Illinois – the State where famed Chicagoland politics is a corruption personified. And not for nothing is a story of "somebody who somebody sent" with three players in playing musical political chair. Yes, singular – chair:
- Someone who escaped
- Someone who slipped the handcuffs by refusing to sit
- Clueless
The sordid tale of how the Democrat machine sat a hapless "fake" Representative for a single week for a single purpose: voting in a 60% increase in the Illinois personal income tax (which meant an even higher rise in their corporate tax rate) to try to balance their horrendous budget deficit.
Friend Warner Todd Huston has the all of the gory details at Publius Forum – I’d have to re-post the whole thing to show how bad it is, so go head on over and read it.
Trust me, your head will hurt too. Or, maybe not: it is where Obama learned his politics…
