Another Mass Ass

Salvatore DiMasi, the former Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, has just been convicted on seven of nine felony counts of bribery and corruption (see: Another Mass Ass).  This is the third Speaker of the Massachusetts House in a row who has been convicted of a felony.  Repeat ... the third Speaker of the Massachusetts House in a row who has been convicted of a felony.  To me, this is not a surprise.  The government in this state is one-party (Democrat) politics which invites this kind of guttural behavior ... not just in our state legislature, but in many of our mayors, many of our governors, most of our representatives to the U.S. House and Senate, and even some from this state who have run for the Presidency. Most of these individuals are poltroons of the first order ... independent of how their public relations machines have (successfully) managed to paint them. 

Massachusetts has a culture of corruption that permeates to almost all corners of its political apparatus ... witness that the State House of Representatives overwhelmingly elected Sal DiMasi as its Speaker well after the particulars of his felony were in the open ... what an embarrassment!  And what is even worse is that this state is replete with intelligent, erudite voters who conveniently overlook this obvious decadence as soon as they enter the voting booth.  This I'll-scratch-your-back-etc. thinking will eventually destroy this state and may even help to destroy our nation.  What a pity that the state which produced that giant statesman who helped found this once-great nation, John Adams, has fed the metastasizing cancer that may eventually destroy it.