Now that the police have caught the alleged Boston Marathon bomber, is it okay if we cats slam a Beantown baseball legend?
We just can't resist, now that The New York Times has published an excellent overview of how Curt Schilling has swindled the state of Rhode Island out of $75 million in public loan guarantees for his failed video-game business venture, 38 Studios.
Yes, we know that the Times piece resists using the "s" word — in fact, it bends over backwards to say that Schilling truly thought his gaming biz would succeed — but we can think of no other verb when we consider the former pitcher's political views, which put him firmly in the Willard Mitt Romney "47 percent" camp.
"Schilling [has] spent no small amount of time in his career preaching the Republican mantra of smaller government and personal responsibility," Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory observed last spring. "If hypocrisy had a face.... it would be that of old favorite Curt Schilling."
So, let us cats get this straight: Government helping other people is bad, bad, bad — unless you're some kind of Republican sports hero, in which case the public should pony up for your stupid ideas and then pay the price when you can't execute them. Boy, if this isn't a case of "You didn't build that," we don't know what is.
When he toyed with running for Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat, Schilling cited his anger that elected officials' were "squandering" taxpayers' money. “How in the hell is this state broke?” he blustered. “Is there a larger breach of trust outside the family bond than that?"
Empty words from an empty suit. We cats HISS and, teeth bared, are ready to give this jackass a second bloody sock.
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