Blue Mass Group

Reality-based commentary on politics.

Shameful!

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Shameful Speaking to reporters Monday night outside a function hall, where Brown addressed Republicans at a fund-raiser for local candidates, he criticized Shaheen for raising the specter of a matchup between the two in a recent campaign … [Read more...]

Romney Should Have Won!

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Romney should have won. He had a perfect storm of issues to his advantage: the economy, Washington gridlock, distrust of Obamacare, weariness over two inconclusive wars. But he ran the most inept, inane, and irrelevant campaign imaginable. … [Read more...]

Paul Ryan!

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How many Paul Ryans does it take to change a light bulb?   Ten. One to unscrew the light bulb and ten to tear out the electrical system. … [Read more...]

A Query

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Why is John Sununu a (presumably paid) op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe? Even if we bracket his recent remarks about Obama, has there ever been a Globe op-ed columnist who is also an official representative of a presidential candidate? … [Read more...]

Go Sean, Go!

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My new neighbor, Sean Bielat, seems to be ramping up another really classy campaign to win the 4th Congressional seat. Today's Globe front page story has him telling an audience in Hopkinton that: I'll take the Marine Corps over the … [Read more...]

“Oh, the Inanity!”

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Reaching for Pulitzer Prize territory once again, the Nov. 4 Globe (“Owned by moguls, written by interns”) features on its front page an article on how the Massachusetts Congressional delegation has fallen behind in tweets. Yes, the sad … [Read more...]

Too Little, Too, Nate

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An article in the Harvard Crimson quotes from a letter to Harvard President Drew Faust from Nate Little, Chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party, requesting that Harvard stop paying Elizabeth Warren. Little writes: For Harvard … [Read more...]

The Sense of an Ending

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It was all-too reminiscent of the scene in Boston, at Northeastern University, on January 16, 2010. Back then, President Obama opened the desperation rally to try and save Martha Coakley’s senatorial candidacy by greeting the crowd with … [Read more...]

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