Republicans and Big Government
Pity the poor Massachusetts Republican. A good year is a year in which they contest perhaps three-quarters of the seats in the legislature, and win one-quarter of those. The traditional bogeymen of politics do not work—voters seem unconcerned about gay marriage, welcoming of immigrants, and unworried about the black underclass.
Indeed, in a special election to be held on Tuesday, the Republican party is trumpeting its candidate's support of affordable housing and devotion to environmental causes, even to the point of driving an electric car to work.
Alas, the Massachusetts Republican party, that bastion of small government, is located at 85 Merrimac Street, which is at the southern end of the Bulfinch Triangle in Boston. That Merrimac Street is not underwater is entirely due to public works projects to remove one of the three original peaks of Beacon Hill to fill in the old mill pond beyond it.
Indeed, the state Republican Party owes the very existence of its headquarters to one of the first massive public works projects in Massachusetts history.
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Labels: big government and its critics, James Worden, Stupid Republican tricks
