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...Circus--Stupak is something of a wild card, a joke or a curse, a relic of the days when the town was run by guys whose middle name was "the." He enjoys banter about guns, was almost cast in Martin Scorsese's gangster epic Casino, and still refers to Mob characters like "Lefty" Rosenthal and Tony (the Ant) Spilotro as "the boys...
Also, civic reputations have a long half-life. Chicago has had wondrous architecture for years, but it is still identified with Mob wars and the sort of political machine that urges its followers to vote early and often. If Dan Rostenkowski happened to be from Cleveland, would commentators on his fall have said that he couldn't shake the Cleveland way of doing things...
...page news was the White House suggestion that C-SPAN not rebroadcast it. That was unusual enough to meet the old city-editor test for a story: man bites dog (no special breed). Politicians are supposed to be nearly insult proof, in the way that people associated with the Mob are libel proof...
...vote is impersonal, any way you construe it. Its value should not be discounted, but the mob mentality is partly right in that a vote won't do much by itself. The mistake we must avoid is allowing helplessness to spawn from that trivial fact. A vote sits only on the fringe of your rights and privileges as an American. You have the right to vote, but you also have the right to volunteer and accomplish much more than your vote possibly could. A Republican administration might well eliminate HOPE 6. Will that negate the will of the hundreds...
...have been under the illusion that she was the referee, but she was effectively out of the ring years ago. Also, since much of the fighting is carried on between each principal's pack of friends--packs well matched for loathsomeness--it can sometimes spin into the sort of mob frenzy so prized by Dirty Soccer devotees...