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Friday, Jan 13, 2023 - Posted by Rich Miller

* I don’t think they’ve been assigned their new offices yet, but, yes, this will most likely happen when the newbies come back to town in a couple of weeks and see where they’ve been placed…


* Rep. Chris Miller (R-No Relation) rose on a point of personal privilege yesterday

I rise today in response to the Speaker’s comments yesterday attacking my wife as well as the Freedom Caucus in Washington for holding firm on their commitments to drain the swamp. I want to thank the 20 conservative patriots in the US House of Representatives for their efforts to stop reckless spending and debt that is crushing our country. Those 20 Members of Congress fought against the status quo to get hard spending caps so that Washington can actually cut spending at a time with record inflation and a $31 trillion debt. And this chamber on both sides of the aisle, we can learn a lesson from their courage. A broken Congress is a Congress that passes a 4,000-page 1.7 trillion omnibus bill that nobody read, passing in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve. That is something that cannot happen again, thanks to these 20 patriots. I’m proud that the Illinois Freedom Caucus is fighting fiscal sanity here in Springfield and my constituents appreciate the bold effort of 20 Freedom Caucus members for doing the same thing in Washington, DC. Thank you very much and God bless you.

“I’m proud that the Illinois Freedom Caucus is fighting fiscal sanity here in Springfield” is not a typo.

Anyway, I asked Rep. Miller what Speaker Welch had said about US Rep. Mary Miller. He wouldn’t say. So, I checked and re-checked Welch’s inaugural speech. The only thing I could find that might be about her was this passage

We must stand up to the extremists who want to pull us backward – because matters of basic human dignity shouldn’t be subject to the ideologies of politicians and judges.

…Adding… A commenter suggested that this might be it…

I also want to thank and congratulate our new Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias. After what we all watched in Washington last week, you sure made this inauguration look like a model of efficiency.

* Isabel’s roundup…

       

17 Comments
  1. - New Day - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 2:46 pm:

    With inflation coming down decisively, Republicans really need to get new talking points other than “record inflation.”


  2. - New Day - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 2:47 pm:

    And yea, Stratton is awful…they can’t tear that beast down fast enough.


  3. - rtov - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 2:49 pm:

    The mystery of the ring-tailed lemur is my favorite news story of this young year.


  4. - A Well-Regulated Commenter - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 3:04 pm:

    An additional reference was after speeches. Paraphrasing very broadly, I think Speaker Welch complimented SoS on running an organized process unlike the Congress critters.


  5. - Moe Berg - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 3:10 pm:

    ==Rep. Chris Miller (R-No Relation)== always the victims, these folks.

    It’s the casus belli for authoritarians to justify their extremism.

    “We were attacked and are only defending ourselves,” they mendaciously mew.


  6. - vern - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 3:12 pm:

    I guess the below from Welch’s speech could be interpreted as an attack on Mary Miller, if one were determined to see everything possible as a slight against the Miller family.

    === I also want to thank and congratulate our new Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias. After what we all watched in Washington last week, you sure made this inauguration look like a model of efficiency. ===


  7. - Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 3:17 pm:

    You may have hit the nail on the head, vern. I can’t believe I missed that.


  8. - TNR - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 3:19 pm:

    The course credit offer seems to still be an unanswered question for the mayor. Either the campaign staffer was flat-out lying to students about them be able to earn credit, which is pretty awful. Or there was some coordination between the campaign and CPS, which would move this controversy to an entirely different level.


  9. - vern - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 3:20 pm:

    === I can’t believe I missed that. ===

    No shame on this one, you *really* gotta want it to read that as a shot at Mary Miller. Miller and Welch right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Ksoizbl2s


  10. - JoanP - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 3:32 pm:

    If Chris Miller thinks those were references to Mary, well, as my high school French teacher used to say, “qui s’excuse, s’accuse” (he who excuses himself, accuses himself).


  11. - Rich Miller - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 3:36 pm:

    ===Or there was some coordination between the campaign and CPS===

    CPS has an internship program for students https://www.cps.edu/academics/work-based-learning/toolkit/internship/


  12. - Oswego Willy - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 3:42 pm:

    The thing about Lightfoot and these emails looking for internships, the comedy, outside the ethical issues that may be seen, is that Lightfoot and this battling with CTU and looking at schools like Rauner and this comedic lack of self awareness that existed to look to schools/educators to find interns… even if the historical context is an existing pipeline.

    It’s so terribly awful that once Lightfoot looked at “staff” and all that entails to mistakes… it’s just another miss that Candidate Lightfoot would’ve exploited to defeat this Mayor Lightfoot.


  13. - Oswego Willy - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 3:51 pm:

    Randy Wells’ tweet, that’s some good stuff there… closets.

    Also, nothing like the old 36th Ward finding its way in the news… you can bet people are pleased


  14. - Dotnonymous - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 3:55 pm:

    “I’m proud that the Illinois Freedom Caucus is fighting fiscal sanity here in Springfield”

    Doctor Freud on line 1…holding for Chris Miller.


  15. - Socially DIstant Watcher - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 4:04 pm:

    On da mare, if Mikva had reached out, and not specified a campaign, it’d be fine. But it was a campaign reaching out asking for help for themselves, so it’s not.

    On da Rep: They’ll never be happy until everyone agrees with them, and they’ll keep moving the goalposts anyway, so yes, they’re looking for reasons to be offended.

    On da Stratton: the small offices are fine; it’s the asbestos that’ll kill ya


  16. - Dotnonymous - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 4:05 pm:

    One would think “farmers” like the Millers would have thicker skin.


  17. - Yiddishcowboy - Friday, Jan 13, 23 @ 4:11 pm:

    I saw Rep. (Chris) Miller at a Spfld Starbucks recently. (He parked his ginormous truck to take up two spaces, but I digress.) I so wanted to tell him how ridiculous he and his wife are based on their political and social positions and their statements about those positions, but I took a pass; I didn’t want to risk being booted and banned from Starbucks. I gotta have my coffee, which is way more important than confronting him and his far-right craziness.


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