Howie Carr: Gov. Baker should just become a Democrat
Stop kidding everyone and become Democrat
Why doesn’t Gov. Charlie Baker just get it over with and switch parties and become a Democrat?
By the numbers, he’s the worst governor in America.
Highest unemployment rate in the U.S.: 16.1%.
Third-highest death rate in the U.S.: 131 per 100,000.
Of the 8,791 deaths in Massachusetts, 5,781 have been in the nursing homes the governor is responsible for keeping safe.
And the nursing-home slaughter continues unabated —26 of the last 36 deaths this week have occurred in those same death houses whose operators gave $52,000 to the governor Joe Biden calls “Charlie Parker.”
Average age of Massachusetts decedents: 85. Charlie Parker’s prescription? Pinball machines (but not casinos) shut down, no highschool athletics.
And now his latest overreach — mandatory flu shots for most children over the age of six months.
No hearings, no legislation, no expiration date — just another imperious, tyrannical order, to be enforced selectively against any parent who gets out of line and needs to be slapped down, like a gym owner who wants to reopen.
You can’t get much more Democrat than that. Everything not outlawed is mandatory.
Charlie Parker has set up a new super PAC, with $1.2 million, to funnel money to his favorite candidates in Tuesday’s primaries. Would you be surprised to learn that most of the money is going to dodgy Democrats?
The governor handed thousands worth of mailings to Rep. Jolly John Rogers of Norwood.
Remember him? When the first of the state’s felonious speakers, Good Time Charlie Flaherty, was convicted of income-tax evasion, Rogers compared Flaherty’s guilty plea to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
But Tall Deval’s PAC spent the really big bucks — almost $70,000 — on mailings for two Democrat candidates for the obscure Governor’s Council. How important is the Governor’s Council to a shady operator like Tall Deval?
Well, Gov. James Michael Curley used to call the council a “hock shop,” and nothing has changed.
The council approves the governor’s nominations of judges and clerk-magistrates, and that’s where the real shakedown money is — from bust-out lawyers seeking early retirement as $184,694a-year judges, as well as from any wannabe hacks grasping for a clerk’s job ($155,084, and no mandatory retirement).
But a judicial nomination isn’t worth much do-re-mi unless the cash ‘n’ carry Parker administration can guarantee the marks rubberstamp approval by the council, with no troublesome reformers inquiring about, say, qualifications.
Moving along, as you know this is the annual “taxfree” weekend here in Maskachusetts. It’s a law, not that laws mean much to Charlie Parker anymore.
But if the tax-free weekend weren’t mandated by statute, is there any doubt that Tall Deval would have ended the tradition, claiming the state is broke, which it is.
But this week, on the occasion of the tax-free weekend,
Charlie had the gall to shed crocodile tears for the businesses he’s destroyed.
“This year we’ve asked obviously a tremendous amount from our business community here in Massachusetts and we’ve been glad to see so many shops uh and local businesses get creative and adapt and find a way to adapt and evolve … they had to make many difficult decisions along the way.”
Yeah, difficult decisions like going out of business. Filing for bankruptcy. Firing their employees. Moving out of state … to America.
Charlie Parker asking his subjects to support the few remaining businesses that he hasn’t gotten around to wrecking is like the old story about the guy who kills both his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he’s an orphan.
“I think it would be great if everybody who’s looking to buy pretty much anything um that they’ve been putting off or they might do at some point down the road to find a way to go out and make that purchase this weekend.”
Good idea, I think I’ll go out and buy a couple of cartons of menthol cigarettes — oh, that’s right, Charlie Parker outlawed Newports too.
“Certain sectors of our economy um they are paying an incredibly steep price, an incredibly painful and steep price for COVID and for a lot of the restrictions and rules.”
Certain sectors of the economy, however, are not suffering in the least. Like, Charlie Parker’s hackerama — the judiciary, Massport and all the other hack agencies, including higher ed.
This week UMass finally announced layoffs, although of course none of the $200,000-plus academic frauds will lose their noshow jobs. The layoffs will fall on “mostly dining hall workers and residence hall operations staff.”
You know, cafeteria workers and janitors. Too bad they don’t have “vice chancellor” or “sustainability” or “diversity” in their job titles.
We’re all in this together, you know. That’s what Charlie Parker always tells us.
By the way, Saturday would have been the 100th birthday of the real Charlie Parker, the greatest jazz saxophonist of all time. Happy birthday, Bird, and I apologize for Joe Biden taking your name in vain.
The primary elections are Tuesday. Be sure to go out and vote for Charlie Parker’s favorite Democrats.
Charlie Parker, D-Mass.. The D stands for Democrat … and dunce.