Tony Rezko is a RINO?
The joy of this NRSC video is that it is all obvious, easy, correct and hilarious stuff that the sharp tongues in Chicago have known and written about for years. John Kass, sharpest of tongues, knows about all the graves, some with bodies, some waiting bodies, and he writes the morning after Giannoullias edged out two unknowns, will POTUS work for Giannoullias in Illinois? Nah. Alexi Giannoullias is the son of a mob bank, a long-established mob bank, called Broadway Bank (FDIC takeover), and his Democratic primary opponent David Hoffman, who had some money for TV, devastated Giannoullias with the mob link. Worse, Giannoullias can easily be tied (see video) directly to Tony Rezko, who sits in Federal jail waiting his next trial by the Feds. The NRSC is shooting fish poured onto cement.
Illinois is Gone.
This looks like a lay-up form the Republican moderate, aka RINO, Mark Kirk, who coasted to a primary win and will now stand up to Giannoullias and mention the mob in fifty different ways from here to election day. What is peculiarly in questions in Illinois is the notion that you need conservatives to beat Democrats. Nope. You can beat the Cook County machine the Obama team's chosen replacement, by just sort of hanging around and sounding rational and curious to the independent voters. Tony Rezko is now the RINO weapon of choice. Shrug. Who is that guy with Kirk?
Arkansas is Gone, Too.
Blanche Lincoln (below) recorded the classic YouTube moment this day during the POTUS chit-chat and lecture (POTUS is a smooth but dull professor who cannot get to the point: he wanders: he forgets his opened parenthesis) when she told POTUS that no one in his administration ever met a payroll. Am waiting quotes and the YouTube clip. POTUS made the mistake of a birdge too far this day. Last Friday POTUS scored well with Huey, Dewey and Louey in Baltimore, when he chatted on stage on camera with the GOP House trio of Boehner, Pence and Cantor. This encouraged POTUS to keep chatting with his own team on camera. The Lincoln remark will change the White House messaging unit's mind again. Never met a payroll. Yikes. Lincoln is gone, at 27% approval rating. She has $5 million in the bank, a huge sum for Arkansas, but the GOP is pushing in Representative John Boozman. It is Boozman's to lose, and this is unlikely with the jobless numbers coming from now till summer. Spoke Tuesday John McArdle, Roll Call, who also pointed to the newbie Michael Bennett (D, Colorado) as aimless, and to the huge burn rate in money for Harry Reid in Veda and the battling Democrats of Arlen Specter and Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania. There is no state where the Democrats look secure, not even California with Boxer. Strange doings.
What constitutes ‘mob’ these days? How do they teach it in college? Is it bribery, extortion, theft, protection, drug running, brass knuckles, cement shoes, severed horse heads, stuffing ballot boxes, vote buying, ‘kiss of death”? Excuse me, I no longer quite know what ‘is’ is. Isn’t this essentially how our government works these days?
Congress has been up to its neck in shady dealings. They’re not even embarrassed. It’s been all out in the open. Republicans shut out of negotiations, negotiations behind closed doors, bills passed in the dead of night, pay-offs, vote-buying – whatever it takes. The ends justify the means.
The American people are simply sick of it. They can see when something is wrong. They enjoyed watching ‘The Sopranos’ on TV. But they don’t want their government operating that way. Which is it that Americans distrust more: the Mob or third-world totalitarian dictators? If a vote were held today, it could well be a tie.
Will Obama stump for Giannoullias? He’ll be tempted to. There are those who would advise against it, thinking that a presidential endorsement would amount to ‘the kiss of death’ at this point. I’m sure they wouldn’t put it quite like that. Obama, tone-deaf as he is, would take it as a yes. He still believes that Massachusetts had nothing to do with him.
The Republican will win – even in Chicago. Unless, of course, Lazarus is able to raise enough dead. The people of Chicago have been held hostage for far too long. It took Oscar Tulio Lizcano eight years for the opportunity to escape his FARC captors. Chicagoans know that their time is at hand.
Say what you will about Republicans but, compared to the Dems, they’re clean as the driven snow. They may not be quite as smart, but they won’t need smart this time around. All they’ll have to do is show up. There’ll still be plenty of time to blow it after they’re in office.
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The GOP has found their Mojo!
Witty, to the point, easily emailed. The next election will be the Youtube elections!
Scary day on the Markets, JB. Greece is near collapse, Moody's threatening to drop the USA's Aaa rating!
Dow at 10002 and dow futures at 9999!
This Tony Soprano commercial is VERY offensive to me as an Illinoisan and as a Sopranos fan. The "mob" man in question was lent millions of dollars from multiple banks all over the United States and Broadway Bank was one of the last to give him money. The problem with the Giannoulias family bank was that they lent money to CREDITWORTHY but not necessarily worthy upright citizens.
For a real good look @ Giannoulias, read the article 'Alexi's Albatross' at ChicagoReader.com
Also, Kirk is not clean himself. He's had major flip flops on taxes, trade, environment, gay rights, terrorism, everything in the book this guy has flipped or flopped on.
Yes, should be quite a show tonight.
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