Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Liberal rhetoric, a Republican echo

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Liberal rhetoric, a Republican echo:

Liberal rhetoric, a Republican echo

by Mike Klonsky

Biden: "Buy a shotgun! Buy a shotgun!"

I'm always amazed, but not surprised, when liberal Dems in power begin acting and sounding more and more like Republicans.

Of course here in Chicago, there is no Republican Party. Only a Democratic machine that ideologically and politically could easily be mistaken for the regime of any one of a number of Tea Party governors in neighboring states of Wisconsin or Indiana -- especially when it comes to public education.

Case in point: Chicago schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett's likely ghost-written commentary in yesterday's Sun-Times imploring citizens not to "throw money at" schools she has labeled as "underutilized".

It was just about a year ago when her predecessor, J.C. Brizard who first threw around the neo-con don't-throw-