Will Blago Scandal Derail the Obama Express ?

Yidiwithlid ^ | 12/17/08 | Yidwithlid

[Shellybenoit]

President Elect Obama has been running to put his cabinet together and with mostly positive reviews. At the same time he is working to set up his agenda to try to ram things through Congress as soon as he takes office in a month. His Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has already said that the new Administration will use the cover of the economic crisis to put through the most controversial of Obama's programs. One thing that may derail the momentum is if anyone in his staff is involved in the Blogo scandal, even to the extent of just not reporting it. But if President-elect Obama has shown one important skill during the campaign it was his ability to shake off scandal. On the other hand we are talking about U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the man who "got" Scooter Libby:

[ErnBatavia]

'Rats are getting goosey about Illinois scandals. Yesterday on FOX, Heather Nauert was interviewing former Hillaryite Howard Wolfson and asked him his opinion on the delay of Rezko's sentencing and it's effect on Blago if he sings.

Wolfson went right off into some obviously pre-planned spin about how Obama is far removed from all this.

I could tell that Heather caught this, but she let him off way too easy...

[SumProVita]

“...to try to ram things through Congress as soon as he takes office in a month...”

YEP, and many of those things will NOT be good.

[Marauder]

I really don’t see a derailment happening. Ubama seems to have a better teflon coating than Willie Clinton.

[COBOL2Java]

Until then, don’t ask Obama anything even related to the matter. “Let me just cut you off, because I don’t want you to waste your question,” Obama told Tribune reporter John McCormick Tuesday, after McCormick attempted to ask whether Emanuel’s reportedly extensive communications with the Blagojevich administration on the Senate-seat question contradicted Obama’s earlier claims to be taking a hands-off approach to the issue. “I don’t want to get into the details at this point,” Obama answered.

McCormick got the message. As Obama, standing by education-secretary-designate and basketball buddy Arne Duncan, continued to avoid answering the question, McCormick moved on to a more acceptable topic. “Do you or Duncan have a better jump shot?” he asked.

Obama smiled. At least for now. But he knows, or should know, that Fitzgerald and his prosecutors won’t be nearly as accommodating as the press.

Presumably Fitzgerald won't be impressed by Zero's jump shots...

[Bon mots]

One can only hope...

[chicagolady]

Will Blago Scandal Derail the Obama Express ?

That is my prayer!