Illinois in Bleeping Crisis: The Reckoning — LIVE!

Who’s your guy/gal?

@mellbell: For the Senate: David Hoffman (a) has solid reform cred and (b) no mob ties. Alexi Giannoulias? He botched up the state education savings program, and has mob ties. A Giannoulias win would be BAD NEWS.

Governor — it was six-to-five and pick ’em. Pat Quinn actually proposed raising the income tax. If he wins, he’s toast. Dan Hynes failed to monitor cemetaries (in his purvue don’t you know), which led to the Burr Oaks fraud/outright disaster. If he wins, he’s toast. I went with Quinn, but it’s not looking good for November.

Out here in the hinterlands of the land-o-lincoln, there is no snow (to speak of), no voters, no interest, including myself. Considering it a practice run for 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016……

iPrick: Blago got shitcanned a year ago, and this level of detachment among Prairie Staters? Srsly — this is a lame effort.

Just to pass the time while results come in, can I tell you guys a story? We have a political story here thats so cool. It involves the Syrian Jewish community, buying kidneys in Isreal from Palestinians, a dude who wrote a check for $25 million, yes, $25 million, deposited it at the drive through, then wired $25 million out before the bank figured out it was a bad check (this was the son of the head rabbi of the syrian jewish community), corpulent Chris Christie then taking this schmuck and wiring him to go try to bribe democratic politicians all over the state in a buffoonish sting operation. Then Christie’s Deputy at the US Attorney’s office, who is a comely lass he has been flying all around the world with and staying at Ritz Carltons on the government dime, insisting on announcing the indictments just in time to bolster Christies “corruption-fighting” stats right before the election, oh, and Christie had loaned her $40,000, took a second mortgage on her house, then forgot to mention his interest income on his tax returns. Does this sound fun?

Promnight: No lovechild? Pass, for the moment. Tell me more and I might become intrigued.

Oh, fuck it all, thats all that need be said. The corrupt prosper, the country is divided in a cold civil war between normal human beings and racist fucktards, the economy is complete shit, and this time its not simply a cyclical downturn, its the bust-out bankruptcy the Bush goons perpetrated coming to roost, and this time, its the beginning of the long term decline of the US as an economic power. There will never be a return to the good times, and in all likelihood, where we are at right now, with these little glimmers of hope for a recovery, is actually right exactly where we were in 1931 when Hoover was saying Prosperity is just around the corner, and in fact, we are just beginning another decade or two of even worse pain. And personally, I am having to come to grips with the fact that despite all my supposed talent and promise, am a loser and will never be succesful, as I am getting to the age of being unemployable even in good times.

Anything here I got wrong?

@chicago bureau: The retard who kited a $25 million check, he involved a brooklyn rabbi in a sting to buy a kidney for $100,000, kidney to come from Israel, price $100,000, to be bought from a palestinian? The Rabbi from Brooklyn was a black market organ broker?

Promnight: Money and commerce are the lifeblood of this country. What sinks pols in this country is sexytime and, on occasion, swearing. You know that, right?

(Speaking of which — god damn, Sarah Palin is getting shrill. Rahm Emanuel is a potty-mouth! Gasp! Outrage!!)

@chicago bureau: Palin is a fucking retard. After I read her twitter, “fucking retard” has become my favorite epithet.

@Promnight: Israeli kidneys are kosher, right?

@Promnight: And not a bad band name.

Damn I love Chicago … were it not for NYC, I’d live there. Your politics are even more gangster than ours.

blogenfreude: The pawn-broker on the bottom-half of the gubernatorial ticket for the Dems. After Blagojevich, I thought I had seen everything. I was wrong.

@Nabisco: Ya know, the sordid thing about this story is that there was this kid, supported by this close knit community, and able to get investors from the very wealthy syrian jewish community because his dad is their religious leader. (the Syrian jews control the NY City rag trade, big money people). So he has this real estate empire going, only he was ponzi-ing it, like madoff, a total loser but because of his dad being head rabbi, he had people giving him money, and he is robbing peter to pay paul, until finally, how stupid and desperate is that, seriously, he deposits a fake check for $25 million, and seriously, through the drive through, and he called the bank manager and got him to approve drawing on it before it cleared, and he steals $25 million on a bad check. Wow!

But whats sordid is the US Attorney, running for governor , since elected governor, now takes this 30 year old balding pudgy little jewish guy, shows him the rack and the screws, and enlists him to start on a huge sting operation, and the first thing he does, he gets him to wear a wire and then negotiate the purchase of a kidney, from another major rabbi in this same close-knit community.

Thats just trashy.

Next the US attorney, following Rove’s directions to turn all efforts towards indicting democrats, takes this nebbish and starts sending him with bags of cash into the offices of every democrat in the state, to see if they will take the cash.

I vomit, symblically, now.

Murtha in ICU Post-Gallbladder Surgery

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/02/murtha.hospital/

Sorry I am late. Work event tonight.

Hoffman needs to run for mayor of Chicago. And I am just happy that Adam Andejewski or whatever the hell his name is (the ‘true conservative’ who Rush and all of the teabaggers and my cousins had a massive boner for) is in a solid 5th place for the Republican Governor nod. I would say he should run as an independent and siphon off the crazee vote, but then it is four more years of a Democrat, which at this point isn’t sounding that great either.

homofascist: Looks like, at the moment, that McKenna is done. His campaign was just obnoxious. Good for him getting beat. Maybe.

Seriously: the GOP gubernatorial race is a big ol’ mess of stupid.

@Promnight: re: ‘“fucking retard” has become my favorite epithet.’… was one of my favorite epithets and the shorthand “fucktard” but it isn’t a really good one for my employment environment..so I use “fucking stupid bag of shit” which is slightly less egregious than the other but after thirty years of this stuff they just look at the old prick and shake their head and keep him out of the way as much as possible, which is really great!

@iPrick: Don’t forget “fucking pinhead,” that one is cool, because there is such a thing as a pinhead, but they are so rare they don’t have an advocacy group to publicly shame anyone who uses the term as an insult.

Another great, under-used word is “imbecile;” its great because its so fucking french, and so perfectly applies to the kind of people who hate France.