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Wednesday, September 5. 2007

"The Bluest State"

From the review of the above-titled book at WSJ Online:

Veteran Boston political reporter Jon Keller also invites us to behold his native state . . . and shudder in dismay. In "The Bluest State," he argues that, although Massachusetts does not suffer alone from its notorious affection for liberalism, it is the incubator for "Massachusetts viruses" that infect the national Democratic Party. The viruses come in many forms: "addiction to tax revenues and a raging edifice complex couched in disrespect to wage earners; phony identity politics without real results for women and minorities; reflexive anti-Americanism in foreign affairs; vain indulgence in obnoxious political correctness; self-serving featherbedding; NIMBYism; authoritarian distortion of the balance of governmental power, all simmered in a broth of hypocritical paternalism."

Posted by Gwynnie in Politics at 15:10 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Amen, amen. Democratic party politicians from Massachusetts have become real obstacles to decent governance.

Is there hope?

http://instapundit.com/archives2/008957.php
#1 buddy larsen on 2007-09-05 17:06 (Reply)
Massachusetts is a superior state to all other states. My family has made it the template for good government.

I have a drinking problem, a weight problem, I can't swim, and I live off the money my father made by running rum during Prohibition. Plus everyone is aware my three brothers are all dead, two by assassination. That pity factor is a great thing.
Yes it is true that Dad favored Adolf Hitler but heck, we all make little mistakes.
#2 Ted Kennedy on 2007-09-05 18:09 (Reply)
Senator, sir, I've often wondered--and this chance meeting is a good place to ask--why, since you are so vehemently dedicated to the existence of a confiscatory estate tax on Americans, that you yourself shield your own assets from the tax via a trust fund registered on the island of Fiji?

Is it that your own money has a higher purpose than money belonging to the rest of us?
#2.1 buddy larsen on 2007-09-05 18:35 (Reply)
Ah Sir I have no recollection of any of that. I've been on booze and oxy-pain-away so long I don't remember anything. In fact my guts so big I haven't seen my penis in 40 years.
#2.1.1 Ted Kennedy on 2007-09-05 22:24 (Reply)
Ah, so. Well, I won't bother you with such matters--just one more wee inconsequential query: That outsized neck brace you wore for Mary Jo's funeral -- that was, like, a joke, right? A wink-wink catering to the rubes?
#2.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2007-09-05 22:48 (Reply)
There is one privilege to living in Massachusetts, only one.

Every so often, I get to march into a voting booth and cast a vote against Ted Kennedy. They probably throw my ballot out, since I can't refrain from spiting on the name.
#3 John on 2007-09-05 22:32 (Reply)
SEE POWERFUL argument against the American form of government. Or, even, America itself:

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/c/5/kerry_kennedy_laurelhardy.jpg
#4 buddy larsen on 2007-09-06 00:19 (Reply)
I'm sure they are in the book but not the quote; hatred of all business and industry, an obsession with guns but tolerance violent criminals, and very successful policies designed to drive every retiree from the state.

I love my home state but will never again subject myself to their governance.
#5 NJSoldier on 2007-09-06 07:18 (Reply)
agree --love the state, love the history, the image, the people. but strongly object to the royalist governing cliques.
#5.1 buddy larsen on 2007-09-06 10:24 (Reply)

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