Alert: Howie will be off all _next_ week due to a hernia
operation. (”So who is sponsoring your operation? Hey,
I resent that! I’ve had two on my left side, this is the first on my right side.”
My guess is a mixture of Col Hunt and Avi Nelson filling in.
Who knows.
Wed column ping
‘Nothing to see’ mantra costly
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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Nothing to see here folks, move along.
That’s the new mantra of the state’s Democratic leadership.
And you’ll be hearing a lot more of it today, if the House of Representatives takes up the proposed reforms in the EBT card program. EBT, of course, stands for Everybody But Taxpayers. Anyone opposed to putting a halt to the fraud will be dismissed as mean-spirited, racist, xenophobic, or all of the above.
After all, these layabouts are merely seeking a “modest benefit,” as Deval Patrick — who hasn’t seen anything in years as he moves along — put it Monday.
Granted, it’s only Wednesday, but so far the EBT “anecdote” of the week comes from Beverly. Here’s the lead from the Salem News: “A Lowell man arrested Friday with nearly a half-pound of heroin was also carrying an EBT card belonging to a known drug user.”
A Lowell man indeed. The suspect allegedly entered the country illegally in 2010. And when lugged, he had not only an EBT card but a MassHealth card, the paper reported.
Nothing to see here folks.
Today, those mean-spirited solons will likely mention how 20,000 of the EBT cards go missing each month. But if we take them away from Deval’s constituents, what will they have to use as collateral in their heroin deals with illegal aliens? I know, nothing to see here ...
The Democrats have so many scandals to avert their eyes from, they must be getting sore necks from turning their heads so often.
Such as the cover-up of Lt. Gov. Crash Murray’s mystery 108 mph traffic accident, and the stonewalling in the governor’s office over releasing Crash Murray’s cellphone records.
Repeat after me: Nothing to see here folks, move along.
Or how the state refuses to participate in Secure Communities — it’s more important not to round up violent illegal aliens (and their EBT cards) than it is to protect American citizens. Remember, every deported illegal is one less vote for Barack in the fall.
So much not to see, so little space.
Granny Warren’s no-interest loan from Harvard — just what a one-percenter making $350,000 a year needs, right?
Monday, in the House, the Republicans tried to roll back Deval’s 25 percent sales tax increase. The Democrats wanted a “study.” The Republicans pointed out there was no study when the rate was jacked up. That’s right, said the Democrats, and we don’t want to make the same mistake twice, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Nothing to see here ...
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