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April 19th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Baker who? He’ll have to buy airtime now.
In the 5th CD, more GOPers are going to be focused on the US Rep. race.
Especially since the NRCC’s “Young Guns” program has put somebody named Golnik “On The Radar.”
Well, at least we know who the insider’s pick is. Golnik’s connection? Tim Pawlenty. LOL
April 19th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
I’m glad the donkey guys jumped on these immediately.
I’m now looking forward to hearing how Baker and Cahill will wheedle, weasel and lie to run down the Patrick administration. We’re not healthy yet, but from the starting point, even before a worldwide great recession, the reforms and advances are solid. Try to imagine a Charles D. Baker Junior or a Willard Mitt Romney dealing with the cards Deval and Tim got.
I snort a cynical snort and await the debates.
April 19th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Baker was Secretary of Administration and Finance from 1994 to 1998. It was during that time the State manipulated its Big Dig overruns by structuring the debt for the “out years”. Today we are feeling the effects of that short-sighted decision.
From a 2008 Globe article:
“The debt is a big part of why Massachusetts had the highest tax-supported debt per capita in the United States last year. Most of the Big Dig borrowing occurred when cost overruns on the tunnel network skyrocketed in the late 1990s and state officials scrambled to keep the partially completed project afloat.
The impact of the debt can be seen in some frustrating and alarming ways.
During the last three years, Massachusetts spent the most of any state, by far, 38 percent of its highway budget, on debt payments, according to Globe analysis of federal data. The median is less than 6 percent nationally.”
So the State is now paying $600M a year for the Romney/Baker financial acumen, and he claims to be the financial savior that the Tea Party is waiting for - give us a break!
April 20th, 2010 at 8:11 am
Today, those with a stage can create a world view that has little to do with reality. We have no truth, only someone’s perspective. While that has always been so, a world view can be constructed rapidly and with minimal effort thanks to today’s mass media and social networking. Seems like the great task of modern society is how to hold liars accountable while holding our freedom of speech untouchable BEFORE the liars commit acts that cause irrepairable damage.
I saw in the news yesterday morning that our new Senator Brown is planning to filibuster the finance reform bill. I called his office to get a better understand of his reasons for opposing the bill. I was told by the woman on the phone from his Washington office that, “the bill has a bailout mentality.” I asked for further clarification and got the same answer. I told her that President Obama specificially said (I heard him myself)that the purpose of the reform bill is to prevent the need for bailouts in the future. So I asked why Senator Brown would think that the bill has a bailout mentality. “He doesn’t see it that way” was the answer. I asked if she could point me to the language in the bill that he sees as creating a bailout mentality. Nope, she couldn’t. I asked her if the Senator had any aids who understood finance and could speak to me. No one was available, but she said that someone would send me an e-mail with the answer. No e-mail yet, but maybe I will still get it……
April 20th, 2010 at 8:51 am
Victoria, please let us know if you do! Good report. I can’t say I’m surprised on Brown’s lack of “independence” on so many important issues, as the Republicans go lock-step (authoritarian personalities tend to, and the party is FULL of those), but it’s just sad that we can’t even have a debate on substantive issues anymore, because substance is thrown over for silly talking points upheld by no facts.
Death panels, “bailout mentality,” all the same thing. A cynical attempt to forgo real debate.
April 20th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Brown is having problems getting his office together. I’ve heard his intitial staff hires are beginning to flee.
Why would staff flee? Isn’t Brown a rising star in the GOP?
April 20th, 2010 at 11:21 am
Victoria… what Obama says and what he does are seldom the same. I admit not having read much about the bill yet, but have strong reservations about anything that comes from Frank. He’s the one who stood in front of cameras less than one month before the fannie mae, freddie mac subprime disaster hit the fan and said there were ‘absolutely no problems’.
April 20th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Actually, what Obama says and what he does are pretty much the same.
He ran as a moderate slightly-left-of-center Clintonian Democrat who wanted to reach across the aisle.
He’s pretty much governed like that. Right down the line. We got what we voted for. I would prefer a much more left of center candidate, cuz then we’d have had the public option to fight for, and faster green lege, and a way better stimulus package with less stupid nonstimulative tax cuts and we’d be a bit ahead of where we are on jobs, but I can’t say I didn’t know what I was getting when he got elected.
And I’ll take him 150% over Bush or McCain or GOD forbid, Palin, any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
April 21st, 2010 at 8:28 am
Right in Lowell….what does Frank have to do with it? Yesterday in the Globe they quoted Senator Brown saying that he was going to filibuster the bill because it slashed jobs in the financial sector….and nothing about the bailout mentality. Not only did his corporate friends leave him out hanging because they wouldn’t coaborate the numbers, but his staff don’t even know his reasons for the filibuster. And I still have no e-mail reply…… Why don’t YOU call his office and see what they tell you…..
April 21st, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Another in the long line of people who never supported Obama, but are now disappointed by him.