Tuesday, February 20, 2007

I hope my estimated taxes went toward Deval's ottoman

The latest news from Beacon Hill is that Governor Deval Patrick has ordered ivory backscratchers for all State House employees, as well as emerald-studded backscratcher-holding gloves. The backscratchers can be modified to operate hands-free, using a special motor powered by flaming tax dollars...

...or the governor picked a very luxurious car instead of a quite luxurious car, used a State Police helicopter to go to the funeral of a Cape resident that was killed in Iraq, and (thank you, Fox25 political editor Joe Battenfeld) bought new furniture for his office . . . because Mitt Romney took the old stuff when he left!

I feel like I'm living in the Twilight Zone. There's still a billion dollar budget gap in the first place, Bechtel still cut corners on the Big Dig, and thousands of people are still clamoring to rescind the constitutionally-guaranteed right of gay couples to marry. Get with the program, Massachusetts. You'd never see this kind of fiscal irresponsibility, corruption, and politicization of sexuality in New Jersey.

Ok, maybe you would. But still.

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