Jesse Jackson, Jr. To Resign Within the Hour

Jackson had planned on a press conference to announce his resignation but was not able to bring himself to speak about it because of his illness, the source said.
The announcement comes after mounting pressure faced by Jackson as federal investigators appeared to widen their ongoing investigation into the congressman’s activities.

Jackson offered to raise up to $6 million to buy Obama's abandoned senate seat in 2008 from Rod Blagojevic.

Oh, Jesse Jackson Jr. just won his re-election bid despite conducting it 1) under investigation and 2) under sedation and 3) under observation. So Chicago voters have that going for them.

Remember in Miller's Crossing, when the Italian boss wants the Mayor to appoint his twin cousins, who speak no English, to a high political position (which they'll apparently share, as twins)? And first the Mayor balks but then Tom yells at him a little and he goes along with it?

Yeah, that's Jesse Jackson Jr., that's Chicago. Mob town, Machine town.

Posted by: Ace at 02:06 PM

Comments

1 Fucker couldn't have done this before the election and spared ppl from having to do a special election?

Posted by: DangerGirl - feeling empty at November 21, 2012 02:08 PM (YF3fb)

2 um...didn't he just get re-elected?

Posted by: kawfytawk at November 21, 2012 02:08 PM (JWLqy)

3 Never give up! Never surrender! Excelsior!

KIIIIAAAAAIIII!

Posted by: Ninja Ben Hur Jackson at November 21, 2012 02:08 PM (ON54M)

4 Ooh and frist!

Posted by: DangerGirl - feeling empty at November 21, 2012 02:09 PM (YF3fb)

5 How much is that seat going for this time?

Posted by: Butters at November 21, 2012 02:09 PM (NIZHJ)

6 "Jr." is code for incompetent. Sui generis...

Posted by: Wally in Walla Walla at November 21, 2012 02:09 PM (Dll6b)

7 So how much will the sea cost now?

Posted by: willow at November 21, 2012 02:09 PM (hX8cq)

8 This is my fault for being white, right?

Posted by: fluffy at November 21, 2012 02:09 PM (z9HTb)

9 Valerie Jarrett gonna run for the seat?

Posted by: kawfytawk at November 21, 2012 02:09 PM (JWLqy)

10 It's the Chicago way.

Posted by: kevlarchick at November 21, 2012 02:09 PM (+dlqq)

11 um...didn't he just get re-elected?

Yeah, he did, and most of the folks who voted for him were probably pretty sure he was corrupt.

Posted by: Meiczyslaw at November 21, 2012 02:10 PM (4+LTj)

12 Who is responsible for this witch hunt? Why is this not racist? I am actually surprised that he is being pushed out. What about his disability?

Posted by: L is an elle at November 21, 2012 02:10 PM (0PiQ4)

13 So that's who's gonna be the new AG!

Posted by: Nighthawk at November 21, 2012 02:10 PM (hrAg/)

14 But.....RACISM!!!!!!!!

Posted by: © Sponge at November 21, 2012 02:10 PM (UK9cE)

15 What does it take to get incompetent-balked around here?

Posted by: George Orwell what knows þr0n is your constitutionally guaranteed entitlement at November 21, 2012 02:10 PM (Lxw+T)

16 will he get his own show on MSNBC?

Posted by: Paladin at November 21, 2012 02:10 PM (QGbEp)

17 Balked = balled

Fucking autocorrect.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows þr0n is your constitutionally guaranteed entitlement at November 21, 2012 02:10 PM (Lxw+T)

18 I know his attorney working out the deal with the feds. He does not come cheap....

This guy is such a joke. Most people refuse to drink budweiser products in chitown because his brothers have the beer distributorship deal after a shakedown...

Posted by: Prescient11 at November 21, 2012 02:10 PM (tVTLU)

19 Incompetent bastard

Posted by: USS Diversity at November 21, 2012 02:10 PM (9ghZ6)

20 >>How much is that seat going for this time?

Made available just in time for the Incompetent Friday Sale.

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2012 02:11 PM (DOf3C)

21 Anyone thinks it's crazy for a party to elect a man in the nuthouse for their leadership?

they have absolutely no scruples.

Posted by: willow at November 21, 2012 02:11 PM (hX8cq)

22 So this means J Cubed will be kicked upstairs, yes?

Posted by: George Orwell what knows þr0n is your constitutionally guaranteed entitlement at November 21, 2012 02:11 PM (Lxw+T)

23 I lean into the turn like this. It makes me look sexy and incompetent.

KIIIIIAAAAAII!

Posted by: Ninja Ben Hur Jackson at November 21, 2012 02:11 PM (ON54M)

24 Only an incompetent will be permitted to fill his shoes.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows þr0n is your constitutionally guaranteed entitlement at November 21, 2012 02:12 PM (Lxw+T)

25 Good - fucking piece of shit deserves whatever is coming to him.

Posted by: blindside at November 21, 2012 02:12 PM (x7g7t)

26 Crap, I'm not sure if it's true, but the former boxing champ Hector Camacho apparently has the plug pulled after suffering brain death from being shot by a carjacker last night. R.I.P.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2012 02:12 PM (gBuIk)

27 The racism is thick in this thread.

Ace, you're racist for insinuating that he's crazy, don't cha know.

Posted by: © Sponge at November 21, 2012 02:13 PM (UK9cE)

28 What's his illness again? Sex addict? Crackhead? A drunk? Pedo? It must be bad because the first 3 I listed wouldn't get you booted out of a gerry-mandered district.

Posted by: L is an elle at November 21, 2012 02:13 PM (0PiQ4)

29 Yeah, he did, and most of the folks who voted for him were probably pretty sure he was corrupt.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw at November 21, 2012 02:10 PM (4+LTj)

I have decided it really doesn't matter HOW corrupt you are to get elected these days.....it is more a matter of IF you are corrupt.

Posted by: kawfytawk at November 21, 2012 02:13 PM (JWLqy)

30 here we go again where a party chose purposefully
corruption over ethics.

Posted by: willow at November 21, 2012 02:13 PM (hX8cq)

31 All this "illness" BS is an attempt to escape prosecution. I don't now why he is worried. He has the best get out of jail free card there is.

Posted by: Vic at November 21, 2012 02:13 PM (YdQQY)

32 Oh, Jesse Jackson Jr. just won his re-election bid despite conducting it
1) under investigation and 2) under sedation and 3) under observation.

He didn't even campaign. He was just on the ballot.

Them dumbfuckingIllinoians voted for him anyway.

Let. It. Burn.

Posted by: © Sponge at November 21, 2012 02:14 PM (UK9cE)

33 How dare he be hounded from office merely for being incompetent.

This is another incompetent stain on our nation's reputation.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows þr0n is your constitutionally guaranteed entitlement at November 21, 2012 02:14 PM (Lxw+T)

34 logproff, r.i.p. Mr Camacho

Posted by: willow at November 21, 2012 02:14 PM (hX8cq)

35 So that's who's gonna be the new AG!
Posted by: Nighthawk at November 21, 2012 02:10 PM (hrAg/)

----------------------------------------------

Juan Williams

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 02:14 PM (78QmA)

36 Just lie to us Jesse Jr... we'll believe anything you say.

Posted by: Token Black Person at November 21, 2012 02:14 PM (dt2qx)

37 Hey, now, being too crazy to attend your own press conference to announce you are stepping down from your elected office because you are crazy is really being committed to that whole crazypants thing.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming not nearly soon enough. at November 21, 2012 02:14 PM (VtjlW)

38 Crazy and corrupt are just racial code words for incompetent.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at November 21, 2012 02:15 PM (BrQrN)

39 You just got hammered by a bunch of shallow, vain jerkoffs looking to cement their status for 2016. How do you respond?

I'm going to Disneyland!

link in nick to a truly happy looking grandfather having the time of his life

Posted by: The Q at November 21, 2012 02:15 PM (lB4ch)

40 I am sure the seat is as likely to go to a white person as it is a black person in this new color blind America. Oh that's was so funny writing I think I just peed myself

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 21, 2012 02:15 PM (79ueO)

41 What's his illness again? Sex addict? Crackhead? A
drunk? Pedo? It must be bad because the first 3 I listed wouldn't get
you booted out of a gerry-mandered district.

Posted by: L is an elle at November 21, 2012 02:13 PM (0PiQ4)

Wow, you're racist.

Complications from bi-polar disease, you heartless racist white bastard. Bi-Polar disease caused by rampant drug use, but that's besides the point.

Posted by: © Sponge at November 21, 2012 02:15 PM (UK9cE)

42 Oh, Jesse Jackson Jr. just won his re-election bid despite conducting it 1) under investigation - RACIST
2) under sedation - RAACIST
3) under observation. - RAAACCIST

Posted by: Soledad O'Brien at November 21, 2012 02:15 PM (X7MMs)

43 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at November 21, 2012 02:15 PM (8y9MW)

44 BTW Illinois is now pushing for illegals to have drivers' licenses. Governor will sign the bill.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows þr0n is your constitutionally guaranteed entitlement at November 21, 2012 02:15 PM (Lxw+T)

45
He won't get any more respect in the 'hood, 'cause this just shows he's trying to act competent.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 21, 2012 02:16 PM (JJ+PT)

46 Solid blue (especially majority-minority) Congressional Districts are little different from Arab, African or Latin American dictatorships for life with sham elections.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2012 02:16 PM (gBuIk)

47 And this is kind of why I'd like to see large swaths of Chicago turned into new parking lots.

That's not even "politics" anymore. I don't know what that is.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at November 21, 2012 02:16 PM (8y9MW)

48 Pretty good setup for the insanity defense you know that's coming.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:16 PM (BoE3Z)

49
remember when MARCEL became a monkey on Friends? Yeah, garrett kept watching even AFTER THAT

Posted by: spongewing plover at November 21, 2012 02:16 PM (r5w1L)

50 Per Fox news, Camacho is brain dead with a poor prognosis, and may be taken off life support soon:

http://tinyurl.com/br398u5

Posted by: looking closely at November 21, 2012 02:17 PM (6Q9g2)

51 Perhaps Mr. Jackson actually accpts His inability to be an affective leader?

this would be new from most politicians.

or did he make a deal so his charges are lighter?

Posted by: willow at November 21, 2012 02:17 PM (hX8cq)

52 One thing is certain. Whoever takes his place will be incompetent.

Posted by: yinzer at November 21, 2012 02:17 PM (/Mla1)

53 If the Dems want a sleazy Democrat with Jacksonian name recognition livin in Chicago, Jerry Springer might be the guy.

Posted by: The Q at November 21, 2012 02:17 PM (lB4ch)

54 All pay and no work make Jesse Jackson Jr. something-something.

Posted by: garrett at November 21, 2012 02:17 PM (DOf3C)

55
We left that state in 1982 and moved to Arizona. Growing up near South Chicago Heights was pretty good back then. We had beautiful band programs in our schools and there were alot of positive things going on. What the hell has become of that state??
I wish people like JJ Jr could go back and see what it used to be like 30 years ago and maybe they would wake up.

Posted by: Kyle at November 21, 2012 02:17 PM (GESBM)

56 effective.

Posted by: willow at November 21, 2012 02:17 PM (hX8cq)

57 didn't he hold his resignation hostage for lifetime disability pay or something?

did they give it to him?

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 02:18 PM (79EF9)

58 50 Per Fox news, Camacho is brain dead with a poor prognosis, and may be taken off life support soon:

http://tinyurl.com/br398u5

Posted by: looking closely at November 21, 2012 02:17 PM (6Q9g2)

--Someone on FB said they did take him off, but I guess it has not been confirmed or is just a rumor.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2012 02:18 PM (gBuIk)

59 SCoaMF is just a codeword for incompetent.

Posted by: Butters at November 21, 2012 02:18 PM (NIZHJ)

60
37
Hey, now, being too crazy to attend your own press conference to
announce you are stepping down from your elected office because you are
crazy is really being committed to that whole crazypants thing.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming not nearly soon enough. at November 21, 2012 02:14 PM (VtjlW)

He's not crazy. Today is ninja day. If he were to stand up there and deliver a statement, no one would be able to see him (cause of his awesome ninjaness) and they would freak about the disembodied voice. So really, he's being considerate to everyone.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at November 21, 2012 02:18 PM (da5Wo)

61 You forgot to add that on election day this fuck was in a mental hospital.

He was voted back in office while in a fucking mental hospital on top of those other things.

Posted by: Mr pink at November 21, 2012 02:18 PM (U9ywS)

62 I'm OK with this.

Posted by: uterus cannon at November 21, 2012 02:18 PM (3ZtZW)

63 The next four years will see an explosion in the size of the incompetent market.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows þr0n is your constitutionally guaranteed entitlement at November 21, 2012 02:18 PM (Lxw+T)

64 At least he's not that incompetent minstrel show player, West!

Posted by: incompetent vogue editor at November 21, 2012 02:18 PM (nkiQM)

65 50
Per Fox news, Camacho is brain dead with a poor prognosis.....
Um, yeah. Gotta love the Media for their unintentional humor.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:18 PM (BoE3Z)

66 Ladies and Gentlemen: The Jackson Dive!

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 21, 2012 02:19 PM (JJ+PT)

67 BTW Illinois is now pushing for illegals to have drivers' licenses. Governor will sign the bill.

-----------------------------------------------------

Can't disenfranchise those dem voters, can they?

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 02:19 PM (78QmA)

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:19 PM (BoE3Z)

69 For the record, this is the "Obama" seat, right?

Posted by: looking closely at November 21, 2012 02:19 PM (PwGfd)

70 Jesse Jackson Junior did the work of three people: a senator, a chariot driver, and a kung fu fighter.

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 21, 2012 02:19 PM (Hx5uv)

71 All he wanted to do was watch one World Series game, but NO! His nurses wouldn't allow him to.

Posted by: The Q at November 21, 2012 02:20 PM (lB4ch)

72 O wait. Who did he sell his seat to is what I want to know.

Posted by: uterus cannon at November 21, 2012 02:20 PM (3ZtZW)

73 Free Blago!

A great tragedy of Obama's re-election is that Blago will have to rot in prison for the next four years until he is pardoned or granted clemency.

Posted by: dr. shatterhand at November 21, 2012 02:20 PM (n/ogz)

74 Perhaps Camacho will fill in Jackson's vacancy. Is he incompetent enough?

Posted by: George Orwell what knows þr0n is your constitutionally guaranteed entitlement at November 21, 2012 02:20 PM (Lxw+T)

75 At last report, Jackson was holding out for his lifetime medical benefits as a former member of Congress, and said he wouldn't resign unless he was assured of those.

Was a deal cut to give him what he wanted?

(You have to laugh at how determined these guys are not to be stuck in the Obamacare queue with the rest of us ordinary peons.)

Posted by: torquewrench at November 21, 2012 02:20 PM (ymG7s)

76 --and oh good grief, why is the story confined to the Fox News Latino ghetto?

Plenty of non-Latinos watched him fight back in the day.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2012 02:20 PM (gBuIk)

77 69 "For the record, this is the "Obama" seat, right?"

No, Jesse lost the bidding for that. Roland Burris got the O seat, and I believe it's now held by Republican Mark Kirk.

Posted by: The Q at November 21, 2012 02:20 PM (lB4ch)

78 For the record, this is the "Obama" seat, right?

Posted by: looking closely at November 21, 2012 02:19 PM (PwGfd)
Aka the Glory Holdover

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 21, 2012 02:20 PM (JJ+PT)

79 ack, He hasn't yet departed this awesome world?

ok i rveise my former comment, instead of rip
it will be prayers !

Posted by: willow at November 21, 2012 02:21 PM (hX8cq)

80 Must have gotten his disability. Criminal punk.

Posted by: eureka! at November 21, 2012 02:21 PM (UL+ny)

81 76
--and oh good grief, why is the story confined to the Fox News Latino ghetto? Plenty of non-Latinos watched him fight back in the day.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2012 02:20 PM (gBuIk)
Careful - you'll be summoning Mr. Hostess with that kind of talk.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:21 PM (BoE3Z)

82 Everybody was KUNG FU FIGHTING!!!!!

Posted by: Carl Douglas at November 21, 2012 02:22 PM (UK9cE)

83 Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2012 02:16 PM (gBuIk)
__

We're so inclusive andtolerant we support our own little Banana Republics within the confines of the national borders.

Posted by: kallisto at November 21, 2012 02:23 PM (jm/9g)

84 He'll be pardoned along with those other turkeys in the Rose Garden today..

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 21, 2012 02:23 PM (JJ+PT)

85 "Must have gotten his disability. Criminal punk."

i'm trying to find out.

isn't this what we have ace for? :3

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 02:23 PM (79EF9)

86 Jeez, maybe :"crazy" is a code word? I think it was in Blazing Saddles, when the Sherrif had the gun pointed at his head?

Posted by: uterus cannon at November 21, 2012 02:23 PM (3ZtZW)

87 Ok never mind my earlier comment I'm an idiot who didnt read correctly.

Posted by: Mr pink at November 21, 2012 02:23 PM (U9ywS)

88 Why resign? He could get re-elected in that district if he was in jail.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 21, 2012 02:24 PM (1Jaio)

89 Isn't it just funny that the only people who seem to go to jail are those who can harm Obama? Between this and Blago, I have to assume that Obama was trying to buy the seat somehow, and needed to get rid of these too amateur crooks.

Posted by: Baldy at November 21, 2012 02:24 PM (opS9C)

90 #75

Jackson should be entitled to all the same lifetime free health care benefits as other prisoners.

Posted by: looking closely at November 21, 2012 02:24 PM (PwGfd)

91 37 Hey, now, being too crazy to attend your own press conference to announce you are stepping down from your elected office because youare crazy is really being committed to that whole crazypants thing.

Well, they have always said inbreeding is a bitch.

Posted by: rickb223 Let It Burn at November 21, 2012 02:24 PM (GFM2b)

92 46
Solid blue (especially majority-minority) Congressional Districts are
little different from Arab, African or Latin American dictatorships for
life with sham elections.

Posted by: logprof

Not so. After the dictators there lose power, the people generally get some high caliber closure. This guy will be back, and he'll be hailed as a hero for his "journey" and triumph over mental illness (read ethics).

Posted by: pep at November 21, 2012 02:24 PM (6TB1Z)

93 "Careful - you'll be summoning Mr. Hostess with that kind of talk.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:21 PM (BoE3Z)"
___

MY WIFE IS A HISPANO-EURO-MEXARICAN WHO SHARES MY SERBIAN-AMERICAN CULTURE!!@!!!?

Posted by: Hostess Lives! but Hector is barely coherent at November 21, 2012 02:24 PM (jm/9g)

94 I will say this, given the whole prowling the halls of Congress whilst dressed like a ninja thing, I do believe he's bat shit.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming not nearly soon enough. at November 21, 2012 02:24 PM (VtjlW)

95 I think it was in Blazing Saddles, when the Sherrif had the gun pointed at his head?

Posted by: uterus cannon at November 21, 2012 02:23 PM (3ZtZW)

Get word to headquarters and tell them I said "OUCH".....

Posted by: © Sponge at November 21, 2012 02:24 PM (UK9cE)

96 Oh, Jesse Jackson Jr. just won his re-election bid despite conducting it
1) under investigation and 2) under sedation and 3) under observation.
So Chicago voters have that going for them.

Chicago voters are well-known for their incompetence.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2012 02:25 PM (QKKT0)

97 There's a whole lotta incompetence goin on round here.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at November 21, 2012 02:25 PM (QupBk)

98 They thing about a republic is that ultimately the people get the government they vote for.

Thanks alot assholes in blue states for being stupid and corrupt.

Posted by: JollyRoger at November 21, 2012 02:25 PM (t06LC)

99 Chicago?

I can't believe you used that filthy racist word!

Posted by: Golan Globus at November 21, 2012 02:25 PM (/1U3u)

100 That cease fire lasted 15 minutes. Napalm.

Posted by: Butters at November 21, 2012 02:26 PM (NIZHJ)

101 >>>>Jackson should be entitled to all the same lifetime free health care benefits as other prisoners.

You're Goddammed right he should, cracka!

Posted by: Samuel L Jackson at November 21, 2012 02:26 PM (3ZtZW)

102
"Another man in the driver's seat of the car, identified as Adrian
Alberto Mojica Moreno, 49, of Toa Baja, died in the attack, in which at
least one gunman opened fire on the vehicle in Bayamon, according to a
statement from police.
Mojica Moreno's relationship to Camacho
wasn't immediately known, but on Wednesday, detective Alex Diaz told
ESPN.com that Mojica Moreno had nine bags of cocaine in his possession
with a 10th bag open in the Ford Mustang, which was registered to Mojica
Moreno. He had been arrested for possession of controlled substances in
April 2012, according to Diaz.
The bullet apparently struck
Camacho in the jaw but exited his head and lodged in his right shoulder
and fractured two vertebrae, Torres said. Mojica Moreno was shot right
next to his Ford Mustang as he got out and tried to flee while Camacho
was shot in the passenger's seat."

Entrepreneurship gone bad.

Posted by: LC LaWedgie at November 21, 2012 02:26 PM (rzTDZ)

103 so, he's incompetent then?

Posted by: joeindc44 says choom on fuckers at November 21, 2012 02:26 PM (QxSug)

104 I would note that this incompetent scumbag's district was extended into the Will County suburbs to encompass the small town that this cretin will never give a damn about. Somehow, that redistricting in a-ok, making me a constituent of a Cook County nightmare.

Posted by: ejo at November 21, 2012 02:26 PM (GXvSO)

105 I think it was in Blazing Saddles, when the Sherrif had the gun pointed at his head?

Posted by: uterus cannon at November 21, 2012 02:23 PM (3ZtZW)

Nobody move or the incompetent gets it.

Posted by: Joe Mama at November 21, 2012 02:26 PM (JJ+PT)

106 Come on now.... calling him Incompetent is Racist... even if it IS by a Psychiatrist....or Judge....

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 21, 2012 02:26 PM (lZBBB)

107 I will say this, given the whole prowling the halls of Congress whilst dressed like a ninja thing, I do believe he's bat shit.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming not nearly soon enough. at November 21, 2012 02:24 PM (VtjlW)

Why's it gotta be BAT shit? Because bats are BLACK, you racist!!!!

Posted by: John Wiley Price at November 21, 2012 02:26 PM (UK9cE)

108 93
"Careful - you'll be summoning Mr. Hostess with that kind of talk.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:21 PM (BoE3Z)"

___

MY WIFE IS A HISPANO-EURO-MEXARICAN WHO SHARES MY SERBIAN-AMERICAN CULTURE!!@!!!?

Posted by: Hostess Lives! but Hector is barely coherent at November 21, 2012 02:24 PM (jm/9g)
And she's funner 'n shit than you white trash!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:26 PM (BoE3Z)

109 Jackson should be entitled to all the same lifetime free health care benefits as other prisoners.

And a sex change. I mean, if he wants one.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 21, 2012 02:26 PM (QKKT0)

110 Wow. Heavy rocket attack on Israel after cease-fire deadline. Who would have thought that would happen?

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 02:27 PM (78QmA)

111 it always amazed me his name never came up during the Blago trial.

Posted by: we are so screwed at November 21, 2012 02:27 PM (HEa5q)

112 The Sheriff is incompetent.

Posted by: Butters at November 21, 2012 02:27 PM (NIZHJ)

113 We are now all Chicago.

This fuck gets reelected while in a mental hospital and under investigation

We reelect Obama after criminal incompetence and fucking up the economy and US debt for 4 years.

Posted by: Mr pink at November 21, 2012 02:27 PM (U9ywS)

114 So democrats elected a guy who was forced out of office over criminal wrongdoing, a lady who lied about being a native American and practiced law in her state without a license, and a district attorney who lied about being a former porn star.

I'm sure I'm missing some.

Posted by: Dang at November 21, 2012 02:28 PM (R18D0)

115 Maybe his dad will step in and finish the unexpired portion of his term. Just out of the goodness of his heart, you understand.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2012 02:28 PM (BAS5M)

116 Incompetent to Stand Trial.

Posted by: jd at November 21, 2012 02:28 PM (y53d1)

117 61
You forgot to add that on election day this fuck was in a mental hospital.

He was voted back in office while in a fucking mental hospital on top of those other things.

Posted by: Mr pink at November 21, 2012 02:18 PM (U9ywS)

I think that's what ace meant when he said, 2) under sedation and 3) under observation.

Posted by: Tami at November 21, 2012 02:28 PM (X6akg)

118 >>>cease fire

Code words all OVER this mutha!

Posted by: Samuel L Jackson at November 21, 2012 02:28 PM (3ZtZW)

119 110
Wow. Heavy rocket attack on Israel after cease-fire deadline. Who would have thought that would happen?

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 02:27 PM (78QmA)
Competence!
And peace in our time.

Posted by: Hillary at November 21, 2012 02:28 PM (JJ+PT)

120 113
We are now all Chicago.

This fuck gets reelected while in a mental hospital and under investigation

We reelect Obama after criminal incompetence and fucking up the economy and US debt for 4 years.

Posted by: Mr pink at November 21, 2012 02:27 PM (U9ywS)
And people wonder why I'm cynical.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:28 PM (BoE3Z)

121 116 If he passes the competency hearing.

Posted by: Butters at November 21, 2012 02:29 PM (NIZHJ)

122 Hey, WHO DO YOU HAVE TO KILL AROUND HERE TO GET VOTED OUT OF OFFICE???

Heh heh.

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at November 21, 2012 02:29 PM (QKKT0)

123 Shit, what Jackson did is peanuts.

Posted by: Marion Berry, DC Councilman for Life at November 21, 2012 02:29 PM (gBuIk)

124 Running famous-name candidates is a sure winner in chump-heavy states (Mass, Minn, Ill, Cali). The GOP should do it more often.

I understand that bilking Linda McMahon out of tens of millions every cycle is *fun*, but she's not actually famous. There are several, maybe as many as eight, real celebrity Republicans.

I'd definitely run Sabrina the Teenage Witch against Elizabeth Warren next time. Move her to Salem before the residency deadline. The ads!

And porn-addicted shut-ins love that Buffy The Vampire Slayer chick. (I sense a theme.) Where are the "strong female character"-loving creeps concentrated? Probably where the serial killers are: "Cascadia." Just pick a state and send her in. Oregon? They're more celebrity-worshiping than Washington. I'd do Oregon.

Is Nicki Minaj American? Move her to Chicago before this seat gets filled. And give her more red wigs.

Posted by: oblig. at November 21, 2012 02:29 PM (cePv8)

125 Hey, WHO DO YOU HAVE TO KILL AROUND HERE TO GET VOTED OUT OF OFFICE???

Heh heh.

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at November 21, 2012 02:29 PM (QKKT0)

You just have to be a Republican and say the word Maccaca.

Posted by: © Sponge at November 21, 2012 02:30 PM (UK9cE)

126 Too incompetent to stand trial!

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at November 21, 2012 02:30 PM (BrQrN)

127 Maybe Jesse found a better gig hustling illegal weapons to drug cartels.

Posted by: Fritz at November 21, 2012 02:31 PM (mqdAz)

128 Damn, too late

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at November 21, 2012 02:31 PM (BrQrN)

129 And she's funner 'n shit than you white trash!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:26 PM (BoE3Z)

--Are we talking about curious, or did I miss a new one?

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2012 02:31 PM (gBuIk)

130 Posted by: oblig. at November 21, 2012 02:29 PM (cePv

You suck.

I hear your 3rd in line for the free sex change operation. Good luck with that.

Posted by: © Sponge at November 21, 2012 02:31 PM (UK9cE)

131 My Biz Markie 2016 is looking more and more visionary, isn't it, bitches?

Posted by: Golan Globus at November 21, 2012 02:32 PM (/1U3u)

132 Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco....

I am so tired of their dirty local politics spilling over into the national scene.

All the rest of us are just flyover country.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:32 PM (piMMO)

133 Sponge,

Maccaca still makes me laugh. Such a goofy thing to say, I keep wondering what the hell was Allen doing?

Posted by: Prescient11 at November 21, 2012 02:32 PM (tVTLU)

134 I'm sure this has been mentioned today but how about the non-incomp 5'10" kid in Iowa that sank 138 points last night?

Posted by: USS Diversity at November 21, 2012 02:32 PM (9ghZ6)

135 Driving While Incompetent. A major socialinjustice of our times!

Posted by: uterus cannon at November 21, 2012 02:33 PM (3ZtZW)

136 #94

Lets be clear here. There are three issues at play

a. Jackson allegedly has bipolar disorder, for which he was being treated at the Mayo clinic in MN.

b. Jackson is under Federal criminal investigation for diverting campaign money for personal use.

c. Jackson has been alleged to have raised money to purchase the Blago Senate seat. Don't know if there is any pending criminal investigation there or not. . .probably not.

Even assuming he does, in fact, have bipolar disorder, its not at all clear to me why its taken months in MN to treat him. Treatment is typically done as an outpatient. So either Jackson doesn't have BPD, or his medical situation is considerably more complicated than that (or both).

Posted by: looking closely at November 21, 2012 02:33 PM (6Q9g2)

137 Democrats will vote for anybody.

Posted by: Z Ryan at November 21, 2012 02:33 PM (tsC/8)

138 You just have to be a Republican and say the word Maccaca.

****

Dude.

It was a stupid thing to say.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:33 PM (piMMO)

139 Who know Mike Judge was a fucking Nostradamus. He was just a couple hundred years off in the time frame, but.....SPOT. ON.

Posted by: © Sponge at November 21, 2012 02:33 PM (UK9cE)

140 We don't have quotas for incompetence, but we must make provision to ensure the incompetent have a fair shot.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows þr0n is your constitutionally guaranteed entitlement at November 21, 2012 02:33 PM (Lxw+T)

141 Yeah, that's Jesse Jackson Jr., that's Chicago. Mob town, Machine town.

And the Stuttering Clusterfucks of Miserable Shitfail that live there wouldn't have it any other way.

Posted by: eleven at November 21, 2012 02:33 PM (KXm42)

142 Ejo,

What town in Will County is now in this idiot's district? Thanks

Posted by: Prescient11 at November 21, 2012 02:33 PM (tVTLU)

143 Another turd flushed. . .

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 21, 2012 02:33 PM (iAUf+)

144 "--Are we talking about curious, or did I miss a new one?"

it's "hostess lives!"

i thought he was a girl with that name, because i wouldn't be caught dead eating that sh~t x.X

but apparently -- YOU would love this -- he has a hispanic wife and nevertheless thinks its kosher to refer to all hispanic people as "spanish" -- "spaniard", apparently, is the singularly acceptable demonym for individuals from spain, while "spanish people" refers to anyone who speaks the language.

and he feels a strong affinity for their castillian culture, as practiced in puerto rico o.o

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 02:34 PM (79EF9)

145 Wow. Heavy rocket attack on Israel after cease-fire deadline. Who would have thought that would happen?
Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 02:27 PM (78QmA)

Bibi? So now he can hurl the Holy Hand Grenade at them?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Coming not nearly soon enough. at November 21, 2012 02:34 PM (VtjlW)

146 52
One thing is certain. Whoever takes his place will be incompetent.

Posted by: yinzer

Hey...how 'bout Roland Burrris! He'd make a fine replacement.

Posted by: JMKN1 at November 21, 2012 02:34 PM (JMKN1)

147 An Incompetant man in a Competant man's world! Hillary Clinton ain't never been called.... never mind yes she has

Posted by: uterus cannon at November 21, 2012 02:34 PM (3ZtZW)

148 TripleJ, all the way!

Posted by: NIV at November 21, 2012 02:34 PM (JJ+PT)

149 Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco....

I am so tired of their dirty local politics spilling over into the national scene.

All the rest of us are just flyover country.

I wish they could just have their own little Dutchies and leave the rest of us alone.

Posted by: eleven at November 21, 2012 02:34 PM (KXm42)

150
He didn't even campaign. He was just on the ballot.
Them dumbfuckingIllinoians voted for him anyway.

I guess the theory is that if you have a Majority-Minority district, it will be represented by a minority no matter what and so there can be competition to get the best and brightest to that seat.

In reality, it's the oiliest of machine politics and no one ever challenges the machine candidate.

Just look at the awful people that populate the CBC: Corrupt, incompetent (I denounce myself) and sometimes downright stupid.

And yet the voters in that district could vote for literally anyone to replace the jerk they have in Congress and they wouldn't have to worry about dirtying themselves by voting for a white candidate or *gasp* a black Republican, but they refuse and still vote in the jerks.

Posted by: AmishDude at November 21, 2012 02:35 PM (xSegX)

151 Hell of a family ya got there, Jesse. No, not your baby-mama family, the other one. Yeah.

Posted by: Dang at November 21, 2012 02:35 PM (R18D0)

152 What was it that he did "wrong" again?

Posted by: Big Bill Thompson at November 21, 2012 02:35 PM (4eNxd)

153
Dude.

It was a stupid thing to say.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:33 PM (piMMO)

So was Guam flipping over, but that dumbshit still collects my tax money as a paycheck.

Posted by: © Sponge at November 21, 2012 02:35 PM (UK9cE)

154 So corruption is an illness.
(smirk)

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 21, 2012 02:35 PM (8YKMk)

155 Even assuming he does, in fact, have bipolar disorder, its not at all clear to me why its taken months in MN to treat him. Treatment is typically done as an outpatient. So either Jackson doesn't have BPD, or his medical situation is considerably more complicated than that (or both).

*****

And BPD, even untreated, is no excuse for criminal behavior. It doesn't work that way.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:35 PM (piMMO)

156 But there's a way we do things, hallowed by usage and consecrated by time.

I can give them jobs. I can give them good jobs. I can even give them jobs where they won't have to perform any work, where their lack of English will be no impediment.

Posted by: Mayor Dale Levander at November 21, 2012 02:35 PM (QupBk)

157 #107

Fruit bats are brown. . .

(But maybe they're gay?).

Posted by: looking closely at November 21, 2012 02:36 PM (6Q9g2)

158 "Even assuming he does, in fact, have bipolar disorder, its not at all clear to me why its taken months in MN to treat him. Treatment is typically done as an outpatient. So either Jackson doesn't have BPD, or his medical situation is considerably more complicated than that (or both)."

oxycodone-abuse detoxification @.@

opioids are becoming all-too-well known for their exacerbation of underlying bipolar tendencies...and the richest among us can afford being hooked up to a benzo IV to ride out the characterisitic "dope sickness" associated with opioid detoxification.

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 02:36 PM (79EF9)

159 Posted by: Hostess Lives!

She's dead, Jim.

"Hostess Bankruptcy Judge Moves Forward With Liquidation After Mediation Fails"

Posted by: Bones McCoy at November 21, 2012 02:36 PM (ON54M)

160 Let's not forget he is a bastard's son. Not much lower than that. (Jesse Sr's father was his next door neighbor, not his wife's husband)

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at November 21, 2012 02:36 PM (wR+pz)

161 129
And she's funner 'n shit than you white trash!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:26 PM (BoE3Z)

--Are we talking about curious, or did I miss a new one?

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2012 02:31 PM (gBuIk)
Some fuckhead troll on an earlier post."Hostess Lives!' Lame shit. Some say it's "Hector". Anyway, he was into pimping his "Latin" wife. I thought Latin was dead, funnily enough, but I digress. He has a problem with white people, so of course he projects this on to white people not liking...... you get the point. Just another Marxist loon. The morons batted him around like a cat toy for a while. Good times, good times.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:36 PM (BoE3Z)

162 I'm sure this has been mentioned today but how about the non-incomp 5'10" kid in Iowa that sank 138 points last night?
Posted by: USS Diversity at November 21, 2012 02:32 PM (9ghZ6)

Yup great achievement, but he did shoot the ball over a hundred times?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 21, 2012 02:36 PM (79ueO)

163
it always amazed me his name never came up during the Blago trial.

Meh, he's a bottom-of-the-totem-pole guy. He just does his thing and he has handlers who call the shots.

Posted by: AmishDude at November 21, 2012 02:36 PM (xSegX)

164 Well, at least this doesn't impact any pending legislation or anything someone somewhere might actually deem 'important'.

Posted by: Rob McNeece at November 21, 2012 02:36 PM (hNXHo)

165 We are now all Chicago.

This fuck gets reelected while in a mental hospital and under investigation

We reelect Obama after criminal incompetence and fucking up the economy and US debt for 4 years.

Posted by: Mr pink at November 21, 2012 02:27 PM

When hell is full the dead will walk the earth.

Posted by: Berserker at November 21, 2012 02:36 PM (FMbng)

166 Will JJJ and Blago get adjoining cells?

Posted by: Roy at November 21, 2012 02:37 PM (tiOTz)

167 Incompetents need representation too.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at November 21, 2012 02:37 PM (QupBk)

168 link in nick to a truly happy looking grandfather having the time of his life
Posted by: The Q at November 21, 2012 02:15 PM (lB4ch)

He wasn't nearly as conservative as I would have liked, and I don't know that he would have rolled a lot back, but he was as good a person as has run for President in quite some time, and he actually loves the country and wishes the people in it well.

This is in start contrast to the bastard that still holds the office.

Posted by: blindside at November 21, 2012 02:37 PM (x7g7t)

169 What's really crazy is that a guy under federal investigation, who hasn't been to work since June, and who did absolutely no campaigning in the fall was easily re-elected. It's totally crazy that congressional districts are drawn to give some incumbants total protection from having to even campaign to stay in office.

Posted by: DC Zombie at November 21, 2012 02:38 PM (b96e6)

170 It was a stupid thing to say.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:33 PM (piMMO)

So was Guam flipping over, but that dumbshit still collects my tax money as a paycheck.

****

Yes, it was.

There are an awful lot of dumbasses in office that shouldn't be. (OMG: Waters, Corinne Brown, Grayson)

I'm a bit disturbed by Allen being booted for stupidity, going away for a few years, and then coming back to run again.

What is it with these people that they seemingly can find nothing else whatsoever to do with their lives if they aren't running for office?

What is it that is such a draw? Public service?

Yeah. Right!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:38 PM (piMMO)

171 "Hostess Bankruptcy Judge Moves Forward With Liquidation After Mediation Fails"

Never saw that coming.

Posted by: eleven at November 21, 2012 02:38 PM (KXm42)

172 162 I'm sure this has been mentioned today but how about the non-incomp 5'10" kid in Iowa that sank 138 points last night? Posted by: USS Diversity at November 21, 2012 02:32 PM (9ghZ6)

Yup great achievement, but he did shoot the ball over a hundred times?

108.

Posted by: rickb223 Let It Burn at November 21, 2012 02:38 PM (GFM2b)

173 The big joke around Chicago is that if there is a city contract or appointed position to be had, whose 19 year old nephew will get it.

And, yeah, Chicago people laugh at this stuff because they don't have the brains to run these bastards out of office. Blago's big sin wasn't that he tried to sell an office, it was that he was stupid enough to actually say that he was selling it. Out loud. He didn't have the brains to use mob phrases like "that thing".

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 21, 2012 02:39 PM (8YKMk)

174 Yup great achievement, but he did shoot the ball over a hundred times?

Oh...he's a chucker!

Posted by: USS Diversity at November 21, 2012 02:39 PM (9ghZ6)

175 He didn't even campaign. He was just on the ballot.
Them dumbfuckingIllinoians voted for him anyway.

---

Forget it Jake. It's Chicagotown.

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 21, 2012 02:39 PM (Hx5uv)

176 J Post http://tinyurl.com/63zoqj2

Posted by: Baldy at November 21, 2012 02:39 PM (opS9C)

177 What's really crazy is that a guy under federal investigation, who hasn't been to work since June, and who did absolutely no campaigning in the fall was easily re-elected. It's totally crazy that congressional districts are drawn to give some incumbants total protection from having to even campaign to stay in office.

****

Wanna bet whether Gabby Giffords would have been reelected?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:39 PM (piMMO)

178 169 It's totally crazy that congressional districts are drawn to give some incumbants total protection from having to even campaign to stay in office.

Hey, this country of ours has literally elected dead people. You can't go too much lower than that, Rep. Jackson's many attempts notwithstanding.

Posted by: Rob McNeece at November 21, 2012 02:39 PM (hNXHo)

179 Gone. Dead. Post-facto. El Finito. Sayoonara. Hasta la pasta.

Posted by: Bones McCoy at November 21, 2012 02:39 PM (ON54M)

180 He may have a diagnosed mental illness but I find his use of it when it suits him to be bullshit. I would love to see him at a press conference. He had no problems boozing it up and partying with those pretty lobbyists until he was seen and it was in the papers.

Posted by: Walkers! at November 21, 2012 02:40 PM (TYO2p)

181 "Yeah, he did, and most of the folks who voted for him were probably pretty sure he was corrupt.
Posted by: Meiczyslaw"

That's a problem?

Posted by: Marion Berry at November 21, 2012 02:40 PM (8YKMk)

182 What is it with these people that they seemingly can
find nothing else whatsoever to do with their lives if they aren't
running for office?

What is it that is such a draw? Public service?

Yeah. Right!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:38 PM (piMMO)

What can you say? Leaders were born to lead.

No, I couldn't type that with a straight face.

Posted by: © Sponge at November 21, 2012 02:40 PM (UK9cE)

183 Couldn't have happened to a more deserving son of a bitch.

Posted by: Alex at November 21, 2012 02:40 PM (3x3F6)

184 He didn't even campaign. He was just on the ballot.Them dumbfuckingIllinoians voted for him anyway.===================================

Just the dead ones.

Posted by: uterus cannon at November 21, 2012 02:41 PM (3ZtZW)

185 177
What's really crazy is that a guy under federal investigation, who
hasn't been to work since June, and who did absolutely no campaigning in
the fall was easily re-elected. It's totally crazy that congressional
districts are drawn to give some incumbants total protection from having
to even campaign to stay in office.

****

Wanna bet whether Gabby Giffords would have been reelected?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:39 PM (piMMO)
It would have been a landslide. Don't believe me? How about Joe Biden. The prosecution rests.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:41 PM (BoE3Z)

186 He and his handlers should re-imburse the taxpayer for what he cost them running when he knew he was not mentally qualified. Then again, Chicago taxpayers deserve to be stiffed.

Posted by: Walkers! at November 21, 2012 02:41 PM (TYO2p)

187 What is it with these people that they seemingly can find nothing else whatsoever to do with their lives if they aren't running for office?

What is it that is such a draw? Public service?

Yeah. Right!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:38 PM (piMMO)

--What was the margin in the VA Senate race?

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2012 02:41 PM (gBuIk)

188 2010 was crucial for redistricting and keeping the House, but this is the other side of this.

So many D seats are now +20, +30 D, but setting the districts up this way is what you have to do to lose the majority of the vote and hold the House. Good to hold the House, but it makes the quality of the D candidates even lower and less accountable than before.

Posted by: Paper at November 21, 2012 02:42 PM (UOC+H)

189 We are now all Chicago.

This fuck gets reelected while in a mental hospital and under investigation

We reelect Obama after criminal incompetence and fucking up the economy and US debt for 4 years.

Posted by: Mr pink at November 21, 2012 02:27 PM (U9ywS)

Chicago or Illinois unfortunately. The city and state is beyond repair and the idiots keep voting in the same crooks year after year. As long as there is a D after the name they will blindly vote for them

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 21, 2012 02:42 PM (1Jaio)

190
Yup great achievement, but he did shoot the ball over a hundred times?

He attempted 71 three-pointers.

Grinnell plays that way. They don't need a 24-second clock.

Posted by: AmishDude at November 21, 2012 02:42 PM (xSegX)

191 Oh, Jesse Jackson Jr. just won his re-election bid despite conducting it 1) under investigation and 2) under sedation and 3) under observation. So Chicago voters have that going for them.

It definitely reads like this sentence is supposed to end with a"boy"!

Yeah, that's Jesse Jackson Jr., that's Chicago. Mob town, Machine town.

So many codewords, so lil time!

Posted by: Elize Nayden at November 21, 2012 02:42 PM (d617h)

192 Speaking of Jacksons....

FNC held a graduation banquet for a group of interns who were participating in a diversity program.

They keynote speaker was Jesse Jackson Jr.

WTF, Ailes?!!!

You couldn't get Thomas Sowell, or Allen West, or Mia Love?

Jesse Effin Jackson?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:43 PM (piMMO)

193 I wish they could just have their own little Dutchies and leave the rest of us alone.
Posted by: eleven at November 21, 2012 02:34 PM (KXm42)

I just wish the founders had thought ahead and made it where the states were largely in control over their affairs and the federal government had limited powers allowing the states to act like, i don't know, little laboratories. They really should have put in an amendment to the constitution to that effect. Maybesomewhere after the first 9 amendments. Oh well.

Posted by: JollyRoger at November 21, 2012 02:43 PM (t06LC)

194 >>>cease fire

Code words all OVER this mutha!

Posted by: Samuel L Jackson at November 21, 2012 02:28 PM (3ZtZW)Yeah, "cease fire" is a code word for Arbeit Macht Frei.

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 21, 2012 02:43 PM (Hx5uv)

195 Chicago can get this shitbag to win an election but can't get Da Cubbies to win a fucking World Series?

Dumb ass town

Posted by: Navycopjoe (team LIB) at November 21, 2012 02:44 PM (MMpL5)

196 WTF, Ailes?!!! You couldn't get Thomas Sowell, or Allen West, or Mia Love? Jesse Effin Jackson?

======================

Word salads is teh funneh.

Posted by: uterus cannon at November 21, 2012 02:44 PM (3ZtZW)

197 192 Speaking of Jacksons....

FNC held a graduation banquet for a group of interns who were participating in a diversity program.

They keynote speaker was Jesse Jackson Jr.

WTF, Ailes?!!!

You couldn't get Thomas Sowell, or Allen West, or Mia Love?

Jesse Effin Jackson?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:43 PM (piMMO)

--The fact that they even have a "diversity program" tells you all you need to know.

Posted by: logprof at November 21, 2012 02:44 PM (gBuIk)

198
FNC held a graduation banquet for a group of interns who were participating in a diversity program.

They keynote speaker was Jesse Jackson Jr.
WTF, Ailes?!!!

I admire Ailes for this.

He obviously did this on the cheap.

Posted by: AmishDude at November 21, 2012 02:44 PM (xSegX)

199 #155

I would disagree there.

If someone really is in the manic phase of BPD, their judgment may be completely destroyed, and this "could" create textbook example of where an insanity defense might apply (ie demonstrable mental illness rendering someone incapable of telling right from wrong).

I have no idea if this applies to Jackson, and lacking any specific information about the nature of the investigation against him, I'll leave it at that.

But the cover story. . .out for treatment at Mayo for months. . .doesn't jibe with the public DX of bipolar disorder his camp has put out.

Either Jackson doesn't have bipolar disorder at all but something entirely different (including "malingering"), or he does but he's got any number of other concurrent medical issues that are complicating things.

Note also that at the time his hospitalization became public, there were concurrent stories about alcoholism and severe clinical depression. That sort of thing could explain a prolonged course of therapy, and IMO provides a better explanation than the one he's put out.

Posted by: looking closely at November 21, 2012 02:44 PM (PwGfd)

200 "You couldn't get Thomas Sowell, or Allen West, or Mia Love?"

...allen effin west!?

you're seriously comparing that incompetent, resource-sucking blowhard to mia love and THOMAS SOWELL?

good riddance, i say.

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 02:45 PM (79EF9)

201 "Them dumbfuckingIllinoians voted for him anyway.

Let. It. Burn.
Posted by: © Sponge"

Um, 2 consecutive governors sent to prison. These people don't have high standards.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 21, 2012 02:45 PM (8YKMk)

202 Maybe, the Chgo voters who re-elected this guy shd be forced to take psych tests to prove that they aren't mentally deficient? You know if this had not been a donk this would a joke every fucking night.

Posted by: Walkers! at November 21, 2012 02:45 PM (TYO2p)

203 192 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:43 PM (piMMO) ------- That's just embarrassing.

Posted by: Baldy at November 21, 2012 02:46 PM (opS9C)

204 This situation (Jackass Jr.) getting re-elected speaks to this nations decline better than almost anything else I can think of. Teh JEF is almost as bad.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 21, 2012 02:46 PM (jucos)

205 189
We are now all Chicago.

This fuck gets reelected while in a mental hospital and under investigation

We reelect Obama after criminal incompetence and fucking up the economy and US debt for 4 years.

Posted by: Mr pink at November 21, 2012 02:27 PM (U9ywS)

Chicago
or Illinois unfortunately. The city and state is beyond repair and the
idiots keep voting in the same crooks year after year. As long as there
is a D after the name they will blindly vote for them

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 21, 2012 02:42 PM (1Jaio)
Unbeknownst to many, we in Downstate Illinois have secretly tunneled under the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, providing ready escape routes for when the zombie hordes move South. After the Free Shit runs out. We've also secretly used these tunnels to stockpile corn and soybeans for bartering after the collapse. Let it Burn.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:46 PM (BoE3Z)

206 Chicago can get this shitbag to win an election but can't get Da Cubbies to win a fucking World Series?

Dumb ass town

Posted by: Navycopjoe (team LIB) at November 21, 2012 02:44 PM (MMpL5)

Everyone knows that if the Cubs win the world series, the world will end and all particles in the universe will stop simultaneously and one big ass bang will happen.

It's all in an effort to save the world, man.

Posted by: © Sponge at November 21, 2012 02:46 PM (UK9cE)

207 one big ass bang

o.O

Posted by: elmo at November 21, 2012 02:47 PM (3ZtZW)

208 When Chicago and Illinios go bankrupt, its gonna be epic. So hope the Jacksons and Daleyand the other crooks are alive to see it.

Posted by: boniface ballers at November 21, 2012 02:47 PM (l3RZ9)

209 FNC held a graduation banquet for a group of interns who were participating in a diversity program.

They keynote speaker was Jesse Jackson Jr.

---

I am
Somebody.
Somebody
With a lifetime pension
Instead of a prison sentence.

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 21, 2012 02:48 PM (Hx5uv)

210 114 So democrats elected a guy who was forced out of office... I'm sure I'm missing some.

You know, it's the 99% of Democrats that give the other 1% a bad name.

Posted by: sherlock at November 21, 2012 02:48 PM (LvQK2)

211 Who cares? This is what minorities want so let them have it. They can have their Obama fos and food stamps, lack of education, high crime and unemoyment. Let them live hand to mouth in sh-tty neighborhoods leading lives of misery away from the American Dream. This is what they wanted, what they voted for, what they're gonna get. Why wod it bother me? Their misery will be my pleasure.....but their own doing.

Posted by: Trump at November 21, 2012 02:48 PM (BWPiQ)

212 I was up there recently for the first time. Had a good time, Chicago's a nice city (where we were, of course).

Posted by: USS Diversity at November 21, 2012 02:49 PM (9ghZ6)

213 25 Good - fucking piece of shit deserves whatever is coming to him.
Posted by: blindside at November 21, 2012 02:12 PM (x7g7t)

Pffffffttt...c'mon.

Chicago. Democrat? Incompetent?

Nothing. will. happen.

201 "Them dumbfuckingIllinoians voted for him anyway.

Na-ah-ahh....Chicago fucksticks voted for him.

good riddance, i say.
Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 02:45 PM (79EF9)

Go fuck yourself, I say.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at November 21, 2012 02:49 PM (Np0vg)

214 When the Cubbies win the world series, the partying in this nation will go on for an entire fucking week.

Posted by: Prescient11 at November 21, 2012 02:49 PM (tVTLU)

215 My theory is that he has syphilis.

Posted by: Walkers! at November 21, 2012 02:49 PM (TYO2p)

216 Yes, the dipshits around Chicago giggle about the don't have nobody that nobody sent or the dead voting-the State, of course, is in the sewer and all pay the price for the corruption they giggle about.

Posted by: ejo at November 21, 2012 02:49 PM (GXvSO)

217 Wanna bet whether Gabby Giffords would have been reelected?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:39 PM (piMMO)

Yeah, I'd take that bet. Her district was gerrymandered and her assistant got his ass kicked.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at November 21, 2012 02:49 PM (wR+pz)

218 "Them dumbfuckingIllinoians voted for him anyway.

Let. It. Burn.

Posted by: © Sponge"

Um, 2 consecutive governors sent to prison. These people don't have high standards.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 21, 2012 02:45 PM (8YKMk)

Should be a third one. I'm looking at you Quinn

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 21, 2012 02:49 PM (1Jaio)

219 one big ass bang

o.O

Posted by: elmo at November 21, 2012 02:47 PM (3ZtZW)

No. One big ass BANG, not one big ASS bang......

Posted by: © Sponge at November 21, 2012 02:49 PM (UK9cE)

220 Lido missed the boat that day he left the shack

But that was all he missed and he ain't comin' back

A tombstone bar in a jukejoint car, he made a stop

Just long enough to grab a handle off the top

Next stop Chi town, Lido put the money down and let it roll

He said one more job ought to get it

One last shot 'fore we quit it

One more for the road

Refrain:

Lido, whoa-oh-oh-oh

He's for the money, he's for the show

Lido's waitin' for the go

Lido, whoa-oh-oh-oh

He said one more job ought to get it

One last shot 'fore we quit it

One more for the road

Lido be runnin', havin' great big fun, until he got the note

Sayin' toe the line or blow, and that was all she wrote

He be makin' like a beeline, headin' for the borderline

Goin' for broke

Sayin' one more hit ought to do it

This joint ain't nothin to it

One more for the road

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 21, 2012 02:50 PM (Hx5uv)

221 180
He may have a diagnosed mental illness but I find his use of it when it
suits him to be bullshit. I would love to see him at a press conference.
He had no problems boozing it up and partying with those pretty
lobbyists until he was seen and it was in the papers.
===

Hey, alcoholism is a "disease".

So are paranoid schitzophrenia and sexual sadism.

The issue here isn't how diseased/depraved Jackson is, but rather how pathological the IL State electorate that just put this clown into Federal office as a US Senator.

Posted by: looking closely at November 21, 2012 02:50 PM (PwGfd)

222 @211
Oh, they called and also said they want you to pay for it. All of it.

Posted by: JollyRoger at November 21, 2012 02:50 PM (t06LC)

223 Shit.

I typed Jesse Jackson Jr. when I meant to type Jesse Jackson Sr.

So... probably not so cheap.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at November 21, 2012 02:50 PM (piMMO)

224 Ejo,

What Will county town got redistricted into JJR's seat? Thanks

Posted by: Prescient11 at November 21, 2012 02:50 PM (tVTLU)

225
So, where the fuck is he? Where was the press conf/statement to be given? DC? Chicago? Minn?

Posted by: Walkers! at November 21, 2012 02:51 PM (TYO2p)

226 When Chicago and Illinios go bankrupt, its gonna be
epic. So hope the Jacksons and Daleyand the other crooks are alive to
see it.

Posted by: boniface ballers at November 21, 2012 02:47 PM (l3RZ9)

They should all be in jail cells whenever it happens

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 21, 2012 02:51 PM (1Jaio)

227 Leo Sayer rocks. I feel like I'm back in middle school!

Posted by: USS Diversity at November 21, 2012 02:51 PM (9ghZ6)

228 I'll give JJJ this. At least his mistress was kinda hot.

Posted by: JollyRoger at November 21, 2012 02:52 PM (t06LC)

229
Good - fucking piece of shit deserves whatever is coming to him.

And that would be lifetime disability payments for starters

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 21, 2012 02:52 PM (R8hU8)

230 208
When Chicago and Illinios go bankrupt, its gonna be epic. So hope the
Jacksons and Daleyand the other crooks are alive to see it.
===

What will be "epic" is the use of Federal taxpayer funds (ie YOUR money) to bail out that shithole.

Laugh (or cry) all you like, but does anyone harbor the slightest doubt that Obama and the "no budget" Senate would do that in a heartbeat?

Posted by: looking closely at November 21, 2012 02:52 PM (PwGfd)

231 Posted by: looking closely at November 21, 2012 02:44 PM (PwGfd)

--------------------------------------

Get real. Jr's a Chicago thug like the rest of them. But he was so stupid he got caught IN CHICAGO, for god's sakes.

He's fishing for a way out of jail time. Fuck him and his fucking "sickness".

Posted by: Soona at November 21, 2012 02:52 PM (78QmA)

232 If JJJr's plea bargain includes jail time he'll mostly likely get to keep his doctor! He was being treated at the Mayo Clinic and the Bureau of Prison has a medical facility in Rochester, Minnesota. It's for treating inmates who need specialist care plus it houses the Bureau of Prisons' psych ward.

The feds often sends newly sentenced inmates who claim medical problems to their Rochester facility for evaluation just to cover their ass. The condition gets diagnosed by a specialist and a treatment plan is set, then they
are transferred to their new home. That way no one can yell NEGLECT! especially in political situations as with the blind sheik.

Posted by: NC Mountain Girl at November 21, 2012 02:52 PM (Rrkt1)

233 "What is it with these people that they seemingly can find nothing else whatsoever to do with their lives if they aren't running for office? "

Would you hire them? I wouldn't. A lot of people in politics are useless. And if you've ever known the children of these people, they're even more useless. Think Jugs McCain is a fluke? I used to know a son of a U.S. congressman. With a law degree yet. Biggest loser you ever saw. He couldn't get through a conversation without mentioning that his father was a congressman. And people still didn't like him.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 21, 2012 02:52 PM (8YKMk)

234 When Chicago and Illinios go bankrupt, its gonna be
epic. So hope the Jacksons and Daleyand the other crooks are alive to
see it.

Posted by: boniface ballers at November 21, 2012 02:47 PM (l3RZ9)
------------------------------------------------------
They will be bailed out by Iowa, WI, MN, IN, KY and a consortium of other midwest states. We are well and truly fucked.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 21, 2012 02:53 PM (jucos)

235 Posted by: AmishDude at November 21, 2012 02:35 PM (xSegX)

Well... it was easy peasy.... all those 'extra' voters just checked his box, when they did Obama's...

Wonder what the turnout numbers were in his district?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 21, 2012 02:53 PM (lZBBB)

236 "Go fuck yourself, I say."

well aren't you able to present the case for an unqualified, unintelligent rabble-rousing populist in a mature fashion?

it's no surprise you're drawn to imbecilic candidates like allen west, i guess.

the gop doesn't need to play the minority bingo game. wilful acquiescence to identity politics makes us no better than the donks...and has the unsalutary side-effect of saddling us with incompetent professional self-promoters like allen west.

the man is a joke who doesn't give a damn about anything but his own rising star. to put an ignoramus like allen west in the same group as a brilliant intellectual like thomas sowell and an apparently capable young blood like mia love is a crime.

Posted by: jimi ray at November 21, 2012 02:54 PM (79EF9)

237
@177
Of course Gabby Giffords would have been re-elected. She also wasn't under federal investigation. And after having been shot in the face from close range and surviving, she would have been a very sympathetic candidate and would have easily cruised even after she barely won her 2010 re-elect.
Comparing Gabby Giffords to Jesse Jackson is stupid. The only similarity is that they both missed time from work.

Posted by: DC Zombie at November 21, 2012 02:54 PM (b96e6)

238 @230

I can see something along those lines being the end of the United in United States. We'll suffer a lot as a nation, but I don't see states or taxpayers looking too kindly on bailing out morons who pad thier own nest while they do without.

Posted by: JollyRoger at November 21, 2012 02:54 PM (t06LC)

239
And to think people scoff at the notion of secession.

I scoff at the notion of remaining politically connected to districts and states who elect people like J3 to represent them.

Posted by: Jaws at November 21, 2012 02:55 PM (4I3Uo)

240
Yeah, I'd take that bet. Her district was gerrymandered and her assistant got his ass kicked.

I think barber beat mcsally

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 21, 2012 02:55 PM (R8hU8)

241 @233

He hit on you didn't he.

Posted by: JollyRoger at November 21, 2012 02:55 PM (t06LC)

242 239

And to think people scoff at the notion of secession.

I scoff at the notion of remaining politically connected to districts and states who elect people like J3 to represent them.

Posted by: Jaws at November 21, 2012 02:55 PM (4I3Uo)
It's already started, on an individual and community level. Has been for years, actually.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2012 02:56 PM (BoE3Z)

243 214 When the Cubbies win the world series, the partying in this nation will go on for an entire fucking week.
Posted by: Prescient11 at November 21, 2012 02:49 PM (tVTLU)

Don't care, except that we will have interstellar space travel long before that happens.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at November 21, 2012 02:57 PM (Np0vg)

244 Why don't we have term limits.
7 terms as a Representative.
3 terms as a Senator.

Wouldn't that be easiest?

Posted by: Prescient11 at November 21, 2012 02:57 PM (tVTLU)

245 By the way, I doubt Jackson was ever in a mental hospital. The Mayo Clinic is connected by tunnel and skyway to two luxury hotels whose services are said to include rooms that can be set up to accommodate most medical needs as well as concierge operations used to arranging for private nursing services. Remember how no one knew where he was for a long time? Those hotels probably have a better record at keeping secrets than all the US intelligence agencies combined.

Posted by: NC Mountain Girl at November 21, 2012 03:00 PM (Rrkt1)

246 When the Cubbies win the world series, the partying in this nation will go on for an entire fucking week. Posted by: Prescient11 at November 21, 2012 02:49 PM (tVTLU) Don't care, except that we will have interstellar space travel long before that happens.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at November 21, 2012 02:57 PM (Np0vg)

Remember Back to the Future 2, where the sports ad shows the Cubbies winning the world series in 2015.

We're almost there. And still no fucking flying cars. Thanks a lot science fiction, suck it.

Can't zero just demand that we have flying cars?? Like the bullshit EPA mandates re fuel efficency, ruined BMW sports cars, at least a lot of them.
Best V8 engine ever in the M3.

Posted by: Prescient11 at November 21, 2012 03:00 PM (tVTLU)

247 When Chicago and Illinios go bankrupt, its gonna be epic. So hope the Jacksons and Daleyand the other crooks are alive to see it. Posted by: boniface ballers at November 21, 2012 02:47 PM (l3RZ9) ------------------------------------------------------ They will be bailed out by Iowa, WI, MN, IN, KY and a consortium of other midwest states. We are well and truly fucked.

WELL IA, WI and MN can GET FUCKED.

MN especially. Not voting for Reagan in '84, MN is fucking dead to me, they can keep their shitty lakes.

Posted by: Prescient11 at November 21, 2012 03:02 PM (tVTLU)

248 "241 @233

He hit on you didn't he.
Posted by: JollyRoger "

He hit on everyone. It wasn't exactly flattering.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 21, 2012 03:04 PM (8YKMk)

249
In the next cycle, I'm available and ready to kick ass. Call me honey.

Posted by: COD at November 21, 2012 03:06 PM (lDWQr)

250
# 245By the way, I doubt Jackson was ever in a mental hospital. The Mayo Clinic is connected by tunnel and skyway to two luxury hotels whose services are said to include rooms that can be set up to accommodate most medical needs as well as concierge operations used to arranging for private nursing services. Remember how no one knew where he was for a long time? Those hotels probably have a better record at keeping secrets than all the US intelligence agencies combined.

I grew up in that town, worked at the Mayo Clinic, and know the two hotels you refer to... There is indeed a tunnel connecting those and other buildings in downtown Rochester. Including the buildings that house all the laboratories for testing. And the staffs of all those businesses have MANY stories to tell.Private security abounds as there are many wealthy Arabs that spend extended periods of time there.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at November 21, 2012 03:09 PM (pDRpv)

251 @245 It was drug rehab... everyone on Rochester knows that. Least kept secret.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at November 21, 2012 03:11 PM (pDRpv)

252
@ 247 The state of MN is screwed. The only person more stupid that Jesse Jackson is the current Guv: Mark Dayton. This guy's an absolute box of rocks. Make that "Absolut Box on the Rocks". He makes Jesse Ventura look like a genius.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at November 21, 2012 03:15 PM (pDRpv)

253 Remember Back to the Future 2, where the sports ad shows the Cubbies winning the world series in 2015.

We're almost there. And still no fucking flying cars. Thanks a lot science fiction, suck it.

Can't zero just demand that we have flying cars?? Like the bullshit EPA mandates re fuel efficency, ruined BMW sports cars, at least a lot of them.
Best V8 engine ever in the M3.
Posted by: Prescient11 at November 21, 2012 03:00 PM (tVTLU)

With the direction this fucked up country is being pushed, we'll be lucky to have new shoes by 2030.

Mayans notwithstanding, of course.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at November 21, 2012 03:16 PM (Np0vg)

254 And the staffs of all those businesses have MANY stories to tell.Private security abounds as there are many wealthy Arabs that spend extended periods of time there.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at November 21, 2012 03:09 PM (pDRpv)

Sur-prize, sur-prize, sur-prize.....

Posted by: Gomer Pyle, USMC at November 21, 2012 03:19 PM (Np0vg)

255 47 The state of MN is screwed. The only person more
stupid that Jesse Jackson is the current Guv: Mark Dayton. This guy's an
absolute box of rocks. Make that "Absolut Box on the Rocks". He makes
Jesse Ventura look like a genius.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at November 21, 2012 03:15 PM (pDRpv)

You obviously aren't familiar with Illinois governor Pat "give the illegals driver's licenses" Quinn. The box of rocks has a higher IQ than that cretin

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 21, 2012 03:21 PM (1Jaio)

256
Man, it is fucking racist to call someone bugnuts insane.

It's also racist as all shit to call someone a flaming nutcase.

Racist? Sure as hell it is.

It's also racist to call someone a lunatic jackass.

I know, incredible.

Like, if I were to call charlie Manson a deranged slobbering mutant...well, that's racist as shit!

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Bunny at November 21, 2012 03:22 PM (uN9N4)

257 He was waiting to get his golden parachute pension. In other glorious news Shillary delivered peace in our time! There won't ever be another shot fired in anger in the middle east.

Posted by: turds in the punch bowl at November 21, 2012 03:22 PM (Kflw4)

258 @256 It is an evil racist shithole in America! They are so evil and racist they voted for Hussein the Messiah twice and made Oprah a billionaire! It is so bad and racist no one from anywhere in the world wants to come to America and sing under the glorious rainbow flag like good comrades.

Posted by: turds in the punch bowl at November 21, 2012 03:24 PM (Kflw4)

259 http://youtu.be/HiSNkIaJi_U?t=3s

Posted by: Done and Done at November 21, 2012 03:26 PM (Mx87y)

260 What's the difference between him and B+rry anyway? Are they going to haul B+rry off too? Won't the Congressional Black Caucus be one nut short of a quorum?

Posted by: torabora at November 21, 2012 03:33 PM (j5ex0)

261 #245 Is there hooker service too?

Posted by: torabora at November 21, 2012 03:38 PM (j5ex0)

262 Psychiatry and mental health are racist.

Posted by: tell em Large Marge sent ya at November 21, 2012 03:39 PM (Kflw4)

263 It doesn't matter.........because the Donks in Chicago will somehow managed to find someone worse.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at November 21, 2012 04:08 PM (OWjjx)

264 Miss Jackson? If you're nasty.

Posted by: Dang at November 21, 2012 04:09 PM (R18D0)

265 This guy couldn't even get his excuse illness's right. I read a story a month ago or so, and it said he had "Bi Polar disease" and that he needed a DOCTOR with him at his bedside 24/7. Who is he? Hellen freakin keller now? The story is beyond laughable, yet nobody will even dare say anything.

Why hasn't anyone in the media, ANYWHERE, just said what everyone already knows? The guy tried to buy a senate seat, the FEDS came calling, and the guy shit his pants. He is so afraid of going to jail that he's faked an illness to gain sympathy. Pathetic. He must have made alot of friends who he stepped on, on his rise to the top who he may have 'helped' get jail time. SWEET.

I want to see the movie

Posted by: At the end of my rope at November 21, 2012 04:10 PM (YAGzS)

266 "I panicked!"

Posted by: Jesse Jackson Jr. - stealing lines from watching Cops. at November 21, 2012 04:13 PM (R18D0)

267
Why couldn't he buy his senate seat like Baracka!!!

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Bunny at November 21, 2012 04:15 PM (uN9N4)

268 The trial balloons have been for his wife. Equally corrupt and involved in his fraud. Lives in D.C. but serves as an alderman in Chicago. That's how pathetic my state is.

Posted by: ejo at November 21, 2012 04:23 PM (GXvSO)

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