Trav says Patrick doesn't have to kiss his pasty ass after all - and more political fun

State Senate president sheepishly says Oopsies, whatever was I thinking? - or words to that effect.

Outraged Liberal: They must have had a special on crow in the Statehouse snack bar.

Increasingly contrarian former Republican state Rep. Peter Morin compares Patrick's $1.5 million inaugural bashes with Mitt Romney's $1.3 million inaugural bashes and calls fellow Republican bloggers a bunch of hypocrites for complaining about Patrick's parties.

New England Republican fires back that he wasn't blogging four years ago and maybe if he had, he'd have been just as outraged as he is about Patrick, but that's not the issue because it's Patrick getting inaugurated next month.

Meanwhile, Andy at Mass. Revolution Now, way over on the other side of the spectrum, says fie on Patrick:

... Money in politics is a major problem and it is exacerbated in situations like these. Deval Patrick asked me to put down my cynicism and believe in government again. I think that in exchange for that I can demand that Patrick give me reasons to believe again and when he doesn't then I should call him on it. The parties are to be commended but they should have been funded in a better manner.

Kim Atkins once again wonders (before heading off to DC) what Mitt Romney's support of supposed 3,000 years of one man/one woman marriage means he thinks about his polyamorous forebears.

Jay Fitzgerald says if Patrick appoints former turnpike mouthpiece Aloisi as transportation chief, then the hacks have won. Carpundit sees proof of the Demmie conspiracy.

Adam Reilly covers the fooferall surrounding some Mass. College Republicans endorsing McCain instead of Romney (question: How many of these people are even from Massachusetts?).