It’s all about Mike Madigan’s jerry-built legislative districts and Eric the Beholden (to whomever he works for, forget us the people) and his claim to be FAIR!!!
Sun-Times man Art Golab and ideology
As here, in story about Koch Brothers deciding not to buy Chi Trib:
Reports of the Kochs interest in buying all the Tribunes newspapers surfaced in March, prompting protests from some who feared the brothers would use the newspapers to promote their conservative ideology.
Can you imagine a newspaper referring to someone’s liberal ideology? It happens but far less often.
Google news about “liberal ideology” in quote marks, and you get 161 results. Do it for “conservative ideology” and you get 668. Not scientific but, oh say, indicative.
For every reporter who uses the first, there are four who use the second. A fellow like Golab uses the second without hesitation He’s in a hurry and says what comes to mind. In journalistic haste, as in vino, lies veritas. I think so, anyhow.
Solving the Metra problem in a fell swoop
Help us, Obama, Help us
We are falling (fallen) into the slough of economic despond.
Economy: Household incomes are still down 4.4% since the recession ended four years ago. Meanwhile, the unemployment picture may be even worse than we think. The Obama “recovery” continues to impress.
According to a report released this week by Sentier Research, the inflation-adjusted median household income remains $2,380 below where it stood when the Obama “recovery” officially started in June 2009 a drop of 4.4%.
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The great man said, many years ago, a phrasemaker he, that we need fear only fear. Is that so? (Dems do come up with that guru-type, don’t they?)
Schakowsky at the Temple
The Chicago Temple, that is, on Clark across Washington from the Daley Center, where Congr. Jan Schakowsky (D-North Side and North Shore) came to talk up ObamaCare to businesswomen Aug. 21 but couldn’t stay away from another apparent favorite topic, obstructionist Republicans.
They have mounted a “last-gasp push back,” she said, promoting “myths” and “lies” about ObamaCare’s raising costs and being “bad for businesses.”
In fact, she said, ObamaCare will lead to creation of 1.5 million more “small businesses,” as found by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation. Not quite. — it’s 1.5 million more self-employed individuals, not businesses.
Republicans are discouraging sign-ups for Obamacare, “especially young people,” she said, calling it “political malpractice” and ticking off reasons the young should sign up, including that they “won’t have to worry when riding a bike” or “on an adventure, jumping off things.”
A “well-funded, concerted effort” is underway “to undermine” ObamaCare, she warned, countering with a battle cry, “It’s the law of the land! We can’t say it often enough.” Conceding “bumps in road” ahead — not Sen. Baucus’s “train wreck” — she vowed, “We are absolutely going forward,” and added, “Once [ObamaCare] is experienced, debate will be over. It will be a success and will be popular.”
As for ObamaCare adding to the deficit, “It’s a myth,” she said, part of “an extensive campaign to confuse people.” And then she unveiled a supposed clincher. The Congressional Budget Office has predicted ObamaCare will save “over a trillion dollars”!
In 20 years, the White House says. While spending about a trillion, the CBO says, leading to slight improvement in the deficit. Can you imagine a Congress member leaving that part out?
Be that as it may, it was maybe “the proudest day” in Schakowsky’s life when ObamaCare, which her subcommittee helped to write, was passed. She predicted it’s to be “up in lights some day with social security and medicare.”
Among its benefits, she said, was that “being a woman is no longer a pre-existing [health] condition.” She cited non-coverage of pregnancy by “most policies.”
There will be “no out of pocket costs,” she predicted. Not for contraception, for instance, which has become “controversial.” “Can you imagine?” she asked. “In the 21st Century?” She praised Planned Parenthood, which she said “has become a major target.” The group applauded.
There was a slight glitch in the praise-filled session, billed as instructional for small-business owners. It was the matter of “shared responsibility,” also known as the employers’ mandate to provide insurance for full-timers or else, and its delay until 2015.
Asked about this, the otherwise alarmingly fluent and rapid-fire explainer from the U.S. Small Business Administration entered on an involved exposition from which as far as this listener could tell, she never emerged. It is certain, however, that she did not say it was to give breathing space for Democrat candidates in the 2014 election. It’s an issue that is “very sensitive [for] businesses,” she did add.
The gathering was organized by Women’s Business Development Center, Women Employed, and YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago.
Dennis Byrne on Kudlow tonight, 6 to 7 central. A snippet from the blog item that caught Kudlow’s attention:
My column . . . discusses . . . policies that liberal detractors of President George W. Bush today would derisively call “neoconservative.” Demonstrating once again how far today’s far-left “progressives” have taken the Democratic Party away from the Kennedy-like principles that sparked the post-War economic boom.
Wait. The economy isn’t doing well? Oh boy.
Oak Park’s own Rep. Lilly in Franklin Park July 30
At the July 30 town hall forum in Franklin Park,five legislators faced an audience of 80 or so in park district headquarters, a very nice building next to Metra tracks.
They were:
* Two senators: Oak Park’s Don Harmon (D_39th) and
John Mulroe (D_10th), officed at 6107 B Northwest Highway. He has four kids, three in college. Ran, “new to politics,” in 2010, because the state was (is) “on the brink of disaster,” he said, using language Harmon used in none of four forums this summer, and as one of the first things he said, for that matter.
* Three representatives:
Kathleen Willis (D_77th), in her first term, a onetime Elmhurst College librarian officed in Northlake; Oak Park’s Camille Lilly (D_78th), officed in the city at 5755 W. Division; and Mike McAuliffe (R_20th), in office since July, 1996, officed also in the city at 5515 N. East…
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Why Christie has it wrong about same-sex therapy
Gov. of NJ forbids it, making inaccurate claims. Here’s capsulization of what he says and what’s wrong with it, according to the National Assn. for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH):
(1) there is no evidence that people are born gay
(2) the APA [American Psychological Association]cites and reports no evidence that individuals are harmed by professional therapy for unwanted same-sex attractions and
(3) that there is absolutely no evidence that children who might be seen by a therapist – in some cases because of abuse or neglect – and are having confused or misdirected feelings of same-sex attraction experience any suicidal feelings or depression related to (SOCE [Sexual orientation change efforts]) therapy.
In fact, it is just as likely that any feelings or confusion surrounding same-sex attractions – confusions that could now receive only gay affirming therapy – are just as likely to be the cause of depression, and the professional help provided by NARTH clinicians the solution.
Think about it.
And if you never met Christie, here he is explaining things:
Anan out of line, supporters say stay there
Oak Park village president on SEIU negotiations, some fellow trustees object, On-line commenters like it.
Speaking of G. Soros, of whom we hear little from mainstreamers . . .
. . . he’s at it these days more than ever, influencing elections and bankrolling leftists coast to coast.
Happy Birthday, George! Won’t wish you favorable mainstream coverage. You’re the man who has everything in that respect.
