AS PREDICTED HERE - in the Illinois 8th WALSH WINS !!

As predicted by your intrepid blogger, in the Illinois 8th district, Joe Walsh has scored an "upset" victory of three term incumbent Melissa Bean.

CBS news called "a stunning victory; this one wasn't even on anybody's top 100."

F*uck you CBS news. Who the hell have you been talking to?

WORTHLESS.  You called the predictions of the so called "experts" the news (and this is what you "reported").  You could have learnt the news by simply hanging around the Barrington Home Town Barber Shop (Republican Central Headquarters for zip code 60010, the 7th highest average income zip code in the U.S. for zip codes with populations in excess of 20,000).

You could have gone to this barber shop and LISTENED to what the customers were all saying.  You could have heard the enthusiasm for Walsh, the disgust with Bean.  Now THAT would actually have been news.

You clueless dullards. NEWS!?!  You wouldn't know the news if it cut your hair; if it clipped your eye brows; if it clipped your nose hairs.

NEWS?

You want news?  Get out in the street and L I S T E N!!!

You've spent so much time mouthing what the so-called political experts have to say.

Well, HERE's some f*cking news.  The so-called political experts have their heads up their asses and have gone dizzy smelling the fumes from their own rear ends.

Harsh?  You Betcha!

Honest?

*ssholes, you could have interviewed me. Or read my blog.

WAY TO GO JOE!

Now, dammit, man, pay attention to what Franz told you.  TALK with the people.  LISTEN to what they have to say.  Represent the interests of the average working stiff, be that average working stiff small business owner, or beleaguered employee, knowing that he's one paycheck away from losing his home; one down-sizing away from losing the family's health insurance.

You could have gotten all THAT off the internet.

Clueless. 100% clueless, and now the talking heads are saying Bean ran a tepid campaign.

TEPID?  She ran a terrified campaign.  "If I just close my eyes, and click my heals, I'll be back in 2004 and running against Phil Crain with the full support of the Teamsters and the IBEW.  There's no place like home. There's no place like home."

Hey Beano-you can come home NOW.

But -- you're hearing it here first, from you intrepid, Muslim, bi-polar, unemployable, un-insurable blogger who is proud to use his own name -- Beano will end up comfortably living in D.C. assuming she will collect a fortune on K Street to be a corporate lobbyist whore for big business.

(p.s. - what about the $1.9 million remaining in her campaign fund?  Is that whatcha call a "severance package" or a "golden parachute.")

And it won't work well for her.  She won't live like the feckless Tom Daschle, corporate lobbyist whore for big pharma and mega-huge health care corporations.

Come home Beano-minimize the damage to your political legacy.

You will FAIL as on K Street.

That revolving door is closing shut, slowly, but persistently.

That money tree is a'gonna get chopped down.

Poor old Beano Dead and Gone
Left me here to sing her song
Pretty little red head with the red dress on
Poor old Beano Dead and Gone

Debate Joe she wouldn't show
Wonder if she'll ever know
Just how gutless this did show
Her corrupt character to be

She's as blind as she could be
Just sees what she wants to see
Kicked the little people who were down
Now we see she's just a clown

Poor old Beano dead and gone
Left me here to write this song
Pretty little red-head with the red dress on
Poor old Beano now leave it alone.

And I AM yours, all yours Melissa
P.S.  I'd like the $40 cash back I gave in 2004
But this has been worth a whole lot more

But, on a serious note.

Joe - you better damn well keep your word - and talk to your peeps.  Keep us in the loop.  Work for US.  Represent our interests.  We will keep your feet to the fire.  You let us down, and you're one and done.

Now - celebrate, enjoy, take 10 days off, treat your wife to a get-away hide-away
And get down on the floor and kiss the ground she walks on for all the support
She gave to you - every step along the way.

Warm regards,
Best of luck,
We're all hoping,
That YOU can be the Mr. Smith that goes to Washington from Barrington
And has the same integrity, scruples and courage as Jimmy Stewart.

You CAN BE that man.
You CAN BE that man.
You CAN BE that man.

NOW - go forth - and BE THAT MAN.

WAY TO GO JOE - and all you Hometown customers who listened, heard, and believed his word.

DEMOCRACY - may come yet once again to the USA!!!

F L A S H    B A C K

1976 - I confidently voted for Jimmy Carter.  Any man who admits to Playboy Magazine to sometimes having lust in his heart enabled Diogenese to rest.  HONESTY counts.  Still for me.

In the 1979 Chicago mayoral election, I took an independent poll of 10 of my co-workers from the Actuarial Division of Bankers Life & Casualty - all 10 said they were voting for Jane Byrne.  I left work at 4:30 that day TREMBLING - literally trembling with excitement:  MY VOTE could be the one that wins it for her.)

Fast forward to 1980 - St. Ronald Reagan used the word "actuarial" in a speech in regards to the need to adequately fund social security.  This was all it took. Ronnie was my man.  I voted for him.

I hit the damn trifecta!!

And I didn't vote again for a long, long time.

You can see it, can't you?

I AM the bell weather of the people. And the load, the burden, the responsibility attached to knowing that, was a sack of rocks I could not carry.  Too much responsibility.

But, I still got it.  Still got the knack.

So, Joe - please go out and don't ever give me buyer's remorse.  Community first, that's all you gotta remember.  Keep your eye on what the majority of the community NEEDS!  And be prepared to not always give them what they want.  And always be ready to explain why.

You could go down in history as the second coming of Seneca.