Deval Patrick’s second Times appearance in a month is shorter than his first (an A1 job in which the nation’s paper of record wondered how the F things on Beacon Hill could’ve gone so bad so quickly, and in which the governor allowed himself to be quoted as labeling Sal DiMasi as “part of what we ran against” on the morning of this hug-tastic press conference), but it’s got to be no easier to swallow.
The paper notes, quickly and glibly enough, that the state’s universal health care law is rapidly flying off the budgetary rails. The Times rode shotgun during the state’s first car wreck, and from the looks of things, it appears to be preparing for the eventuality of an encore.