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The Chicago Report is even getting in on the act regarding the Senate race
As I told OneMan a while ago–just enjoy the trainwreck–it’s rare that you get to watch one this close up.
Something about knowing the mind of God and madness
The Good Ambassador informs us who Jesus would vote for and suggests that spanking is something more than a basketball reference. (note Requires Internet Explorer)
Inconceivable. Quick someone get Mike Conklin of the Trib to do an immitation of Wallace Shawn
Via Austin Mayor
Yo Mamma
“Oh, Mr. Delay Guardia,” says Judge Lyttle. “Really! You see, that is my point. You tell a man he’s engaged in wrongdoing and he says, ‘Yeah, you’re right.” Everyone recognizes that’s facetious. We all are familiar with that. Now, in my neighborhood, had Mr. Sabich come from those parts, he would have said, ‘Yo’ momma.'”
There is broad laughter in the courtroom. Larren has scored again. He sits on the bench, laughing himself.
“But you know, in Mr. Sabich’s part of town, I would think people say, ‘Yeah, you’re right,’ and what they mean is ‘You are wrong.'” Pausing. “To be polite.”
More laughter.
Spanking
So I think we all had one thing in mind when we heard the Good Ambassador was upset over spanking. It’s harder to be more of a selfish hedonist than when Spanking the Monkey. But no, he was referring to a comment by Barack,
“I don’t want to just win, I want to give this guy who is running against me a spanking,” Keyes quoted Obama as saying.
The conservative from Maryland said Obama then said that he wanted to give Keyes a spanking because he exemplified the “kind of scorched-earth, slash-and-burn negative campaign that has become the custom in Washington and it is the reason why we can’t get anything done.”
Now, most folks would take this as a basketball reference. But, not the Good Ambassador–it’s a slavery reference:
Keyes, whose rhetoric concerning gay marriage and abortion has stunned Illinois Republican Party leaders, said Obama’s use of the word spanking was “colorful language” and is “the language of the master who, when he is displeased with the slave, gives him a whipping.”
If he had made such comments, Keyes speculated that the media would accuse him of “some horrible crime against the dignity of my opponent.”
“I am sure if I had used this language about my opponent, one of you would have followed up with that kind of question, suggesting that I was showing the utmost insensitivity to the racial heritage of America and to the indignities that black Americans have suffered during the course of that heritage,” Keyes said.
No, but you might have been fitted with a straightjacket. Then again, you might still be. Though you might have asked what great moral principle in the Declaration spanking is related to or perhaps a cheeky joke about Spanking the Monkey.
The Good News and The Bad News
The good news, the Capitol Fax reached Hyde who quickly squelched rumors he is ill:
9/7 7:24pm: Congressman Henry Hyde denounced rumors of his ill health today as “all baloney.”
The rumors have apparently been circulating for a while, but appeared on a conservative website’s discussion board on September 4th. Today, the “Daily Kos,” a widely-read Democratic-leaning blog gave big play to an anonymous e-mail from a reader which claimed Hyde’s health has been, “deteriorating rapidly over the last few months.” The reader added that some high-level Republicans are worried he won’t survive until the election.
Hyde, reached in Washington, DC today, called the rumors “Wizard of Oz stuff.” His staff provided a list of recent public events he’s attended, many of which I’ve been able to confirm.
More tomorrow. It was a fun interview.
The bad news, now that we know he is healthy, a crotchedy right wing crank is still the 6th District Congressman.
Is Hyde Ill?
Kos is reporting that scuttlebutt has Hyde very ill…any information out there?
Let’s keep it respectful in comments…we should wish him well regardless of his positions.
McLean Cubed
Who is running the Keyes effort in McLean County?
On one side you had the moderates and on the other you had Alan Keyes and Co. Keyes comments on homosexuality were widely condemned by some top party brass. To any observer who watched what happened in McLean County a few years ago, the ideological split that is tearing at the party’s fabric is nothing new.
You might recall former Illinois Christian Coalition chief John Parrott’s rise to power as county GOP chairman. The Bloomington businessman’s conservative brand of politics wasn’t well liked by what became known as the “old guard” Republicans in McLean County.
Eventually, Parrott was ousted in a power play and things seem to have returned to normal.
So normal, in fact, that Parrott is now heading Keyes’ election efforts in McLean County.
In Other McLean County News
It appears Lee Newcom is worried about the Good Ambassador.
?As a downstate ballot candidate I am very concerned about Keyes performance so far,? said Lee Newcom, McLean County Recorder nominee and immediate past-president of the conservative United Republican Fund. ?If he doesn’t get himself under control real quick he will hurt a lot of us.?
One can only hope–Newcome’s a moron who used to tell high school GOP groups that they were great because they could do dirty tricks and not be held accountable.
It’s also worth noting that both Bloomington and Normal have anti-discrimination ordinances–in fact, Bloomington threw Jesse Smart out of office as Mayor for a nationally embarrassing effort on Oprah decrying the bill. For two towns next to each other, they are remarkably different, but both are still conservative, but the kind of rhetoric Keyes uses won’t play there. I’m already betting Newcome goes down anyway given the Republicans I know who are not fans of the guy.
At Least One Stop at the Lucca Grill
Edwards made another visit to the McLean County ATM of David Dorris this week–the third such event. At least he made the pilgrimmage on one of the trips, but think about what it takes to get a Presidential candidate to Downs three times.
The Lucca Grill was long the outpost of labor in Bloomington and even had a visit from John Kennedy when he ran for President. It also has the best thin pizza ever created.
Drowning it in a Bathtub
Current projection for the deficit in ten years:
If that doesn’t change, Grover Norquist will be able to drown the government in a bathtub.