By Chicago Standards, Blagojevich Isn't Crazy

Chicago Tribune ^ | 12/11/08 | John Kass

[sageb1]

He’s not crazy. He’s just a typical dirty Chicago politician.

[1rudeboy]

How do they think Chicago politicians talk in private when they're muscling some other guy for cash? Like Helen Mirren playing the queen?

John Kass cracks me up sometimes.

[HighlyOpinionated]

http://www.americanaphonic.com/
http://federalistpapers.com/federalist1.html

It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interest can never be separated; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.

[Toddsterpatriot]

They are now moving graveyards at astronomical prices in Elmhurst rather than building a second airport with cheap land in Will County.

They're expanding O'Hare to Elmhurst? LOL!

[hinckley buzzard]

OBAMA: Rest assured, Governor Blagojevich, that either your signature or your brains will be on this piece of paper before I leave this room.

Nope. Blago went to work today, refusing to resign and happy go lucky, according to news reports. And why shouldn't he? He has the soon-to-be most important person in the world protecting him. After all, with what Blago knows, he has Obama by those nads the Revrund Jacksssun was so interested in.. If he goes down, Obama and god knows who else will go down with him.

That ain't gonna happen. That's why the powers running Obama made Fitzgerald shut down his "investigation" before he could develop evidence that would implicate Obama.

[ggekko60506]

The Ohare expansion project is buying land in Elmhurst and Bensenville in order to complete the build out. This land is among the most expensive in the Chicago suburbs.

By contrast, the alternative proposal for a second airport in Will County, would have used land that cost a tenth of cost of what is available in Cook County.

The alternative proposal was killed by William Daley, Mayor Daley’s brother. The “fix” was in so now Illinois and Federal taxpayers have the privilege of paying 10 times what the cost should have been in order to grease the wheels of the Cook County Machine.

[Toddsterpatriot]

The Ohare expansion project is buying land in Elmhurst and Bensenville

You must be confusing Elk Grove Village with Elmhurst.

[tcrlaf]

“the alternative proposal for a second airport in Will County, would have used land that cost a tenth of cost of what is available in Cook County.”

The MOST VIABLE and LEAST EXPENSIVE option was expansion of the GARY Regional Airport, but Daley and his cronies couldn’t allow that because THEY wouldn’t get the skim...

[Lee N. Field]

<>i>Come on Fitz - have the guts to indict Obama, Emmanuel and Jesse Jr.

Small potatoes! Hizzoner is at the center of the web.

[ggekko60506]

Neither proposal was given sufficient attention. I don’t know much about the Gary proposal but it was undoubtedly doomed from the start because it would not generate jobs and patronage in Cook County.

The Peotone airport proposal in Will County was particularly attractive because the plan called fro leveraging the intermodal transportation opportunities available near the site (truck and rail terminals). This airport would have handled freight traffic only rather than passenger traffic.

It was an excellent idea but politics killed it.