Baker sleepwalking toward second term
If only Tall Deval had actually done something
I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that we’re all going to have to vote to reelect Gov. Charlie Baker, or the fact that he knows it, and therefore doesn’t even have to pretend to do anything for his base.
Whatever, after two-plus years in office, Tall Deval is quite the disappointment.
Yes, yes, he has more excuses than Alibi Ike. He only won by 40,000 votes against a candidate almost as clueless as Hillary Clinton, Marsha Coakley. He doesn’t have enough Republicans in the Legislature to sustain a veto, plus he is saddled, in the House at least, with a RINO “leadership” so weak that they make Paul Ryan et al. look like Winston Churchill.
Yet he seems oddly proud of his high favorability ratings in the polls, which once again prove how little polls actually mean. The Democrats’ problem is, you can’t beat somebody with nobody, even if that somebody is an empty suit, 48 extra large.
When it comes to standing up for the taxpayers, Tall Deval is a sheep in sheep’s clothing.
Let us count the ways the Last Republican Governor has bleeped the bed.
He didn’t really fight the outrageous 67 percent legislative pay raises, failing even to issue his hollow veto threat until it became clear the greedy hacks had enough votes to override it.
He signed the “transgender” bathroom bill — a solution in search of a problem — and then attached an emergency preamble to it, a little extra bit of pandering to professional victims who will never vote for him anyway, a recurring mistake of his, like sucking up to the alt left media.
Made the Department of Conservation and Recreation into a world-class hackerama as shameless as anything Small Deval or Dukakis ever dreamed of.
Ditto, the Republican State Committee, although I may be repeating myself, given how many of those unemployable coat holders have ended up with six-figure sinecures at DCR.
The MBTA is still an embarrassment.
The state motto remains “Don’t Kill the Job!”
The greed-crazed hacks at the public colleges continue to rob the state blind, and all Tall Deval can do is wring his hands and say he’s very “disappointed.”
The tolls, which were supposed to come down on the Pike in 1988, are higher than ever.
Tax collections are already cratering, and if Tall Deval has any plans to fight the graduated income tax referendum next year, he couldn’t be keeping them any closer to his vest.
Did the state employee “buyout” plan really save any money?
Gerald “Tooky” Amirault still wears an ankle bracelet, despite the late Barbara Anderson’s deathbed plea to her old friend Charlie to finally correct the terrible injustice.
Anybody seen any welfare reform?
Hates President Trump, except when he’s going to Washington for the inauguration to brown-nose the GOP high rollers — a front-runner’s frontrunner.
Can’t get enough of the ribbon cuttings, never met an envelope he didn’t want to attend the opening of, etc.
But hey, despite everything, Tall Deval is probably going to be reelected next year. It’s a Louis XV thing — after him, in 2022, comes the flood. (Sorry, Karyn Polito, but it’s true.) Actually, though, by then how will we even notice the difference?