hedge fund billionaires

The repubs taking the senate doesn’t look good, but it doesn’t make a whole lot of difference because as long as the senate has a party with less than sixty members of one party it can never do anything. I was all for getting rid of the fillibuster when the dems had the lead, but now that the reps have the lead, not so much. I suppose the reps could still get rid of the filibuster, but then they still have the presidential veto to contend with.

They say it will be a nicer sweeter GOP now that the tea partiers have been shunted to the margins, and maybe Obama, bowing to the necessary, will play nice with them, but even as I’m writing that sentence I don’t believe it.

Yes indeed we Illinoisans are used to seeing our govs go from the big house to the other big house. Quinn, the incumbent dem, had to deal with the sorry mess Blago left us, and was doing a soso job, but then along game hedge fund billionaire Rauner, one of those money guys who hang around making deals with the politicos. He ran in the primaries as all reps do, as a right wing nut job, and in the primary posed as a gentle moderate. He put a pile of his own money into the campaign, and pretty much bought the governorship.

You know one of the biggest lies going around about these self-funded billionaires is that they can be trusted because they can’t be bought because they are already rich, but the fact is that the only thing that really rich people are motivated by is becoming even richer. He may well be hustled off to the big house in a few years, though maybe not because he is pretty slick. Slickness is admired in Illinois.

I don’t know about that constitutional crisis. Remember the big deal about how the reps were going to sue Obama? You don’t hear much about that anymore. I’m all for Obama doing what he can.

We’ve talked about hunting before. I suppose it would be a lot of fun if you got together with a bunch of your beer drinking buddies and traipsed around the woods, and ran the manly risk of shooting each other, but sitting around in that blind and dozing off from time to time, you might as well be playing video games.