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6.29.2007

 

Back in seventh grade

The more I think about this standoff between the Legislature and the governor on the energy bill, the more moronic it seems. The posturing is a la seventh grade.

Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin puts out a news release announcing his willingness to compromise rather than just telling the governor. He cites as a reason for this that that's how he learned of the governor's plan. Seventh-grader: "He hit me first."

Gov. Jim Douglas cancels a meeting with Shumlin because he doesn't like Shumlin's behavior. Shumlin may have told some members of the media the location of the meeting, according to Douglas' staff, and you know what that means, right? No, I don't quite know what that means. That media might be standing outside the meeting place seeking comment afterward? Heavens no! Plus I can't find a single member of the media who was going to go to Woodstock and stalk the meeting.

There's something about these two people - Douglas and Shumlin - that they just set each other off. Yes, they have substantive differences on policy, but what really seems to be getting in the way here is their utter dislike for each other. Neither can stand to see the other one gain an edge.

What we need in these negotiations is for the vice principal to step in, sit both of them down, threaten to call their parents and knock their heads together.

- Terri Hallenbeck

Comments:
I dislike both of them. Can we vote them out next time? Please?
 
me too
 
I think a steel cage match is highly in order here. Maybe a pay-per-view event? Douglas dancing around the ring in his dress shoes, satin shorts and long black socks held up by those sock suspenders. Shumlin in his hemp shorts and barefoot in his Birkenstocks. Both bouncing around the ring but neither able to faze the other because they're both so physically weak. It'd probably end up a draw, so then we'd have to go to "plan B," which is a good old fashioned game of cornhole.
 
Sounds like both Douglas and Shumlin would have been sent to the Weeks School in Vergennes if it hadn't been closed down about 30 years ago.
 
Or the Brandon training school...
 
Time to roll in the smelly impeachment crowd.
 
Impeach Shumlin!
 
THUNDERDOME
 
If Shumlin must go, then so does Jim Douglas -- he is just as guilty and maybe more so - he does subtly but the end result is the same.

Jim Douglas portrays himself as this moderate saviour to Vermont - but actually he is very conservative - just look at the appts he has made to boards and commissions - very conservative!
 
Matt Dunne for Governor!!!!!!!!!
 
Peter Shumlin for Springfield Correctional Center!!!!!!
 
Shumlin and Douglas deserve each other.

But Vermont deserves better than both.
 
Douglas is already in the top spot, but Shumlin has sunk himself before he even left shore. He'll never get a shot at the Governor's office. Thank God for that!
 
Editorial comments should stay on the editorial pages.
 
You're right, they're both problems. But there's one difference. One may disagree with Douglas' policies (or lack thereof), but he hasn't made a fool of himself. Shumlin seems to do it on a daily basis. And Shumlin's naked ambition and obvious slickness turn me off as much as I've been turned off by any Vermont politician.
 
Well, that is since . . . Bernie . . . and Flanagan . . . and Pollina . . and . . .
 
Douglas makes a fool of himself every day.

And since we are talking about embarassing Republicans ... Dubie, Ruth Dwyer, Nancy Sheltra, Lundercluck. Rob Roeper, Paul Beaudry.

Where to the Republicans find these fools?

Vermont wouldn't be such a liberal state if the State Republican party wasn't lead by a bunch of A$$ clowns.
 
You say that "Douglas makes a fool of himself every day" only because you don't like him and his policies, not because he actually does embarrassing and foolish things, as Shumlin does with his lies and flip-flopping and daily changes of policy and throwing Symington under the bus on impeachment and now dooming his own energy bill by making it about a tax on Vermont Yankee and then pulling the media stunt on the proposed meeting in Woodstock. Even liberal Bob Dostis, who was supposed to meet with the Governor with Shumlin, admitted that Shumlin did not handle it well.

Dubie is somewhat embarrasing, because he's not very bright, but he doesn't make a fool of himself in public on an almost daily basis, as Shumlin does.

Dwyer was an absolute embarrassment -- but she's not in politics now. Sheltra was an absolute embarassment -- but she's not in politics now. Lunderville made a dumb move on the bribe to the St. Albans rep. but that's the only blunder I've seen. Rob Roeper doesn't hold any office. Either does Beaudry (who I'd agree is a nutcase).

Yeah, you're right. Much of the Republican leadership is loser-ville. But that doesn't make
Bernie, Flangan, and Pollina un-nakedly ambitions and slick, which is all I was talking about.
 
Dubie really isn't too bright but
at least he stays invisible. And that is OK as long as he is only Lt. Governor - if he wants to be Governor the whole state is in trouble!
 
Dunne would win against Dubie.
 
Impeach Shumlin.
 
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