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Michelle Obama is Ready to Fight, but Not for Anything Particularly Important

Jimmie | September 28, 2009 | Comments (2)

Guess what Michelle Obama was talking about? “The gloves are off!” the First Lady declared with a smile. She spoke with a handful of reporters in the State Dining room at White House, and relayed a story from last weekend’s G20 Summit in Pittsburgh. At the spouses dinner she hosted, she said she greeted the [...]

Bye Bye Blago, Bye Bye

Jimmie | January 29, 2009 | Comments (2)

Our long national Laugh-In skit is over. Rod Blagojevich was impeached today by the Illinois State Senate and his Lt. Governor was named Governor to replace him. I’m actually sad that the Blago Sago is coming to an end. I think it’s good for voters to have a living, breathing example of everything that’s wrong [...]

The SEIU’s Sweet Vote-Buying Racket

Jimmie | December 22, 2008 | Comments (0)

As it happens, union money can buy a whole lot of political influence. This isn’t exactly a closely-guarded secret. What I don’t think is well-enough known is that one of the biggest influence-peddling unions is the one that covers state and municipal employees as well as home-care workers who aren’t government employees but who are [...]

No One Does Fiery Declarations of Innocence Like a Democratic Politician

Jimmie | December 19, 2008 | Comments (3)

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m filled with Christmas joy, thanks to Governor Rod Blagojevich. His press conference today was combative, magnificently ridiculous, and full of such theater as can only come from the cesspool that is Chicago politics. It’s not every day that you go to a press conference given by a [...]

The New Secretary of Education is A Mixed Bag

Jimmie | December 16, 2008 | Comments (0)

President-Elect Obama has named his Secretary of Education and to no one’s surprise he picked Arne Duncan, the chief of the Chicago school system. Duncan has a reputation both as a reformer and as friendly to teachers’ unions. Whether that means he takes the best from each and uses them for the betterment of the [...]

JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America Bow to Extortion Threats

Jimmie | December 10, 2008 | Comments (0)

Extortion works. CHICAGO (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co offered $400,000 on Wednesday to help pay severance to laid-off workers occupying a Chicago factory, whose protest symbolizes resentment over the federal bailout of big banks while workers suffer. JPMorgan Chase’s offer, announced by Rep. Luis Gutierrez, who has been mediating the dispute, follows on Bank [...]

Obama and the Governor – A Tale That Needs To Be Told

Jimmie | December 9, 2008 | Comments (1)

I think our President-Elect has some serious ‘splainin’ to do. Asked what contact he’d had with the governor’s office about his replacement in the Senate, President-elect Obama today said “I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening.” But on November [...]

Illinois Gov. Arrested for Rampant Corruption

Jimmie | December 9, 2008 | Comments (0)

This is huge. CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested on corruption charges on Tuesday, including trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by fellow Democrat President-elect Barack Obama, federal prosecutors said. While Obama has long distanced himself from the governor — who has been under investigation on other issues for months [...]