Post #253,510
4/26/06 4:27:51 PM
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Heck...I LIVE in Illinois, and I hadn't heard about it!
Someday, maybe before I die, we'll get back our "free and independent press" again....
jb4
"Every Republican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'."
— an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration
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Post #253,513
4/26/06 4:32:33 PM
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Just be proud you live in a state with some sense
While I live in a state that would try to re-elect the stupid baboon :-(
Stop looking at my signature!
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Post #253,618
4/27/06 11:07:42 AM
4/27/06 11:11:23 AM
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Then vote for Kinky Friedman
with a campaign slogan of "Why The Hell Not?", ya gotta love the guy. [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=248197| Don't forget this recent item:]
While serving as the grand marshal, he gets caught on camera drinking a can of Guinness as he's riding in a convertible through the trendy Greenville Avenue area of Dallas.
Imbibing while a passenger in a moving vehicle is a Class C misdemeanor for which he could be fined $500, except for one thing.
A spokesman for the Dallas police said no officer saw him, and they can't issue a citation based on television footage.
[...]
Friedman came up with a new one-liner, something the tired collection of old one-liners he calls a campaign desperately needs.
"I drank, but I didn't swallow," he declared.
lincoln
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow
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Edited by lincoln
April 27, 2006, 11:11:23 AM EDT
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Post #253,644
4/27/06 2:18:17 PM
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Amen bro!
Stop looking at my signature!
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Post #253,645
4/27/06 2:18:30 PM
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You mispelled 'sense'
In Illinois, its spelled with a 'c'.
Illinois was just "awarded" recognition as the most corrupt state in the union. All this time, I have been crowing that IL is the 2nd-most corrupt state in the union. I find that I was in error...I stand corrected.
If this is what passes for sense in your mind, then 1) I'm glad I don't live in your mind ;-), and 2) I'll take New Mexico any time!
(Come to think of it, I'd take New Mexico anyway!)
jb4
"Every Republican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'."
— an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration
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Post #253,646
4/27/06 2:25:55 PM
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Illinois still has my respect for being the first state
to start making moves to bring about impeachment. Corrupt or not.
A flood begins with a single drop of rain, Grasshopper :-)
Stop looking at my signature!
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Post #253,647
4/27/06 2:27:25 PM
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And a drought begins with the last...
jb4
"Every Republican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'."
— an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration
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Post #253,517
4/26/06 4:38:58 PM
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Sun-Times story.
[link|http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-impeach24.html|Chicago Sun-Times]: April 24, 2006
BY TRACY SWARTZ Sun-Times Springfield Bureau
Advertisement
SPRINGFIELD -- Leave it to the Democratic-controlled state Legislature to find an obscure way to attempt to oust President Bush.
State Rep. Karen Yarbrough (D-Maywood) has sponsored a resolution calling on the General Assembly to submit charges to the U.S. House so its lawmakers could begin impeachment proceedings.
It would be the first state legislature to pass such a resolution, though the measure faces a dim future in a Republican-controlled Congress.
"This is absolutely ridiculous," said John McGovern, a spokesman for U.S. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). Only the U.S. House can formally initiate impeachment proceedings.
Yarbrough is hoping to get the U.S. House's attention through her grass-roots effort. She already has picked up two co-sponsors to her legislation, Democratic state Representatives Eddie Washington (Waukegan) and Sara Feigenholtz (Chicago).
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If Yarbrough's resolution passes the General Assembly, it would go to the U.S. House, where it likely would be referred to the Judiciary Committee, said a spokesman for the Committee on U.S. House Administration.
"It's up to that committee to decide what action it will take, if any," committee spokesman Jon Brandt said. "[The resolution] does not, in and of itself, start a process."
[...] It sounds like it has little chance of passing because it's late in the session and it's not clear it will make the floor. (I assume it needs to pass the Illinois Senate too, but there's no mention of it in the story.) I assume that if it did have a chance of passing it would be a much bigger story. Cheers, Scott.
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