The hell with the ‘whites of their eyes’ - just shoot!

[Richard]

A woman after my heart. Does this mean there are looming pin-holes in the many troughs of political excess?

Richard's $.02

The hell with the ‘whites of their eyes’ - just shoot
Margery Eagan, Boston Globe, 7 Jun 2009

If this isn’t enough to send you to the ramparts, what is?

The third House speaker in a row gets nabbed. Do humiliated legislators throw their sorry selves off the Golden Dome? No - they vote to keep two paid scam holidays that nobody else gets but we pay millions for. Their message: Nothin’ you can do about it, you pathetic voter, you.

The state’s going broke. Programs for the blind are going south. But Sen. Jack Hart - who should never get another vote - compares Bunker Hill Day to Christmas. And state Rep. James Fagan - who should never get another vote - says tapped-out taxpayers who want to ditch the holidays are “haters.”

Right before that, our fearless leaders passed a big fat sales tax on you, pathetic voter, without passing even a teeny-tiny reform on their own big fat pensions. Do you get a big fat pension, or any pension, or Cadillac health care, for life? Can you retire at 55?

I don’t know about you, but I’m sharpening my pitchfork.

Alas, my fellow pathetic voters, this is our fault. Almost every legislator voted for the sales tax. That’s revenue before reform, said Senate President Terry Murray - who should never get another vote either. Chances are, pathetic voters, you voted for the thief who voted to shaft you, again.

I know. There’s a handful of stand-up legislators. A handful. The rest “are feeding their own self-interest on the backs of folks trying to feed their families,” says ex-legislator Frank Hynes, who should know.

Talk to Frank. He describes this surreal, parallel universe of payroll Charlies and Tommys and Bobbys who laugh too loud at bad jokes and slap each others’ backs. Then “Mr. Speaker” happens by, with his entourage, and they grovel.

Frank recalls how, after months of pleading, he’d get invited to Sal DiMasi’s enormous office. “He wants to come across as a regular guy and talks for 10 minutes about sports or what’s taking place in the world, then for two minutes about what brought you there,” Hynes said. Then DiMasi would say, “Don’t worry, I’m gonna give this to you,” awarding Hynes’ request not on the merits but as if it’s a favor and to make him beholden.

Once upon a time, it was Howie Carr and Barbara Anderson baying alone in the wilderness against these creatures. Now even moonbats recognize the scam-a-ramas. Better late than never, so does the Globe! Now Gov. Deval Patrick has decided to fight for pathetic voters instead of gimme-gimme legislators and wired public unions.

He “has made a decision to take the Legislature on,” said Anderson. The problem? He has few friends and no veto power. Which means it’s all up to you, pathetic voter.

Snap out of it! Pay attention! Have some self-respect! Get your blood up, sheeple! Storm the dome. If your state rep or senator voted for the sales tax, that’s it. Get rid of ’em. The next election’s November 2010. Not one more pathetic vote. NOT ONE!

Otherwise, your taxes will fund their fat pensions and Cadillac health care forever. And you’ll be out there toothless collecting cans on Melnea Cass Boulevard.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/col...icleid=1177265

[nmap]

As I understand it, Caligula made his horse, Incitatus, a senator of Rome.

Perhaps this is the only way to find an honest politician...

[Saoirse]

Alas, my fellow pathetic voters, this is our fault

She's right...it is their own fault. Just like it's the fault of every voter who does not bother to be informed about the asshats they vote into office but then bitch and complain when they do selfish things like this and THEN do NOTHING about it. And that is exactly what will happen...NOTHING!
If you call them on it, no doubt, they laugh about it and go their merry way because they know.......there is nothing that can be done by the people but "suck it up". And, well, more than likely, they get voted right back into office.
Margery Eagan might as well be talking about our Federal government as much as she is talking about the state government in Massachusetts.