Archive for March, 2010
Benedict Arnold. Samuel Mudd. Bart Stupak.
We nominate Bart Stupak for that special place in American history reserved for men who abandon all principles, forsake their countries, their Gods, and their values, and do something unimaginably terrible to bring eternal disgrace upon themselves and all their descendants.
Stupak is particularly ignoble because only a fool would believe a presidential Executive Order will prohibit tax dollars from funding abortions. Executive Orders are not the law.
Stupak and his band of sell-outs always intended to vote for this bill.
Their grandstanding and showboating was all about getting face time in front of all those marvelous cameras. He wanted to be wined and dined and courted.
Perhaps he had one killer crush on the captains of the football, baseball, and wrestling teams in high school. Maybe he spent many a sleepless night curled up in his bed dreaming — HOPING — they’d all ask him to the prom, then devoted the entirety of his adult life to finding some opportunity to be fawned over and seduced the way he wanted to be all those years ago.
Who knows what goes through someone like Stupak’s mind — but it sure looks like he did all of this for attention and drama.
“Me? You want to interview ME? Oh, shucks. Me? My oh my. Stupak’s in demand these days. I’m loving it!” doesn’t seem that far off what we imagine Stupak saying to his staff, loving every last minute of the attention he was lavished.
We really hope every last one of these fakers who claim to be so pro-life are taken to task in a big way once their constituents realize just how much federal money is going to fund abortions when this bill is signed into law. Millions upon millions of babies will be aborted because of Bart Stupak.
They should, in fact, start naming abortion clinics after him.
Even better…just as Benedict Arnold now stands for “traitor” and “your name is Mudd” is a way of telling someone he’s crossed a line and ruined his reputation, forever more whenever anyone abandons his supposedly rock-solid principles in matters like abortion, he should be called a “Stupak”.
“You stupid Stupak!” should be one of the very worst insults in the future.
May this man and all like him never live March 21st, 2010 down, and may voters hold him accountable until the last of his days for what he has done.
Woman who made hideous clothes couldn't be saved by clothes horse without taste.
If you can't dress yourself properly, in a flattering way for your own figure, then how are you going to design for the current First Lady and NOT have her look ridiculous every day?
Maria Pinto, a woman who makes hideous clothes here in Chicago, was certain her salvation rested in the White House, where the First Clothes Horse has the absolute worst taste of any occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in recent memory.
All despite her “fashion icon” status, as given unto her, by herself.
Well, interestingly enough, so few people buy into this “fashion icon” meme regarding the current First Lady that even with all the attention (or is that ridicule) Pinto’s received for designing many of the eye sores Mrs. Utopia parades around in, Pinto’s shop is closing.
And many in Chicago are saying “good riddance”.
This is one of those weird moments when we actually know some of the people involved in a national story and can tell you someone’s getting exactly what she deserved.
Pinto is a rude, crude, and nasty individual — with a diva attitude undeserved considering her lack of design or construction skills. Every year Chicago hosts Fashion Focus, a smaller scale “fashion week” that Mayor Daley started four years or so ago. It’s a time when all Chicago designers come to the forefront, mix, mingle, and showcase the creative vitality of this city.
Let’s just say the main reason Maria Pinto’s shop is closing is neither the economy nor her lack of talent: it’s the way she treats people.
Even in this economy, local Chicago designers who are kind, friendly, and treat people well are thriving — because despite having to cut back on extravagant purchases, loyal clients are still going back to designers and shop keepers who earned loyal followings.
It is no wonder Maria Pinto and Michelle Obama collaborated together on so many heinous ensembles. They are two peas in a big, ugly, belted, paired-with-a-ridiculous-too-tight-sweater, pod.
Pinto’s work will forever live in infamy as the “Black Widow Spider” dress Mrs. Utopia wore on Election Night 2008 — a leftover Halloween costume apparently substituted for a more appropriate, patriotic, America-inspired dress a more experienced designer with better judgment and sense of history would have encouraged the future First Lady to wear.
Instead of her spider costume.
All she did was take the arms off and, bam, she had an Election Night dress she "was proud of for the first time in her adult life"
One of Pinto's most bizarre business decisions was to manufacture thousands of child-size knockoffs of "The Election Night Dress" for small boys, thinking "they just love Michelle Obama and want to dress up like her for all future Halloweens". Apparently, there's an abandoned warehouse in the Loop with crates of these things still lying around.
No tears are being shed for Maria Pinto today, rest assured.
Rationing Watch Open Thread
"And to all before me I bring Chaos. Let all that was be ripped asunder. For I am the Hope and I am the Change, the Lightbringer to cast all before me into darkness".
If you are near a TV or radio and are monitoring events unfolding in the House, please use this thread to update the drama as it unfolds.
Will the Red Queen Nancy Pelosi find the votes she needs to unleash Hell upon this nation?
Will the Blue Queen Obama get his “historic and unprecedented triumph”, and giggle later with his cadre of fellow socialists?
Track what you know is happening out there as best you can. Pound those antacids if you need to. It’s a stomach turning, anxious day for America…with our only real hope being supposedly pro-life Democrats being counted on to stick to their beliefs and vote no to prevent chaos from reigning over all of us.
We’re not holding are breathes on that one.
Question: How much do you allow the government to take out of your check each week?
Here’s something a great many friends have been asking us, ever since the Leftists have pushed for more government control over our lives.
“How many withholdings do you put down for on your W2 forms at work?”.
There are many people we know who no longer want the government to have interest-free loans from them. Instead of allowing the government to take more than it is owed each year, whereby these friends then expect a refund check once they file their taxes, many people we know are restructuring how they fill out their w2s so that they OWE taxes each April…and they just save up a little each month so that they’ll have their tax bill ready precisely on the day it is due. Not a minute before.
“I just want to stop giving them more money than they are entitled to, and then waiting for them to give it back to me. That’s $100 or so a month I could be using to buy food, take my kids to movies, and enjoy life. I am not going to give that to the government interest free anymore so they can just spend it on garbage,” is what one friend told us recently.
Apparently, all you need to do is just put down 12, 14, 16, whatever you want, for your withholdings and then the government takes less out of your check each week…to the point of only being able to take out the bare minimum.
It’s then YOUR responsibility to save up to pay your taxes each April, no longer having that cushion of overpayment and the refund check that would come to you. YOU need to take ownership and be ready to send your tax payment in on time on April 15th.
But, we like doing things this way better.
And we imagine the seismic shock the government would feel if millions of Americans started handling things this way — which we’ll sure you’ll correct us if we are wrong, but in our understanding is perfectly legal.
As long as the government gets its take on April 15th as mandated, then why should it take more than it is due each week from you when you have the power to keep more of your money during the course of the year when you need it, instead of waiting for the government to pay you back what it was never entitled to in a refund?
Question: Why don't you support the Healthcare Rationing bill?
We want to take this opportunity to address a question posed to us on a regular basis on this site, since we campaigned aggressively for Hillary Clinton in 2008 and supported her healthcare plan, but we do NOT support the actions Congress and the current White House have taken to impose Healthcare Rationing on America.
Simply, Obamacare is not the plan Hillary Clinton put forward in the 2008 campaign and it is not what she would have advocated and steered through Congress if she became President.
We do not support the Healthcare Rationing bill that is Obamacare for the following three main reasons:
(1) This bill was created in a corrupt, illegal, rushed, and chaotic process instead of the rational, measured, clean track Clinton would have taken to forge legislation the American public, healthcare industry, and economists would have favored.
(2) This bill is unconstitutional in that it illegally forces Americans to purchase a product and illegally empowers the IRS to become an intrusive, draconian American S.S.
(3) This bill will tank the American economy, potentially crash the stock market, and close hundreds of thousands of businesses across the country — quite possibly plunging us into a Great Depression as people realize just how much this is going to explode our deficit, lower our credit rating, and wipe us out financially.
Hillary Clinton would not have done any of this as president.
She spent over 15 years studying the healthcare situation in this country, having learned many lessons from the mistakes she made in shepherding an unpopular healthcare proposal in the 1990s. Clinton listened to and engaged healthcare professionals, executives, insurance industry representatives, and average Americans to determine what fixes our system really needed. Her primary focus was on LOWERING COSTS, which everyone agreed needed to be addressed in the current healthcare marketplace.
Truth be told, we thought her plan lacked the key element of healthcare reform no Democrat president would ever advocate, and that is TORT REFORM. Clinton, being a Democrat, would never make a move against the trial lawyers, because trial lawyers fund the DNC. Accepting that reality, and the fact tort reform will only come under Republicans, we supported Clinton’s plan because it was structured to pay for itself and not explode our deficit.
Clinton planned to manage the costs by cutting government waste in other areas — and there is an awful lot of waste to cut.
Instead of doing this, Democrats under Obama created a pork-laden Healthcare Rationing bill that is chock full of bribes. It is less a healthcare bill than the Christmas wish lists of greedy, self-serving Democrats, who cobbled together every lux dream they ever had for personal enrichment and stapled all the pages together into “a healthcare bill”.
There is no way Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson’s bribes would have been in a bill overseen by Hillary Clinton.
Clinton, unlike Obama, would not have abdicated creation of this bill to Congress itself, leaving greedy pigs to their own devices and giving them an unlimited number of pages to fill up with pork to their hearts content.
Call her a control freak, because she kind of is in many ways, which we think is a good thing. Hillary Clinton is a workhorse not a show pony. Instead of trapsing off on extravagant trips and vacations, and hosting star-studded cocktail parties every other day, Clinton would have had her nose to the grindstone, as usual, working hard to craft legislation that achieved all of her priorities without bankrupting the country.
Instead, what we have before us is a legislative monstrosity. Not a single member of Congress knows exactly what’s in this bill or what it will do to our economy.
Reprehensible magic tricks were used to score the economic impact of this beast. Deliberate lies to the American people have been told about its costs. The tick they’ve pulled whereby taxes are collected to pay for this scheme immediately, while benefits won’t begin for years is beyond despicable.
We know small business owners who are going to have to lay off employees or close up shop because of what they see in this bill. Many of these people are just skating by on the margins as it is. The taxes, fees, and penalties in this monstrous bill will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs — at a time when cities like Chicago are suffering with 25% unemployment, if THOSE numbers were accurately reported as well.
On top of all of this is the reality that the Healthcare Rationing bill grants dictatorial powers to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is elevated to near God-status in this bureaucracy. No man or woman in government should be given the power to decide who lives and who dies, by determining what procedures should be covered by insurance and who can receive medical care. That is the most un-American thing we have ever heard of, and it terrifies us to imagine someone as inept, incompetent, and downright ignorant as Kathleen Sebelius assuming those powers as Health and Human Services Secretary.
We love and trust Hillary Clinton, but we wouldn’t give that kind of power to her either. It’s just too dangerous. There isn’t, in fact, anyone on this Earth we would give so much authority over the lives and deaths of millions of people. It is a recipe for catastrophic disaster, considering, as noted, the regularity of incompetence in the H&HS Secretaries this nation has been burdened with.
More terrifying than that is, of course, the prospect of the IRS becoming an American S.S. — with 20,000 or so new agents, banging on doors, bursting into homes demanding your “papers!” to prove you have complied with the unconstitutional requirement to purchase a product from a private company.
It is unconstitutional for federal agents to enforce a requirement for an American to purchase ANYTHING.
What concerns us with this bill is the precedent it sets.
If today the IRS forces you to buy health insurance you don’t want, will the IRS force you to buy a case of Coke tomorrow — should Coke make enough donations to the DNC that its executives in Atlanta buy the right to force Americans to buy another product, namely their battery acid tasting soda pop? Liz Claiborne is a big Democrat donor too. Will every man, woman, and child be forced to carry a purse soon? Will the Left decide everyone would have a much better life if all citizens were required to purchase the new Matt Damon movie on DVD? When the government starts requiring people to purchase items against their will, we slip down a rabbit hole into a dystopian nightmare that reads like bad Phillip K. Dick.
The IRS has too much authoritative power as it is.
The government has no Constitutional right to require citizens to buy anything.
It’s that simple.
In their zeal to pass something they call “historic Healthcare Reform” — anything — Democrats have paid far too little attention to the impact this madness is going to have on our economy. We’ve seen the projections for what this is going to do to taxes going forward — it’s terrifying. We’ve also been to Europe many times, to places like Scandinavia, which Liberals believe is a socialist utopia.
We’ll let you in on a little secret. It’s terrible in Sweden. Even the Swedes think so.
Liberal policies and Leftist socialist thought have destroyed Sweden, economically and socially. The ostriches there have no idea why things are so bad and forever worsening. It’s because the taxes are so high and all the “free” things the government doles out like candy has to be paid by SOMEONE. Nothing in this life is free. Costs can be hidden for only so long before they catch up with and overwhelm you.
With this Healthcare Rationing bill, the price will be paid by the elderly, who will lose access to medical care as Medicare is dismantled. The Democrats’ plan flies in the face of even the most basic understanding of supply and demand. When the Red Queen Nancy Pelosi passes this bill and our current president signs it into law, there suddenly won’t be millions of new doctors and nurses to take care of the flood of people demanding medical care they would not have sought if they had to pay for it themselves. It’s going to be a pushing and shoving free for all, and the biggest losers will ironically enough be people too infirm and sick to aggressively fight for the services they need.
We imagine Soviet-style bread lines for services, where people lined up all day not knowing what they were actually in line waiting to buy, or if there’d be anything left to purchase once they got to the counter.
We saw this throughout the socialist paradises of Europe on trips overseas in the 80s. It was not pretty. It is exactly what’s going to happen here with medical care. There is nothing in this Rationing bill to prevent it.
This is perhaps the greatest mistake our government has made in the history of this Republic.
It’s going to bring ruination to all of us.
Pure and simple, economic and medical ruin.
It didn’t have to be this way.
It would not have been this way with Hillary Clinton at the helm.
No one, not even Republicans, believed reform WASN’T needed, but this bill is not reform. It is a hodge-podge of Democrat pet projects and pork spending sprees couched as “healthcare reform”, without any concept of economic reality or a real desire to lower costs and effectively increase medical access to those who need those services most. This is a spending spree on a Swedish scale, with Scandinavian tax burdens to crushingly follow, leading to Soviet-style lines and brutal rationing of services.
It is an inept, ugly, sloppy bill that sets up dictatorial powers for what’s usually an inept, ugly, and sloppy Department of Health and Human Services while morphing the already abusive IRS into the White House’s personal goon squad.
It’s un-American.
It’s dangerous.
It’s unconstitutional.
THAT’s why we don’t support it.
Democrats fire up the Death Star today, not realizing they're going to destroy themselves in the end
The Red Queen Nancy Pelosi is poised today to fire up the Death Star and aim it square at the Constitution and politics as we know it today.
She and her fellow Leftists are at the absolute zenith of their power on this Sunday.
Once she pulls the lever and passes the unconstitutional Healthcare Rationing bill this evening, the Red Queen will perform an act on par with Grand Moff Tarkin ordering the Death Star to fire upon the halcyon haven of Alderaan — using the Empire’s ultimate weapon to obliterate perceived enemies and flex enormous imperial muscle.
The thing is, that act of supreme destruction didn’t work out so well for the Galactic Empire. Neither will the Red Queen’s actions today do any good whatsoever for Democrats going forward.
In the Star Wars saga, using the Death Star crossed a line the Empire never recovered from.
A nascent, seemingly insignificant rebellion came of age the day Alderaan was destroyed. Rebels were born on every planet, in every sector, on every moon, even on the imperial home world itself. Princess Leia herself was steeled from relative innocent and troublemaker into a ferocious rebel commander hellbent on bringing down the Emperor himself and restoring the Republic at all costs.
There will be millions of Leias created by Democrats’ actions today.
More than a few Han Solos and Luke Skywalkers, too.
Because today is the day when any excuses many people use while trying to defend Democrats die — exploded by the ramifications of what the Red Queen is doing in passing a destructive bill that should have been scrapped, a bill Americans do not want. After Democrats pass this monstrosity, there is absolutely no more defending these people. The Rationing Bill is pure socialism. Democrats pushing it are in fact Communists. There is no way to ever undo the damage passage of this bill will do to the Democrat Party.
In this single act, the Red Queen will confirm every bad thought Americans have ever had about Democrats: reckless, tone-deaf, anti-American, anti-Constitution, self-serving, elitist, profligate spenders, corrupt, abusive, COMMUNIST.
The same thing happened to the Empire. Alderaan’s destruction confirmed everything people felt about the oppression and evil of life under the Emperor. It was a psychological jolt felt around the galaxy, the last straw needed to push billions over the edge and into the rebellion.
Politics in America changes today for good.
The mask Democrats have tried to wear since the 1990s, the mask of moderate centrists, is removed today — and much like the gruesome, scarred, bloated face of Darth Vader, Americans are not going to like what they see.
We don’t know how independents, moderates, and conservatives ever trust Democrats with elected office again — not after they’ve passed a bill that’s so blatantly unconstitutional and against public opinion.
Democrats’ real undoing won’t happen until 2011, though.
That’s how long it’s going to take for the ripples of today’s actions to start coming back to haunt the DNC in ways the Red Queen and her band of thugs don’t realize yet.
Republicans will win the House and come damn close to winning the Senate, if not taking both bodies in the November election. We believe the public will remain so incensed over the Rationing Bill that, for once, Republicans will have spine enough to open thorough investigations into every rotten thing Democrats have done in the last two years. This won’t happen until Republicans are handed gavels in the next Congress, but we believe those investigations will be aggressive and far-reaching enough that the 2012 elections will become a referendum on Democrats’ culture of corruption.
We believe all of this, in total, will drive a generation or two away from the Democrat Party.
It’s also going to alienate one of the core Democrat constituencies, senior citizens.
Without independents and the elderly, we don’t see how Democrats manage to win national elections with just blacks, urban elites, liberals, college kids, and gay voters.
Many of you think Democrats’ amnesty schemes to pump millions of illegal aliens into the voting pool is their plan for salvation, but even if that happens Democrats are fools to believe Hispanics will side with them as blindly as blacks do. They might start off as Democrats, but once they start achieving prosperity they vote their economic interests and turn Republican.
So, amnesty for illegal aliens is another Death Star just waiting to blow up in Democrats’ faces as well.
None of this is comforting for anyone who loves this country, of course.
Today is very much like standing on the bridge of a moon-sized battle station and watching a verdant, jewel of a planet smashed to bits by frightening jolts of neon green Death Rays. It’s watching America as we know it stabbed in the heart by a bill we truly believe is illegal and unconstitutional, driven by a party we also believe is doing all of this to tank the economy in order to create a dictatorship and third world style socialist utopia.
When they pass this bill today, Democrats will declare open war on the American people.
They might think they are showcasing how powerful they are, and what they can force through when they try, but in reality all they are doing is sending up a giant call to millions to join the American Resistance…the rebellion against this tyranny…and setting in motion a chain of events that will inevitably lead to the Democrat Party’s own destruction.
BREAKING: Is Louise Slaughter secretly just George Soros in drag?
Is this really George Soros?
Out of drag. Not fooling anyone.
This could honestly shake American politics to its core — but today we ran across a photo of Louise Slaughter that made us wonder.
Is “Louise Slaughter” just a clever alias of George Soros, when he needs to commit his evil deeds in public, in drag. Really, really bad drag.
Terrible drag.
“Louise Slaughter” sure sounds like a name a supervillain would come up with.
“Lou Ease Slauhter”, as in, Soros easily slaughters “Lou”.
L.O.U. could stand for all sorts of things.
Liberty.
Opportunity.
UnitedStates.
So, “Louise Slaughter” is a villain who “slaughters” liberty, opportunity, and the United States. Just like George Soros wants.
In really, really bad drag.
Just a thought.
HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy calls herself "a kind of saint in Ralph Lauren"
Honestly, this forever-child HRH Princess Caroline of Kennedy is just too much.
In a recent interview, she complains about the public’s reaction to her spoiled, tantrum-heavy power grab for Hillary Clinton’s vacated Senate seat, insisting her “mystique” was stolen from her and that she was “a kind of saint in Ralph Lauren” unfairly treated by “(her) public”.
She goes on to complain about how disrespectful people are to the Kennedy Family in general, but herself in particular.
“The one time, um, you know, I wanted to give back, they just threw me to the wolves…I realize that I have lost my mystique. I miss the days when I was that mysterious yet humble girl-child-grown woman…I belong to the people and yet, uh, um, I was, like you know, expected to celebrate and grieve in public. I was an icon. American royalty”.
Then there’s an interlude where she reminisces about a puppy Khrushchev got for her her, and how she loves listening to Neil Diamond on her iPod, “because he wrote that song all about me. Nobody wrote any songs about Kirsten Gillibrand ’cause, you know, nobody knows who that is. Neil Diamond wrote that song ’bout ME. ME. ME!”.
Helga, her long-suffering maid, ultimately dragged Princess Caroline away from the cameras, “for her own good”, tricking Princess with news “that Bergdorf’s just got a shipment of shiny things (you) don’t own yet”.
Princess perked right up after that.
The “trick” being that Princess owns everything in Bergdorf’s already. She, in fact, bought the entire store round about 1998 or so. What’s on the shelves currently are just things Bergdof’s picks up from the back entrance to the Kennedy Penthouse high above Manhattan every morning, so that Princess can “buy” them again later that day, never realizing she owns all of those things to begin with.
“It’s just easier on everyone than maintaining an actual warehouse and distribution system theses days,” Bergdorf’s manager Renne Dubois noted. ”She’s practically the only customer we have left, in this economy, who throws money around like that, and she never does remember what she buys, so her staff just shows up with three U-Hauls full of expensive junk in the morning, she swirls in screaming GIMME! GIMME! GIMME! at the crack of noon, really tearing up the place, and then trots off to lunch at Pastis while all of her loot heads back o the Penthouse, where she’ll forget about it all tomorrow. Then, we pretty much just start all over again. Been doing this for going on ten years or so now and she’s not caught on yet”.
It is beyond creepy how much Princess loves a song written about her as a pre-pubescent child by a sick old man with an inappropriate crush on her.
Next time you are in New York, be sure to swing by Bergdorf’s where you can hear it blaring for hours, on repeat, during Princess’ shopping sprees!
So good! So good! So good!
Ba-ba-bum!
Could Obama Presidential Library Be Built in Iolani Palace in Hawaii?
There are resolutions underway in Hawaii to build the Obama Presidential Library on Oahu once the current president’s term ends in January 2013.
We do not believe for a minute the current First Family will return to Chicago once they’re booted from the White House.
For a number of reasons, including the cold, but mainly because it will be too humiliating for him to return here, to Chicago, after his defeat, back in the same neighborhood in Hyde Park where he’d be surrounded by all the old kooks and lunatics who helped him rise meteorically to where he is now. Crashing back down to Earth will be hard, and it doesn’t seem like he’ll ever need any of the whackadoodles like William Ayers, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, Bernadine Dohrn, or the rest of Chicago’s motley crew of miscreants ever again.
Also, that mansion convicted felon Tony Rezko helped Dr. Utopia buy will seem mighty small after the White House. Especially since Michelle’s mother, Mrs. Robinson, will probably still be living with them. That woman, in particular, has grown quite fond of having servants come running whenever she rings her silver bell, and the Rezko Mansion is too small for that sort of largesse.
We’ve joked before that we think Dr. Utopia will try to hole up in Iolani Palace in Honolulu once he’s out of office, nursing his wounds Nixon style in warm exile a world away from the Windy City.
Michelle and her mother would love it there. No one currently resides in the building. It’s one of the few places on Earth large enough to contain the Obamas’ combined egos. The only other alternative we can think of is Versailles, but after the way this president has been treating the French, and President Sarkozy in particular, that doesn’t seem like an option. Besides, it gets cold there. This is a First Family, you remember, that insists the White House thermostat be kept at a sweltering 79 degrees in the dead of winter — so hot the candles on the older chandeliers wobble and sweat from the heat, in a building that wasn’t designed to be kept as a sauna.
Chicago’s failed Olympics bid included a scheme to re-use the land the temporary Washington Park stadium occupied in the drawings as the site of the Obama Presidential Library, once the Games were over. That means his Library wouldn’t have started construction until more than three years after he left office, seeing as how Chicago vied for the 2016 Games and Obama’s solitary term ends in January 2013. So, we never believed Chicago’s scheme was going to work out.
We also wonder if Mayor Daley really and truly wants the Obama Library in Chicago.
This is DALEY’S fiefdom.
There’s Daley Bicentennial Park. The Daley Center. Daley Plaza.
When this current Mayor dies, we’re sure something even more enormous will be named after him — perhaps Millennium Park will be renamed “Daley Millennium Park”, which would actually have our support, since he did in fact conceive the project and bully everyone imaginable into making it happen. Kudos to him for that, and we mean it. It’s our favorite thing about Chicago.
Why would an egomaniac like Richard Daley actively court a rival attraction like an Obama Library and Museum?
It just doesn’t fit with how things are done in Chicago…and isn’t in keeping with Obama’s own need to be worshipped.
It’s our belief he’ll try to maintain and expand his cult of personality after leaving office. Plus, as a disgraced one-term president, he’ll also be desperate to justify his presidency, which will require a great deal of public speaking and endless presentations reminded everyone of his glory. For all of this to happen, we believe he’ll want to live close to wherever his Library is, the way Jimmy Carter practically sleeps in the replica of his Oval Office at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
So, we believe the Library will be built less than 30 minutes away from wherever the Obamas move to post-White House.
Everything fits, with this logic, for that Presidential Library to go to Hawaii. More likely than not, a futuristic I.M. Pei glass monstrosity will be built for this purpose — something hanging over the water, in a circular shape like Obama’s personal brand, his campaign “O” emblem. Pei is the architect behind the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, which he built to look like a giant record player floating on a harbor of Lake Erie. We picture something similar for Dr. Utopia, with smurf-blue windows and a childlike fixation on using as much campaign branding as possible on a building that will look anachronistic and pathetic before most of the paint’s dried.
“I’m proud of buildings for the first time in my adult life,” we’re sure Michelle will growl, under her breath, as President Palin dedicates the building somewhere in 2015 or so.
But, we’re sure Michelle would be much more proud of the Library were just built right into Iolani Palace itself, ripping out whatever Hawaiian history got in the way of her ambition, the way Michelle said she wanted to scratch President Clinton’s eyes out during the 2008 primary campaign. We can’t imagine her being any more classy as a former First Lady than she is currently, or how she was on the campaign trail, but we’ll have to wait a few years to see what she really does on the Library’s dedication day. We don’t plan on ever visiting that place, so we’ll just have to read about it on the Internet or watch it on FOX or CBS — since we don’t believe MSNBC, NBC, or possibly even CNN will be around by then.
Whether Hawaii wants these people or this Library or not, we think that’s where the Obamas are headed.
Whoever is writing these resolutions asking for the Library is really very smart — because then they can say “See, I made this happen!”.
Though, honestly, it’s been really obvious to everyone since November 4th, 2008 where this Library would one day be built. All of us on the ground here in Chicago knew that once the Obamas tasted life in the White House, they would not deign to return to Chicago. They host lavish parties every night now, which they can’t do in the Rezko Mansion.
But, just imagine what opulence they could get up to at Iolani Palace!
Even Michelle might crack a smile every week or two then.
Treguna Mekoides Tracorum Satis Dee.
Sebastian’s grandmother, Irma Gray, was very much like the Angela Lansbury character in “Bedknobs & Broomsticks”.
Outwardly, she was a little old lady, prim and proper, always dressed appropriately and polite and kind to everyone she ever met. She lived to be 83, and wore a pair of jeans for the first time the day before she died. ”There. Now I’ve tried and done everything,” she said to her grandson, in what would be the last visit he ever had with her. Well-organized and considerate to the last, she spent that last day giving away all of her possessions, awarding the nurses on her hospital floor all manner of crocheted treasures she’d been making during her hospice stay. It’s as if she knew exactly the moment she was going to die, and had been ready for it for years.
She was never late for anything. She was never a burden or hassle for anyone. She approached death the same way she treated packing for one of her extended trips to Europe, knowing exactly what she needed to do before having her trunks loaded onto the QE2 or packed onto the Concorde.
It was on that last, punctual, well-planned day that she made Sebastian promise he’d do everything he could to help Hillary Clinton when she ran for president. ”They’ll try to stop her, like they always do, but you go all-in for her, like I would if I was still here. You fight for her, and you fight your hardest always for good people and for this country. Do not disappoint me young man.”
Her gray eyes sparkled like Athena’s, with all the mischief and magic of a woman who spent over eight decades absolutely fucking with people who deserved to be fucked with.
“Oh, don’t you dare skimp on the word “fuck” where it’s appropriate, Sebastian. None of that mamby-pampy PC nonsense. You fuck those fuckers when they need to be fucked, and if they have a problem with it, well they can take things up with me, and hopefully whatever army of ghosts and angels I can assemble to my side”.
Irma Gray was an absolute force of nature. Her hair still as black as night right up until the end, her cheeks forever rosy, she looked like Disney’s Snow White but carried herself with all the bearing of that film’s enchanting Queen.
You simply did not mess with Irma Gray.
Not if you didn’t want to lose and be humiliated by a little old lady beating you nine ways to Sunday, at everything from Trivial Pursuit to electioneering. When the idiots of Cleveland wanted to tear down the historic theaters on Playhouse Square to make room for more parking lots, Irma announced “Over my dead body” and rallied her friends and neighbors to save those theaters — getting Jackie Kennedy herself involved and tipping the scales for the side of good. Every summer and winter she went somewhere in Europe, behind the Iron Curtain, and gave money, clothes, candy, rock and roll records, and whatever else she could think of to help the people fighting Communism stick it to their Soviet masters. She held fundraisers and events for every good politician in Ohio, and had people like Stephanie Tubbs Jones over for dinner, because she, too, was excellent at sticking it to people who deserved it and playing successful head games with her opponents. It’s no wonder they were friends.
What would Irma do? is a question we ask ourselves all the time.
She died without ever seeing the 21st Century, so we doubt she had any inkling of what the Internet could be.
She never sent or received an email, but used to get hundreds of Christmas cards. She still, in fact, got fan letters from the handful of silent pictures she made in the 20s, when she rebelled against her Victorian family and ran off to Hollywood “to have some damn fun”. There she met a would-be Western star, struggling as a stunt man, and brought “Tucson Joe” back to Cleveland much to the chagrin of her parents…but to the delight of all of us here because roughly 40-some years later, our own Sebastian was born as a result. ”Arizona Irma and Tucson Joe” are very much a part of their grandson in every way, and they’ve become very much a part of all of us too, as a result.
On this day, when the Left is assembling in Washington to shred our Constitution, like the Nazis trying to invade England, we can’t help imagining Irma Gray resplendent in Heaven, in one of her marvelous Oleg Cassini shimmering gowns, wearing her most fabulous gems, vorpal sword in hand and great shield of Cleveland held high, summoning the spirits of everyone who loves this Republic to never give up, to never surrender to the Leftists.
Like Lansbury raising suits of armor from the past to stand for England and thwart those Germans, casting the Substitutionary Locomotion spell and “sounding the advance” on her broomstick high above, we just know Irma’s up there, flying high, doing unseen what she did for so long here on Earth.
“Steady on the right. Hold positions in the middle. Victory for America and the Constitution. Head up Sebastian. No tears. No giving up. Use your talents, your voice, and your reach to hold firm and counter these usurpers wherever you find them. If you work hard, you will win, and you will drive them all back to Hell — where they belong. Now, get to it young man.”
Treguna Mekoides Tracorum Satis Dee.
We are the legacy of all those who raised us. On even our worst days, we’re reminded of the simple fact that we are the opportunity for the very best in all of our lost heroes to live on in us. Be that Irma Gray, Cleveland’s Wonder Woman, or more distant heroes of ours, like Dolley Madison or Abigail Adams or General Washington and Teddy Roosevelt.
James Madison isn’t here today to defend his masterpiece, our Constitution.
Benjamin Franklin isn’t around to reach Americans through humor, wit, and inspired wisdom and rally them to the cause of Liberty.
General Grant and Abraham Lincoln aren’t here to save the Republic.
But we’re here. You’re here.
The sons, daughters, grandchildren, great-great grandchildren, and legacy of so many marvelous Americans are all here.
THIS IS OUR TIME TO STAND TALL FOR AMERICA AND RALLY TO ITS DEFENSE.
This is OUR WATCH.
All those great people who came before us did their parts when their time came…and now we must do ours.
If Democrats succeed in forcing through their economy killing and nation ruining measure today, we must work double-time in the coming months to drive all loons voting for this bill out of Congress, like snakes from Ireland, or Nazi invaders in Bedknobs & Broomsticks.
We’ll use the weapons available to us: our humor, our essays, this site, our networks, our connections, and our insight into how Americans can defund the Democrat Party and cripple its agenda. We will not stop until the DNC is permanently dismantled, with the Earth sufficiently salted so those Leftists cannot rise again for a generation or two.
We’ll then have to hope and pray your children and grandchildren will take up the torch and lift their own vorpal swords deep into the future when America needs them, too.
If a little bit of the wonder that was Irma can be somehow magically passed onto them, by way of a bunch of gay guys in Boystown Chicago, through you, because of this site and America can benefit from it years after we are gone…well, that’s truly marvelous. It makes us want to work harder to ensure that indeed happens.
We can’t tell you what’s going to transpire today.
We don’t know what tomorrow will bring.
But, this is our watch…and we were trained by the best…so trust us when we say we will not give up on America…we will not rest until whatever the Left does today is repealed and all voting for it are driven from Congress…we will not stop until the DNC is bankrupt, broken, and exposed as the Communist front it really has become.
For Irma.
For the Republic.
For America.
For your children and grandchildren.
This we promise.
