Mitch Daniels
Q. What’s this? A spouse decides whether one runs for president? Has this ever happened before?
A. No. Of course not. I think it’s a joke and makes a laughingstock out of Daniels who on a number of fronts…budgetary expertise, excellent governor…is a well-qualified candidate. The proper way would be for the couple quietly to make that decision up or down and then either go for it or no. Throwing the ball to Cherie in public to make the decision for …

Q. Barbara Walters says she’d hate to be a Republican presidential candidate running against Obama in 2012 now that he had the CIA and Navy Seals kill Osama bin Laden. Also Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC.
A. You’ve identified the nation’s two overage liberal news Harpies there. But it’s all in their dreams. The best research that can be found has determined that when Saddam Hussein was captured in 2003, George W. Bush got a brief 7-point spurt which died as domestic issues took to the fore. …

As we digest the news of Usama bin Laden’s death and acknowledge that it is sweet retribution for all Americans…those who lost loved ones on 9/11 and the entire country which has invested billions in defense and anti-terrorism….let’s look ahead to a future where we can not be the combination constabulary and fire department for the world.

There is one important change in U. S. policy that is seldom discussed even in most conservative journalistic organs…and that is the necessity through election …

WTTW hosted a panel on Catholicism, Fr. Pfleger, and the beatification of John Paul II last night.

There as per usual we had the usually lopsided structure of two liberal Catholics…knowing and having interviewed both adversaries I would judge Barbara Blaine is more nominal than active… against one.
Both belong to the Catholic Left. Robert McClory is a teacher, journalist and resigned priest who’s written a laudatory book about Pfleger. McClory…a former assistant at St. Sabina’s pre-Pfleger who left the priesthood to marry… has in the course of thirty …

In a strongly worded statement, Cardinal Francis George has suspended Fr. Michael Pfleger from his roles as a Priest in the Archdiocese of Chicago.  The letter George sent Pfleger was excellent—a masterpiece.
I say: Better late than never. I fully expect the Crying Towel liberals…including the Sun-Times editorial board, Carol Marin and Laura Washington…both nominal Catholics and whose grasp of theology is wafer-thin…will weep copiously: This man has done wonderful things for the community! Nuts. A priest is not supposed to be a community organizer. He …

Can It Work? Not if Paul Ryan Gets on the Ticket for the Defense.
Some day after we’re all dead, revisionist historians will calculate that this 44th president, Barack Obama, in addition to being the worst president from the standpoint of patriotism pro-U.S. motivation, was the most inept.

They will likely cite as Evidentiary One, his utter failure to craft a budget. The American people would have been informed about this incompetence long before this but the national media, accustomed to its role of running interference for him …

If Chicago Tonight were a balanced news program, rather than a Left Wing PR event, it might offer something like this

Q. Can you explain?
A. The format is so incurably left-wing it wreaks of political correctness and apologias. It is a case of the Left having taken over complete control of the program agenda…due to the feminist alliance of Mary Field, Carol Marin and Elizabeth Brackett…the trio telling hopelessly pliable anchor Phil Ponce what he will do.
Q. As for instance?
A. Whenever the issue turns to same-sex marriage …

That’s Chicago Journalism Folks. All the Honesty of Pravda on WTTW Panel

It is so much fun to see how Chicago Tonight “analyzed” the Obama deficit speech last night with Carol Marin as moderator plus Lynn Sweet of the Sun-Times and Jim Warren, formerly of the Tribune and now of the Chicago News Cooperative, funded partly by WTTW which runs pallid pastel features in The New York Times. Of course given that WTTW is up to its neck in the bag to Obama and the Democrats…the Sun-Times a wholly-owned …

Dramatic Shift in Budget Debate from White House to U.S.House.
Q. Has the budget process has changed dramatically since you first went to work as a staffer in the U. S. House in 1958?
A. Absolutely. When I went there then, at the tag-end of the Eisenhower administration, the course of action had been always in the president’s hands—and had been so since the days of Franklin Roosevelt: Meaning that the ball started rolling with the president: in his State of the Union where he outlined his vision and …

Q. Among these events…Obama backing down on civil trials for 9/11 alleged plotters and going instead with plans for military trials at Gitmo…his extolling job growth in a speech at a windmill factory owned by Spaniards…his planning a weekend getaway while the government faces a shutdown—which of these tell you most compellingly that he will lose in 2012?

A. All of them show ineptitude but none forecasts the desperation reflected in his request to the Rev. Al Sharpton to keynote Sharpton’s National Action Network which he did …