Selling out won’t buy Capuano the election
“Tell Mike it was only business,” Salvatore Tessio, “The Godfather.”
Mike Capuano, your good friend and longtime political ally Maura Healey wants you to know that, for her, it’s only politics.
Oh, I know, in the attorney general’s letter endorsing your opponent Ayanna Pressley, Healey says, “For me, this isn’t political, it’s personal,” but c’mon congressman — we’re all adults here. We know how the game is played.
And if Healey thought you had even a 50-50 chance of winning re-election, there’s no way she would throw you under the bus like this — whatever her “personal” feelings.
In Healey’s “Leave the pen, take the cannoli” letter, she says, “Ayanna isn’t just my City Councilor. She’s not just my partner in government. She’s someone who shares our values, and our priorities, who I’ve depended on for years.”
What’s that make you, Mike — chopped liver?
Well, actually, yeah. Or maybe “dead fish.” That’s a more apt metaphor given that, like Luca Brasi, your future as a congressman is sleeping with the fishes.
Not that it’s your fault. Times are changing, and ambitious Democrats like Healey know it. Why should she stand by you and cling to the old white-guy-Democrat ways, when the era of #ImpeachTrump, #AbolishICE and #MedicareForAll is upon us?
I know it’s not fair. After all, you signed onto the crazy $32.6 trillion “Medicare For All” plan, too. You threw your political integrity — not to mention basic math skills — out the window to promote this insanely expensive Medicare scheme. How crazy?
If implemented, #MedicareForAll would cost $3.2 trillion a year. The entire revenue of the federal government this year? $3.4 trillion.
It would essentially cost every penny Uncle Sam is collecting to pay for this socialist scam. What about Social Security or defense or food stamps — not to mention the left’s plans for “free” college tuition and “guaranteed” federal jobs?
Listening to future congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and (sorry, Mike) Ayanna Pressley talk about how they’re going to pay for their socialist programs is like listening to a Fox News anchor trying to explain the Heisenberg principle — it literally hurts. Did you see OcasioCortez on the “Daily Show” bumbling through her “tax the millionaires and billionaires” blarney? You had to be smacking yourself in the head, Mike.
And still — you sold out. You’re going “full socialist,” and what is it getting you? Stabbed in the back by your liberal family. “Let’s go for a ride, Mike,” they’re all saying. And you know how it ends.
In a way, Congressman Capuano, you’re the lucky one. If you stay around, what happens? You have to support Sen. Elizabeth Warren and her call to repeal the Trump tax cuts — even as Trump’s red-hot economy puts your blue-collar constituents to work.
You won’t be forced to choose between being a voice of reason when the impeachment insanity starts and grabbing a pitchfork and joining the crazed, anti-Trump mob.
Mike, you’re a pro. You get what President Trump is doing (however badly). He throws out some whacky tweet, sits back and then waits for the progressives and liberals to wage war against one another over who hates him more. When they do, he points to the bloody melee that ensues and says, “While they’re going crazy, I’m growing the economy. Who’s really your friend?”
Will it work for Trump and the GOP? Hard to say. But at least they’re not pushing a $32 trillion socialized medicine scheme that they know makes no sense.
You are, Mike, because you’re trying to cling to power amid the progressive tide washing through your party. But it’s too late.
Ayanna Pressley is the future, Mike. And you?
You’re Fredo.