Posted on 07/26/2006 12:56:51 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Hey, Mike Dukakis, how can we miss you when you won’t go away?
You and Kitty don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.
It’s bad enough that you can’t get there from here anymore because of the Big Dig disaster. But now we must deal with the re-emergence of the man known as Pee Wee Dukakis from whatever rock, or concrete slab, he’s been hiding under all these years.
You can’t open the paper, or turn on the TV, without seeing him, and always with the same lame rap.
If only they’d listened to me . . . If only they’d kept on Freddie Salvucci . . . He has two degrees from MIT, you know, he’s not just some cheap hack from a Little City Hall, he’s a vegetarian. . . . Oh sure, we did hire Bechtel, but . . .
Hey, Pee Wee, if you’re so smart, how come your state pension’s only $29,493.72 a year?
How come John Kerry was your lieutenant governor?
Yesterday the Duke turns up in The New York Times, with an opinion piece denouncing the proposed building of “something akin to the Berlin Wall” on the Mexican border.
And as always, no one is supposed to mention the inconvenient facts and the smug hypocrisy. The Duke is from the People’s Republic of Brookline, an enclave of trust-funded limousine liberals who, despite their great love for the Third World, erected the first wall at the Boston city line to keep the local riff-raff from parking overnight on the pristine streets of Brookline. Then they built one on the Newton line, to keep Joe DeNucci out.
So here’s the gospel according to Dukakis: Wall to keep Mexicans out of the U.S. - bad. Wall to keep Bostonians out of Brookline - good.
Was there ever a worse governor than Mike Dukakis? Jane Swift, maybe, but it’s a tossup. He talks about bad appointments? Does anyone remember two of the crooks he appointed as sheriffs? Honest John McGonigle of Middlesex and Charles “Chuckles” Reardon of Essex.
Both ended up in Club Fed.
And how about all of Pee Wee’s wonderful state college presidents? Remember Gerry Indelicato of Bridgewater State? He ended up in a state pen after stealing a hot stove, without gloves, and then coming back for the smoke. Then there was Frank Pilecki, “Dr. Perv” of Westfield State.
And whenever you called him on any of this, he’d say, stop the finger-pointing.
When Billy Bulger said “Jump,” Pee Wee whimpered, “How high?”
Let’s not forget his judges. Maria Lopez, Robert Bonin, Margaret Burnham. In his final feeding frenzy in 1990, he appointed his chief secretary’s wife, his chief of staff, Billy Bulger’s top coatholder, the husband of one governor’s councilor and the divorce lawyer of another.
Mike Dukakis - reformer.
It was during Dukakis’ term that the state began giving fake Social Security numbers to illegal aliens so they could go on welfare. Dukakis paid for a sex-change operation for a New Hampshire he/she - and then picked up the tab for his post-op therapy in Montreal.
Then there was the Department of Correction. Willie Horton wasn’t the only murderer who got a weekend furlough. Stevie Flemmi’s brother Jimmy escaped on a weekend furlough, and Vinnie Federico used his to get himself inducted into the Mafia. Then there was the organized-crime wing at MCI-Norfolk; the warden ate with them every Friday night, although of course he was called the superintendent, because “warden” might damage their self-esteem.
Hey, Pee Wee, here’s what your lieutenant governor, John Kerry, said at the ribbon-cutting for the Tip O’Neill 1-93 Tunnel:
“This tunnel will be a bargain!”
Agree or disagree, Duke?
That should send Pee Wee scurrying back under his rock for another year or so.
"Yesterday the Duke turns up in The New York Times, with an opinion piece denouncing the proposed building of 'something akin to the Berlin Wall' on the Mexican border."
Not to worry, Mike; perhaps that "Berlin Wall" will be built the way you went about making Big Dig arrangements, and the whole thing'll fall down in a handful of years.
Somebody please post a pix of Du-kaka wearing the helmet riding in the tank. What a dork.
LOL. Thanks. It's as bad as I remember. What a putz he was.
I love the tank turtle picture. Rats are always at their hilarious best when they "report for duty".
It comes back to Howie Carr's immortal advice to all politicians, everywhere, forever: never let yourself be photographed wearing a hat.
Two popular bumper stickers in Mass. in '88: The Duke Makes Me Puke, and (pic of someone laughing his ass off) "DUKAKIS
for WHAT?!?!?"
A friend of mine--we share interests in baseball, radio,
etc.--in California works for the Orange County Transit Authority and he (a big lib) was excited to have Dukakis
speak at a meeting and told me he has " a great understanding of local and state transportation issues. Was hardly the same guy who sleepwalked through a very winnable 1988 campaign. He even showed a sesne of humor that was lacking that year--when some dodo in our group asked if he was going to run again, he said he'd ask his wife Kitty." Yikes...needless to say, we do not share
political views.
Unless it's your very own hat. Wish I knew how to post pix - President Bush and President Reagan in their own cowboy hats. They look great!
This particular picture of President Bush has always reminded me a little of the young Harrison Ford in "American Graffiti".
Oh, man. Great article.
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