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Michelle Malkin: The Real Housewives of Crook County
Townhall ^ | December 17, 2008 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 12/16/2008 11:21:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Cable television introduced us to "The Real Housewives of Orange County" -- an estrogen-infused reality show featuring a coven of conniving and ambitious women living pampered lives in Southern California. Blago-gate has brought us something even juicier: The Real Housewives of Crook County, Illinois. The public may be wearying of indicted Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the Chicago boys' club, but the conniving and ambitious women behind the scenes of the corruption scandal are a must-see political drama all their own.

Mrs. Blago, the former Patti Mell, won the hearts of old-school thugs everywhere with her f-word-filled rants captured on FBI wiretaps, some of which were colorfully detailed in the criminal complaint against her hubby last week. It's old news to folks in Chicago, but the woman who masquerades as a sweet gubernatorial spouse dedicated to children's advocacy is a cutthroat wheeler-dealer in heels who schemed with the gov to fire pesky editorial writers and get herself placed on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the president-elect's pick to the Senate. First Lady by day, Dragon Lady by night.

Potty-mouthed Patti is the daughter of famed Democratic Chicago Alderman Richard Mell. Hardball ward politics runs in her blood. "Pay to play" is the family way. As a high-powered realtor, the Chicago Tribune reported, Mrs. B. raked in more than $700,000 in commissions on business deals after Hot Rod began raising money in 2000 for his first gubernatorial campaign. The feds have been investigating for years.

Close political observers are waiting for the other shoe to drop on Mrs. B. -- or be used as leverage to force her hubby, to whom she has been fiercely loyal (to the point of alienating Daddy), to 'fess up.

Corrupto-convict and Barack Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko was one of Mrs. B.'s biggest clients of the last decade. Behind him stood his housewife-in-hot-water, Rita, who whiled away some of her time as a patronage appointee to an obscure Cook County government board before getting entangled in the land swap couples' deal between her husband and the Obamas -- the one the president-elect called "boneheaded." On Tuesday, Rezko's sentencing was postponed, suggesting he'll be singing even more to the feds.

Michelle Obama was apparently friendly with the sordid sorority, according to Chicago Magazine. Writer James Merriner reported on a fashion show/political back-scratching gala chaired by Mrs. Rezko and co-chaired by Mrs. Blago two days before the November 2006 elections:

"Michelle Obama, wife of the Democratic U.S. senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama, was a special guest that day (even though the news had just broken about Rezko's participation in a funky real-estate transaction involving the Obamas' Hyde Park home). The fashion show attracted little if any media coverage, which may have been exactly as its organizers and sponsors had hoped. Just three weeks earlier, Tony Rezko had been indicted on charges of extorting kickbacks from businesses seeking contracts from the Blagojevich administration."

Then there's Anita Mahajan, wife of Chicago Mutual Bank owner Amrish Mahajan. Hubby is the Obama supporter and Blago fundraiser who handled that boneheaded Obama land deal and loaned cash to Rezko. Mrs. Mahajan hired Mrs. Blago to sell properties for her. In 2007, Mrs. Mahajan was indicted on fraud charges related to a contract from the state Department of Children and Family Services -- awarded to her by the Blagojevich administration. Prosecutors say she bilked taxpayers out of $2.1 million. For the children, of course.

Democratic women have long played the feminist card in arguing that their chromosomes make them cleaner candidates. The real housewives of Crook County definitively disprove the theory.

Behind every crooked Chicago pol, there's an even sharper-clawed wife. It's in their political DNA. Don't let the lipstick and perfume bleeping fool you.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: bho2008; blago; blagojevich; bleepgate; corruption; crookcounty; democrats; michelleobama; obama; pattiblagojevich; pottymouthedpatti; pottymouthpati; rats
But we're supposed to believe that Barry and Michelle strode through this cesspool and never even got a spot of doo-doo on their $1,000 Italian shoes? Do they think we're all idiots?
1 posted on 12/16/2008 11:21:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Do they think we're all idiots?

Why, yes, they do!

2 posted on 12/16/2008 11:29:12 PM PST by erkyl (The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, stay neutral)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

> Do they think we’re all idiots?

No, just a majority.


3 posted on 12/16/2008 11:39:30 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sure these Democrat wives are trophy wives out in public but behind the scenes are vicious cats. No wonder why their men end up straying.


4 posted on 12/16/2008 11:47:22 PM PST by deannadurbin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
USA of the Chicago way way way way way!!!!


5 posted on 12/17/2008 12:13:40 AM PST by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism and BO is a WHINING marxist)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mrs. Blago, the former Patti Mell, won the hearts of old-school thugs everywhere with her f-word-filled rants captured on FBI wiretaps, some of which were colorfully detailed in the criminal complaint against her hubby last week. It's old news to folks in Chicago, but the woman who masquerades as a sweet gubernatorial spouse dedicated to children's advocacy is a cutthroat wheeler-dealer in heels who schemed with the gov to fire pesky editorial writers and get herself placed on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the president-elect's pick to the Senate. First Lady by day, Dragon Lady by night.

Filth.

6 posted on 12/17/2008 12:39:11 AM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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"Pure as the driven snow.......no one in Chicago even comes close."

7 posted on 12/17/2008 2:03:56 AM PST by Liz (The right to be left alone is the beginning of freedom. USSC Justice William O. Douglas)
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Mrs. Blago, the former Patti Mell, won the hearts of old-school thugs everywhere with her f-word-filled rants captured on FBI wiretaps, some of which were colorfully detailed in the criminal complaint against her hubby..... It's old news to folks in Chicago, but the woman who masquerades as a sweet gubernatorial spouse dedicated to children's advocacy is a cutthroat wheeler-dealer in heels who schemed with the gov to fire pesky editorial writers and get herself placed on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the president-elect's pick to the Senate. First Lady by day, Dragon Lady by night.

"Mmmmmmm....I just love it when Patty talks dirty."

" I don't even have to take Levitra once Patty mouths off."

8 posted on 12/17/2008 2:09:41 AM PST by Liz (The right to be left alone is the beginning of freedom. USSC Justice William O. Douglas)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The woman is trash, spelled with a capital F.


9 posted on 12/17/2008 3:50:56 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But we’re supposed to believe that Barry and Michelle strode through this cesspool and never even got a spot of doo-doo on their $1,000 Italian shoes? Do they think we’re all idiots?

Well sure. Enough idiots voted for them to take the Whitehouse so why would they not thiink that we are all idiots?


10 posted on 12/17/2008 4:22:03 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Vet,

Just as a courtesy and respect to Townhall.com (who is one of the good guys), shouldn’t you excerpt the Malkin article to make people go there to read the whole thing? It hurts Townhall.com traffic numbers and costs them money. If we don’t enforce these kind of practices ourselves, they could be enforced on JimRob instead.

And thanks for bring this one to our attention. God Bless and Oohrah


11 posted on 12/17/2008 7:20:01 AM PST by bpjam (GOP is 3 - 0 in elections after Nov 4th. You Can Smell the Rally !!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Real Housewives of Crook County

LOL! finally, a FR worthy headline. WTG Mrs. Malkin!
12 posted on 12/17/2008 7:32:19 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life ;o)
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The real housewives in happier days.

13 posted on 12/17/2008 7:34:57 AM PST by They'reGone2000 (<--- Forwarding address: Galt's Gulch)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, they seem to have been right that at least enough of us are.


14 posted on 12/17/2008 10:58:35 AM PST by AmericanVictory
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anita Mahajan. Looks like she could swear a truck driver under the table.

15 posted on 12/17/2008 12:49:29 PM PST by redstates4ever ((Liberalism is a mental disorder.))
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