Death pool at 4.
Steve from Montreal calling Howie a crackpot. Aren’t there any Canadian shows you could be listening to, Steve?
Chats we’re unlikely to have with gov
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, July 27, 2011 |
http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
So Gov. Deval Patrick is deigning to have “summer conversations” with the hoi polloi.
If you live in Beautiful People Land, you might even run into him. Martha’s Vineyard, Lenox, Jamaica Plain — not going to be a lot of blowback in any of those la-de-da precincts about raising the gasoline tax. Of course, if the hacks at the State House were considering an excise tax on bicycles, or backpacks ...
I wonder if Deval will run into Elizabeth Warren on her not-so-much-listening-as-lecturing-the-riff- raff tour.
Do you think he’s selling many of his tomes in the assorted people’s republics he’s visiting? Last time I checked, “An Improbable Life” was doing improbably bad.
Did you catch what Deval said as he signed off on next month’s sales tax holiday?
“We do it, frankly, not because it’s particularly fiscally prudent, but because it’s popular.”
In other words, let them eat cake. You know those little people, they care about those crumbs like a 6.25 percent discount, and not having to pick up the tuition tab for illegal aliens. Bitter clingers. No summer conversations with the governor for them.
Then there were the stories over the weekend about the Big Dig, the bottom line of which seemed to be, it’s not if there’s going to be a disaster down there, but when. In the first draft of an official report, the word “leak” was used 34 times. In the final draft, the leaks, er, drips became nothing more than the water from “three garden hoses.”
And this was Deval’s response:
“The supervision and oversight of the contractor to whom this project was assigned was sloppy and lacking and some — not all — of the work was shoddy. None of that is news. None of that is news.”
Once again, paging Marie Antoinette. I’m going to guess the Tip O’Neill tunnel is another place that’s going to be passed over for a “summer conversation.” Ditto, any of the commuter rail stations. Or at State Street Bank, where they just laid off a few hundred people.
So much for “growing” all those jobs that Deval keeps talking about.
I’d like to ask Deval what’s the over-under on how many more transportation secretaries he’s going to go through in the last three years of his term.
Maybe they can send the lieutenant governor, Tim Murray, the Pillsbury Dough Boy, out to some of the grittier precincts when he returns from his special mission to Puerto Rico. Right now he’s at a “policy conference” of the Democratic Lieutenant Governors Association ... in San Juan. Funny, I thought you went to San Juan for the winter policy conference, but what does Tiny Tim care? The reception started at 6 last night.
See you at the candlelight vigil, Deval.
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