Posted By: Michael Sweeney
July 5, 2009
What a delightful 233rd birthday gift for the (lately) at-times tired, wheezing, what-the-hell-comes-next? United States of America (however, still the best idea AND reality of a nation in the history of the world) (see, ya RW nutjobs – we Libs absolutely love our country, too…just—generally – more intelligently and less blindly…): The resignation of Sarah Palin as Governor of Alaska…and, therefore, the END – no question about it, whatsoever – of her effective political career.
See ya later, ya QUITTER!!!
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Posted By: Michael Sweeney
June 27, 2009
It was a bit of no-surprise, "Well, finally!" sports news that hit last week – before getting buried by the troika of heavy-burning Gov. Sanford foreign affair / Farrah Fawcett long-anticipated R.I.P. / "King of Pop" completely unexpected death headlines. In fact, the semi-perfect (accidental and incidental) timing meant that, in most places, the word that former Cub Sammy Sosa had allegedly tested positive for some performance-enhancing drug (PED) – likely steroids – several seasons back faded away pretty quickly.
…But not here in Chicago – not where he had long patrolled right field and blasted out crowd-pleasing homers (on his way to 6th place on the all-time list, at 609 total home runs) for the Cubbies...
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Posted By: Mike Rodbard
June 26, 2009
Part 2 of the annual "Crosstown Classic" between the Cubs and the White Sox is upon us yet again. This now-twice-a-year-and-it's-not-really-so-special-anymore "classic" surely has the makings of the snooze-fest the last one brought us.
Our guys, as you know, have been limping this week on the road, losing a 1-game series to Atlanta, and then getting swept in 3 by the Detroit Tigers.
The Sox, in the meantime, seemed to handle the diabolical L.A. Dodgers, best team in the N.L. by the way, quite handily, sans Manny being Manny (boy, that guy is as annoying as his moniker).
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Posted By: Michael Sweeney
June 25, 2009
As Tyler and I discussed on this week’s episode of The Stonecipher Report radio show – and we even sort of dismissed it a bit with some punchlines – respected national political writer Roger Simon had a piece out last week on the 7 things he thought Sarah Palin should do to win the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination. (To which I add, OK – and then likely losing to President Obama by a Mondale- or Goldwater-dwarfing landslide…) The 7 examples he gave mostly consisted of events in two areas – shoring up her at-times ramshackle media and policy dealings AND in being identified as the "true" preferred candidate of the conservative base (albeit a somewhat-steadily shrinking base these days).
Getting Palin more fully studied up on non-Putin-sighting foreign policy and being prepared to list ANY actual news publications she may read or Supreme Court decisions she may agree with is up to her now-and-future staff (and "Good luck!" with that, say both I AND almost all of the McCain ’08 people who had to deal much with her). However, she seems to be getting all the help she can possibly get from the ongoing drop-outs and screw-ups among the moderate, white-man semi-minority in the Republican Party lately…
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Posted By: Mike Rodbard
June 23, 2009
The ex-Cub factor.
We hear about it every year. You know how it goes: There's someone who used to play for the Cubs, and now they don't, and then they spank our beloved North Siders with a wink and a grin and a comment lke, "Gosh, I loved wearing the Cubbie pinstripes. I really thought I'd end my career in Chicago."
Uh, right.
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Posted By: Michael Sweeney
June 22, 2009
In case you may have missed this last week, we had a special "guest" on The Stonecipher Report radio show…(BTW, we’ll be back on today, available over the air or via the Internet...on Monday, June 22, from 3:00 - 4:00 PM Chicago time on WHPK-FM, 88.5 FM…and, of course, you can also hear us online at WHPK.org, streaming live from 1:00 - 2:00 PM on the West Coast, 4:00-5:00 PM on the East Coast (just click the "Listen" tab or the "We are STREAMING" window on the station's website)).
...So, here’s a very special transcript of the fascinating interview I did on Tuesday with "Billy Jeff," a very famous political man of the ‘90s (and beyond) whose voice you would all find familiar (as long as the impression didn’t fail TOO much)…Enjoy!
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Posted By: Michael Sweeney
June 20, 2009
Man, you spend a couple of late-spring weeks guiltily watching a former Illinois First Lady tough it out in a jungle reality television show (that, plus a ton of baseball), and – suddenly – when you turn back around to the local political headlines, you find that nearly everything has gone a bit topsy-turvy.
Continue reading "Who’s In, Who’s Out, What’s Next? – Chicago / Illinois Politics a Bit Up in the Air" »
Posted By: Michael Sweeney
June 19, 2009
Note: This piece is cross-posted at Eyes on Obama
An interesting bit of news hit the web last night (and – no, no – it WASN’T the speculation over whether GOP Sen. John Ensign of Nevada was outing his own affair with a staffer to either A) Derail a blackmail attempt or B) Empty his closet of skeletons prior to a 2012 Presidential run):
(CNN) — National Republicans — miffed over ABC News' decision to broadcast a primetime special featuring President Obama making the case for his healthcare proposal — are looking to raise $100,000 to hit the airwaves with their own healthcare reform proposal…
"ABC News will be promoting Obamacare at virtually every opportunity, from ‘Good Morning America’ to ‘Nightline,’ and reach from ABC News' Web sites all the way to the White House's East Room," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele writes in an e-mail titled "URGENT" to supporters Thursday…
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