Hoo boy, thank goodness we had brave Mitt Romney taking decisive action to stop all those looters.

Oh, right, we didn't have any looters. But maybe that's because the looters knew they'd have to deal with tough, no-nonsense Mitt!

On Blue Mass. Group, David calls Robert Travaglini, Ted Kennedy, and Sal DiMasi the biggest rubes today for standing behind Governor Veto as he signed the bill, more or less. Elias, though, reserves some ire for the spineless jellyfish who vetoed parts of the bill:

The Herald's Kimberly Atkins is now blogging the Mitt Romney 2008 Presidential Tour. She starts with a look at his schedule for this week:

He went to the Vatican! And now he's going to Arizona!! And then he's going to Colorado!!! And then he's going to Washington DC!!!! And then Thursday he'll be in Massachusetts!!!! ARGHHHHH!!!!!!

This sure makes it sound like Mitt Romney's legal counsel is doing something bad, although I can't figure out what, exactly (OK, so I'm dense). Well, beyond the allegation that the guy doesn't live in Massachusetts (which doesn't exactly seem like something he's been hiding).

How else to treat the news that Romney's Republican Governors Assocation will return half Abramoff's $500,000 now and half after the elections?

Won't seek re-election - freeing him up to move back to Utah, renounce all the positions that got him elected here (um, make that: renounce all the positions he hasn't already renounced) and crack jokes about the people who elected him governor. Move sets up Kerry vs. Christy slugfest (more).

Not because he knows he's just throwing red-meat to the wingnuts, but because somebody might dig up the fact that, if anything, he's way Frenchier than John Kerry, because he actually lived there for several years. Adam thoughtfully tells us:

... Tread carefully, Mitt! After all, France made you the man you are today. Remember the Vietnam War? Not firsthand, since you spent most of 1966, '67, and '68 as a Mormon missionary (complete with draft deferment) in the land of Napoleon and de Gaulle. ...

David argues it's when you're Mitt Romney and you say it's OK for the state for force individuals to buy health insurance but not OK to also make employers somehow provide coverage for their employees:

So the governor is peeved at how those Newton firefighters potentially put thousands of people at risk had a meteorite hit the Pike or something during their Newton Corner protest the other day.

As David notes, Mitt Romney's been taken out to the woodshed and is now hewing the Republican line on Katrina, i.e., it's all the fault of those damn Democrats instead of FEMA (which he'd earlier called "an embarrassment"). David points to this AP story in which the governor reveals he'd be much happier back in Utah: