Posted on 01/28/2011 10:13:58 AM PST by PBRCat
Rahm will be elected mayor in February and by June he will be calling up his old boss Barack and asking for a bailout.
They have set a standard. What are they going to do when the next case comes up that sites this ruling?
what a joke this whole scheme is. Tax laws, property laws and even criminal law don't apply to the apparatchik only to us commoners.
Just think what would happen if you got drunk/stoned and were in an accident in DC. How about protesting the placement of windmills? Care to pull a weapon in Washington DC like a Washington Post writer did at his home.... don't try it. and on and on and on.
There are so many laws and "rules" and "regulations" pertaining to taxes, properties and personal behavior that now we are at the mercy of the bureaucrats and the courts.
f'#@k 'em. They don't want ANY personal sacrifice to save for yourself, because the harder you work the more taxes you pay and whatever you wanted to purchase is just out of reach. The thing that nobody says is the TIME you spend away from family in order to make up for the higher taxes. The parasite class gets to sit on their asses, watch the tube and get high/drunk while the rest of us pay for their medical care and deny our family any of our hard earned money and time.
This is my frustration with the flouting of laws and protocols. If you're not cheating, you're not trying.... I guess. I am making the minimum and stopping. Paying what bills I have and then I'm OTC. If any FReepers want to spread the word, just don't buy anything that is non essential for the next 11 months. NOTHING. I'm advocating for everybody to just go Galt.
End of story.
Even I don't wish to see the City of Chicago fall to the ground and vanish ~ at least not yet ~ but that's what is going to happen if any of the quite numerous totally incompetent idiots running in their Democrat primary end up with the nomination.
Rahm, for all his evilness, is probably about as sharp a blade as Chicago has ever had involved in local politics.
There's nothing wrong in this country having smart guys run City Hall. There's a lot wrong having another Kwame Kirkpatrick anywhere near the place. Or, a Jack Johnson, a former Prince George's County Executive who was dragged off to the lockup for corruption. His wife is under scrutiny too ~ she's on the County Board (PG County is possibly the largest and richest black community in America, so this is series, and hugh).
Frankly, absent Rahm there's no chance at all for Chicago to ever get beyond a remarkably high level of graft and corruption.
the State of Illinois is nothing more than Goodfellas or The Sopranos, with taxing authority
If it's someone they are told that the demonRAT machine wants, they will cite this decision, if not, they will ignore it and set yet another new precedent, no logic, no problem.
It's always different if you're a demonRAT.
rahm IS a remarkably high level of graft and corruption. Thes best thing that could happen to chicago is to become the next Detroit. the businesses can relocate to more republican venues. The welfare class can be left behind
So, being an absentee Landlord with no other place to stay, makes you a resident of the city. Owning property is equal to being a resident. ...never knew that.
The had to reinstate him on the ballot because the votes have already been counted.
puhleeze. I think that Rahm is an angry little gay man that would love nothing more than to squeeze every nickel he could out of his enemies and has nobody but his own self interests in mind. He's not going to "save" Chicago. Nothing is. Chicago has to decide when is it going to be enough. When is the cynicism that the "whatever it takes" mentality going to be left for the patriotic and selfless service to country and family. Never. It's a mindset. It's a way of life. I've discouraged all 4 of my kids from that type of liberal mindset that "the government" can solve problems and have tried to instill the fact that if you want to be a slave, take money from the government.
If you want to be chained to a bureaucrat, feeding the parasites and basically selling your soul...take something from the government or expect the government to solve a problem. The government is has basically become a crony organization to steal money from the producers and give it to the useless class that suck off the government nipple and the bureaucrats that milk the money out of us.
My son will not join his 5 uncles, grandfather and father into the armed forces. Only if we check the weather channel and Hell freezes over. Neither will any of my daughters.
If I could have one wish, it would be for the US to kick Texas out of the Union and run the rest of the USA plantation any way it sees fit.
You have to take 20 million Mexicans with you.
I suppose this case could go to federal court ~
Best bet is make them happy enough to stay in place.
Rumor mill has it that Obama’s strategy for 2012 is to run up the count in “the urban areas” because the 2010 numbers show him DOA with rural and suburban voters. Emanuel will be his man on the ground in Chi Town.
Interestingly, one of the supreme court justices coincidentally appointed the wife of one of Emanuel’s lawyers to a vacant judgeship within the last month. Hmmm.
You have got to be kidding. You are kidding, right? A post against Rahm can’t be coming from someone with true conservative convictions? I am so confused by that statement that I really want to know what you think the word “conservative” means. Rahm is an A-Team autocrat liberal insider whose greatest gift appears to be the ability to terrify good people into giving him whatever he wants. No one who opposes the extreme anti-free market, anti-life, anti-American policies of the Obama administration can want to see this guy running Chicago. That’s just nuts.
If your definition of “conservative” is confined to pragmatic skill in “getting things done,” without regard to what those “things” are, then I can somewhat see why you’d like Rahm as ChiMayor, although an argument can be made that a lot of very bad people have great “efficiency” skills.
If, however, your definition of “conservative” entails the principled preservation of the fundamental rights to life, liberty, and property through a government of just laws accountable to the people (as opposed to an insular, corrupt club of moneyed, connected elites), then there is no way you, as a conservative, can want to put that fox in charge of our henhouse. No way.
So please, tell me you’re kidding…..
That's the election that counts.
Whoever wins that wins in the General election.
If you think it's a good idea for 7 million refugees with a high probability of having criminal records spilling out over Northern Indiana, Southern Wisconsin and elsewhere in Illinois, go ahead and root for your girl there ~ the guaranteed nastiest most corrupt female former Senator in the United States.
If Rahm doesn't win it you'll see Chicago riots that make Cairo today look like a small trash fire on a back lot somewhere.
Mitch Daniels will not have all that good a chance of running for President on his record as the most fiscally prudent man in America if he has to send the National Guard and the state police over to the state line to fire on civilian rebels.
Here, think of Rahm as a shot at stability and the others as just more Detroit riots.
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