IT'S PRETTY SAD...:

Patrick's political pit (Scot Lehigh, April 1, 2009, Boston Globe)

THE First Rule of Holes goes this way: When you're in one, stop digging.

Yesterday, Governor Patrick finally put his shovel down.

He and state Senator Marian Walsh met the press outside his office, where Walsh announced that she wouldn't take the job as assistant executive director at the Massachusetts Health and Educational Facilities Authority (HEFA).

Her withdrawal, the second exercise in damage control in recent days over the controversial, administration-engineered appointment, was done with the usual thank-yous and regrets and attempts at face-saving.

Still, the political pit Patrick dug for himself on this one reaches halfway to China.

Certainly this episode demolishes the notion that the governor has finally acquired a working political antenna. If this farce had a title, it would be: The Gang That Couldn't Keep Its Story Straight.

...when the highlight of your administration is the time you took out of the public spotlight so you could tend to your spouse's nervous breakdown.

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