The RI General Assembly is perhaps "in the center" compared to the legislature in Chavez's Venezuela.

Yeah, Teresa Paiva-Weed and Gordon Fox are real centrists. LOL!

The folks from NEARI are always good for a chuckle -- Bob Walsh with his "Baghdad Bob" like earnestness as Ringmaster, and Pat Crowley the Clown for comic relief.

methinks that when Bob Walsh signed on with the NEA he was issued a personal pair of rose-colored glasses ... they've had the keys to the kingdom for nearly 30 years and look where we are!

8 years of Almond and then almost 8 years of Carcieri and look at where we are.

"8 years of Almond and then almost 8 years of Carcieri and look at where we are."

This is why I hope a Democrat gets elected governor next term. The progressives, GA (who controlled the budget last time I checked) and public unions will no longer be able to use a single person occupying a largely impotent government position as the whipping boy for all that ails the state.

By the way, straight out of out sister city today:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/04/arbitrator_give.html

Phil-the Governor is so constitutionally weak in RI that it is hard to blame a Republican governor for the state of the state when he cannot sustain a veto and the GA is virtually entirely a Dem operation.The Supreme Court is perhaps the only place a governor can exert meaningful influence through appointments.
If you want to cite a really bad Republican governor,we can always point to DePrete.
Almond was honest,but lacked energy for th job.
Carcieri was always being undercut by the GA.His executive order on immigration was a good move,and except for the E Verify provision,was just a restatement of past practice that obtained when I was assigned here with INS.

"8 years of Almond and then almost 8 years of Carcieri and look at where we are."

-Months of Speaker Fox
- 7 years of Speaker Murphy
- 10 years of Speaker Harwood
- 5 years of Speaker DeAngelis
- 9 years of Speaker Smith
...

I'm guessing that's not the problem either, right?

- 2 years of President Paiva-Weed
- 6 years of President Montalbano
- 2 years of President Irons

Your comment was so asinine, that it was trollish. A very typical flawed cause and effect argument made by a typical lefty.

Phil, the General Assembly has spent the last thirty years enacting the policies which you come here to defend and espouse. Yet when the effects of those policies are palpably visible in the economic condition of the state, you attempt to deflect blame elsewhere.

So now are you thinking that all of those policies are not such a good idea? If not, why are you not willing to allow the General Assembly to take credit for those policies, if they are, indeed, a good idea?

Bob Walsh doesn't ry to sell himself as a centrist.He quite frankly acknowledges he is left leaning.He DOES have a relatively pleasant demeanor in debates and Internet comments.Unlike his Igor,Crowley.