Dime Store Mannequins Say The Darndest Things.

From Benjamin Bell in the Boston Herald:

Former Gov. Mitt Romney seemed to be in a state of hysteria Monday - a day before President Obama signed legislation that will usher in sweeping reforms of the nation’s health care system. In a statement on the House passage of the health care bill, Romney excoriated Obama, saying “America has just witnessed an unconscionable abuse of power. President Obama has betrayed his oath to the nation.”
But behind those caustic words is of course a man who, himself signed a universal health care bill into law for this great state. In the coming months and years, Romney is bound to assert that the two plans are completely different - but that is a losing strategy. The American attention span is getting smaller not larger. We communicate in 140 characters now. Engaging in a debate over the intricacies of the different types of universal health care plans is not something people want to do. So the reality is this: Romney supported universal health care in Massachusetts and he looks duplicitous bashing Obama’s plan when his plan was quite similar.

Mitt's a hypocrite? Huh. Must be runnin' for somethin'...

Well, That Didn't Take Long.

Teabag Nation is mad, mad, mad at brand-spankin'-new Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown for bucking GOP wishes and voting in favor of debate on a Democratic jobs bill.
In other breaking news, they are also mad at almost everything else.

It's Not That The Democrats Are Playing Checkers And The Republicans Are Playing Chess...

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...it's that Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because, once again, they glued their balls to their thighs.

(BTW, Mr. President: bipartisanship is so 2008...)

Scott Brown Shanks Another One.

John Ratzenberger: Still Playing An Asshole After All These Years.

I read that former Cheers actor John Ratzenberger was supporting Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race. I Googled his name, and came across this mind-numbingly dumb quote from a Brown campaign rally via--surprise!--the National Review, in a snarky post entitled, "That Other Hollywood: Cheers!"

Maybe he's auditioning for Fox and Friends:

This isn't the Democratic party of our fathers and grandfathers. This is the party of Woodstock hippies. I was at Woodstock — I built the stage. And when everything fell apart, and people were fighting for peanut-butter sandwiches, it was the National Guard who came in and saved the same people who were protesting them. So when Hillary Clinton a few years ago wanted to build a Woodstock memorial, I said it should be a statue of a National Guardsman feeding a crying hippie.

Basically, it seems Ratzenberger was reprising his role as dim-witted gasbag Cliff Claven, this time by playing himself.

Typecasting, I guess...

Schilling Shills For Brown.

There's no doubt that Martha Coakley has run a catatonic campaign for Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat. Coakley has been tone deaf along the trail, including her ignorance of local deity and honorary Masshole Curt Schilling. As uninspiring as Coakley has been, there is also no doubt that her opponent--Republican Scott Brown--would be a boneheaded, backbench blast from our recent inglorious past. With the stench of Bush/Cheney still lingering, this Teabag Touchhole would look to freshly fertilize the right-wing's failed field of dreams, and his election would seriously threaten the passage of health care reform and every other piece of legislation that pisses off Teabag Nation and its handmaidens in the GOP.

Schilling, of course, loves him.
Coakley may have croaked as an electrifying campaigner, but she represents the 60th vote in the Senate.

Think of the alternative...
C'mon, Bay State; don't look back.
Tuesday's the big day in the Commonwealth. We'll soon see if Massachusetts Dems can do something right--like getting out the vote.