Archive for March, 2005
Posted in March 31st, 2005
The interesting bit here is that Family Taxpayer Network founder and money guy Jack Roeser seemed to be leaning towards Rauschenberger early on–which was news at the time since Roeser was a supporter of Patrick O’Malley in 2002. In an article he referred to the smart money being on Rauschenberger I believe. While Weigand joining […]
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Posted in March 31st, 2005
Rich Miller covered Dan Hynes’ future a couple weeks ago in a good column. While it might not seem like it to some of his campaign workers from the Senate primary, I really like Dan Hynes. He’s smart, honest by all accounts, and has been a strong steward of the state finances through two guys […]
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Posted in March 31st, 2005
Steve Chapman makes a pretty reasonable case as to why Amtrak should be defunded, but the reality of single member districts with Amtrak stations is that isn’t going to happen. The larger problems with Amtrak primarily have to do with the long range routes that are enjoyable from what I hear, but economically disastrous to […]
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Posted in March 31st, 2005
Stop Digging. Ponder this: Next year, the Bush administration will phase out the $2,000 tax credit for buying a hybrid vehicle, which gets more than 50 miles per gallon, but will leave in place the $25,000 tax write-off for a business owner purchasing a Hummer, which gets 10 to 12 m.p.g. That’s truly crazy, and […]
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Posted in March 31st, 2005
The Governor wants to increase the amount going into the foundation formula through gambling expansion (of course, it’s really not an expansion in his world, but whatever)–the real problem isn’t putting more money into the foundation, but reformulating it to better provide minimum levels of support for poorer inner ring suburbs and rural areas. Increasing […]
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Posted in March 31st, 2005
He might run against Durbin Sneed is told U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk is heading to the top of the GOP list of emerging future leaders. *To wit: “Kirk is highly respected by the senior leaders of the National Republican Congressional Committee — and is being eyed as a candidate to run against U.S. Sen. Dick […]
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Posted in March 31st, 2005
It seems the moderates in the House are reasserting themselves just as Tom DeLay is having ethical problems surface on several fronts. The key to Democrats being an effective opposition party is to take issues that divide Republicans and make sure as many of them as Dems can muster show up on the President’s desk. […]
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Posted in March 31st, 2005
Byrd’s by far less than my favorite Senator. He’s a gasbag and he has a horrible record on the environment and acted as a chief impediment to the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. His record on gay rights is bad to say the least. That he is now a liberal hero cracks me up since […]
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Posted in March 30th, 2005
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s late. I was travelling for Easter and everything was FUBAR. So add your comments below. More posting later.
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Posted in March 30th, 2005
eclaim democracy one pint at a time, as we speak up, stand up, and lift up our glasses at our weekly Democratic drinking club. Drinking Liberally Chicago Promoting democracy one pint at a time Each and Every Wednesday Night @ 8:30 pm The Red Lion, 2446 N. Lincoln Just around the corner from the Fullerton […]
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Posted in March 24th, 2005
All credit/blame to Rich O in comments
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Posted in March 23rd, 2005
1 year out and we have our first cattle call…a couple days late. Might as well start off with that expectation. I’ll move them to Tuesdays from now on out. 1) LaHood. I know. I know. The right hates him. But does the right hate him or a particular bunch of kooks on the right […]
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Posted in March 22nd, 2005
Okay, after installing a new audio system in the new car, I came down with some sort of flu like thing that kept me out yesterday. How out have I been? I didn’t know George Kennan had died. More on that later. But most important to those who read the blog–Consider this a Cattle Call […]
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Posted in March 17th, 2005
For the Democrats, the damn Hawaii contingent continued its efforts to declare Hawaii and Alaska as ‘special’. And Landrieu, who everyone should have undertood would vote for this, backed drilling. In fact, Holy Joe decided to blast her when her position has been consistent for years. She played a smart move to get revenue shairing […]
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Posted in March 16th, 2005
OPEC increased daily production quotas by 1.9% or 500,000 Barrels a day. While higher output is intended to ease prices, oil climbed near an all-time high in New York on concern that rising demand will soak up all that producers can pump. Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said consumption in the fourth quarter, the period […]
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