Naperville

It's 60 days until Inauguration day! This Tuesday we will be giving thanks the the Republicans are no longer in power!

It's a mixed week, Lieberman got to keep one of his chairmanship positions (the one that he could cause the most damage with), but Waxman bounced a Blue Dog Dem off the House Energy and Commerce Committee chairmanship! Overall I'm calling it a good week.

One Sunny Day in Late January, 2009

One sunny day in January, 2009 an old man approached the White House from Across Pennsylvania Avenue,
where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to
go in and meet with President Bush."

The Marine looked at the man and said, "Sir, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here."

The old man said, "Okay" and walked away.

The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to
go in and meet with President Bush."

The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides
here."

The man thanked him and, again, just walked away.

The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U.S. Marine, saying "I would like to go in and meet with President Bush."

The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row
you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Bush. I've told you already that Mr. Bush is no longer the president and no longer resides here. Don't you understand?"

The old man looked at the Marine and said, "Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it."

The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, "See you tomorrow, Sir."

Naperville's Drinking Liberally will meet this Tuesday at Quigley's Irish Pub at 43 East Jefferson in beautiful downtown Naperville at 6pm. We are usually in the "private" room. Just hang a right after you walk in the door and look for the crowd that's debating politics, economics, or religion and smiling and laughing about it. If you can't find us, ask the waitstaff or your bartender, they'll know where we are!

BTW drinking is not required. Come in have a soft drink and a snack and let's talk politics.

See you Tuesday!

Rich & Tom

I hope none of you accidentally showed up at Quigley's last Sunday. If you did, I apologize. Never fear, we didn't forget about you, Drinking Liberally is THIS Sunday!

Let's celebrate our victories (President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama) and drown our sorrows in some of our losses. The good news is overall Democrats did pretty well.

My next question is how do we get the Dems to be more liberal?

See you Sunday!

Naperville's Drinking Liberally will meet this Sunday at Quigley's Irish Pub at 43 East Jefferson in beautiful downtown Naperville at 5pm. We are usually in the "private" room. Just hang a right after you walk in the door and look for the crowd that's debating politics, economics, or religion and smiling and laughing about it. If you can't find us, ask the waitstaff or your bartender, they'll know where we are!

BTW drinking is not required. Come in have a soft drink and a snack and let's talk politics.

We WON! WOOO HOOO!

Rich & Tom

No, it's not because I don't want to celebrate. Quigley's is closed that night, so we changed the date to the following Sunday, November 16th. I hope you can make it.

I'll send a reminder or two next week, so plan on being there for what should be a well earned celebration.

Later,
Tom & Rich