Where to assign blame for the calamitous performance of the MBTA? I nominate the candidate debates in the last governor’s race.

If only Barack Obama had the skill and political savvy of Lyndon Johnson, he would have ushered in a new era of liberal dominance.  Throw in some schmoozing with the leaders of the opposition, and we’d be chiseling his face into Mount Rushmore by now. 

 At least that’s what the old LBJ hands would have us believe.

They’re wrong because of what they ignore.

Brian Williams and Jon Stewart both reported fake news and produced real revenues. Fake news can be good business but it comes at a real cost.

It is T time for the new Governor. 

Governor Charlie Baker didn’t have the MBTA high on his governing agenda. Then it snowed – a lot.  

Apparently, some Massachusetts Republicans are a bit disgruntled over many of Governor Baker’s choices so far.  How could these Republicans not have seen this coming? Apparently, they thought Baker’s campaign dog whistle on welfare reform was a coded message assuring them that everything else he said on the campaign trail was a ruse. 

The recent snow storms and the MBTA’s breakdowns gave us all a great opportunity to push for our favorite policy solutions.

If Boston gets to vote on the Olympic ballot issues Councilor Zakim proposes, the 2024 bid itself is in question.  Power won’t be witnessed so much in the money spent to influence our vote on these ballot issues – it will be wielded in whether or not we get to vote at all.    

Did the Republican political establishment force Mitt Romney from the presidential race? If so they did the rest of us a favor.

All the recent excitement about who might be running for the Republican presidential nomination next year has been difficult for me to take seriously, and not just because so many of the GOP aspirants would be unserious candidates. With all that we have learned about the salience of party identification for voters, particularly in federal elections, I just can't see any Republican nominee being able to make the case that a Republican House, Senate, Supreme Court, and President is what Americans need or want in 2016.