Up-Hill battle for Hack-uano holiday plan
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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So U.S. Rep. Mike Capuano has learned the hard lessons of Wisconsin — what angry voters really want is a new federal hacks-only holiday.
Bunker Hill Day!
“It says more about America,” the moonbat solon was saying Sunday, “what happened that day, than almost anything since. And yet, we tend to forget.”
Forget? Only the payroll patriots who used to get the paid day off forgot. And it wasn’t so much they forgot as they blacked out, after drinking all day.
Bunker Hill Day — what’s not to be hallowed about? The battle has the wrong name — it was actually fought on Breed’s Hill — and our forces were driven from the field. It’s so meaningful that this year they moved the parade to June 10 from June 17 so it wouldn’t interfere with an even more important holiday, Father’s Day.
Capuano used to be the mayor of Somerville, the only city outside Suffolk County that “celebrated” the day by closing City Hall and giving the hacks a paid day off.
Obviously, the congressman agrees with Obama. The private sector is doing fine. It’s the public sector that needs ... more holidays. But why stop with Bunker Hill Day? Let’s make every weekday of the year a hack holiday. Officially, I mean. So that none of Capuano’s pinky-ring AFSCME and SEIU supporters will ever have to bother calling in sick again, or going out on fake disabilities.
Last year, at a State House rally in support of Wisconsin’s thug unions, Capuano told the beer-besotted crowd: “Every once in a while you gotta get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary.”
Politically, Capuano is a bleeder. After the 2009 special Senate primary, he was left for dead on the sidewalk outside the State House. The other candidates had to pass the hat to get him cab fare down to Boston Medical Center for a transfusion.
But someone had to pick up the fallen gauntlet for the state’s embattled hack holidays, now that the rotund ex-Rep. Brian Wallace has lost a photo finish with a grand jury, after which he was fined $35,000 and fled Southie for a rented house in Westwood.
Bunker Hill Day isn’t what it used to be, anyway. The state and city offices in Boston don’t close anymore, but the hack unions still get a floating day off, just like with the other high hack holiday, St. Patrick’s Day, which goes under the alias of Evacuation Day.
Everyone understands the true meaning of Bunker Hill Day and it has nothing to do with Gen. Gage and the whites of their eyes. Look at the calendar — consider that interminable five-week stretch between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July. Not a single day off for our hard-working patriots, I mean payroll patriots. Except Bunker Hill Day.
One thing about Mike Capuano. He understands the changing times. Once his party represented the working classes. Now his constituents are the non-working classes. There go his people with their EBT cards, and Capuano is racing to get in front to lead them.
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The Kennedys are the Kennedys, Scott Brown
By Howie Carr | Friday, June 15, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Take it for what’s it’s worth, Scott Brown, because after all I’m addressing you in the Herald, and “the Boston Herald is the Boston Herald,” as Granny Warren, the Native American emeritus, said yesterday on MSNBC (where else?).
But here at the Boston Herald, that is the Boston Herald, I’m telling you, Scott, don’t even think about another debate at the Ted Kennedy All-You-Can-Drink Happy Hour Institute.
Tom Brokaw? Yeah, he’s “respected” all right. By moonbats. Forget the exploding trucks of yesteryear, let’s look at what his alma mater NBC did just this week, and by NBC, I also mean MSNBC and CNBC, where all bad economic news for Barack is “unexpected.”
Wednesday afternoon, Granny Warren goes on MSNBC with Comrade Chris Matthews. The leg-tingler mentions the local Democrats’ “wine-and-cheese elitism that Howie Carr likes to bash into” — thanks Chris, every knock a boost, as they say. But then he describes you to Granny as “this guy Brown,” as in, “He’s with the elites, he’s getting money from them, you’re not.” Comrade Chris, maybe you didn’t get the memo: The fake Indian raises more money on Wall Street than this guy Brown. George Soros hosted a fundraiser for her in Manhattan last fall. Granny explained her Wall Street haul in January by saying that her money-changers “want reform ... there are people on Wall Street who actually believe we need better rules, fairer rules.”
And that’s why the Wall Street greedheads give her millions and millions. So she can crack down on them. If you believe that, you probably still believe she’s an Indian, which is what she claimed yet again yesterday on “Morning Joe,” hosted by a RINO.
“I’m not backing off from my family.” You know, the family that told her she’s an Indian, which she isn’t. But then she gets to the root of her malaise — this newspaper.
“The Boston Herald is the Boston Herald,” she sniffed. “What can I say? ... It has its own point of view and it’s going to drive its own point of view.”
Yeah, we’re bad people. If it wasn’t for us, Lieawatha would still be a Native American, and she wouldn’t have been outed as a plagiarist either.
You think the Globe would ever have reported any of these scandals?
Because the Globe is the Globe, and it’s not journalism, it’s agitprop, just like NBC. The Globe is the newspaper that said over and over again that Marsha Coakley was going to win in a landslide, remember?
Scott, this won’t be your first debate at the Ted Kennedy’s Dew Drop Inn. The first one occurred in January 2010. Another RINO moderator, David Gergen, alternated between tossing softballs to Marsha Coakley and hitting you below the belt with Roe vs. Wade, entitlement cuts, you name it.
“It was,” you wrote in “Against All Odds,” “a rather disparate style of questioning, underneath the Edward M. Kennedy Institute sign.”
You said it, not me. And this time it’ll be worse, because they won’t be underestimating you. But what do we know? The Boston Herald is the Boston Herald.
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