Comments on: Foster Beats Oberweis in IL-14

By: Tlaloc

Tlaloc — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:02:50 +0000

Or, said another way, you don’t mind the government picking winners and losers, you just want them to pick different people.

Yes. Except it isn't a matter of "like" it is a matter of "inevitably they will".

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:57:52 +0000

Or, said another way, you don't mind the government picking winners and losers, you just want them to pick different people.

By: mac

mac — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:14:01 +0000

Hastert's hand-picked replacement was defeated because his corrupt get rich quick scheme known as the Prairie Parkway is falling apart. Hastert earmarked over a quarter billion dollars towards building an interstate highway through his district while the existing roads are crumbling before everybody's eyes. Hopefully Foster can reallocate the money towards projects that help the citizens drive around the district instead of making a selected few millionaires.

By: superdestroyer

superdestroyer — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:22:59 +0000

The results of the election demonstrate the legacy of Former Speaker Hastert's incompetence. He obviously never mentored anyone. The Republicans in Illinois were incapable of recruiting a competent candidate, and they spent money of an incompetent clown who has repeatably embarrassed conservative ideals.

In the long run, the Republican party cannot remain relevant due to the incompetence of their leaders, changing demographics, leadership failures, and policy failures.

By: jeff b

jeff b — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:30:24 +0000

I believe he did work at Argonne, but his great contributions were at Fermilab, which is in the congressional district where Foster was elected. Foster invented a novel photomultiplier circuit which is used by the hundreds of thousands in particle physics experiments everywhere.

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By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:17:41 +0000

This is a clear win for the democrats. And it shows the tilt of the political scene. Oberweis got about 2/3 of the votes in the special election that were cast in the primary election. If those republicans had come out and voted for Oberweis, he would have won, Instead, by staying home, they strengthened Pelosi's hand.

By: floyd

floyd — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:14:16 +0000

""In a stunning upset Saturday that could be a sign of trouble for Republicans this fall."" Nothing "stunning" here! The 14th con district encompasses Aurora, which is now the second largest city in Illinois, due to a huge influx of illegal aliens, which is due in large part to "Governor Blago's" contempt for the law. This demographic change along with "suburban creep" explains why it is no surprise they would elect a "suburban creep" to office. What is now a "Space Invader's" style march of suburbia, was quiet farm ground just a decade ago.

By: Dave Schuler

Dave Schuler — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:08:37 +0000

Yes, it's my understanding that he worked at Argonne National Laboratory. I heard reports during the campaign that, presumably as a proportion of the total spent, more money had been contributed to Foster's campaign by PhD's in physics than to any campaign in history.

By: floyd

floyd — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:57:27 +0000

A "Democratic Physicist"? I sure hope they don't vote-out "gravity"! Perhaps replacing it with "levity"? Plenty of Il Dems are "fizzy-cysts"

By: Hal

Hal — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:15:31 +0000

A gut punch doesn't set the match, but when it takes the wind out of you, and the audience gasps, it's not exactly good news.