Ace breaks out the flaming skull. The governor was apparently trying to sell Obama’s vacant senate seat to the highest bidder.
Paco World News has an update, featuring a secret videotape of Blagojevich’s negotiations with a group of senatorial wannabes (talk about blatant!)
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And just what was the Political Auction Coordinating Organization doing throughout all of this? Sitting on the sidelines? They would have closed a deal by noon on 5 November.
Jeff: We're too busy auctioning off the soon-to-be-vacant Illinois governor's job.
I suppose we're supposed to believe that the man that Obama worked closely with is NOT the same man who tried to sell his senate seat, that he has been a paragon of virtue in the past, and now Obama is shocked, SHOCKED at what his friend and colleague has been up to.
Privately, a few people who know the governor describe him as a "sociopath," and they insist they're not using hyperbole. State representative Joe Lyons, a fellow Democrat from Chicago, told reporters that Blagojevich was a "madman" and "insane."
You would think that Obama might notice a teensy little detail like that.
SwampWoman: His wife's a a real piece of work, too.
Gotta say this leaves me cold. So what? more or less sums up my attitude. Just be prepared for four more years of this kind of thing.
None of it has anything to do with Obama, of course. No matter what kind of sleaze and slime happen right next to him, none of it touches him. Rev. Wright, Father Pfleger, Tony Rezko, Ayers and Dohrn, and now Blagojevich.
These aren't the droids you're looking for.
I'm not even going to indulge in a gloat. Practice this phrase for the next four to eight years: "This is what we voted for."
BarryO is a Politician - a Chicago Politician, to boot. This means he will say or do ANYTHING, use & discard ANYONE, to get to where he wants to go.
I plan to spend a lot of the next 4 years smirking. At the schlubs who don't know what's about to hit them, after they sent their last hundred bucks to the Handsome Black Candidate Who Promised!
And the media wonks who broadcast the Adoration.
Sorry, forgot to say - this ain't exactly a New Kind of News in Chicagoland. It really IS what they vote for.
"Chicago Political Machine" didn't become a cliche just because it sounded cool, y'know. The whole damn state is FAMOUS for this crap.
Poor President Lincoln.
The whole damn state is FAMOUS for this crap.
Too right, KC. I worked in Chicago, and dealt with local and state officials, who were goofy as hell. The congressional delegation was nauseating. The state? Don't get me started.
I was also privileged to watch Chicago politics in rare form following then Mayor Washington's death in office (literally; he dropped dead behind his desk); that was a feeding frenzy of gigantic proportions, and eventually drove me to find employment elsewhere.
Some good news (as I was reminded on another blog) is that not all of the state is so infected, at least amongst the folks who worked for a living (politicians have a much higher infection rate). The best gun show I ever went to was in Lake County, immediately north of Cook County and Chicago. Awesome!
Jeff: You lived in Chicago? Poor fellow! Although I may be able to top that; I lived briefly in Detroit.
Detroit?!?!?!?!? Oh, my! The horror!
I hear a bus being started somewhere....
I hear the sounds of MSM newspaper companies being shredded ...
Oh dear! How sad!
Never mind.
blog,
"Oh dear! How sad! Never mind."
"It ain't half hot!"
I can still picture the the sarge.
Mark
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