Posted on 01/08/2009 1:39:47 PM PST by Chuck54
Impeachment Investigation Live on C-Span
Roland "Tombstone" Burris on the very hot seat.
Great theater.
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You might want to consider putting this is breaking news.
It is live and the line of questioning of Mr. Burris is outstanding theater.
Rep Flowers is doing some major butt kissing here.
Hope you’ve got it. Major Fireworks between the state reps and senators.
Thanks. I have watched for awhile ... have yet to see where this Burris can’t explaine himself ... looks like a bunch of petty krap to me. Of course I am not used o Chi-Town Politics.
Excerpts from the transcript:
Fitzgerald: "In the governor words -- governor's words, quote, 'Fire all those bleeping people. Get them the bleep out of there. And get us some editorial support,' close quote. And the bleeps are not really bleeps."
(snip)
"A month or so ago a $1.8 billion tollway project was announced. While that tollway project was being announced, Governor Blagojevich was privately seeking to have a person benefiting from that contract raise $100,000 in contributions, and privately the government (sic) said, 'I could have made a larger announcement but wanted to see how they would perform by the end of the year. If they don't perform, bleep 'em.' That's a quote. And the word 'bleep' was not the word he used."
(snip)
Fitzgerald: The governor's own words describing the Senate seat, quote, "It's a bleeping valuable thing -- thing. You just don't give it away for nothing," close quote.
Another quote, "I've got this thing, and it's bleeping golden. And I'm just not giving it up for bleeping nothing. I'm not going to do it, and I can always use it; I can parachute me there," quote. Those are his words, not our characterization, other than with regard to the bleep.
The tapes reveal that Governor Blagojevich wanted a number of things in exchange for making the appointment to the Senate seat -- an appointment as secretary of health and human services or an ambassadorship, an appointment to a private foundation, a higher paying job for his wife or campaign contributions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/us/politics/09text-illinois.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
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Regarding Blago's wife...
"Mrs. Blago, the former Patti Mell, won the hearts of old-school thugs everywhere with her f-word-filled rants captured on FBI wiretaps, some of which were colorfully detailed in the criminal complaint against her hubby..." --Michelle Malkin, December 17, 2008
http://710knus.townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2008/12/17/the_real_housewives_of_crook_county
These tapes are going to be good when we hear them in full, lots of dirt, the dems must be panicking about now.
Major sweating in the Democrat ranks.
I would bet they’re purchasing some Under-Armor to wick the sweat away.
As we said before, when you cut off the head of a snake, the body flails about and spills blood, thats what is going to happen here, Blago will go down but he’ll go down taking everyone with him, he aint the sort of guy to take the whole blame. The dems don’t know what is entirely on those tapes and i suspect Blago is not the only one Fitz is targeting in this.
He has been dissed by crones and totes a MAJOR attitude IMO.
Another election cycle of paying tax dollars for liberal politicians to spend it covering their disgusting and crooked cracks....butts!
>>>The dems don’t know what is entirely on those tapes and i suspect Blago is not the only one Fitz is targeting in this.<<<<<
According to a recent report, several thousand individual phone conversations were taped between October 2008 and December 2008.
IIRC it was in Fitzgerald’s recent request for an extra 90 days to file his indictment.
Rumors rampid that Blago is impeached and removed by tomorrow.
I think that is a done deal. Blago is history and a bunch of liberals/Democrats are sweating blood.
I think Blago sings like a nightingale.
Hope so anyway!
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