...because, as I've mentioned before on this blog, I love everybody.
First of all, let me tip my hat to Scot Lehigh -- or should I say Saint Scot, chronicler of Mitt -- who
absolutely eviscerates our former Governor and leaves the well-coiffed head on a stake, in a Boston.com web-only column.
Meanwhile, in the dead-tree version of the Globe, Joan Vennochi reports
what I've known on the QT for a week or so, that the great Democratic
consultant Michael Goldman is leaving Bloomberg radio and returning to
consulting. Goldman gave me that news off the record recently when we
did a Greater Boston segment together -- which is like being in a home
run derby with Mark McGwire.
As it happens, Congressman Bill Delahunt was also at the studio that
day to do a seperate segment, which I mention by way of transitioning
to Delahunt's role (at Governor Patrick's request) in getting DSS in to
see the Michael Bianco Inc. employees being detained at Fort Devens.
Delahunt, who always strikes me as one of the most decent people
around, has long been particularly compassionate about immigrant issues
-- which has earned him a spot as an enemy of the hard-line
anti-immigrant crowd nationally. Regardless of the outcome of the
deportation proceedings, the affected families will fare much better
through this thanks to having Delahunt as the district's US rep.
Speaking of the local-area Congressional delegation (writing is all about transitions, folks), you'll recall that
I advised you to keep your eye on their key positions in government oversight.
I hope you have. Massachuetts's own John Tierney chaired the recent
hearings on the Walter Reed fiasco -- and New Hampshires Paul Hodes
(who reminds me a little of Goldman, now that I think of it) made some
news clips with his aggresive questioning as well. This followed, of
course, the must-see hearings on Iraqi reconstruction (featuring Paul
Bremer and the pallets of cash), in which Boston's own Stephen Lynch
played a large part. Up next, incidentally, the committee appears to be
closing in on what's behind the stink at GSA
they've been asking about for some time. Elsewhere, this week Marty
Meehan announced that the new Armed Services Oversight and
Investigations subcommittee, which he chairs, "will be evaluating
current
U.S. plans for and progress to date
in training, equipping and sustaining the Iraqi Security Forces." Hey, there's an idea, four years into this thing, huh?
That's enough praising for now. I don't want to overdo it.