A Fool's Errand

Saving Otis, that is.
Senator Warner has been trying his best to kill the Cape Wind project, while Senator Kennedy has been trying to save Otis AFB. Has it occurred to Kennedy, who has been asking Warner to help him kill the wind farm, to ask him to help save Otis?

Senator John Warner (R-Virginia) is a member of the all-powerful Armed Services Committee, (and chairs the subcommittee that oversees the Army Corp of Engineers, the regulatory agency permitting Cape Wind). Doesn't the same committee have jurisdiction over the defense budget? You'd think he could exert a little influence on base closings even though the process is suppose to be non-partisan.

Is Kennedy Warner's Senator? Or is Warner Kennedy's Senator?
But this is where the state's part time senator from Osterville parts way with the state's full-time senator from Hyannisport. You can't pick and choose which issues you want to deal with if you're the senior Senator from Massachusetts. Kennedy is for saving the base. And he's for killing the wind farm. Keep the government jobs. Forgo the private (union) ones.

But if you're not elected from here, you can pick and choose what you want to save or kill. Osterville cares about their precious view. They could care less about the 102nd Airborne. Even if Warner were to take an interest now, don't look for Otis to survive. The writing's on the wall. And Warner is nobody's fool.

Senator Warner was in Osterville this past weekend attending a family wedding. Maybe Bunny Mellon, Osterville doyen, (and Warner's ex-step-mother-in-law) should have asked him to save Otis.