"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
The Donald gives them a hotfoot. With what he said about election results.
. . . what do these chattering classes and establishment bulletin boards think the Donald is going to do if he falls short of 270 electoral votes?
Lead a Coxey’s Army on Washington and burn it down as British Gen. Robert Ross did in August 1814, while “Little Jemmy” Madison fled on horseback out the Brookville Road?
What explains the hysteria of the establishment?
Source: An establishment in panic
If a Chicago alderman could look more familiar with this headline, I do not know how.
CHICAGO 10/18/2016, 07:46pm
Ald. Willie Cochran (20th) is under federal investigation in connection with his use of political campaign funds, sources told the Sun-Times.
The Sun-Times reported Oct. 8 that records show Cochran paid himself more than $115,000 from his campaign fund over a three-year span.
He’s not supposed to do that.
Else why would she not just deny what Jake Tapper and “stolen,” but not made-up, emails say, that she got the questions ahead of time and gave them to Hillary?
Very good lessons for political operatives in training here. J-schools around the land should use this clip — in their classes on indignation while lying. Especially, the part about being “a Christian woman.”
The woman is a credit to her breed.
If these Cubbies could look more vulnerable, I do not know how.
Rick Telander: “These walking-dead Cubs had better wake up fast. The cemetery of broken dreams beckons.”
. . . via Wednesday Journal blog.
All ye Oak Park and River Forest Democrats, REPENT!
Never-Trump Republicans too. Please. Do the right thing.
Sunday, October 16th, 2016 1:18 PM
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By Jim BowmanWriter
Enough of this blather from the leftist, I might add mean-spirited, Clinton camp. All you Democrats (and fence-sitting Republicans), please see past the dredging up of breathless, questionable accounts which are even now being debunked or at least questioned — here, for instance.
Bombarded by newspaper and TV lemmings coast to coast, you probably believe it all. This Yale professor does not disbelieve it. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, he admits that “in his Mr. Nauseating video of last weekend,” Trump comes across as “an infantile vulgarian.”
Why vote for him anyhow? Because . . . .
“It’s one of the great political phenomenons. The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media, the press. Let’s be clear on one thing: The corporate media in our country is no longer involved in journalism. They are political special interest no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with a total political agenda — and the agenda is not for you, it’s for themselves. Their agenda is to elect crooked Hillary Clinton at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they destroy. For them, it’s a war, and for them, nothing at all is out of bounds. This is a struggle for the survival of our nation. Believe me.”
Never been said better.
Sen. Harmon, Rep. Lilly, Galewood town hall, September, 2013. The alderman had sat down after declining to comment on the questions and complaints which she had just heard from her constituents over the past hour of the meeting which she had not called.
As the meeting drew to a close, a woman called for Lilly and Harmon to “be a moral voice” in their roles as public officials.
Something in her voice set Lilly off. “My morals cannot be questioned,” she responded, as the woman protested that she had been misunderstood. Lilly ignored her. “You are talking about me as an individual,” she said, reaching her highest state of indignation yet.
The meeting ended a few minutes later. Lilly thanked all for coming, adding as a pledge of continuing interest, “I want you to contact me.”
She did not say how to do this, but people could look it up. I did after the Franklin Park meeting in July and tried to contact her, as I said earlier. Got no answer.
Harmon closed with thanks of his own.
More to come, from Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters— available in paperback, epub and Amazon Kindle formats.
In 1896 it was Dems consuming themselves, from which came a third party. NY Sun discusses the third-party possibility if Trump loses, with an eye on history, but with a caution:
We don’t mean to rule out the possibility that Mr. Trump could yet win. We’re too close to the experience of Brexit, which elite opinion predicted for months would be defeated. Or the 2015 election at Israel, where polls predicted a razor thin result or a win by Labor only to be met with a runaway victory by Mr. Netanyahu. For that matter, there’s the 2004 American election, when the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth defeated an overconfident John Kerry.
So buck up, Trumpsters. Think Brexit etc.
If, however, Trump lost and took his followers into a new party, says Sun . . .
If he does that — we’re not making a prediction here — it would be as American as apple pie. Our history is littered with parties created as vehicles to pursue all sorts of visions and represent all sorts of factions — the Prohibition Party, the Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, the Toleration Party, the Anti-Masonic Party, the Nullifier Party (which fought for the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions in which the two states vowed not to enforce the Alien and Sedition Acts).
We but touch the list. There was the Free Soil Party, the Greenback Party, the Silver Party, the Readjuster Party, the National Woman’s Party, the Vegetarian Party, the Boston Tea Party, Natural Law Party (which favored transcendental meditation), the Anti-Nebraska Party, and the National Democratic Party. The latter’s 15 minutes of fame was at 1896, when the regular Democrats nominated the populist William Jennings Bryan.
Autophagy, anyone?
