DALEY NEWS
Mayor Daley had no public events today.
DALEY CHATTER
With the number of likely cases of swine flu swelling to 54 in Illinois, Mayor Daley spent yesterday calming the fears inflamed by the degenerate ramblings of Vice President Joe Biden.
Biden amply filled the shoes of his predecessor and professional fear-monger Dick Cheney yesterday when he warned citizens to avoid public transportation in order to escape the scourge of swine flu.
"I would tell members of my family, and I have, I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now,” Biden said on the Today Show yesterday while covering his face with his tie to keep Matt Lauer from giving him the “hog cough.” Biden continued: “It's not that it's going to Mexico, it's you're in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point, if they had another way of transportation suggesting they ride the subway. "
Our only-slightly more balanced mayor offered wiser words about dealing with the pig flu. And after a lifetime of filling the trough in the septic barnyard of Chicago politics, Mayor Daley knows a thing or two about dealing with diseased swine.
"We all have to get to work,” Daley said. “I mean, we'd be staying out of our cars. We'd be staying out of subways, out of elevators -- how about elevators? No, no, no. You have to remember -- we have to ... use some common sense."
In other Daley news, Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky took a look the City Council’s freshmen members two years into their first term. They found that the city’s nine newest legislators are doing more to empower our mayor than to hold him accountable, voting with Daley 70 percent of the time on major issues.
Who can blame them? Even the the most novice pols know who fills the trough in this barnyard.
That’s all, folks. Have yourself a great weekend.
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