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1. #1
   On January 9th, 2012 at 2:50 pm, maddmatt3131 said:

   I thought he would be fired for saying some of the Obama policies are indefensible. Most likely he was. The First rule of the Obama White house is you defend the indefensible. The second rule is You Defend the Indefensible.

2. #2
   On January 9th, 2012 at 2:51 pm, DonkeyHoatie said:

   Prolly got jealous of the Tsars who have more power, authority, and perks. The Chicago Daleys don’t play second fiddle to nobody!

3. #3
   On January 9th, 2012 at 2:54 pm, Mister P said:

   I have no use for the Chamber of Commerce because the day they let Daley run it, is the day that they told the world that they too were corrupt. Obama has probably usurped Daley as the Chicago Don and Daley must go home and try to keep the younger Daley out of prison for murder.

4. #4
   On January 9th, 2012 at 2:58 pm, Darthnoob said:

   budget director Jack Lew is taking over

   They had a budget director ?!?

5. #5
   On January 9th, 2012 at 3:01 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

   Maybe he just didn’t like having to run everything through Valerie Jarrett first.

6. #6
   On January 9th, 2012 at 3:01 pm, max said:

   Oh right… all these super patriots, after a whole year away from home, he just can’t make the sacrifice anymore…

7. #7
   On January 9th, 2012 at 3:04 pm, Truesoldier said:

   budget director Jack Lew is taking over

   I wonder if he will use his “white board” approach to help explain how all of Obama’s policies will work just great like he did with Obama’s budget ideas.

8. #8
   On January 9th, 2012 at 3:04 pm, Hangfire said:

   {Ding, ding. Ding, ding}

   1MC: “CHICAGO CRONY, DEPARTING”

   DooooooWHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEoooooooooooooWHEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

9. #9
   On January 9th, 2012 at 3:06 pm, letget said:

   If I had to work with mo and jarrett every day, I would resign too! I have a feeling those two are not the sweetest two gals to work with! If daley can’t handle it working in the wh when he came from Chigago, things MUST be BAD at the wh with all the lies and crooked stuff going on there?
   L

10. #10
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:06 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Jack Lew is from Citi and was head of, among other things, “alternative investments”. You know, CMOs, CDOs… investments of repackaged subprime debt that got stamped AAA and resold to suckers? He’s an alchemist.

11. #11
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:15 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:01 pm, Pasadena Phil said:
    Maybe he just didn’t like having to run everything through Valerie Jarrett first.

    I heard he had asked her to borrow one of her outfits to cover his new couch, and she took offense for some unknown reason.

12. #12
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:18 pm, Truesoldier said:

    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:06 pm, letget said:
    If daley can’t handle it working in the wh when he came from Chigago, things MUST be BAD at the wh with all the lies and crooked stuff going on there?

    Or perhaps he sees the writting on the wall and wants to get back to Chicago before the rush is on after November.

13. #13
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:19 pm, docflash said:

    He must be able to steal more money in Chicago than in DC.

14. #14
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:21 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Maybe he got called back to Crook County to look into that $45 million of Homeland Security spending that produced nothing but wealth for certain people. There are so many new ways to steal taxpayer money these days.

15. #15
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:24 pm, rambler said:

    Most hard core chicagoans don’t last long outside chicago. Shelly will be returning too. bho is not a true chicagoan.

16. #16
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:25 pm, Hangfire said:

    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:19 pm, docflash said:

    He must be able to steal more money in Chicago than in DC.

    Impossible!

17. #17
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:26 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Oops, left out the link.

18. #18
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:30 pm, maddmatt3131 said:

    Darthnoob said:
    budget director Jack Lew is taking over
    They had a budget director ?!?

    Who do think budgeted for their lavish vacations?

19. #19
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:43 pm, RedDog said:

    On January 9th, 2012 at 2:51 pm, DonkeyHoatie said:
    …

    I was going to buy a donkey for my wife for Christmas and call him Hoatie. She liked the idea but I backed down.

20. #20
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:52 pm, RedDog said:

    It is dumbfounding that the Vichy/Quisling Press is so wedded to promoting, defending and covering for Obama and the Democrats, and also so persistent in their drumbeat attacks on Republicans. One has to believe that the indefensible is indeed defensible. These people have no shame or honor about them. Even Daley is likely mortified by the disaster that is the Obama.

    The Fourth Estate is indeed in ruins.

21. #21
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:53 pm, timmytango said:

    BUDGET director!!!!! Now there’s somebody with a lot of time on his hands.

22. #22
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:58 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:43 pm, RedDog said:
    I was going to buy a donkey for my wife for Christmas and call him Hoatie. She liked the idea but I backed down.

    Yeah, anytime the wife readily agrees with you on something, it’s time for a rethink.

23. #23
    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:58 pm, RedDog said:

    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:06 pm, Pasadena Phil said:
    Jack Lew is from Citi and was head of, among other things, “alternative investments”. You know, CMOs, CDOs… investments of repackaged subprime debt that got stamped AAA and resold to suckers? He’s an alchemist.

    I wouldn’t shed a tear if the European Union didn’t send their own Obamao spec ops team to take out the SOB and Barney with him.

24. #24
    On January 9th, 2012 at 4:03 pm, RedDog said:

    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:04 pm, Hangfire said:
    {Ding, ding. Ding, ding}

    1MC: “CHICAGO CRONY, DEPARTING”

    DooooooWHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEoooooooooooooWHEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

    Rather than whistle him (or any Obamite) off, he should be pitched over the transom with the screws turning at full power.

25. #25
    On January 9th, 2012 at 4:03 pm, Truesoldier said:

    Here is some interesting background of what Moochelle thought about the Daley’s in Chicago.

    When Michelle Obama worked in Mayor Daley’s City Hall in the early 1990s, she was “distressed” by how a small group of “white Irish Catholic” families — the Daleys, the Hynes and the Madigans — “locked up” power in Illinois.

26. #26
    On January 9th, 2012 at 4:05 pm, RedDog said:

    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:24 pm, rambler said:
    Most hard core chicagoans don’t last long outside chicago.

    Like vampires, they can’t rest without access to the home dirt.

27. #27
    On January 9th, 2012 at 4:09 pm, RedDog said:

    On January 9th, 2012 at 4:03 pm, Truesoldier said:
    When Michelle Obama worked in Mayor Daley’s City Hall in the early 1990s, she was “distressed” by how a small group of “white Irish Catholic” families —

    Dispicible. Not racist much is she? She would have fit right in to the political scene in Ruwanda. Shaka Toots on the move.

28. #28
    On January 9th, 2012 at 4:11 pm, max said:

    When Michelle Obama worked in Mayor Daley’s City Hall in the early 1990s, she was “distressed” by how a small group of “white Irish Catholic” families — the Daleys, the Hynes and the Madigans — “locked up” power in Illinois.

    “ no , I believe she was actually “dishtresshed.” and certainly not proud of Illinois…

29. #29
    On January 9th, 2012 at 4:19 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    HI DARTHNOOB–#4. This “budget” that you speak of–what is it? Where is it?
    ***
    Seems to have been something made with temporary Pixie Dust. Disappears like the Alice In Wonderland Cheshire Cat just when you need it. Maybe Johnny Depp stole it during the White House Halloween Party a few years ago. It seems to be AWOL now.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

30. #30
    On January 9th, 2012 at 4:25 pm, swede said:

    Back to Xanadu it is then to be inspired for another painting of what the country will look like if it re-elects Obama.

    More like ballast off a sinking ship, methinks.

    This appointment was naught but payola from the git go. I mean, Chicago Machine Daleys? Once again, you don’t rocket to the top of Chi Machine politics as fast as Jug Ears did, and not owe big payback to some very unholy alliances.

    But now it’s election time and poor Willy the Whacker is a liability. “Nice White House ya got there. Shame if sump’n was ta happen to it…”

31. #31
    On January 9th, 2012 at 4:52 pm, peteee said:

    perhaps daley will start working on the obama campaign? there is no better way to steal an election, then to have help from a daley!

32. #32
    On January 9th, 2012 at 4:54 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    I’m adding in my two cents….When Moochie tells tHe Won that somebody’s gotta go, well, then they gotta go. Daley misses the interaction he had with his mob and union bosses back in Chi-town. I say goodbye, and good riddance.

33. #33
    On January 9th, 2012 at 4:59 pm, dat60a3 said:

    Somebody has to go to Chicago to ensure that the people vote early and often.

34. #34
    On January 9th, 2012 at 5:00 pm, dat60a3 said:

    Somebody has to go to Chicago to ensure that the people vote early and often.

35. #35
    On January 9th, 2012 at 5:04 pm, letget said:

    On January 9th, 2012 at 5:00 pm, dat60a3 said:

    A double post is right on!
    L

36. #36
    On January 9th, 2012 at 5:16 pm, sicoit said:

    On January 9th, 2012 at 2:58 pm, Darthnoob said:

    They had a budget director ?!?

    FIFY!

37. #37
    On January 9th, 2012 at 5:21 pm, sicoit said:

    Bill Daley to serve as co-chair of Obama re-election campaign

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/bill-daley-to-serve-as-co-chair-of-obama-re-election-campaign/2012/01/09/gIQA2G5DmP_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost

    Uh huh….

38. #38
    On January 9th, 2012 at 5:27 pm, NC BLUE said:

    Hope he doesn’t play the Illinois lottery–all the recent payout checks bounced. Same will happen to all of us if the A$$Hat in charge is reelected.

39. #39
    On January 9th, 2012 at 6:12 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Looks like Lew might have been hired for his advice on investing via insider trading. He’s a former hedge fund manager for Citi who shorted mortgages. Citi was a very big player in repackaging these mortgages while Lew was betting on their defaulting. Betting against the investments Citi was peddling to their clients. Why wasn’t this guy working for Government Sachs?

40. #40
    On January 9th, 2012 at 6:13 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    And let’s not forget that Daley was a former JP Morgan fair-haired boy himself.

41. #41
    On January 9th, 2012 at 6:18 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    I saw this at Hot Air:

    budget director Jack Lew is taking over

    I guess when the Senate won’t pass a budget, there isn’t much to do as “budget director”, so Jack Lew is fully available to take on a new position.

42. #42
    On January 9th, 2012 at 7:03 pm, swede said:

    Pasadena Phil said:

    And let’s not forget that Daley was a former JP Morgan fair-haired boy himself.

    Yes indeedy, and BankOne as well. But even more sleazy, Clinton put him on the board of FannyMae gearing up Freddie and Fannie to get into the sub-prime market in a BIG way led by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd…

    With incentives in place, banks poured billions in loans into poor communities, often “no doc”, “no income”, requiring no money down and no verification of income. Worse still was the cronyism: Fannie and Freddie became home to out-of work-politicians, mostly Clinton Democrats. 384 politicians got big campaign donations from Fannie and Freddie. Over $200 million had been spent on lobbying and political activities. During the 1990′s Fannie and Freddie enjoyed a subsidy of as musch as $182 Billion, most of it going to principals and shareholders, not poor borrowers as claimed.

    His daddy and grand daddy would be proud. Capone too!

43. #43
    On January 9th, 2012 at 7:31 pm, jbh45 said:

    Even rats like Richard Daley’s son know when to get off a sinking ship…

44. #44
    On January 9th, 2012 at 8:19 pm, WaterBoyz said:

    I’m pretty sure he is not taking a pay cut.

45. #45
    On January 9th, 2012 at 8:25 pm, cabrerski said:

    Daley gave his letter of resignation to the president in a private meeting in the Oval Office last week, recounting the administration’s successes of his one year on the job…

    Had to be the shortest meeting on record…all of a half-minute.

46. #46
    On January 9th, 2012 at 8:58 pm, BK said:

    Wow, the Daleys are NOT doing well under the Obama administration

    First Richard M. Daley got shoved aside so Rahmbo can take over, and now Bill Daley is hasta-la-bye-bye.

47. #47
    On January 9th, 2012 at 9:09 pm, ex-expat said:

    I am reminded of a Pat Oliphant cartoon of Richard Daley, the father leaving the 1972 Democratic convention, with McGovernites cheering, and the caption beneath, ‘See you in November’.

48. #48
    On January 9th, 2012 at 10:09 pm, Mister P said:

    The father Richard Daley was the gang leader of the Irish Athletic Club. He and his two best buddies use to roam Bridgeport making sure no black person came into the neighborhood. They carried athletic clubs, hence the name.
    When Daley became mayor the two friends became the Fire Chief and the Police Chief. They continued their gang operations from City Hall.

    It has been obvious that Obama has been replicating the Chicago Democratic Machine created and operated by the Daleys.

    Growing up on the south side, knowing how corrupt the police department was and seeing the way Chicagoans accepted the corruption, I can see why Obama feels he can reproduce the same results. No doubt William Daleys role has been to bind the politics with the unions and crony businesses.

    He will now work on manufacturing votes, whether they come from the graveyard or via intimidation and extortion. The Irish Athletic Club still exists.

49. #49
    On January 9th, 2012 at 10:14 pm, Mister P said:

    William Daley is actually a bit of a dimwit. He failed his real estate exam 3 times, but that did not stop his father from continuing to funnel Chicago real estate transaction through him. When discovered Daley only said “Who can blame him for helping his own son.” Yep , over 300K in commissions is pretty good help for a flunky.

50. #50
    On January 9th, 2012 at 10:49 pm, Blackstone said:

    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:15 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On January 9th, 2012 at 3:01 pm, Pasadena Phil said:
    Maybe he just didn’t like having to run everything through Valerie Jarrett first.

    I heard he had asked her to borrow one of her outfits to cover his new couch, and she took offense for some unknown reason.

    I think you’re probably thinking of that other woman, the “social affairs czar” or whoever she was, the one who was too busy partying to notice the crashers showing up.

51. #51
    On January 10th, 2012 at 12:16 am, air to ground said:

    Daley is not the typical liberal who is out to change the United States. If you look at the Daley family and their relationship with Chicago, they thrived on the status quo. You can say that the current fiscal crisis of Chicago can be blamed on the former Mayor Richard Daley, but his motives were to support the current status at all costs. He did not want to fundamentally change the city, just improve it using a terrible fiscal policy and maintain his power. I suggest that William Daley resigned because of a gut check. He was not willing to destroy the country where he grew up for the power he was given. Daley probably didnt want to be a part of destroying the country that has given him a lot of political power.

52. #52
    On January 10th, 2012 at 8:33 am, stillontheroad said:

    I heard that Moochelle had issues with the Honkey White Catholic Irish Family thing in Chicago?

53. #53
    On January 10th, 2012 at 12:13 pm, stuckinIL4now said:

    On January 10th, 2012 at 8:33 am, stillontheroad said:

    I heard that Moochelle had issues with the Honkey White Catholic Irish Family thing in Chicago?

    Yeah, makes me laff bcuz without that clout, she and Obutthead couldn’t and wouldn’t have catapulted to the WH so quickly. Oh, and, her father was a Demo precinct captain during the “glory” days of Hizzoner RJ Daley and the Crook County Demo machine–and, oh, he had a city job, too. Duh!!!!

54. #54
    On January 10th, 2012 at 2:12 pm, T-Bone said:

    Daly is a corrupt scumbag. His whole family is corrupt. Good riddance.

    Don’t let the poop hit you on the way down the sewer. DLTPHYOTWDTS.

55. #55
    On January 10th, 2012 at 2:24 pm, Collateral Damage said:

    Think about that a while. Daley, from a long line of corruption, couldn’t stand the goings-on of perhaps the most corrupt presidency in modern history.
    A staggering thought.

56. #56
    On January 10th, 2012 at 3:32 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    William Daley: Gawd! I need a shower!

57. #57
    On January 11th, 2012 at 8:37 am, BFC Cpl Jack said:

    Gee, I guess Daley does have some scruples after all.