Emanuel May Be On Tape with Blagojevich

The Dakota Voice ^ | 2 hours ago

[lewisglad]

Emanuel May Be On Tape With Blagojevich

Rahm Emanuel may have had discussions with Gov. Blagojevich and the FBI may have the tape according to Chicago news sources. This, despite denials by Emanuel and president-elect Obama. Emanuel has been dodging reporters and has not made any statement about the report as of this post

[roses of sharon]

Keep calling the Governor's Office and encouraging Gov. Blagojevich to fight being scapegoated by Fitz.

Call Blago and tell him to call their bluff.

Excellent idea....dirty Fitz should not get away with protecting another liberal.

[Political Junkie Too]

She has to be confirmed first. If Obama goes down and Biden becomes president, he'll probably pick his own cabinet.

-PJ

[TonyStark]

Clinton Term 3: The Halfrican Coup

Scene 1, Take 1

Rahm Emanuel: "I did not have financial relations with that governor, not once."

Cut!

[r9etb]

Rogue, Renegade, I’m wondering what word will be used to describe Rahm when this breaks.

LOL! I'm guessing Obama's gonna say: "Dayum! Looks like I'm gonna need a taller bus!"

[utahagen]

I agree. It was stupid of Obama to deny ever talking about who would get his Senate seat! He should have said, “I kicked around some names, but didn't bribe anybody.” Now, we may be asked to believe that Emanuel alone was involved in chicanery while Obama wasn't even innocently discussing the Senate seat. Preposterous. These people lie so blithely they forget that some people actually have brains and may think, “That seems fishy.” Why wouldn't Obama have spoken about who would get his Senate seat? Here in New York, people on the subways are debating who will get HRC’s Senate seat; why would the actual holder of a seat not have conversations with the Governor who will be appointing the next one in it?

[10Ring]

Since Rahm is resigning his seat and the Gov. (Blago) gets to set the special election date, I would expect they had some converstaions -- especially considering Rahm succeeded Blago in the district.

At a minimu, Rahm, or an emissary, would have to send Blago his resignation date. The IL Gov. only has five days from the resignation to set the special election date (and the special election must occur within 115 days).

I'll let them MSM convince me that nobody on Zero's team had contact with Blago./s

[lewisglad]

from your lips to God’s ear!

[Jay777]

Blago Chief of Staff Resigns...Illinois AG Asks Illinois Supreme Court to Declare Blagojevich Unfit"

[skimask]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7975712

Note the hyprocipsy of the posters......Replace Rham with Sarah

[TravisBickle]

Wouldn't it be funny if it turned out that Obama's people made the first demand that Blagojevich name Jarrett to the Senate seat, and then he decided to turn the tables.

If I'm the defense lawyer, I know that's my story!

[Paladin2]

Fitzmas - CDs of phone calls for all in their stockings.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I’m trying to imagine anyone backing into the American presidency like that.
And it’s Joe Biden, too.

[Carry_Okie]

OK, so it's not worth having the Zippo as the pres, but I never did think the road to hell was going to be so very entertaining! And to quickly!!

It's a good laugh on the way to the gallows.

[spacejunkie01]

does anyone have the link that contains all the transcripts released so far? also, which ‘character’ sounds the most damning so far...A,B, etc?

[GovernmentShrinker]

Maybe, maybe not. Emanuel strikes me as the sort of guy who wouldn’t hesitate to deal on the side without his boss’s knowledge. If he did so with Blag, he’ll be gone from his shiny new position well before Inauguration Day.

[jessduntno]

“Nice job libs. YOU have a president-elect that YOU can be proud of.”

Well, let’s say they are WELL REPRESENTED, shall we...

[r9etb]

Maybe, maybe not. Emanuel strikes me as the sort of guy who wouldn’t hesitate to deal on the side without his boss’s knowledge. If he did so with Blag, he’ll be gone from his shiny new position well before Inauguration Day.

Very good point. And anyway, that'd probably be Obama's "throw him under the bus" strategy no matter what.

OTOH, if Mr. Emanuel is as self-serving as that, I wonder how willing he'd be to take one for the team if Obama was in the know as well.

[Sister_T]

Video’s gone. They must have pulled it.

[tumblindice]

“If Rahm ... Obama”

Don’t know if you remember 1974 and the Democrats’ obsession with a “smoking gun’, but this seems to me like a good time to look for it again ....

[penelopesire]

Here ya go:

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2008/pr1209_01.pdf