Thu, 09/24/2009 - 10:20am — DCblogger
Deval Patrick’s likely Senate pick raises ‘serious concerns’
The Kennedy-backed pick for interim senator - a Beltway insider who could enjoy a lifetime pass to the Senate floor - has deep ties to special interests, sitting on a board that oversees a health-insurance provider and having lobbied for the pharmaceutical industry, the Herald has learned.
We need a HR 676 co-sponsor to primary this jerk.
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Murdoch's Herald plays the populist card
And Axelrod puts another BHIP stooge in the mix. What a country!
I'm shocked
Obama 1.0 makes the same kind of pick Obama 2.0 would have made? Nobody could have predicted.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
He is only in for 4 months
so he can't be primaried.
We could have had Mike Dukakis. thanks for nothing, Governor Patrick.
Medicare for All is Civil Rights
Did you see this
from the Globe?
Blech.
My favorite candidate for the special election is Mike Capuano.
He is a fairly outspoken liberal from Massachusetts' 8th Congressional District. He is a co-sponsor of H.R. 676, and also achieved some notoriety during Congressional hearings on the banking crisis last fall, when he lambasted the bank executives and told them that "no one trusts you guys anymore." He also voted against the Iraq War in 2002 and was one of the votes against the war appropriations bill this summer.
His congressional webpage is here. I like him a lot.
Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
The two largest insurance premium increases
I've had in my entire life (40 + years) have been under Deval Patrick. Long term care which is totally regulated by the state, was raised a whopping 30 %, but they made it easy by making it effective on two consecutive years, 22 % and 8 %. It's a massive negative for Patrick, in my eyes. I've never had a claim on that insurance, and neither on my home owners which went up 27 %, though not regulated by the state, it could have been mitigated by state action if there was some authentic concern for the consumer on the part of the Patrick administration.
But look on the bright side
He's really good with words.
Snap!
Its funny, you know. It was the edumacated "elite" types that swallowed the "Just words?" tripe most of all.
(I added "elite" to differentiate Pibber folk from the educated folks here and elsewhere that didn't want to purge the "Bubbas" a la Bowers.)
The sick irony about Obama and "just words"
It was his wretched framing (post-partisanship, religion=morals etc.) that were my first and biggest gripes. I'm a generous guy, so his lack of experience and character weren't deal-breakers for me.
He campaigned on empty and retrograde words that directly impaired the causes he was presumed to represent. Such a triumph of rhetoric!
Unity sausage
I took to referring to Obama as the eenheidsworst after my Dutch friend translated that as "unity sausage" (referring to some uniform, featureless sausage weirdly famed enough to have its own postage stamp. sold at Hema. a sort of Dutch Target, maybe). I suspect it was a misuse of the term but it still seemed to fit so I didn't care.
"Wretched framing" is a good way to put it, really. Yeah, exactly, why worry about his lack of experience and character when what he was saying was so absurd.
Every apathetic citizen is a silent enlistee in the cause of inverted totalitarianism.—Sidney Wolin
eenheidsworst -- haw!
"Unity
sausage," that's perfect!
It sounded appropriately derisive to me
And to think I was vaguely self-conscious about revealing that! :p
Glad you liked it! :D
[Apologies to any of the Dutch-speaking readers out there if that (mis)appropriation of a national icon offends you.]
[Oops, that was a reply to vastleft's eenheidsworst -- haw! reply, BTW.]
Every apathetic citizen is a silent enlistee in the cause of inverted totalitarianism.—Sidney Wolin