Lie To Me
“For the first time since Barack Obama took office, a major broadcast network is refusing to grant the president’s request for primetime coverage.
Fox has issued a statement saying it will air regular programming (Lie to Me) Wednesday night instead of Obama’s 100-day news conference.”
So if you’re watching network TV at 7:00 CDT tomorrow, you’re going to see Lie to Me no matter which channel you watch.
Is It Barack Obama Or The Onion?
The guy who added $65 billion in new debt PER DAY for each of his 100 days in power is preaching fiscal restraint.
I can’t stop laughing!
Hi, I’m An Illinois Democrat And I’m Addicted To Taxes
Taxpayer funded Robert Young/Riverside held a hearing Thursday asking legislators to place a nickel tax on every drink purchased in Illinois.
Several area lawmakers or their representatives were expected to attend.
They claim that this “nickel a drink” tax will raise $250 million to help reduce underage drinking and driving by funding more “treatment providers”, prevention and treatment services.
If you believe this .05 tax will do what they say it will, I have the #2 span of the I-74 bridge I’d like to sell you.
This tax reeks of boondoggle, mostly because the proponents say it will be based on the DARE program—a well-documented proven failure and $$$$$ taxpayer black-hole.
Yeah, we want more of that.
So rather than tax alcohol in order to provide money to hire more bureaucrats, I have a modest proposal; let’s levy a stiff tax against any Illinois politician who proposes new/bigger taxes as a way to solve any given problem.
This way, politicians wouldn’t be tempted by the siren song of tax!tax!tax! and we would be able to hold on to more of OUR money. It could cure many of our politician’s pernicious addiction to taxes.
What’s not to like?
Bobby Has A Blog
. . . or at least Mrs. Bobby Schilling has a blog.
This is Christie Schilling’s description of the Moline TEA Party on April 15:
“This week Bobby, Sam, Sophia, and i attended the TEA Party in Moline on Wednesday afternoon. In spite of the fact that everyone is very worried about what is going on in DC, the people at the TEA Party were very joyful. Everyone had a smile on their faces and they were cordial and polite. (which is way more than i can say for the Phil Hare staffer that was taking pictures and burning rubber out of the parking lot. i will leave out what he did when leaving.)”
This is so typical of our local political class—they feel entitled, not to the people, but to the powerful. We pay these people’s salaries and perks, yet they have nothing but contempt and disdain for us. Everyone of these jobs at Hare’s office are patronage jobs, nobody just wandered in and asked if there was an opening—Hare has used his office to reward the local power brokers.
But beyond the all-too-predictable obnoxious behavior of Hare’s minions, Schilling’s blog shows that FINALLY a GOPer “gets” the intertubes thingees. This blog combines the political and the personal, which is an excellent way for the public to get to know Bobby Schilling and his family.
Tortured Haiku
going to criminalize
polemics and he appears
to be doing the Pontius wash
just very disappointing
I kind of like it
when guys actually do
what they run on
—UMR
They Work Hard For The Money, So Hard For It, Honey
The way the law is structured in Illinois concerning payraises for lawmakers, they get a 3% raise every year by default. They don’t have to vote for or against the raises, they get them automatically by doing nothing.
And they are “doing nothing’ in more ways than one.
With the revelation that the state has at least 11 BILLION deficit, which has probably been lowballed, you would think our elected political class would make a gesture to show solidarity with the over burdened taxpayers and the unemployed of the state.
You would be wrong, although GOP Rep. Bill Black at least made a stab at it with a pariamentary maneuver—it failed miserably.
Here’s Black:
“We can go one year without a cost of living raise . . . It will not balance the budget. It will not significantly reduce the billions of dollars in debt. But it says we’re willing to make the sacrifice.”
Black must be new to politics, otherwise he would know politicians don’t ’sacrifice”—that’s for the little people.
Unsurprisingly, our two Democrat House members–Boland and Verschoore voted against the measure. It should be noted that Verschoore is constantly calling for higher taxes.
One party Democrat rule is working out really well for the politicians—the rest of us, not so much.
At Least They Didn’t Blame Bush
The recently passed “stimulus” bill lists 249 Illinois transportation projects—far more than any other state.
So what could account for this lopsided financial bonanza for our wonderful State O’ Illinois?
Could it be that the POTUS is from Illinois?
Could it be that the POTUS Chief of Staff is from Illinois?
Could it be that the number 2 Democrat in the Senate is from Illinois?
Could it be that the Secretary of Transportation is from Illinois?
Nah! If you believe that, you display a serious lack of imagination.
Our specially selected Transportation Secretary has the answer, and it’s a familiar one:
So there you have it—Illinois is flush with stimulus cash for transportation projects, not because of the outsized influence of Illinoisians, but because of that evil Blago.
It’s about time Blago did something positive for Illinois.
Stuff You Won’t See In The National Media
Our wonderful POTUS is jetting off to Newton, Iowa today to praise Gaia and celebrate Earth Day.
As with all these Obama permanent campaign appearances, the visit to Newton is fraught with symbolism. A few years ago the Maytag plant there shut down, leaving many jobless. In our plucky Midwestern way, the Newtonians picked themselves up and began producing The Next Big Thing—towers for wind turbines, in the very same plant where Maytags were once built.
We can expect the usual bromides and photo-ops that mark the image-is-everything presidency of Obama, but what he and his press allies won’t mention are these inconvenient truths:
1. Obama’s non-stop jetting around the world and nation in his quest to enhance his personal popularity aboad and to garner votes for ‘12 , is hurting the environment. Imagine the amount of pollution the monster Air Force Won emits, to say nothing of the motorcades of limos and SUVs. Gaia is not pleased—and she’s not fond of hypocrisy, either.
2. The other thing which will not be mentioned by the press or Obama is The Iowa Speedway located right off I-80 in Newton. It would truly be a fitting salute to our green POTUS if race cars would run laps around the oval spewing toxic emissions for as long as Obama is in Newton.
Vroom! Vroom!
The Wit And Wisdom Of Phil Hare
. . . on display at a recent statehouse news conference:
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“I’ll be honest with you, I don’t drink much, but I do love to eat . . . I always thought that when you ordered pizza, it meant you got to eat the whole thing, not just a couple of slices. We had taco day. People would have three, and I’d eat, like, several.”
Which is why it’s no surprise that a man who can’t stop himself from eating one more slice of pepperoni pizza can’t stop himself from spending all the taxpayer money he can get his hands on.
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“[GOP 18th CD Rep. Aaron Schock] is not a bad guy . . . But I have to tell you, his votes trouble me deeply.”
I guess Phil didn’t get the memo that the Democats won big and don’t need ANY GOP votes to push through their agenda. Why would Hare be deeply troubled that Schock doesn’t march in lockstep with Hare when Schock’s vote isn’t needed? Since when is the minority required to vote with the majority if it violates their principles?
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“I’m more worried about why [Schock] decided twice to vote against the stimulus bill, but yet rode on Air Force One . . . (A)nd I told him on the floor, I said, “look, I’ll be candid with you . . . if you aren’t going to vote for the bill, then what was the point of going?”
I’m more worried that Hare voted for the stimulus TWICE. A politician as corrupt as Hare just can’t imagine a lawmaker who can’t be bought off with a ride with The Won on Air Force Won—after all, it’s so easy for Hare.
Schock was voting the way his district wanted him to; a concept that is totally foreign to Hare.
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“Look . . . [Schock] will learn . . . he’s new.”
Sheesh! Could Hare have been more condescending—is it even possible? The good people of the 18th CD had better pray that Schock never “learns” to be an arrogant corruptocrat like Hare.
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Phil Hare is the person our mothers warned us about in elementary school—-a mean bully who wants to steal our lunch money.
