“I got to thinking last night about the report that ‘many people came and went during the 2 hour conference call’.
Is it possible that these people,(advisors to the President Elect, etc.)dropping in and out of the tapped conversations, were conferring with the President elect over the various ‘offers/demands’ on a separate ‘conference call’?”
You may be on to something. “List of names” backs up your theory. (I’m thinking JJJ and Madigan were not on the 0’s list. Blago dropped Madigan’s name to piss off 0.)
“(I’m thinking JJJ and Madigan were not on the 0’s list. Blago dropped Madigan’s name to piss off 0.)”
...and it stands to reason that Blago started his tirade because JJJ and Madigan were offering Blago more and Blago expected O to up the anti and play the game to Blago’s advantage. After all, Obama had been playing ‘the Chicago game’ for years, he and Blago were close, Obama had ‘helped’ Blago in the past(and visa versa), and Blago thought he had the goods on Obama(and probably does). Why else would he have gotten so mad, unless he had gone into the meeting thinking he had the upper hand and the ‘expectation’ of Obama playing?