Cirque du Democrat

Stroger Goggles

2007-10-18T09:35:00.000-05:00

Stroger Goggles - Distorting budget reality, line item by line item.

Al's at it again. . .

2006-06-21T07:33:00.000-05:00

Click here to see Al put Larry King to sleep!

For Sale

2006-06-20T19:39:00.000-05:00

Daley has said machine politics play no role in his dominance of local politics.

Chicago Tribune

June 20, 2006

Audit finds management problems at human services agency

2006-06-13T16:25:00.000-05:00

The Governor’s Department of Human Services suffers from lax billing procedures, has circumvented state law to avoid competitive bids, doesn’t make fraud prevention a priority and has failed to protect confidential employee records.

Garrett Brings Chicago-style Politics to the North Shore

2006-06-02T10:47:00.000-05:00

Daniel Katalinic, the highest-profile witness to testify yet in the trial that's in its third week, said Robert Sorich, a former top official in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, told him to which political races he should deploy his volunteers. He also said Daley's former campaign manager, Greg Goldner, doled out similar orders. In return, Katalinic would hand Sorich a list of people he'd want hired or promoted in city positions, he testified.

Katalinic said his campaign organization started small but eventually grew to nearly 300 people who worked on many campaigns, from that of U.S. Rep. Rahm Emanuel to state Sen. Susan Garrett. Nearly all of the group were Streets and Sanitation workers or people trying to land city jobs, Katalinic said.

Chicago Sun-Times
June 1, 2006

This is a MUST SEE!!

2006-02-24T06:09:00.000-06:00

Click here to see Blago at his absolute best. This is hilarious!

Now we know Bryant Gumbel hasn't ever been to a GOP convention . . . in the last 100 years.

2006-02-20T08:03:00.000-06:00

"So try not to laugh when someone says these (Olympic athletes) are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the winter games look like a GOP convention.

Bryant Gumbel
HBO's Real Sports

Senile Democrat Defends Himself

2006-02-16T17:44:00.000-06:00

"She's a pretty little girl."

"The day I don't look at pretty women is the day I die."

"This little girl" ought to be "happy that I observed her going out the door."

"The one who is offended is me."

Democrat State Comptroller Donald Schaefer of Maryland reacting to critism for holding up a hearing to ogle an aide and asking her to walk back and forth for him.

Congrats to Diane Meyer of Respublica for having her on target piece published in the Trib!

2006-02-13T07:29:00.000-06:00

Come out wherever you are

A new CNN/Gallup poll shows Laura Bush with an 82 percent approval rating, which is not surprising, at least to me, because Laura is one cool woman. But the survey got me to thinking about Illinois and the state's first lady. I don't think I could even conjure up a picture of her in my mind. I know her father is important in Chicago politics and I know they don't live in the Springfield governor's mansion, choosing instead to do their sleeping in Chicago, but what about Patti Blagojevich? OK, she's interested in literacy and in-line skating and knitting, but where is she?

Diane Meyer, respublica.typepad.com

Chicago Tribune

February 13, 2006

What do you expect from cops who report to an elected Dem Sherrif?

2006-02-10T19:10:00.000-06:00

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" . . . and I hold no hard feelings over your earlier disingenuousness"

2006-02-08T08:04:00.000-06:00

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A picture speaks a thousand words

2006-02-03T05:41:00.000-06:00

So Jan, can we put your voice on MUTE since you finished third in a three-way race?

2006-02-02T04:10:00.000-06:00

“As Vice Chair, my voice will be amplified when it comes to speaking out on issues such as the war in Iraq, which I have opposed from day one and on the Republican budget, which is nothing short of immoral. . . I’ll keep you posted on the race.”

Jan Schakowsky
December 10, 2005

Why the Democrats will continue to lose

2006-01-31T22:07:00.000-06:00

Following the State of the Union . . .

CNN's Anderson Cooper - "What is the primary issue that Democrats will run on in these mid-term elections?"

Nancy Pelosi: "Homeland Security"

Cooper: "Are you serious?"

DePaul students lash out at "crazy" Judith-Rae Ross

2006-01-26T06:58:00.000-06:00

DePaul University History students ridiculed their professor in reviews published as recently as this month on RateMyProfessor.com. The professor, Judith-Rae Ross, is a Democrat challenger to State Representative Beth Coulson in the 17th.

Here are some of the excerpts:

"This woman is crazy, no lie. I couldn't stand her as a person and she runs a horrible classroom (it was honestly a joke), but she is so easy that she's worth taking any chance you get."

"Professor Ross is unclear, vague, and distant from reality and herself."

"This is a class where you don’t have to come and you can get an A. Very easy. Don't expect to learn anything though."

"I don't know what kind of teacher she is, but as a person she is really rude and stuck up."

For the complete list of comments you can check out the review here.

Kudos to Gordon Frederick

2006-01-25T07:35:00.000-06:00

The ACLU is such a noble organization. They defend terrorists, murderers, rapists and child molesters, while they sue American soldiers, Christians and the president of the United States. They defend a Muslim trying to get a driver's license with her face covered, while they sue Christians to remove Nativity scenes and crosses from cemeteries.

The ACLU is supposed to protect all Americans, not just a select few. The question to the ACLU is - Who will protect us from you?

Gordon Frederick

Letter to the Editor

Chicago Sun-Times

January 24, 2006

Democrat Intelligence Challenged

2006-01-24T07:02:00.000-06:00

A Cirque reader sent this in. Allegedly, this guy is a Dem precinct captain in Georgia.

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"F--- you, you Jew son of a bitch, you lousy motherf-----, go home."

2006-01-23T07:36:00.000-06:00

A couple of lefty journalists, Andrew Kopkind and James Ridgeway, who put out a newsletter called Mayday, hired a teacher from the Gallaudet School for the Deaf to read (former Mayor) Daley's lips. The lip reader studied the TV film closely and shook his head sadly and reported that the honorable mayor of Chicago had said something along the lines of, "F--- you, you Jew son of a bitch, you lousy motherf-----, go home."

Frivolous lawsuits: Dem modus operandi

2006-01-20T06:41:00.000-06:00

Leave it to the son of a consultant to Hillary and Obama to sue for a $1 million because he was called a drunk. The Dems and their out of control lawsuits are crippling our country.

Hillary Clinton - Disgraceful on Martin Luther King Day

2006-01-18T07:21:00.000-06:00

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Correction

2006-01-17T07:21:00.000-06:00

The Cirque incorrectly stated that the quote from the Chicago Tribune,

"Yet there has been a long stream of revelations about the governor's friends' links to state contracts and jobs"

was a reference to testimony in the on-going George Ryan trial. Our apologies to the former governor.

"It's welcome news that Blagojevich recently discovered the job of governor requires his full attention."

2006-01-11T07:31:00.000-06:00

Chicago Tribune

January 11, 2006

Now Bean's kids understand why Mom's not returning their emails

2006-01-09T07:09:00.000-06:00

Extracted from Melissa Bean's Congressional website.

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Couslon opponent finds solution for unwanted pregnancies

2006-01-06T08:12:00.000-06:00

" . . .What if an unwanted pregnancy could be transplanted. We have transplanted so many other things; maybe something like that would be possible and suitable adoptive parents found. That might be one way of doing it…"

Democrat Judith-Rae Ross

State Rep Candidate

17th District

Source: Public Affairs

"Frankly, the Democrats are nowhere"

2006-01-04T08:43:00.000-06:00

Frankly, (the Democrats) are nowhere. They are failing utterly in the role of an opposition party . . . Rather than lead a responsible examination of America's strategy for Iraq, they have handed off the debate to a distraught mother who is grieving for her lost son.

David Ignatius

The Washington Post