AP reports that Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey today issued a campaign press release filed a bill with House Republican leader Bradley Jones that would suspend the gas tax between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Even Healey's boss Mitt Romney … [Read more...]
Another tasty tidbit from the Healeygate videotape
The Herald's big story about Kerry Healey, abortion on demand for 16-year-olds, and her campaign's embarrassing denial of her flip-flopping on the issue until they were confronted with the videotape is the talk of the local blogosphere, … [Read more...]
The Romney Legacy: Two damning statements
From the Globe this morning, two articles that raise the question: Exactly what has our governor accomplished on our behalf over the last 3+ years?Massachusetts losing population, trailing in jobs:Paul Harrington, an economist at … [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...]
Focus!
With the signing of the health care bill, we see a few things coming into focus: There is really nothing Romney won't do to please the Norquistites and the religious right. If he were the guy he claimed to be in 2002 -- a can do, make it … [Read more...]
Q: Who are the biggest rubes in Massachusetts today?
A: That's right - there are Robert Travaglini, Ted Kennedy, and Sal DiMasi, along with a host of other Democrats, handing Mitt Romney the biggest gift his presidential campaign has received to date. How they can stand there and smile … [Read more...]
Surprise! Romney vetoes employer assessment
AP reports that, as expected, "Governor" Romney vetoed the employer assessment in the new health care bill. AP says he also vetoed several other provisions of the bill, but doesn't say what they were.Let's hope that the Democrats make … [Read more...]
Democrats should boycott health bill signing
The idea of Ted Kennedy, Sal DiMasi, and Robert Travaglini, among others, standing behind "Governor" Mitt Romney as he signs the health care bill at Faneuil Hall makes me positively ill. And it should make them ill as well. … [Read more...]
Mr. Irrelevant: Romney to veto assessment
Well, it was speculated; he played Hamlet for a while, wondering if it was a tax or an assessment; was it animal, vegetable, or mineral, golly gosh ...Well, now Romney is going to use a futile, symbolic line-item veto against the $295 per … [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...]
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