Late Hits: Why Were Liberal Democrats Raising Money For Darin LaHood?

Timothy P. Carney looks through LaHoods disclosures, old and new, and finds so many nuggets.

It's another battle pitting the K Street wing of the GOP against the Tea Party wing. LaHood's past and his donor list show his close ties with the Beltway lobbyist class.
LaHood first came to office when he was appointed to a vacant State Senate seat a few years ago. In 2011, running for his first full term in the State Senate, LaHood came to Washington for a fundraiser. The fundraiser was hosted by Democratic lobbyist Bernie Robinson, the former chief of staff to liberal Democrat James McGovern of Massachusetts.
Why would a chief of staff for a Massachusetts Democrat throw a fundraiser for a Republican state senate candidate? "Darin is my friend," Robinson said at the time. LaHood had worked in D.C. for years, as a congressional staffer and at the Justice Department. Robinson also has Illinois GOP ties, having been the state's lobbyist in Washington for two years when Republican George Ryan was governor.
Oh, and also Robinson was a transportation lobbyist who was lobbying the U.S. Department of Transportation, at that point run by LaHood's father.
Robinson is a partner at the Livingston Group lobbying firm. Among his practice areas, according to his bio on the firm's website, is "Transportation, Shipbuilding, Shipping and Ports."

It gets worse.

This proximity to K Street and big business is the norm for LaHood.
Comb through LaHood's PAC donors, and you see plenty of transportation PACs: Warren Buffett's BNSF railroad contributed the maximum $5,000 as did Caterpillar. The Union Pacific Corporation's PAC gave $2,500....
LaHood says he would vote against crony capitalism, including the Export-Import Bank, but his FEC filings suggest his donors don't believe that. The PACs for Boeing, Caterpillar, John Deere -- all top Ex-Im beneficiaries --- are all LaHood donors. Sean Mulvaney, who sits on the board of Ex-Im, also donated to LaHood.
K Street is coming out in droves for LaHood. Lobbyist Robinson has donated to LaHood again. Eight lobbyists from the Podesta Group --founded by Obama chief of staff John Podesta and run by John's brother Tony -- have donated to LaHood.

If we can't even win this one, then let's just never bother again.

Posted by: Ace at 09:01 PM

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1 First?

Posted by: DontGetOutMuch at July 02, 2015 09:03 PM (VtXIT)

2 Dos?

Posted by: Weasel at July 02, 2015 09:04 PM (TSMoA)

3 Throughout history, whenever governments became this corrupt and out of touch, everything always ended okay, right?

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at July 02, 2015 09:05 PM (AC0lD)

4 Gee what a surprise.

Posted by: buzzion at July 02, 2015 09:05 PM (z/Ubi)

5 I have to go kiss some paperwork....

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at July 02, 2015 09:06 PM (AC0lD)

6 Just like on 'Eight Is Enough' I'm the last to know.

Posted by: Dick Van Patten at July 02, 2015 09:08 PM (gwG9s)

7 If we can't even win this one, then let's just never bother again.

Unfortunately, that's how I feel as well. We've been back stabbed and treated like dirt so often, I don't think I have the energy to keep fighting the good (losing) fight. I need (and probably the rest of conservative America) nerd a pick me up.

Posted by: crazywalt77 at July 02, 2015 09:09 PM (CglNh)

8 If Flynn can't score against LaHood, a lot of us need to start researching Belize seriously!

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 02, 2015 09:10 PM (ftVQq)

9 Sorry Ace ...

... but it's Dems fighting Pubs. I'm sure the Generals planned this kind of shit against the Globetrotters now and then.

Who's going to save you next ?

You write some really fun to read shit ... but at the end of the day ... you're still just hoping like Hell for that Deux Ex Machina.

Shit could get worse ... you could be on the outside looking in for a bunker.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 02, 2015 09:10 PM (FAbks)

10 Podesta is tight w/Soros - he ran Soros-funded Center for American Progress .

Posted by: Lizzy at July 02, 2015 09:10 PM (NOIQH)

11 _Always the last to know.

Posted by: Ralph at July 02, 2015 09:11 PM (+LunL)

12 Nobody gonna muscle in on our turf.

Posted by: Boyz in LaHood at July 02, 2015 09:11 PM (Ydaoe)

13 I despise establishment republicans far more than democrats. LaHood is a classic example why.

Conservative during primary but k-street whores the second they are elected. My oh my it would be nice to have some representation.

Posted by: Cooldawg at July 02, 2015 09:11 PM (JPJV4)

14 Boy, it's almost like both parties are in a conspiracy against the American people.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at July 02, 2015 09:12 PM (NKghL)

15 Posted by: crazywalt77 at July 02, 2015 09:09 PM (CglNh)

I feel like the conservative outpost has been completely surrounded by vicious unprincipled barbarians and we're low on ammunition.

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 02, 2015 09:12 PM (ftVQq)

16 I feel like the conservative outpost has been completely surrounded by vicious unprincipled barbarians and we're low on ammunition.

Posted by: Hrothgar
****

Wave your nether regions at them!

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at July 02, 2015 09:13 PM (F0Cog)

17 Yes, I am intoxicated and speaking abit of drunkenese.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at July 02, 2015 09:14 PM (F0Cog)

18 Wave your nether regions at them!

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at July 02, 2015 09:13 PM (F0Cog)

Not sure I want to encourage them to "charge"!

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 02, 2015 09:14 PM (ftVQq)

19 Flynn needs to be in contact with every precinct chairman in his district. This is how you get in touch with the people who can sway votes by talking to people they know.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2015 09:14 PM (sSgU3)

20
"If we can't even win this one, then let's just never bother again."

No, and yes, ace.

A race that *should* go a certain way, based on the merits and the candidates, of course often does not (2012, ahemm). So Flynn losing, while it would be a travesty and a disaster for the country, would not be particularly meaningful.

Especially an off-cycle primary. In July.

But yes, in the sense that it is becoming difficult to see how anything really can be turned around - I mean big things - yes things are looking pretty hopeless.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2015 09:14 PM (QDnY+)

21 I feel like the conservative outpost has been completely surrounded by vicious unprincipled barbarians and we're low on ammunition.
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 02, 2015 09:12 PM (ftVQq)

Silver lining: we're NOT low on ammunition.

Posted by: hindmost at July 02, 2015 09:15 PM (6fmIF)

22 I feel like the conservative outpost has been completely surrounded by
vicious unprincipled barbarians and we're low on ammunition.

Hi !!! I'm a Godless Libertarian that hate's Blue Laws and is sitting on a ton of laws. I drink on Sundays.

Need any help ?

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 02, 2015 09:16 PM (FAbks)

23 Is it in the Springfield papers? Peoria papers? If you ain't following this on conservative websites what makes you think people will even know?

Posted by: lowandslow at July 02, 2015 09:17 PM (dItuC)

24 21 Silver lining: we're NOT low on ammunition.

Posted by: hindmost at July 02, 2015 09:15 PM (6fmIF)

Neither are we.

Posted by: every alphabet soup agency under the sun at July 02, 2015 09:17 PM (EHU9F)

25 Dear Ace,
Pitch Fork Time.
Happy 4TH of July

Posted by: July Johnson at July 02, 2015 09:17 PM (/WmRg)

26 Not sure I want to encourage them to "charge"!

Posted by: Hrothgar
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Having been to gay dance clubs, I can assure it takes very, very, little to encourage them.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at July 02, 2015 09:17 PM (F0Cog)

27 Silver lining: we're NOT low on ammunition.

Posted by: hindmost at July 02, 2015 09:15 PM (6fmIF)

I think we will write our own RoE as well!

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 02, 2015 09:18 PM (ftVQq)

28 How in the hell did "ammo" go out as "laws".

Must be the pot and open borders.

Posted by: ScoggDog at July 02, 2015 09:18 PM (FAbks)

29 Neither are we.

Posted by: every alphabet soup agency under the sun
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Two words:
Guerilla warfare

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at July 02, 2015 09:18 PM (F0Cog)

30 I remember a time when a man was real careful about what he promised someone else.

Posted by: July Johnson at July 02, 2015 09:18 PM (/WmRg)

31
What lownslow said ..... we'll see, but as you all know the collapse of the information environment (a functioning press) is a key part of the national degradation

Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2015 09:18 PM (QDnY+)

32 Neither are we.
Posted by: every alphabet soup agency under the sun at July 02, 2015 09:17 PM (EHU9F)

Bring 'em on... I'd prefer a straight fight to all this sneakin' around.

Posted by: Han Solo at July 02, 2015 09:19 PM (6fmIF)

33 Flynn could make a difference, as Boner isn't going to have the margins he's enjoying right now post- 16'.

Could being the key word, as my "conservative" rep from IN-3 changed his vote on the rule for CRomnibus.

Posted by: Cooldawg at July 02, 2015 09:25 PM (JPJV4)

34
Fellas, I've got a decent stock of ammo (and components, though I am amazed the handgun powder shortage continues into its 2nd year). But none of this is going to be settled by ballistics.

Look at the national reaction to the open, almost formal conversion last week of the SCOTUS into a farcical, arbitrary ruling body (Council of Guardians, a la Iran's Shi'a theocracy, is a perfect analogy and slander, think that was McCarthy's).

Right. There wasn't one. He we are. The least accountable part of the federal behemoth usurps authority to arbitrarily impose cultural changes, and also openly declares it is a super-legislature that doesn't judge laws for constitutionality or statutory meaning but actually does mark-ups on them, when it feels like it.

Not saying a majority, or even close, is OK with all of this. But they sit there. Their "representatives", mostly, sit there. Nothing happens. The ratchet turns a few giant clicks. And the hard steel of inertia ensures it ain't clicking back.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2015 09:25 PM (QDnY+)

35 If you really think Flynn should be in Congress, get off your ass on Monday and go to the GoP website for his district and call one of the precinct captains and make your case to them. These are not G-Ds they are simple fecking people and you can get to them.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2015 09:26 PM (sSgU3)

36 Don't kid yourselves, most of you will never give up, because you're not "quitters" despite being pissed off at all the retarded, sir, things that are happening now.

For your kids, your grandkids, the neighbors kids, don't ever give up. In the Dark Ages, there was Ireland. And when it was over, the books the Irish kept safe from darkness were brought out and led to enlightenment.

Humans are often vile and corrupt, but worth redemption, if we can hang on long enough.

Posted by: hmitchell3rd at July 02, 2015 09:29 PM (SzdTw)

37 When you look at the laws that get passed, and how they are enforced, you kinda get the feeling of who really runs the state.

Like casinos for example. Gambling is a recognized vice, and all the proponents who advocated for a state run lottery at ridiculous odds all said it would go no further than that and the take the state would get would go the schools. Ya, sure. And then the casinos were legalized to augment revenue for city and state governments.

Now when you read stories like this one, and see the lines of influence, it's impossible to ignore. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class is getting screwed. So, quick, let's allow in fifty million immigrants to do the work Americans refuse to do, and give them citizenship and the vote.

Posted by: Tommy Linkbetter at July 02, 2015 09:31 PM (XSd0O)

38 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 02, 2015 09:32 PM (KCxzN)

39
Wave your nether regions at them!

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at July 02, 2015 09:13 PM

http://tinyurl.com/ngn3olj

Posted by: bergerbilder at July 02, 2015 09:32 PM (+jijM)

40 6 million people in the D.C. metro area, 300 million in the U.S. and the whole political landscape is run by maybe a thousand greedy fucks all interconnected from both political parties. And these are the fucking people making policy we all suffer under. How we let this happen I don't know.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 02, 2015 09:32 PM (dItuC)

41 Ace you are a bright man, have a wonderful blog, and have a clear idea of the problems. But I don't understand this vacillation with the political system. Just fucking quit. You don't have to play a game you can't win.

Posted by: just saying at July 02, 2015 09:33 PM (wkuqO)

42 So... Darrin "Robbin'" Da K Street Hood?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2015 09:34 PM (QU7W6)

43 Not saying a majority, or even close, is OK with all of this. But they sit there. Their "representatives", mostly, sit there. Nothing happens. The ratchet turns a few giant clicks. And the hard steel of inertia ensures it ain't clicking back.
Posted by: rhomboid

Nothing will change until a great number of people find out what the wages of jealousy, indifference, and ignorance of history cost.

Nothing we here, us weirdos, can do about it. There are no magic bullets, no inbound political heroes, no great awakenings on the horizon.

But yes, we have to fight it. We're bound to honor those that gave their all to keep it going, but I'm under no illusion. Things will get worse before they get better.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2015 09:35 PM (fYgrm)

44 It stinks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 02, 2015 09:35 PM (oZr5y)

45 Wave your nether regions at them!

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at July 02, 2015 09:13 PM

http://tinyurl.com/ngn3olj

Posted by: bergerbilder
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Well you need to be quick about it.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at July 02, 2015 09:36 PM (F0Cog)

46 Yes, I am intoxicated and speaking abit of drunkenese.

Rivvid!

*shakes fist clumsily*

Posted by: Gabby Johnson at July 02, 2015 09:37 PM (oZr5y)

47 Well you need to be quick about it.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at July 02, 2015 09:36 PM (F0Cog)

Perhaps the operative phrase ought to be "flash"?

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 02, 2015 09:38 PM (ftVQq)

48 Point well taken, or flash lest ye take the point...

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at July 02, 2015 09:40 PM (F0Cog)

49 And I don't necessarily agree with Ace's last sentence.

A conservative faction will loose races on occasion even under idea circumstances. That's the nature of politics.

We lost a few in 2014, but we did bounce Eric "2nd in Command" Cantor. I'm sure that's what currently feeds the RINOs lust for destroying any and all challengers.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2015 09:40 PM (fYgrm)

50 If we can't even win this one, then let's just never bother again.

What??? Was it over when the Peruvians bombed Guam?

Posted by: Bluto at July 02, 2015 09:41 PM (Dwehj)

51 What??? Was it over when the Peruvians bombed Guam?

Posted by: Bluto
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Which side of Guam? The top or bottom?

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at July 02, 2015 09:42 PM (F0Cog)

52 Nah Tilikum, the Peruvians bombed Guam so hard it flipped over.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 02, 2015 09:43 PM (QU7W6)

53 i'm amused that Ace thinks there's going to be a fair election in Illinois.

it's cute: delusional, bound to disappoint and unrealistic, but still cute.

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 02, 2015 09:43 PM (yi8ar)

54 Guam is gone. **takes off hat**

Posted by: Hank Johnson at July 02, 2015 09:44 PM (wkuqO)

55 As self-appointed outlier I say again each and every Conservative Representative and Senator should pack up and go home now.

Posted by: eman at July 02, 2015 09:44 PM (MQEz6)

56 Which side of Guam? The top or bottom?

The tippin' side.

Posted by: Hank Johnson at July 02, 2015 09:44 PM (Dwehj)

57 Meanwhile, in Greece, not only have they run out of money, they are on the verge of running out of food.

Posted by: Tommy Linkbetter at July 02, 2015 09:45 PM (XSd0O)

58 Pubs had the pres and congress for 6 years. They F'd it up big time. At least the Dems actually deliver what they promise their core supporters.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 02, 2015 09:45 PM (CmUx+)

59 We are boned. I am seeking a foreign passport.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at July 02, 2015 09:46 PM (R0zw4)

60 Isn't Illinois the Land of Lincoln?

Posted by: ALH at July 02, 2015 09:46 PM (btTLZ)

61 You can get involved in lower level and get traction. I spent 45 minutes with a precinct captain that said he would not piss on our congressman and state rep, if they were on fire. We had no disagreement. Just get passed the fact that you can pick up the phone and engage these people . Feck facebook and twitter, talk to a human. Novel concept.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2015 09:47 PM (sSgU3)

62 Hank Johnson was the upgrade for Cynthia McKinney. Show a little respect.

Posted by: ALH at July 02, 2015 09:48 PM (btTLZ)

63 "Eight lobbyists from the Podesta Group --founded by Obama chief of staff John Podesta and run by John's brother Tony -- have donated to LaHood."

That's just evil.

Posted by: rrpjr at July 02, 2015 09:49 PM (s/yC1)

64 43 Things will get worse before they get better.

Well, "if" they get better, things will have to get a lot worse. And if they don't get better, things will get a LOT worse, and then just be over. If we're lucky.

On that happy(?) thought, good night, Morons of all gender and species identifications.

Posted by: Agent J at July 02, 2015 09:49 PM (ueOgE)

65
Let me say this--we WILL prevail in this fight.

Our bedrock--those documents that formed the blueprint is still shining through the filth laid on them by the left.

They CANNOT be suppressed. They have allowed us to so flourish and become the most exceptional country and people yet seen on this earth.

It's tough times right now, and maybe will get even tougher before the ultimate victory. Don't know the timeline but I suspect my lifespan may not extend to the completion of the effort.

But I know this as surely as I breathe, that BECAUSE we're Americans, the option of failure is denied us.

Keep that in mind.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 02, 2015 09:51 PM (jeCnD)

66 Make Some Noise in Illinois (but keep the"s" silent)

Posted by: Illinois Bureau of Tourism and Trade at July 02, 2015 09:51 PM (+jijM)

67 Holy shit the Winnipeg Blue Bombers suck.

I can smell the stank from here in Texas.

Posted by: logprof at July 02, 2015 09:54 PM (z0HrT)

68 If Orange and Turtle needs more votes, the Democrats are pleased to step up and be counted.

Posted by: eman at July 02, 2015 09:54 PM (MQEz6)

69 Make Some Noise in Illinois (but keep the"s" silent)

Posted by: Illinois Bureau of Tourism
****

That is how you know someone has not lived there. They pronounce the "s".

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at July 02, 2015 09:55 PM (F0Cog)

70 "If we can't even win this one, then let's just never bother again."

I'm way ahead of you bro!

Posted by: Rich at July 02, 2015 09:55 PM (J2AJ8)

71 Irongrampa,

have you read Fernandez's article here?: http://tinyurl.com/qc73ltv

Short version: Though they do not know it, the Left is living on gasps of air and sips of hope.

Posted by: Grey Fox at July 02, 2015 09:56 PM (a42f0)

72 i did a google search for "confederate flag shopping" and got 9 million hits. Did Google suddenly reverse policy?

Posted by: OregonMuse at July 02, 2015 09:57 PM (u07AL)

73 61 You can get involved in lower level and get traction. I spent 45 minutes with a precinct captain that said he would not piss on our congressman and state rep, if they were on fire. We had no disagreement. Just get passed the fact that you can pick up the phone and engage these people . Feck facebook and twitter, talk to a human. Novel concept.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2015 09:47 PM (sSgU3)

Absolutely. But politics is for extroverts, though.

Posted by: rickl at July 02, 2015 09:58 PM (sdi6R)

74 including http://www.proudrebel.com

Posted by: OregonMuse at July 02, 2015 09:58 PM (u07AL)

75 When things get better, the seeds for things to get worse always grow. When things are bad, we are spoiled for believing they get better, because America has always been unique in its capacity for recovery and renewal. But this President, this corrosive cabal of the Left, has worked hard to crush, to destroy, this innate spirit and capacity for recovery. They want us all feeling broken, scared, and resigned to the State.

Posted by: rrpjr at July 02, 2015 09:58 PM (s/yC1)

76 oh, "shopping" results. never mind.

Posted by: OregonMuse at July 02, 2015 09:59 PM (u07AL)

77 You have hurt a man whose friendship I treasure. You were warned. You were counseled. You were advised to move things to the side. Not just by me, and not just once.
Posted by: cthulhu at July 02, 2015 01:28 AM (EzgxV)

***
Thank you IG. What you have to say helps me get through this thing.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at July 02, 2015 10:01 PM (2z4UX)

78 "as you all know the collapse of the information environment (a functioning press) is a key part of the national degradation"

From the perspective of the broader national interest, the press are now completely dysfunctional.

But from the narrower sectarian perspective of the institutional left, the press are firing on all cylinders. Perfect, nominal, top-notch.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 02, 2015 10:02 PM (noWW6)

79 71 Irongrampa,

have you read Fernandez's article here?: http://tinyurl.com/qc73ltv

Short version: Though they do not know it, the Left is living on gasps of air and sips of hope.
Posted by: Grey Fox at July 02, 2015 09:56 PM (a42f0)

I saw that the other day. That was excellent. I meant to link it here, but may not have.

If conservatives are disturbed by the changes shaking their universe, their vision is at least unobstructed by the Narrative, which is blocking the sight of a freight train bearing down on the Western liberal elite. When it hits, boy will lots of people be surprised.

There is no such thing as a bad Belmont Club post.

Posted by: rickl at July 02, 2015 10:03 PM (sdi6R)

80 77

Whoa, big time C&P fail there. Sorry all.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty, unperson from Free Market Jesus Paradise at July 02, 2015 10:03 PM (cygkw)

81 Donated tonight. Will pray for Mike!

Posted by: Joanne at July 02, 2015 10:05 PM (indTK)

82
LaHood is the male DeDee Scazzaflava.

Dem running as a Repub in big GOP district.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 02, 2015 10:07 PM (ODxAs)

83 I'm broke as shit, but I'm heading over to Flynn to drop what I can.

If he fucks me, I'm waging against him. But I'm an optimist at heart, and I believe something has to be believing in, so here goes...

Posted by: Fuck. You...War! (Formerly Oedipus) at July 02, 2015 10:09 PM (CXLVd)

84
82 LaHood is the male DeDee Scazzaflava.Dem running as a Repub in big GOP district.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 02, 2015 10:07 PM (ODxAs)

Yeah I've been thinking that for a while. I fully expect to see him support the Dem afterwards if he doesn't win the primary. I also expect the GOP to pull the shit they did in Virginia where campaign staffers go to work for the Democrat.

Posted by: buzzion at July 02, 2015 10:10 PM (zt+N6)

85
Torque, absolutely. No argument. People sometimes (accurately) point out that in most of the short history of relatively free presses, outlets/papers etc. were quite partisan. True. But today, there is no "partisan" media organization doing even the most basic due diligence or intelligent questioning on any of the big issues, and certainly not on the big personalities of the State. It's one side only - and that is almost entirely delusional nonsense.

Grey Fox, read that Fernandez piece. Um, meh? O-care is a disaster, of course - but the damage of the RobertsCare ukaz is to the entire legitimacy of the system, to the rule of law, it entirely destroys the function and meaning of the branches of govt. And, besides, the disaster of O-care will not lead to some intelligent alternative approach, if all of our past is any indication. That is the implicit implication of Fernandez's observation, and it's very unpersuasive.

And Greece and the EU? So what. Watch and see if this current drama leads to any material change in the worst elements of the Eurozone, or central bank meddling, or greedy stupid state-centric spending of other people's/generation's money. Don't think so.

Love Wretchard's analytical skills, but that piece fails to substantiate any positive inklings ....

Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2015 10:10 PM (QDnY+)

86 i'm off to the green committee meeting for my local city council...

i'm the only sane adult in the room: the rest are all true global warming believers who want everyone else to live in tiny apartments and take public transit everywhere...

they, of course, live in suburban houses and drive expensive cars.

i told them i was totally into recycling, so they made me a member

what i didn't tell them was that i meant i reload my own ammo. ;-)

Posted by: redc1c4 at July 02, 2015 10:11 PM (yi8ar)

87 There seems to be a lot of shark attacks lately.

Posted by: Chandra Levy at July 02, 2015 10:11 PM (bS6uW)

88 LaHood is the male DeDee Scazzaflava.

Dem running as a Repub in big GOP district.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 02, 2015 10:07 PM (ODxAs)

Hey, if the GOP Establishment didn't run Dems as stealth Repub candidates, they'd be reduced to letting conservatives near the levers of power which is far far worse!

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 02, 2015 10:12 PM (ftVQq)

89 Wasn't Dareen laHood the villain in some Disney Film?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 02, 2015 10:13 PM (/tNwW)

90 Good news everyone. Obama thinks we're "mean".

Posted by: Lauren at July 02, 2015 10:13 PM (MYCIw)

91
90 Good news everyone. Obama thinks we're "mean".
Posted by: Lauren at July 02, 2015 10:13 PM (MYCIw)

A sixth grader lives in the White House. And I'm not talking about Sasha or Malia.

Posted by: buzzion at July 02, 2015 10:14 PM (zt+N6)

92 Good news everyone. Obama thinks we're "mean".

Posted by: Lauren at July 02, 2015 10:13 PM (MYCIw)

And getting meaner by the minute.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 02, 2015 10:14 PM (/tNwW)

93 Donated tonight. Will pray for Mike!

Posted by: Joanne at July 02, 2015 10:05 PM (indTK)
Definitely time for prayers for the country!

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 02, 2015 10:14 PM (ftVQq)

94 @75 rrpjr

"They want us all feeling broken, scared, and resigned to the State."

Funny thing about Western Marxists living in modern times. We who oppose them are not scared, but angry and have the means to overthrown them.

Hence the non stop assault on the 2 Amendment.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at July 02, 2015 10:15 PM (R0zw4)

95 85
Love Wretchard's analytical skills, but that piece fails to substantiate any positive inklings ....

Posted by: rhomboid at July 02, 2015 10:10 PM (QDnY+)

He didn't say that there were any positive inklings.

He just said that the Left's triumphalism is a tad...premature.

Posted by: rickl at July 02, 2015 10:16 PM (sdi6R)

96 So, the USAF cannot have 4th of July exhibitions because of threat assessments. Hmmm, yeah, we don't need no stinkin' celebrations.
Delete history now.

Posted by: Ralph at July 02, 2015 10:16 PM (MSiSP)

97 "Watch and see if this current drama leads to any material change in the
worst elements of the Eurozone, or central bank meddling, or greedy
stupid state-centric spending of other people's/generation's money.
Don't think so."

Interesting schisms are developing within the EU.

The loudest voices against the Greeks are the recent EU accessions who don't have per capita incomes anywhere close to French or German levels. And who refuse to shoulder more debt themselves to get others out of their own self-inflicted debt traps.

Their position is, hey, *we* are grinding it out and living with hard choices, and we're going to insist everyone else do so too.

It'll be very interesting when more of the original-bloc western EU nations end up being sternly lectured by current-bloc eastern EU members about fiscal discipline and trimming the welfare state.

Posted by: torquewrench at July 02, 2015 10:17 PM (noWW6)

98 If we can't even win this one, then let's just never bother again.

I hope you're ready for this eventuality because its more than a little likely.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 02, 2015 10:18 PM (39g3+)

99 I struggle between LIB and to keep fighting.

Fight because because not doing so makes those corrupt, bloodsucking rodents happy and patriots from our past have sacrificed their lives for our opportunity.

LIB because let's face it, the apathetic, LIV's, MSM, and liberal mobs deserve what they have coming. Let them get think they're special. Let them get nice and comfy on that nipple right up to when the system collapses. Nothing educates like a socialist smash-up.

Posted by: Cooldawg at July 02, 2015 10:19 PM (JPJV4)

100 Why the hell doesn't Mike Flynn's fundraising site accept PayPal?

Posted by: Sam Adams at July 02, 2015 10:20 PM (R8h28)

101 95
He didn't say that there were any positive inklings.

He just said that the Left's triumphalism is a tad...premature.

Posted by: rickl at July 02, 2015 10:16 PM (sdi6R)

In other words, interesting times will be had by all.

Posted by: rickl at July 02, 2015 10:20 PM (sdi6R)

102 It'll be very interesting when more of the original-bloc western EU nations end up being sternly lectured by current-bloc eastern EU members about fiscal discipline and trimming the welfare state.
Posted by: torquewrench

Have a feeling that the former Eastern Block is a tad more worried about become the current Eastern Block without permission.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2015 10:20 PM (fYgrm)

103 I also expect the GOP to pull the shit they did in Virginia where campaign staffers go to work for the Democrat.

Don't forget MS where the GOPe called the primary majority winner of their own party a racist and paid dems to crossover.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 02, 2015 10:20 PM (ODxAs)

104 I'm not even bothering this time. I'm done.

Posted by: gm at July 02, 2015 10:20 PM (K0tm3)

105 Time for Flynn to take off the gloves, and fight dirty. Run TV ads listing the Obamascum who have contributed to Lahood's campaign, and then just flat-out ask the viewers: "Do you really want GOP rep who was bought into office by Obamascum?"

And, yes, use that very word.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 02, 2015 10:20 PM (Wt2du)

106 Since it's become a banana republic I'm celebrating cuatro de julio this weekend.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at July 02, 2015 10:21 PM (zauWW)

107 This showed up on my twitter timeline
Figure the rons would appreciate as compliance
Nsfw

https://twitter.com/oldpicsarchive/status/616784458411319296

Posted by: @votermom at July 02, 2015 10:21 PM (cbfNE)

108 I'm sure Ray LaHood was looking out for his son when he threw in with the Obama crew. This just proves that principle means nothing. party means nothing, voters mean nothing. It's just the big game, keep it rolling.

Posted by: pj at July 02, 2015 10:22 PM (cHuNI)

109
Good news everyone. Obama thinks we're "mean".

Posted by: Lauren at July 02, 2015 10:13 PM (MYCIw)

And you folks thought that Obama wasn't willing to say something nice about us conservatives.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 02, 2015 10:22 PM (+OXwX)

110 Flynn doesn't need your money at this point -he needs your engagement. Case in point - Dewhurst had 40 million to throw at Cruz, but each person that believed in him converted 10 to his cause. Don't want to talk to a human, text your support to a precinct captain, but get off your ass.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 02, 2015 10:22 PM (sSgU3)

111 Buy a gun. Store it responsibly. Learn how to shoot it safely and maintain it.

Gun sales figures are a deterrent to collectivists.

Posted by: General Zod at July 02, 2015 10:23 PM (zLmTo)

112 And I'm so disappointed in Rauner. They might as well have elected a Dem.

Illinois is boned.

Posted by: pj at July 02, 2015 10:25 PM (cHuNI)

113 So, the USAF cannot have 4th of July exhibitions because of threat assessments. Hmmm, yeah, we don't need no stinkin' celebrations.
Delete history now.

Posted by: Ralph at July 02, 2015 10:16 PM (MSiSP)

Hey that's nothing. To appear in Public this 4th of July in Uniform, we have to get explicit permission from the CO. Because ya know it's "dangerous" to be in Uniform in our own Country or G-D forbid we offend someone?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 02, 2015 10:25 PM (/tNwW)

114 Even Chris Pratt can't hold back the ONT.

** wing stance **

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 02, 2015 10:25 PM (fYgrm)

115 Early ONT.

Posted by: andycanuck at July 02, 2015 10:25 PM (kivUY)

116 Ont

Posted by: @votermom at July 02, 2015 10:25 PM (cbfNE)

117 Love Wretchard's analytical skills, but that piece fails to substantiate any positive inklings ....

Depends on how vindictive you feel, I guess. The idea that, though we are not going to get the civilization we want back, the people who have destroyed the West are themselves going to be destroyed by the forces they have unleashed is pretty cheering to me.

It also suggests that the real fight is just beginning.

Posted by: Grey Fox at July 02, 2015 10:26 PM (a42f0)

118 nood

ONT

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 02, 2015 10:26 PM (KCxzN)

119 The world of escape from this dictatorship is closing in...aren`t we all looking for escape? The first logical choice is Alaska...Think so? Guess again. Can you say 6.00 a gallon for milk and gasoline. How about five grand an acre for any land near a road, and 'near' is subject to discretion. How about Anchorage is a fucking hive of liberal extremist that dictate from on high and cast any activity as a threat to the environment or the natural order. Want a cabin in the outback, fuck you that is federal land. Want state land, take a number and get in line you fucking piece of backwoods shit, we will run a background check and EPA study to to determine your classification. Don`t call us honey, we will call you!

Posted by: TBD at July 02, 2015 10:28 PM (i1mtX)

120 And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more, we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 02, 2015 10:29 PM (ftVQq)

121 I am a little worried about the next generations ability to survive if things go katywampus. My daughter needed to borrow a trailer today. Shows up with the boyfriend and I have the trailer staged in the driveway with the receiver that works for her car. The boyfriend waited in the car for me to hook it up. WTF get out and start the hookup or at least stand next to me to learn.

Posted by: Robinson at July 02, 2015 10:29 PM (1SHv1)

122 #120,

My favorite Solzhenitsyn quote.

As true today as ever.

Thanks.

Posted by: Sam Adams at July 02, 2015 10:33 PM (R8h28)

123 If we can't even win this one, then let's just never bother again.

I'm not certain we could win this one. I'm not sure we should bother again. I'm not sure that even IF Flynn wins he won't be corrupted.

So I drink.

Because if this guy in this district running against this douche canoe can't win... Well then we're already lost.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at July 02, 2015 10:33 PM (cv6Ng)

124 120
We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 02, 2015 10:29 PM (ftVQq)

Every day that has gone by since 2009 without PHYSICAL pushback against encroaching tyranny tells me that we have not learned a damned thing from history.

Posted by: rickl at July 02, 2015 10:41 PM (sdi6R)

125 Is LaHood a machine Republican from Illinois? Might as well be a Democrat. Maybe the cronies need a third party-The Opportunist Party.

Posted by: Jeffrey Carter (@pointsnfigures) at July 02, 2015 10:58 PM (LnE5F)

126 Every day that has gone by since 2009 without
PHYSICAL pushback against encroaching tyranny tells me that we have not
learned a damned thing from history.

Posted by: rickl at July 02, 2015 10:41 PM (sdi6R)

History, why that's all like a hundred years ago and the notes were written in cursive so...

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 02, 2015 10:59 PM (ftVQq)

127 This is why I've started calling the Rs and Ds the Socialist Unity Party. Much like the "competing" Socialist Democrats and Communists were joined by the Soviets in post-war East Germany, so the Republicans and Democrats are joined by their K Street corporatist masters.

Posted by: Commissar M at July 02, 2015 11:29 PM (KSF9t)

128 Weak, Ace - and no stronger for your dousing the punchbowl with fauxverproof. Can't see scandal when taint 't'ain't any.

Your new slogan (Fwe can't win THIS, just curl up & DIE.), that's cool - like a Magic Aceball.

Posted by: Wax the Jungle Hog at July 02, 2015 11:47 PM (lqeGC)

129 The only way for a rational, civilized man to deal with a tyrant is to kill him in cold blood. Nothing else will suffice.

Posted by: rickl at July 02, 2015 11:51 PM (sdi6R)

130 Obamas term - like others in the GOP are but a blink in our countries life.

Have faith.

There are good men willing to take up the task of repairing broken policies. All is not lost.

Really.

Posted by: Community Organizer at July 03, 2015 12:25 AM (DGetB)

131 Since I know little about the players, I have no real dog in this fight. But I do find it interesting that so many of you fringe nuts think it is a target for your brand of hyperventilated conservatism.

I mean, it's Illinois, the district LaHood's Dad used to represent, and before him Bob Michel. Do you remember Bob Michel at all? He represented the district for decades, rose to leadership in the pre-Gingrich era, and was known for his ability to strike deals with Democrats (back then, it was possible to find reasonable Democrats).

There is no meaningful public polling. Maybe Flynn wins, maybe LaHood - hell, for all I know the other guy, the businessman, might beat them both. But you seem to have a lot emotionally invested here again.

I mention this because many times in the past, candidates you've counted on have turned out to really suck ass. Joe Miller, Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell, Richard Mourdock, Chris McDaniel. A bunch of real losers.

So if it turns out you've been foolish once more, don't do anything crazy. There is nothing wrong with you a few years of intensive electroshock therapy cannot help.

Posted by: Adjoran at July 03, 2015 01:39 AM (QIQ6j)

132 If we cannot win this one,

I feel a bit badgered for reading this in another state and not being citizen of Illinois 37th district.

We conservative types tend to vote.

And that's it. Are we expected to become activists too, stuff envelopes and make cold calls to that state from afar? Volunteer in some way, get with the program, rah rah rah sis boom bah smash 'em bust 'em that's our custom goooooooo, what's the guy's name again? Flynn!

Posted by: bour3 at July 03, 2015 05:46 AM (5x3+2)

133 Muy interesante la historia de America de ustedes.

First, Franklin had to return home to America in 1775 to help her declare her independence and sovereignty and get men much younger than himself to fight his war for him, his mind being made up. Have your silly dusted wigs, you ponces. Franklin put on his unhappy face as he threw his coach gloves on the side table and thought to himself, "It's f'n war."

Posted by: bour3 at July 03, 2015 11:11 AM (5x3+2)

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