Glad I voted against him during his "third party" bid for Lt. Governor in 2002. He and Cal "I served 18 years in the same office and my main campaign issue is term limits" Skinner are quite the pair.
Posted on 02/04/2009 11:20:45 PM PST by malkee
"New York is fantastic," a pumped-up Rod Blagojevich said after strolling his way back to the luxurious Jumeirah Essex House on Central Park South just before 11 p.m. on Tuesday, hours after appearing on David Letterman. "Walking down the street here in Manhattan, cab drivers are honking, guys in cars are shouting support, 'Keep it up! Keep fighting!'"
You have to hand to it Rod Blagojevich. For someone who's supposedly the most cuckoo and crooked man in politics, he's assembled quite a fan club. "I must say the guy is growing on me," said Dennis Miller on Fox News. "I love Blago," confessed Maureen Dowd with only a tinge of irony. "Sure, he'll still be kicked out of office tomorrow, but now everyone in America loves him," wrote the media blog Gawker. Blagojevich even won the grudging respect of a teenager who posed for a picture with him outside the governor's home on the day of his impeachment. "He doesn't seem like a total douche," the kid opined to the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Blago is hilarious...dude is a lot funnier than most of the people on TV and film. I will actually miss the dude when he gets sent to prison....
He wuz just trying to save us from a tax hike, that’s why they got him! ;-D
Frankly I think most of our politicians belong in prison - they sell their power on a daily basis. How many head to DC with modest financial means and come out multi-millionaires? Almost all of them.
I’m not saying what Blogo did is OK because everyone does it - I’m saying that what he did is wrong and they all belong in the clink.
Blago - Rezko - Obama
I’ll bet Blago knows a lot - and hasn’t gotten to the good stuff yet
Note: “Blagojevich Adviser Rezko”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNfRb87dtY4
Has Blago even been charged yet?
Who’s dumber? Blago, or the idiots who have him on their shows, as if....
Roe Conn, on his WLS 890 AM Chicago drive time radio show today, said that he thought Blago's grand scheme was to send out this message. He referred to his "name dropping", of which I know nothing, not having watched any of this, but Roe Conn thought it was blatant.
He compared Blago's message to HIGH NOON ..."You want to get me? Come and get me. We'll see what happens."
If Rezko was his adviser, then Blago knows a lot, I’d guess. And if Mrs. Blago was indeed the buyer’s agent as I’ve heard, then he knows a lot more (see video).
Fitz should cut a deal with the Blago’s. The info could be legendary.
Edwin Edwards, former governor/white-looter-guy of Louisiana, was a loveable scoundrel, too. He's rotting his life away in a Texas prison, and his youngish wife divorced him soon after it became clear that he wasn't going to be getting out early enough to steal and extort even more money to support her.
Blago really is a great character. And though I have no doubt he is very intelligent— I do not think there is any method to his current PR madness.
I think he’s desperate. Understandably so. And he’s playing the only card he has, PR. Maybe capitalize on his notoriety and influence the jury pool. His only hope.
I wouldn’t doubt, however, that Pat Fitzgerald is pushing the envelope in ways I think none of us would want done to us.
But how could he do that? On what basis? Could get interesting. BTW, Roe Conn, having drunk of the Kool-Aid, explicitly excluded Obama from the list of the vulnerable, but ... OK, whatever.
Agree. Blago did wrong; no doubt about that; but he has what our Congress doesn’t have and that is a fighting spirit.
Will Glago be the one to bring Obama’s history to light?
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Seriously, with the secrets that Blago knows, do you honestly believe he’ll survive long enough to go to prison??
Is it just me, or is Blago moving around so fast he reminds me of Ali in a boxing match, trying not to get taken out? Man, that’s some fancy footwork! Wonder how long he’ll last before he [insert air quotes here] ‘accidentally’ [insert more air quotes here] has an ‘accident’??
“explicitly excluded Obama from the list of the vulnerable”
Yes, that bothers me, too. I mean, look at the video. That’s pretty revealing about the Obama-Rezko relationship. 6/10ths+ of a million buck$$$$$$ they tied up for Obama’s good fortunes.
Will Glago be the one to bring Obama’s history to light?
When asked if it could be ruled out that zer0 wouldn’t be involved he said he would not rule anyone out and he specifically keeps mentioning Rahm and Harry Reid.
Glad I voted against him during his "third party" bid for Lt. Governor in 2002. He and Cal "I served 18 years in the same office and my main campaign issue is term limits" Skinner are quite the pair.
A crook getting all that public support? Kind of reminds me of “Dog Day Afternoon” LOL!
Attica! Attica!
When you're so crooked that even the Democrats think you're a crook, or at least have to react to it to save their own hides - you're toast.
Graybeard is right. The reference on the Roe Conn show was to Blago’s repeated insistence that if they bring him down, he’ll bring down all the big names, even Obama.
I think he’s bluffing, out of desperation. I’m sure he can bring down a lot of people, but I doubt that his reach extends as far as Rahmbo, Reid and Obama. He probably knows some dirt on all of them, but nothing that would really bring them down.
Fitzgerald knows that too, I imagine. So, I think Blago will go to prison, some scandalous stuff will be released into the atmosphere, but the MSM will cover for most of the big boys that Blago fingers. Most of the little boys that Blago could truly send to prison will be flipped by Fitzgerald in order to get Blago and they’ll walk.
I admire the guy’s chutzpah but he did do stupid things—picking a public quarrel with his own father-in-law was perhaps the first sign that he was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. He’s a white-collar street punk who made it as far as he did by blustering and charming alternately, but this time around his bluster won’t save him.
Sorry, Fitzpatrick, not Fitzgerald.
My guess will definitely be before he goes to court and/or subpoenas certain former Chitown pols and their pals.
No, I had it right the first time around. Patrick Fitzgerald. Should have stuck with Fitz.
Blago is doing a wonderful job of tainting the jury pool. All this national exposure will affect his trial. He will not testify but anyone on the jury will have already heard his side. He is smarter than he looks. Or his PR team is.
I agree 100%.
The only way we can take our country back is to return to CITIZEN congress. Get rid of the career politician.
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Taxes are very high of my totem poll but that illustrates the foolishness of single issue myopia.
Seems he an Quinn don't like each other from way back.
Blagojevich proposed a large gross receipts tax, in Feb. 2007. He approved a large increase (almost doubling) of the fee that truck drivers must pay, to register their trucks, in Illinois. Many truck drivers decided to register their trucks in other states, and the revenue that IL received, from that source, decreased.
Of course when it comes to fiscal debt, Blago's track record is far worse than Governor Jim Edgar (R) because Edgar governed frugally whereas Blago goes on spending orgies and passes unneccessary "feel good" programs that taxpayers will have to pay back eventually, but Tobin ignores this because government spending is not on his single-issue crusade.
Seems to me he lives in some utopia fantasy where Illinois' "average" tax rate will be considered "relatively low compared to other states" (ignoring county and local taxes in Chicago of course, only taking into account statewide taxation) as long as Illinois government doesn't "raise" taxes for the next 20+ years. And yes Tobin apprently follows the libertarian ideal that all corporations and individuals should pay no taxes whatsoever and government can fund itself thur other means.
Tobin's goals are admirable but he personally seems to be on the wrong track. And I'm not even going to get started on Cal Skinner's third party crusade from 2002. That was just stupid. Jim Ryan wasn't my ideal candidate but he was 10X better than what we got four years later, Judy Barr Topinka.
2002 was my first election. I think Jim Ryan was to the right of Edgar and the like. I voted for him in the primary because I thought he was a GE winner. I do regret not voting for O’Malley instead.
2006 is when Skinner should have run.
In the 2002 primary, I voted for Pat O’Malley.
Cal Skinner should have run for Congress, against Rep. Bean, in 2006.
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