Posted on 04/17/2015 12:50:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
6) The Republicans in Congress have squandered the mandate given to them in 2014. The cynical among us might even go so far to say GOP Congressional “leaders” have spit in the collective eye of the coalition that elected them. This will not bode well for Republican Presidential, or Congressional, prospects in 2016, reagardless of who ultimately wins the nomination.
I get the impression that Mr. Rasmussen is just another face among many low-information voters, voters who were never taught about the federal governments constitutionally limited powers.
I wish that election 2016 was all about repealing the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.
Go away, Rasmussen. Your abysmal polling in 2012 did everyone a disservice. You’re a hack. Just go away.
I’m don’t think I agree with #5.
did Hillary stop in the Illini state on the way to the Hawkeye state ?
Vandalia is my favorite spot.
I regret I never got to visit the IA cities on the river. But I recall Cairo, ILL.
Hillary theme song, Chicago native:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ0JgqoF2W4
There were no sightings here in Indiana either and I’m sure the road trip had to include it.
>>>>>>At length, upon the morning of the third day, we arrived at a spot so much more desolate than any we had yet beheld
At the junction of the two rivers lies a breeding place of fever, ague, and deathvaunted in England as a mine of golden hope and speculated in on the faith of monstrous representations, to many peoples ruin. A dismal swamp on which half-built houses rot away, teeming with rank, unwholesome vegetation in whose baleful shade the wretched wanderers who area tempted thither droop and die and lay their bones; the hateful Mississippi circling and eddying before it,
a slimy monster, hideous to behold, a hotbed of disease, an ugly sepulcher, a grave uncheered by any promise; a placer without a single quality in earth or air or water to commend it; such is the dismal Cairo. <<<<<<<<<<
wow. I tend to give people the benefit of doubt on their towns, but Dickens is a talented writer.
Maybe I like dismal places.
It’s a very sad place, and largely devoid of people. Where there were once rows of 19th century architecture, both business and residences, are now open fields. The “downtown” itself has almost been completely demolished. I’ve been there twice in the ‘90s and many of the buildings I photographed are grassy fields now. It’s a damn shame, since it ought to be a premier rivertown destination at the junction of our two great rivers, the Mississippi & Ohio. So much is gone there that there’s almost nothing “historic” left.
It still remains a county seat (since there’s no town of any size left in Alexander County), but they demolished their stunning old courthouse for an ugly new one some decades ago. They do have a pretty federal building and a mansion several blocks away to tour, but the time for preservation should’ve been 4-5 decades ago when other rivertowns like Cape Girardeau and Galena did so. Anything else would have to be reconstructed.
See The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit for a fictionalized version. It’s harrowing.
7) The repeal of Husseincare part 3.
I forgot to mention ... I was there in Cairo on the invite of Paul Simon. Not the singer. It was the last time I saw Paul. Poor guy.
In my previous lifetime. Before I became a partisan.
When was this ? Presumably he was still in the Senate at the time.
he was da congressman from IL 22, Southern ILL.
That would put it in the 98th Congress 83-84, that’s the Congress when I was born.
Bow-tied freak. Did you get a load of his daughter? Zero question of paternity there.
Are there any pics online of the old courthouse?
He was Congressman prior to his service in the Senate (and after he served as Lt Governor (1969-73) under Republican Gov. Ogilvie — it was Simon and not Dan Walker who was expected to face Ogilvie in 1972. Simon was the Combine choice, Walker was not, and Walker scored an upset over Simon in the Dem primary and over Ogilvie in the general after the latter implemented the IL Income Tax, ending his Presidential aspirations).
So I presume somewhere between 1975-85 you were in Cairo ? A good bulk of it was still standing 40 years ago, although the old courthouse and the hotel where U.S. Grant stayed during the Civil War was gone by then.
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