Another Dem Joins the Field
ArchPundit
Joyce Washington announces she is in the replace Fitzgerald race. Whatever.
February 2003
Lotta Love
The Post-Dispatch uncovers the John Lott-Mary Rosh love poems.
McKenna plants poll with Steve Neal
Neal takes a shot at one of his two favorite targets, Peter Fitzgerald. And the news is not good for the reclusive Fitzgerald. His generic reelect is at 24 percent.
I’m surprised it is that low given Fitzgerald hasn’t been that vocal, but that seems to be the key. He makes few public appearances and doesn’t announce his schedule so few in Illinois know what the guy is doing.
Neal dislike Fitzgerald and has made no bones about it. He quite often expresses the same level of dislike for Dick Durbin. The poll was leaked from a Republican source which means someone from McKenna’s camp trying to soften the blow of taking on an incumbent. Possibly Lahood or Hastert’s people passed it on if it wasn’t McKenna himself.
Given how bruising such a primary would be and Fitzgerald’s good standing with conservatives who have the nominating process locked up, it is likely that Illinois will be a Democratic pick-up barring a stupid choice. Given the stupidest choice is thinking of running for President, Fitzgerald is probably leaving DC in two years.
Everybody is sooooo lame
As channeled by Josh Marshall. You know, I understand why unreconstructed knuckle draggers want to pretend the US is okay going it alone all of the time, but why more mainstream people haven’t been shocked at the administration’s clumsiness with our historical and democratic allies is a mystery.
Jeesh
CNN is reporting
But while the broadcast message declared solidarity with Iraqis, it made no mention of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and even denounced his socialist Baath party as "infidels."
Okay, I’m for the war, but can we stop the inane meme that Al Qaeda and Iraq are in league with one another? Bin Laden probably wants us to take out Hussein so he can start to build a pan Arab Muslim state starting with revolts in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
Note on postings
Expect fewer during the day and more at night.
Volokh Gets Snarky
With Nazis and it is pretty damn funny. Eugene is normally one of the more unshakably polite folks in the world and he needs to let loose on such targets from time to time. What I missed while updating the templates….
Patron Saint of Lost Causes
Ben DeClue is running a Draft Bradley campaign. He claims there are rumblings, but I haven’t heard any from the Bradley campaign’s 2000 team so I’m skeptical. However, it is Bill Bradley, sign up.
Shocking: Regulator Sold Fundraising Tickets
The third oldest profession in Illinois is political fundraiser and the news that an SOS regulator was selling fundraising tickets to those he regulated should only serve as a wake-up call to the more dimwitted Illinois citizens who have had their heads up their butts for the last 50 years. It isn’t right, it should be stopped, and everyone to hold the damn office including people like Jim Edgar knew it went on. Clean it up, but let’s save the handwringing for something we didn’t know about.