The BIG Thursday Show
Now they say, they 'forgot' that the increase will include a transfer to the City's General Fund...oops...
Because of the rate increase, the general fund will get an additional $310,000 annually, the utility says, and that transfer was factored into the rate increase.
***Friend of the Show, State Rep Jim Durkin on McCain in Sneed:
Luck pluck: It was a surprise to state Rep. Jim Durkin, GOP presidential contender John McCain's Illinois co-chair, to find out his candidate is one superstitious fella.
***Did you actually think that Emil's Senate would let the recall amendment move forward??? Without any sense of irony, the Great Exalted President of the Senate Emil Jones berated LTG Quinn for saying that the Senate would stop the recall amendment. Jones actually demanded an apology, which Quinn refused to grant. Then, and still without irony, the Senate Dems prevented the recall amendment from getting out of committee!
***Great column today by George Will regarding The Obama's elite liberalism:
Obama may be the fulfillment of modern liberalism. Explaining why many working class voters are "bitter," he said they "cling" to guns, religion and "antipathy to people who aren't like them" because of "frustrations." His implication was that their primitivism, superstition and bigotry are balm for resentments they feel because of America's grinding injustice. By so speaking, Obama does fulfill liberalism's transformation since Franklin Roosevelt. What had been under FDR a celebration of America and the values of its working people has become a doctrine of condescension toward those people and the supposedly coarse and vulgar country that pleases them.
***From last night's debate, we get another example of how The Obama just doesn't get America or American voters. He can not defend his relationship with an admitted terrorist. He then tries to equate what his friends in the Weather Underground did - bombing the Pentagon and other govt buildings - with what Sen. Tom Coburn has said about abortion. Specifically, The Obama compared his terrorist friends' despicable acts with Coburn saying that perhaps those that conduct abortions should face the death penalty. Here is the sequence from the Debate from the LA Times blog:
The unexpected came when Stephanopoulos, under what he termed "the general theme of patriotism," asked Obama about "a gentleman named William Ayers. He was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings. He's never apologized for that."
Ayers and his even more notorious wife, Bernadine Dohrn, were on the lam ...
from authorities for about 10 years. After various charges against them were either dropped or reduced, they became established parts of the progressive political scene in Chicago (both are college professors).
And they reside in Obama's neighborhood. Stephanopoulos noted that "an early organizing meeting for your state Senate campaign was held" at their house "and your campaign has said you are 'friendly.' "
He asked Obama to "explain that relationship for the voters and explain to Democrats why it won't be a problem?"
Obama, who a moment before had complained about "manufactured" issues, responded: "George ... this is an example of what I've been talking about. This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
"And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense, George."
Obama had made his point and probably would have been well-advised to stop there. Instead, he struck a blow against bipartisanship by mentioning that he is friends with Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who he termed "one of the most conservative Republicans" in the Senate and a politician who "once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions."
Continued Obama: "Do I need to apologize for Mr. Coburn's statements? Because I certainly don't agree with those, either.
"So this kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't."
This guy just doesn't understand.
***Another example of how slow The Obama truly is. This Constitutional professor from the vaunted University of Chicago School of Law doesn't understand what the 2nd Amendment is all about. Gosh, if he had only read the briefs of the Supreme Court case questioning the DC gun ban, maybe he would've had a better answer:
PHILADELPHIA—During last night’s Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Barack Obama gave a nuanced response as to whether he believed a District of Columbia law banning handguns, currently being considered by the U.S. Supreme Court, is consistent with the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
“Well Charlie, I confess, I obviously haven’t listened to the briefs and looked at all the evidence,” the Illinois senator told ABC News anchor Charles Gibson, a comment reflecting Obama’s years as a constitutional law lecturer.
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