Howie Carr thread week of April 1, 2012

Howie thread for the week starting with his Sunday Boston Herald column, "It's Not Us, Deval, It's You"

It’s not us Deval, it’s you!
Fewer gov policies would curb anger
By Howie Carr | Sunday, April 1, 2012 |

http://www.bostonherald.com |

Hey, Governor, I challenge you to come on my radio show so that I and my listeners can explain to you why we’re so angry. Because you got it exactly backward when you said Thursday that, “I think the Herald is in the business of making sure you’re angry.”

No, Governor, you’re the one who’s in the business of making sure people are angry. We’re in the business of reporting what you did to make them so apoplectic.

Thank goodness you seldom “work” more than 20 hours a week. If you spent a full workweek on your alleged agenda, people would be so spitting mad their heads would explode before they could even get to a newsstand to buy a paper.

Let us count the ways you’ve angered taxpayers, as opposed to your voters, huge numbers of whom neither work nor pay taxes.

•Remember your 2006 campaign promise to cut real-estate taxes — it never happened.

•Raising the sales tax 25 percent.

•Imposing a new sales tax on alcohol, which already had an excise tax — in other words, a tax on a tax. (The voters were so angry about that one they repealed it.)

•Your attempt to push through a 19-cent increase in the gasoline tax.

•;Cheryl Jacques (rhymes with Fakes), Marian Walsh, Carl Stanley McGee, Ron Bell — I could go on with the list of dreadful human beings you’ve either placed or tried to place on the public trough. By the way, the lowest salary in this particular bunch of reprobates was $97,000 a year.

•Sept. 11, 2007: Saying at a commemoration of the Islamofascist terrorist attack on America that, “It was about the failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other.”

•Mitt’s Caddys, which he paid for, show how out of touch he is. Your Caddy, which the taxpayers paid for ... nothing to see here folks, move along.

•Supporting free public-college tuition for illegal aliens.

•Being driven to the State House in the Caddy after signing a proclamation declaring it Car-Free Week in the commonwealth.

•A $70,000 “appointments secretary” for your wife.

•Opposing the Secure Communities program to rid the commonwealth of violent criminal illegal aliens.

•Being unable to even remember the name of the 23-year-old American who was run over and killed in Milford by a drunk illegal alien from Ecuador who might not even have been in the country had Secure Communities been in place. (Does the name Matthew Denice ring a bell now, Governor?)

•A $1.35 million advance for a “book” that sold fewer than 7,000 copies.

•A state government so corrupt that the only thing standing between the people and a whole new bunch of taxes is a House speaker who was identified last week in a federal indictment.

•The cover-up of Lt. Gov. Tim Murray’s 108 mph auto accident, first by your state police and then by your own office’s stonewalling on the release of his phone records.

•Welfare for illegal aliens such as Auntie Zeituni.

•EBT cards paying for bail bondsmen, tattoos, manicures, scratch tickets, etc.

Samuel Johnson once said that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Nowadays, I would say blaming the media is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Come on my radio show, Deval. What are you afraid of? Surely not a bunch of angry Herald readers. Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1061121351

Great—though it was Coca-Cola that Deval worked for, not Pepsi (I say, as a proud Pepsi drinker!)

Wiki on Deval: “In the following years he worked as general counsel for Texaco in New York City and Coca-Cola in Atlanta, which were both facing large racial discrimination settlements.”

And someone threw an empty soda can at Deval once (don’t know which soda)
From FR, a post by bitt:
>>After having some time to discuss with his advisers on what his true crime story should be, Patrick revealed in an exclusive interview with the Boston Herald that he’d been hit in the head by an empty soda can with a piece of glass wedged in it. “I have been in places and myself have experienced what the impact of violence can be,” Patrick said, recalling his boyhood on the south side of Chicago. “I understand that and my heart goes out to victims.”
He spoke of one incident in which he was attacked because he refused to yield to pressure to join a gang. Patrick said he was struck in the head by a soda can into which glass had been inserted, leaving him “a very bloody mess.”

>>Patrick, who initially refused to describe the attack after invoking it Wednesday to defend his criminal justice credentials, said he was constantly surrounded by gang activity while growing up in the tough Chicago neighborhood.

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