Monday, November 7, 2011

Mumbles "Stopped Clock" Menino...

Wow. I am stunned at the story Mopar just sent...

3 Charged With Dealing Crack; Occupy Boston ‘Deteriorating’


BOSTON (CBS) – Three people arrested Thursday night inside the Occupy Boston camp have been charged with dealing crack cocaine.

WBZ NewsRadio 1030’s Carl Stevens, who spent the night at the camp a few weeks ago, talked to a man who spends most nights at Occupy Boston. He said things have
gone downhill.

That's not the stunning part. Stories about lawlessness and disregard for laws or basic human decency have been rampant around the "Occupy" meatheads. What's stunning was Boston Mayor Thomas "Mumbles" Menino actually getting it right:


“I just wish that the group that’s demonstrating, not just here in Boston but nationally, will look to where the problems really are,” he said. “The problems are down in Washington. And nobody’s even addressing those issues of what Washington has done to our economy, to job training, to housing, to education. They’re directing their anger at the wrong location.”
Is Mumbles away that his party controls both the Presidency and the Senate? Or that for two whole years, the Democrats - his party - controlled the Presidency as well as the House and Senate? It's fashionable to "forget" that the Dems held the reins of power completely from Jan 2009 - Jan 2011, and that the Reps only control one of three right now, but the cold hard facts are that anything Washington can or should do *must* be supported by the Democrats to go anywhere.

And again, no one's talking about the influence of labor unions on political parties and the legislation that they support or oppose. Or, for that matter, the fact that their hero Barack Obama is just as beholden to the Wall Street "fat cats" as any other politician. It's either those eeeeeevil corporations' fault for the current rotten state of the economy, or else it's the meeeeean Republicans who failed to pass Obama's jobs bill at fault. Unless and until we get more serious about addressing the actual issue than we are about playing the blame game, nothing's going to get better.

It's interesting - and surprising - to see someone like Menino take the position that Washington - even in the abstract - is to blame. Lately it's been fashionable to blame corporations - that they're using their profits to "buy" influence with politicians. It's interesting that no one, so far, has seemed to care that politicians are willing to peddle their influence with apparently no backlash. If Washington has been passing legislation that allows corporations to make higher profits at the expense of the working man as a result of donations from corporations, isn't the problem two-fold? Shouldn't we also be protesting the easy availability of political influence to the highest bidder?

Then again, we know there's one large group that doesn't mind easy availability of political influence - as long as it's only available to them - and they're the biggest supporter of "Occupy" meatheads...

That is all.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

“The problems are down in Washington. And nobody’s even addressing those issues of what Washington has done to our economy, to job training, to housing, to education. They’re directing their anger at the wrong location.”

Where exactly did that crack cocaine go again? Is mumbles anything like Marion Berry? I mean *GASP* he said something right.

A. Non E. Moose

Dave H said...

It sounds nice, but I suspect he's just trying to get them to leave before they do something really embarrassing, and Washington is a convenient place to shift the blame to.

Bubblehead Les. said...

Another "Pay No Attention to the Man behind the Curtain" Moment.