Two quick leftovers that didn’t make it into today’s opus (cheers to you, word-count-less internet) on the Martha Coakley/Scott Brown wrestling match.
First, there’s been much made of the cursed offices from which Coakley is attempting to leap. And the current AG certainly seems to have taken some campaigning tips (act indifferent, bash Bush, dismiss your [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics as Bloodsport'
Senate Race Leftovers
January 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
The Rose Garden Strategy
January 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
New clip on the internet to make note of: I deconstructed Martha Coakley’s recent Senate race swoon for AOL News, and the outcome ran on the internet today. It can be found here.
Short version: No matter what some white-ass person on Fox News says, Scott Brown’s surge in the polls here is not evidence that [...]
Vennochi Savages Brown
January 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
This one hurts.
One can only assume a pouty press conference from the guy’s daughter will follow.
On Kids On TV
January 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics
Check out this Herald cover. Then imagine what it must be like to be Scott Brown’s other kid. She’s not on Fox this morning. She doesn’t get her face splattered all over the tabloids. No one cares to parade her around so she can try to explain her daddy’s abortion stance. It’s like she barely [...]
Comment of the Week
November 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Media, Politics
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?”
Tags:Boston Globe·Deval Patrick·Legislature·Politics as Bloodsport·Savagery
The Hazards of Hanging with Barney Frank
September 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Politics
Mike Capuano learned today that hanging with Barney Frank can be a dangerous thing.
Halfway through the presser formally announcing Capuano’s candidacy for Senate, somebody asked him about the doomed candidacy of Celts co-owner Steve Pagliuca. He didn’t get much of a chance to answer. Frank stepped in, took the mike, delivered the afternoon’s best line [...]
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 [...]
