U.S. East- Open Discussion

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   BooMan on July 20, 2006 at 9:51 am

   New Eastern thread for all you easterners.  Wait?  I’m an easterner.

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   mbair on July 20, 2006 at 5:10 pm

   Not much…

   Great day in No. MA and the kos straw poll really exhausted me.

   Patrick had an op-ed in the Globe yesterday about the recent tunnel collapse that killed a woman, Milena Del Valle, on the way to the airport.
   Correcting the Big Dig culture:

   But there is more here to confront than the negligence of a handful of contractors. The state must also confront the “Big Dig culture” on Beacon Hill — which is one of neglect and inaction, where politics is more important than governing — because that culture created the conditions for last week’s calamity…

   The failure of the Big Dig, in other words, is a failure of politics-as-usual. It is the failure of leaders to do the jobs they were elected to do. The Big Dig culture of Beacon Hill allowed corners to be cut and oversight to be lax. The culture is a failure to take the role of government seriously.

   Absolutely, I love this guy. Those pols work for us.

   I hope he wins the primary, I am just so sick of Mitten and his blatant acts of pandering like the stem cell bill here in the Bay State. At least our legislature overrode the veto easily. If I have to live through one more term with a R in the State House then I’m moving to Vermont.

   New here. I blog at kos and OAC mostly, not that much really it’s just something I do on the side. It helps to write it down.