Call It A Comeback
Please remember that no one has ever gone broke by underestimating the American Public
- That’s not enough, madam, we need a majority!
- Response to a woman who called out to him: “Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!” during his 1956 campaign, as quoted in Anatomy of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2001) by James A. Nathan, p. 156
NRCC hits him and rightfully so.
Hurckes, a man of no small ego, is not merely Dan Lipinski’s chief of staff, earning $107,224. Nor also just a paid consultant to Bill Lipinski’s dubious foundation, the All American Eagles, which brags about helping kids but mostly helps fund friendly candidates.
Hurckes also is a trustee of Oak Lawn, southwest of Chicago, and an aspiring mayoral candidate.
And so, he likes to brag, he’s the guy who’s bringing home the bacon to Oak Lawn. As the suburban SouthtownStar newspaper and Roll Call reported this month, Hurckes was not a happy camper when some of his fellow trustees entertained the notion of hiring a Washington lobbyist to attract federal dollars to Oak Lawn.
“Repeatedly using the phrase ‘It is I who’ to preface his accomplishments,” reported Roll Call, “Hurckes ticked off earmarks he claimed to have secured for the village. . . . $100,000 for the Oak Lawn Children’s Museum, nearly $4 million in transportation infrastructure funds.” Hurckes, self-important if not always grammatical, added, “It was I that brought . . . the Army Corps of Engineers.”
Heavens, why would Oak Lawn need a lobbyist when it’s got Jerry Hurckes? For that matter, why would the 3rd District need Dan Lipinski when Hurckes is clearly the go-to guy?
And Marin revisits the Bohica bar voter registration drive
Hurckes was then registered in the 23rd Ward even though he lived in Oaklawn.
2011 when Rod Blagojevich leaves office and his job returns to normal.
Another horrible audit via Kevin at The Capitol Fax Blog
Greenberg keeps up the attack on Bean.
So, Bean has natural reasons to support the Serbian position and receive money from Serbian Americans.
Swami takes no side for now on the ancient, underlying dispute, but he does find it reprehensible that Greenberg calls out Bean this way: “Congresswoman Melissa Bean is flagrantly working on behalf of foreign interests, against the interests of the United States. This is an outrage and today I am asking for an investigation of Ms. Bean’s activities as an agent for a foreign government.”
When you call a sitting U.S. congresswoman an agent of foreign powers, that tends to get attention.
Swami’s view? This as a temper tantrum by an inexperienced candidate who now senses he’s not going to win the election and is casting about in the dark for any rock to throw. Desperation can be ugly.
His is a spiteful position, rife with cultural undertones and barely veiled hate talk. Remember the price for inheriting the wind.
And it doesn’t help Greenberg that some of the leading conservative political practitioners are on the other side of the Serb-Kosovo issue. Greenberg hasn’t called Lawrence Eagleburger a Serbian terror patsy, yet.
If Greenberg wants to debate Bean on the issue of which side in a 16-century-old conflagration is right, Swami says be our guest.
But calling someone a traitor just because they disagree with your position is a low and unbecoming tactic and, more to the point, it doesn’t positively distinguish a person seeking to sit in Congress.
You know who co-sponsored the bill?
Dan Burton, Steve Chabot….
Change Serbian to Jewish or Israeli and see what happens when you make claims like this (rightfully so). Balkan policy seldom has easy answers and there is nothing wrong with a debate about the policy. Now, if the good Mr. Greenberg would like to explain to Peter Roskam why he is un-American, it’s time for him to STFU.
Looks good--haven’t tried much navigating yet, but a big improvement.
Rod Blagojevich.
So what do they appear to be ready to do?
Nominate a guy in the 11th who has given Rod $23,000.
The entire rap on Halvorson is that she is close to Emil Jones and thus Blagojevich. By choosing this clown (who also has some issues with minority contracting fraud), that entire avenue of attack is closed off.
Wait, Republicans, don’t read that until March 31, the day after you choose the candidate.
I’m quite excited to have such a site in Illinois. It will be a big help in filling a niche the Illinois Blogs simply cannot currently.
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God doesn’t change, nations do…
Jeremiah Wright’s sermon on 9-11 with the full context:
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Violence begets violence.
One can argue over the policy, but it’s hardly as radical as it has been painted.
Okay, I’m traveling Friday and may not post much through the weekend. However, I’d like to set up the ArchPundit Fantasy Baseball League.Tentatively I’d like to have a live draft on Sunday evening. If that would work and you’d be interested, drop me an e-mail at archpundit@yahoo.com. 5X5 Rotissierie on ESPN with lots of positions. If Sunday night doesn’t work, I might move it back meaning the first couple games in Japan might not be included, but that shouldn’t be too big of a deal.
UPDATE: Still looking for more teams–it’s entirely free and it will probably have a Tuesday draft if I can find enough people.
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