with money crooks. He initiated zero corruption investigations. No one in the legislature saw him as a threat, all saw him patiently wanting to run for president and knew to lay low and wait for him to go away.

Mihos is what happens when your talent pool dries up to a two foot puddle. I don't even blame the poor freak. Intellectually and ideologically the Republican Party is as dead as White Russians are. It's all rather organic in a way, empires collapse, 100 year old Bull elephants die and get eaten by flies and hyenas. Massachusetts needs a hundred years of poverty to kill off the welfare state. And it will get it too.

[LiveFree99]

The best thing that can be said about Mitt as governor is that he was better than the alternative. He held back the liberal tide for a while, but now it's too late and the tide is rushing in. Perhaps, after 4 or 8 years of Governor Urkel, some sanity will return to the voters and real conservatism will make a comeback.

[Leisler]

I don't see it happening. The intellectual gene pool is getting tighter and tighter. With the exception of financial enclaves, and military and fedgov medical expenditure the future for Mass is Lowell/Lawrence/Holyoke. Mass is a elderly, depopulating state, bringing in tax consuming third world poverty where the largest employer in every town is the town, in every county is the county government. Young, self supporting working class families should, as they are, flee the state, where most of their money goes to support various government pathologies at the expense of their own children.

On the plus side, there are about a dozen of cities in Mass where housing is getting cheaper every year. Kind of like a bunch of mini Detroits. If you are hooked up in the 'revitalizing urban centers' industries there are probably decades of expenditures you can cut off the taxpayers flesh until the whole thing collapses.

[rhombus]

Couldn't she get a job with McCain or Rudy?

[highball]

I think Giuliani is less of a fiscal conservative though.

He's not much of a social conservative, either.

[Eclectica]

State braces for loss of congressional seat.

What'll you bet New Hampshire picks it up and votes the same way?

[Stars&StripesNE]

Mitt couldn't roll back the taxes that voters endorsed. That's just rhetoric. He needed the legislature to enact that.

In November 2000, Massachusetts voters elected to roll back the state income tax over three years from 5.75 percent to 5 percent, its traditional rate before the 1989 tax hike. In 2002, the Democrat controlled Legislature overrode that rollback vote and "froze" the rate at 5.3 percent, where it remains. In his proposed state budget, Governor Romney defrosted the rate for 2006, the second half of the coming fiscal year. The House Ways and Means Committee kept the higher rate in its version of the budget. House Republicans tried to amend that document to restore the 5 percent and lost, 135-21. Instead, House Democrats voted to "study" the impact of a potential rate reduction. Interestingly, there were no votes to study the impact of the amendments to spend the money on pork for legislators to assist in their reelection campaigns. There are rarely attempts to study the long-term impact of other spending programs, either.

89% Democrats in legislature. Enough said.

[mewzilla]

And do really think the folks who voted for that 89% 'Rat legistlature would then do a complete 180 and vote for a true conservative for gov? In bluer-than -blue MA? Jen's Mom, you just made my point for me...

[HEY4QDEMS]

Mitt couldn't roll back the taxes that voters endorsed. That's just rhetoric. He needed the legislature to enact that.

It was a ballot referendum, once passed it is the duty of the executive branch to enforce it.

Romney could have told the hill to bug off and forced it through with or without their approval but he decided against doing that because he was afraid he wouldn't get their cooperation in other matters.

[Stars&StripesNE]

Governor's don't have the power of issuing executive orders that a president has. He couldn't do it without the approval of the legislature. Don't be like a liberal and make it up as you go along.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Governor's don't have the power of issuing executive orders that a president has.

Ummm, a referendum is not an executive order.

[Stars&StripesNE]

I have lived in Massachusetts for 46 years. I understand the sad state of politics in this state. If you think in your wildest dreams, that a Ronald Reagan could have ever gotten off the ground here, you're dreaming. This is Kennedy country. And like it or not, a Republican Governor must deal with the Democrat controlled legislature the best he can. Low taxes in Massachusetts? Not as long as the fools here keep voting for anybody with a D next to their name

Now, all together, let's blame the Republican.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Don't be like a liberal and make it up as you go along.

Massachusetts Constitution Excerpts

Article V: .. All power residing originally in the people, and being derived from them, the several magistrates and officers of government, vested with authority, whether legislative, executive, or judicial, are their substitutes and agents, and are at all times accountable to them.

Article XXX: .. In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.


I'll dismiss the name calling on your part.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Oh and by the way, not that I declared they did or didn't, Massachusetts governors do possess authority to issue excutive orders.