{"id":2166,"date":"2010-08-23T00:40:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T00:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2010-08-23T00:40:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T00:40:53","slug":"insanity_is_doing_the_same_thi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2166","title":{"rendered":"Insanity Is Doing The Same Thing Over and Over And Expecting Different Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/politics\/view\/20100823gov_deval_patrick_backs_big_dig_firm_for_t_job\/srvc=home&amp;position=0\">Boston Herald<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick wants to hire Parsons Brinckerhoff &#8211; an architect of the Hub highway debacle &#8211; to help build the MBTA&#8217;s Green Line extension.&nbsp; Governor Patrick has been highly critical of&nbsp;Republican candidate for governor, Charles D. Baker, for his role in the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/search\/?topic=Big+Dig&amp;searchSite=recent\"><b><font color=\"#376ec1\">Big Dig<\/font><\/b><\/a> fiasco.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Like the Big Dig boondoggle, the MBTA project costs have skyrocketed &#8211; ballooning from $560 million in 2007 to $954 million &#8211; and will miss a legally mandated 2014 deadline.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Big Dig was completed in December of 2007.&nbsp; The project was originally estimated to have a $2.8 billion cost.&nbsp; By the end of 2006, over $14.6 billion had been spent on the Big Dig.&nbsp; With a cost overrun like that, why would anyone even consider hiring the same company for a major state construction project again ?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To hire the same company and expect a different result is insanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Boston Herald&nbsp;is reporting that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick wants to hire Parsons Brinckerhoff &#8211; an architect of the Hub highway debacle &#8211; to help build the MBTA&#8217;s Green Line extension.&nbsp; Governor Patrick has been highly critical of&nbsp;Republican candidate for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2166\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}