He was once big on the Catholic argumentation scene, deciding not to decide the morality of abortion (for which he was chided by Andrew Greeley), a Commonweal Mag favorite, his wife Sidney [sic] Callahan an effective arguer vs. abortion (and a tough-minded charmer).
Now he has an idea whose time he thinks has come: Make fat people ashamed of themselves.
Clinton was a model of prevarication, particularly in a heated exchange with Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. Pressed by Johnson on why the Obama Administration had initially led the public to believe that the September terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was the result of a spontaneous uprising, a sputtering Clinton barked, “What difference at this point does it make?” (if you think this looks bad in print, check out the video)
She got quite testy on the point, in a let’s-move-on gambit.
The whole point being that her dept. is on the dock.
It’s always a pleasure to see Loudmouth Reich shown to be wrong, as here:
By DONALD J. BOUDREAUX
AND MARK J. PERRYA favorite “progressive” trope is that America’s middle class has stagnated economically since the 1970s. One version of this claim, made by Robert Reich, President Clinton’s labor secretary, is typical: “After three decades of flat wages during which almost all the gains of growth have gone to the very top,” he wrote in 2010, “the middle class no longer has the buying power to keep the economy going.”
This trope is spectacularly wrong.
Average hourly wage taken by itself has been flat since 1964. It’s the sort of talk-show grenade routinely heaved by the diminutive Reich. But Boudreaux and Perry fill in details that apparently have gone over the head of the voluble Reich.
Say it isn’t so.
“The more laws and restrictions there are, the poorer people become.”
A Dept. of Justice lawyer. Object of boos: the recent Republican vice presidential candidate. A demonstration of the crude and the juvenile that seems to follow radical libs wherever they go.
Cooley wore a wire when he did not have to, became a man without a city, but who now praises him? (HT essential-reading Steve Bartin)
The first is David Jackson’s Chi Trib story,
`A death wish’ — Because of an ex-corrupt attorney with a near-photographic memory, we live in a different city today. But his life, he says, ‘ is over.’
The second is Cooley’s book, When Corruption Was King: How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago, Then Brought the Outfit Down [Paperback] Robert Cooley (Author), Hillel Levin (Contributor)
Very important and readable (gripping) book.
Full of Ald. Ed Burke, by the way, who sat at the mob chief’s table in Counselors Row regularly in those days.
Ed has big fish to fry these days — see Sun-Times, “Ald. Ed Burke wants to ban high-caffeine energy drinks,” which shows Ed has your interests at heart and along the way would like to limit your choices so you stay away from what might hurt you. What a guy.
