It comes in response to this Globe story about the escalating slap-fight between a governor feeling the heat of a reelection race and a legislature that will allow no crisis to spoil its seven-week winter boozecation: “Is Deval just now finding out what tremendous d-bags the legislature is comprised of?”
Entries Tagged as 'Deval Patrick'
Comment of the Week
November 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics
Tags:Boston Globe·Deval Patrick·Legislature·Politics as Bloodsport·Savagery
Hugely Unpopular Governor Looking Good for Reelection
September 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Nearly lost in all this scuttlebutt about the state’s new senator is a pretty huge gubernatorial race poll that Suffolk released late last night.
In the poll, Deval Patrick’s unfavorable numbers outweigh his favorables, and a full 56 percent of respondents said somebody other than Patrick should be elected next year.
Still, Suffolk has the governor winning [...]
Tags:Deval Patrick·Tim Cahill
Brad Jones, Comedy Superstar
September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Courtesy of State House News, here’s everyone’s favorite House minority leader, Brad Jones, explaining why the legislature shouldn’t pass a bill letting Deval Patrick fill an empty Senate seat. Even though everyone knows the legislature is going to pass the thing anyway: “The governor’s track record with [...]
Tags:Brad Jones·Deval Patrick·Legislature·Sal DiMasi·State House News·You Just Got Nailed
Destiny, Aborted
September 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
That didn’t take long.
Nine months after he came crashing into state government, Jim Aloisi has been tossed overboard. Or, rather, he’s, uh, decided that his work here is done. And by “work here,” we mean, “alienating the legislature he was brought on board to woo, and driving down his boss’s poll numbers for good measure.”
The [...]
Tags:Deval Patrick·Legislature·Politics as Bloodsport·Therese Murray
Aloisi’s Destiny
August 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
In a rather hilarious interview with State House News last night, Deval Patrick’s Secretary of Obfuscation and Patronage, Jim Aloisi, calls the state GOP’s bid to get him fired “a political move” and “a political distraction.” This, from the guy who’d rather hand out golden parachutes than play in the sandbox with one of Mitt Romney’s [...]
Tags:Boston Globe·Demagoguery·Deval Patrick·MBTA·Politics as Bloodsport·State House News
More Frostbite on Beacon Hill
August 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Whoa. The internets-bound public sure loves the marriage of confections and politicians’ faces. That’s the only conclusion I can draw from the spike in traffic to this site brought on by the recent collision of Fox 25, Steve Baddour’s face, and a pie.
I would be remiss, though, if I didn’t note that Baddour’s pie-ing [...]
Hottt State House Transportation Fight
July 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Why is it that this latest spat between Deval Patrick, Jimmy Aloisi and Dan Grabauskas looks a whole lot like a bench press contest being waged by one-armed men?
Ribs, Meet Elbow
July 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
If the newswires can be believed, Deval Patrick was in a fine mood today. He called Tim Cahill’s criticism of Beacon Hill’s majority party a “canard,” and said he’d welcome a reelection fight, chirping, “He should bring his A game.” But Patrick’s best line came when he was asked his feelings on Cahill’s sudden defection [...]
The Gov’s Gloves Are Off
June 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics
A beautiful thing happened yesterday: the Herald turned in the best, most succinct analysis of the wicked backroom drama currently roiling Beacon Hill.
Patrick, who once expressed a disdain for political mudslinging, already has hired the state’s top opposition researcher, David Stone, to keep any gubernatorial hopefuls against the ropes. “This is going to get [...]
Tags:Boston Globe·Deval Patrick·Herald·Politics as Bloodsport·Tim Cahill
