Saturday, May 16, 2009
'It's not Nixon & China, it's more like Perestroika'
Reader No. 1 responds to my 'The mantra: No reforms, no new taxes' below:
Reader No. 1 responds to my 'The mantra: No reforms, no new taxes' below:
You may be right that in our one-party commonwealth of diverse thinking, that "a Democrat can effectively demand reforms from the Democratic Legislature." But it surely won't be our Governor who, aside from being of similar mind to the Legislature on clueless initiatives, is a short-timer.
Given that the inmates run the State House asylum, the Democrat probably has to be one of the leaders in the Legislature. So it's not Nixon & China, it's more like Perestroika. And Gorbachev had a lot of external pressure to drive change from an external force (eg the US President), not clear from where similar pressure is going to come (perhaps Massachusetts bondholders, despite Wall Street's poor image - Ned Johnson, come on down!)
Are there any Gorbachevs in the Massachusetts legislature?
