TOO MANY REPUBLICANS: IT'S THE LAW! -- by Steve Nadis
Our man Mitt, the hero of the Big Dig fiasco (who has impressed everyone with his incomparable grasp of bolts and epoxy), ran afoul of the law by appointing too many Republicans to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority board. This week Romney was forced to add a non-Republican to the board not out of any special regard for bi-partisanship, but because, as I mentioned before, IT'S THE LAW. Too bad there's not a similar law to limit the number of Republicans in the Executive Branch (i.e., the White House) and in the U.S. Congress. That might be the only chance we have for a modicum of sanity in this once-great (but now psychotic) nation.
And for the record, hiring leaching contractors, appointing self-serving canidates, and pocketing civil funds isn't any more Republican than it is Democrat - it's just a bad politician, simply put. (Comment this)
Oh wait. They were all Republican governors, weren't they? But I'll bet the Democrats' projects were just as bad. Like the Bourne Bridge, the Sagamore, the Cape Cod Canal, the Sumner and Callahan tunnels . . . Oh, wait. None of those fell apart, did they?
All right, but the Democrats' national projects have been complete disasters, right? Didn't Hoover Dam collapse two days after it was finished? Didn't all those National Parks turn into desert wastelands as soon as the last cabins were built? Didn't the Apollo space program result in the total annihilation of most of Florida? And WWII, we lost that, right?
No? All of those things were successful? Hoover Dam is still standing? We landed on the Moon several times?! We won WWII?
But the Republicans have been better engineers overall, I'm sure. I mean, SDI--that's been a huge success, right? Keeping us safe night and day. And the B-1 Bomber, started by Nixon, cancelled by Carter (because of niggling problems like the planes crashing), then revived by Reagan. That's going to go down in history as one of the great technological innovations. And you can't tell me that the Bush administration didn't have every detail of reconstruction mapped out when they started the war in Iraq.
What? 20 years and billions of dollars later SDI still doesn't do anything? The B-1 bomber was outdated before it ever hit the assembly line? Iraq has less power, water, buildings, jobs, and schools than before the war started?
Jeez, maybe there is a difference between Republicans and Democrats after all. Who'd a thunk it? (Comment this)