With regard to Deval Patrick's shocking, shocking recent meeting with legislators, Adam Reilly quotes the State House News Service quoting Speaker Sal DiMasi's spokesman thusly:Asked for comment, DiMasi spokesman Kyle Sullivan said, 'The … [Read more...]
NEWS FLASH: Deval meets with legislators!!
Adam Reilly has double-dog-dared the MA lefty blogosphere to comment about Deval Patrick meeting with legislators yesterday:... If you're a devoted Patrick partisan, you can't just pan the story as B.S. That Patrick met yesterday with … [Read more...]
The pull of Sal-n-Trav (quantitative..sorta)
DisclosureI support Reilly, and also like Gabrieli. However, I tried to be rigorous in scoring the candidates, and did not play with the ratings upon seeing the results. This is all first draft.SummaryFrom the conclusion … [Read more...]
A Sad Commentary on the 2006 State Democratic Convention
Insider deals, super-sized checks to influential Democrats, and rumors of cooked numbers! All cast a shadow over the 2006 Democratic State Nominating Convention that otherwise might have claimed itself an unalloyed success. I am … [Read more...]
Photo-op props … but for what?
Eileen McNamara has a column today that basically says the same things that David said on Wednesday: Dems are chumps for sitting by Romney while he signed the health care law -- which he laughably claims to have "authored", BTW -- even … [Read more...]
Kuttner on health care
This was in Saturday's Globe, now also on The American Prospect's page:Is the new Massachusetts new health plan really a model for reform nationally? Advocates of universal health coverage feel they finally have their nose under the … [Read more...]
Ambivalently optimistic? Optimistically Ambivalent?
That's how I feel about the health care bill. I'm happy that more people will be covered under MassHealth (est. 92,500 by FY2009) or the new Commonwealth Care program (est. 207,500 by FY09); ambivalent, because the personal mandate … [Read more...]
Poll: Reilly well ahead of Patrick 50-27
... "among potential Democratic primary voters." Not sure I know what "potential voters" means, but there are the numbers. (Survey of 400 MA folks, +/-4.8%.) Patrick was down by 40% in the last SHNS poll, so it's actually positive news for … [Read more...]
What if the “sensible center” isn’t sensible?
Regarding the possible health care compromise, Scot Lehigh asks, "Can the sensible center hold onto a delicate deal?" He's referring, of course, to the $295 per-employee per-year assessment compromise recently struck between DiMasi and … [Read more...]
Our Guv: Double-pump no-look jujitsu weasel on health care
Are you at all surprised? Recently we learned that Our Guv is concerned about the $295-per-employee assessment in the House/Senate compromise. Said he might veto the bill.This is a broken record: We taxpayers are paying $213 million for the … [Read more...]
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