Okay, okay, I’ll say something about the decision yesterday by Vermont’s Governor Peter Shumlin to appoint the right-hand-man of his arch electoral enemy to be the “czar” of the state’s Irene cleanup efforts. Yes, I’m speaking about Neale Lunderville, the boy wonder of the early Jim Douglas years who has since morphed into a full-on government job whore.
But this is the first time the velvet glove of a Democrat has come calling. Well, to be fair, it’s the first time anyone not named Jim Douglas has come calling for Lunderboy’s government services. Ironically, Lunderboy’s a “tea party” Republican – you know, the kind who hates government – who has spent his entire adult life sucking on the economic tit of – ahem – government. Hey, he learned from the best: Jim Douglas, who spent 30+ years condemning government while living off of it.
The fact that a liberal Democrat like Shumlin would appoint an arch enemy – and, thus, fart in the direction of his base who grew to truly loathe the guy – isn’t surprising. It’s what liberal Democrats do, mostly because their liberal base has been scientifically proven to be spinus-minus-allotta (translation: those without a political spine).
The bigger story here is where Lunderboy has been in the eight whole months he’s been without a government job. And, for those not paying attention at home, that means: Green Mountain Power Corporation.
Yeah, THAT Green Mountain Power Corporation. The one led by Mary Powell, one of Shumlin’s major political contributors and – as “luck” would have it – the chairperson of Shumlin’s inaugural festivities. Yeah, the kind of stuff that would drive liberals crazy if done by…say…a Republican. Oh blindness, let thee be conveniently applied.
It’s also THAT Green Mountain Power Corporation – yep, the one getting the Shumlin administration’s fawning and drooling support for its boondoggle of a wind project along the Lowell, Vermont ridgeline. Communities, true environmentalists and the environment be damned! Well, in exchange for the amount of power that could easily be saved with something called CONSERVATION.
Funny, though, that Lunderboy’s old boss, Douglas, had his doubts about wind power. More proof, of course, that Lunderboy is a government job whore. Because when Green Mountain Power showed him the money trail, he followed it, right to the side of Queen Powell and her wind-driven subsidies.
In the end, it’s all just another sordid tale about the power elite and the shuffling that occurs amongst them. The storyboard would look like this: Republican elite turned corporate elite and then Democratic elite.
I guess that’s what they call “covering your bases.”
Nice work, Lunderboy.
As for the rest of you, please ignore the fact that Lunderboy hates government.