More Mittens photo op inanity

[WildEyedLiberal]

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds an anchor bolt as he talks about the problems with the Big Dig while using a diagram he drew at a news conference at the Statehouse in Boston, Monday, uly 17, 2006. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

From the Globe's fawning article:

Romney returned to Massachusetts from his vacation home in New Hampshire and went to work, donning jeans, a hard hat and orange vest to inspect the tunnel, mobilizing his Cabinet and almost immediately renewing his call for the ouster of the Massachusetts Turnpike chief, who oversees the Big Dig.

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/07/18/gov_romneys_future_may_hinge_on_big_dig/

Don't you feel safer already? :eyes:


Edited to add THIS gem:

Governor Mitt Romney toured the Big Dig Tuesday as engineers tested potential fixes for the ceiling bolts in the Mass. Pike connector tunnel. (David L. Ryan / Globe Photo)

[rox63]

1. Hey WEL

Sounds like your time in MA has been educational. ;-) You've gotten a close-up view of what we've had to put up with under the Mittens regime. We had rethug governors before him. But they were mostly benign compared to Mittens, who truly makes me wanna :puke:

[whometense]

2. Chimes at Midnight:

http://www.chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com/http://chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com/2006/07/duke-speaks-up.html

The Duke speaks up

The Boston Globe briefly interviewed former Governor Dukakis today who noted that while Governor Romney has pursued his four year vendetta against Turnpike Authority Chief Matt Amorello, the roads and bridges of the Commonwealth have been falling to pieces thus undercutting The Viceroy's alleged commitment to highway safety.
What an entirely sane and sensible observation!

Good gawd but Mike still has it, he is seventy years old and still has a few good campaigns left in him!

It is not politically correct to say nice things about the Duke these days but there you have it...every pot-hole from here to North Adams is a little monument to Romney's superficial stunt oriented governing style.

To which Humble Elias will only add, that the roads in Belmont, Romney's nominal home town are among the worst in Middlesex County. Some of them invite comparison to the cratered wasteland that is the Sea of Serenity on the Moon.
- posted by Elias @ 7:18 AM

Globe link (Elias doesn't do links;-)): http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=print

Dukakis, the last Democrat to hold the Massachusetts governor's office, told a television interviewer last night that he had urged Governor William F. Weld, a Republican, to ask Frederick P. Salvucci, transportation secretary under Dukakis, "to stay on and run that project for you." "Well, he didn't do that," Dukakis said of Weld on WGBH's "Greater Boston."

"So we've had a series of people over there who aren't bad people," Dukakis said, "but they didn't have anywhere near the kind of skill and the qualifications I mean Salvucci's got two degrees from MIT. He's got political skills coming out of his ears. He's done incredible work. I mean if Fred Salvucci had run that job . . . it would have been done in half the time and at half the cost."

Salvucci was transportation secretary from 1983 to 1991.

Dukakis also had harsh words for the current Republican governor, Mitt Romney. He called the Legislature's decision to hand him authority over the tunnel inspections absurd, saying that highways and bridges around the state have been crumbling during his administration.

"You know Matt is not responsible for Route 9," Dukakis said of Matthew J. Amorello, the Turnpike Authority chairman. "He's not responsible for this fiasco at the Esplanade where that tunnel, which could have been repaired 10 years ago for a few million bucks, is now going to cost us $100 million and stop traffic on Storrow. This is Romney's responsibility."

Sweet sanity.

[rox63]

3. They are trying to 'demystify' Mittens' religion

To make him more electable to non-Mormons. I have nothing against him because of his religion. I despise him because he's lying snake, and talks trash about the state and the constituents he was elected to govern.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1682334

[WildEyedLiberal]

4. Most evangelicals wouldn't be caught dead with a Mormon

I really hope his religion works against him in the primaries as he tries to explain to all the Bible-thumpin' rednecks why he believes in a "celestial mother." Snicker.

Yes, Rox, I must say that in my time spent in the Bay State, I have come to share your loathing for the dishonest weasel in the corner office, and possibly even more so for his simpering sidekick Barbie.

[rox63]

5. WEL, when you go back home to IL...

Please tell everyone you know (especially the rethugs) what a lying weasel Mittens is, just in case they were considering voting for him in 2008.

[TayTay]

6. I second that.

Just tell them he hates the people who vote for him and has no loyalty to anyone but Mitt.

Barbie is just awful. She is unqualified to be Governor of Massachusetts, which has suffered enough recently and should not have her inflicted on as us as well. (Well, we have. Really, we have suffered enough. Gov Barbie would be just too much.)