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In Other News
Ghost in the Machine is released today, Chris Rhodes gives his take on it…..
And some of the funniest stuff on Jack!
oh, and Greg Kot was on 848 giving an interesting review of his new book on Wilco–and the predecessors. I’m not happy with Farrar–he just endorsed the wrong Smith in the MO-3 race.
The Best Wit in the Lege
From CBS2, via the Leader
He did something like that? Only a Republican.”
~ State Senate President Emil Jones [D-Chicago]
848 is Up….
Jack! Rod McCulloch. Train Wrecks. What more could you want?
Hit the Road, Jack
The Hotline pipes in:
Hit The Road Jack?
It’s not hard to find GOPers who believe Jack Ryan’s days as the IL SEN GOP nominee are numbered. The kinky allegations trump the facts that Ryan did get joint custody and it was his wife who admitted adultery. But thanks to Blair Hull, sealed files receive a whole new level of focus in IL.
— The drumbeat to drive Ryan out of the race is bound to get louder thanks to the tribal nature of the IL GOP. Plus, the local TV newscasts are wall-to-wall, and as we all learned during the Torricelli mess in ’02, once local TV weighs in, it’s usually over.
The Other Shoe
For those keeping track, this isn’t the end. Remember, there is a file out there that isn’t redacted–it was passed around Republican circles in the Spring. From the AP on June 18th:
When the public session resumed, Schnider said he had reconsidered his earlier inclination to unseal about a half dozen paragraphs contained in the documents.
Schnider said the sections contain “personal accusations” that don’t refer to the couple’s child or reveal any information about the child.
But he said he agreed with arguments made by the attorneys for both parents that “the publicity that would be generated would become known to the child and will have a significant deleterious effect on the child.”
One More Note on McCulloch
In the earlier posts on McCulloch–back when he released a statement–I essentially said there were two choices:
Either he was telling the truth and should be viewed as a good Republican trying to save the Party
or
He was lying and passing around dirty tricks.
Option one was clearly true in this case–anyone who does a search on McCulloch in the back files should take the descriptions in that context–looking back they sound harsher on him than they should. The criticisms were in context of if the files weren’t true as were the compliments in context of the allegations being accurate as to what was in the file.
We Don’t Need No Steenkin’ Excerpts
The Smoking Gun has the good parts
Defense of Marriage
Austin Mayor beat me to this in comments, but let me suggest that there is something a might bit hypocritical about the following stance:
I believe that marriage can only be defined as that union between one man and one woman. I am opposed to same-sex marriages, civil unions, and registries.
I believe that we are all equal before God and should be before the law. Homosexuals deserve the same constitutional protections, safeguards, and human dignity as every American, but they should not be entitled to special rights based on their sexual behavior.
The breakdown of the family over the past 35 years is one of the root causes of some of our society?s most intractable social problems-criminal activity, illegitimacy, and the cyclical nature of poverty.
As an elected leader, my interest will be in promoting laws and educating people about the fundamental importance of the traditional family unit as the nucleus of our society.
In the wake of the recent Massachusetts State Supreme Court ruling that has spawned similar lawsuits in other states, it seems likely that defending traditional marriage and codifying that defense will be required at the federal level. As such, as a United States Senator, I would support legislation such as Senator Bill Frist?s Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), provided the language remains clear in the defining of traditional marriage and protecting the traditional family unit.
Today vs. Yesterday in the Leader
UPDATE: But, of course, the good Kevin McCulloch has written in to defend Jack!
It was after all the Chicago Tribune who pronounced the poll results recently showing Obama with a 22% lead. Only problem was – that most likely the Chicago Tribune used the same polling company that their subsidiary (and continual embarrassment) the Los Angeles Times used when it showed a heavy favoring of Kerry win a national poll against President Bush.
But the reason these media outlets stink is because they refused the request of not only Jack for his sealed records to remain sealed but also Jeri – who wanted them sealed to prevent embarassment to her son. The judge even supported Jack’s claim that the unsealing of the documents WOULD have a negative impact on the nine year old (EAT THAT ZORN).
At the end of the day – what you have in the documents is a she said (wild stories of sex clubs) – from a woman who DID admit adultery vs. the word of a man that ALL involved – including the ex-wife say was faithful, kind and loving.
Look the divorce was ugly – Jeri had to make Jack look bad on some level – because she was committing adultery – so she says some wild things that probably were not true – or at least greatly exagerated so that she could get what she wanted out of the divorce.
Has anyone else ever had a spouse lie/exagerate to win more in a divorce proceeding – you know they have.
Even after the release of these documents you still got zip, nada,, zero, NOTHING. LaHood needs to put a cork in it. Better yet just switch parties because he’s perfect at running ground strategies for the dems.
These documents proved nothing – and in the absence of proof – Jack must be supported and be supported from the top of the party down.
And in case you have forgotten there is an opponent in this race who wants to raise your taxes, stop fighting the war on terror, get same sex marriage legalized, and make abortion so on demand that his own daughter won’t have to have his notification for her to get one. His name is Barack Obama – and he is far more dangerous than these unproven claims by a woman who needed to asuage her guilty conscience.
GOP – its time to grow up and be adults. I suggest you start before you have a state that you don’t recognize and you don’t like…
Committed to liberating all of Middle Earth…
Shades of the Jeri Lynn is lying defense about to emerge–problem is if you back her into a corner, wouldn’t that be forcing her to admit to perjury? Serious question, but I’m assuming court filings as such are considered to be under oath–aren’t they?