If he resigns, he doesn’t avoid any criminal suits does he? I really want to see what Obama’s involvement was.
Good Riddance.
Hope you are in prison soon and for many, many years.
I guess Blago realizes that losing his job is preferable to gaining a pair of Lake Michigan-style cement shoes.
He should stick his ground. Don’t go anywhere!
Be fun news for awhile.
Dang! Hope he stays & fights. Reigning RATS won’t let him because he’s a source of embarrassment to the obot RATS & ultimately Osama. He knows where the bodies are! What he could tell would be juicy & a whale of a lot of fun.
Walking on sunshine, right blogoscupus?
No! Bad idea, Blago!
Stand tall! It's what got you to the top! Stand as a gleaming banner for your party and its integrity! This is all some dirty Republican plot, and you should get all the cash you can for that Senate seat. Anything less would make you look like a grade A chooch.
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
In the meantime, Rahm Emmanuel is hiding out at his house, using his kids as shields.
The last thing we in IL need from him is “normalcy”.
Normal to Blago is to get on the phone and yell at people “HEY you MFer, send me some money! Do it right now!”
We don’t need more Blago business-as-usual!
Don’t do it, Governor!
Stand up and fight! We want a full impeachment trial that lasts months. You can run with a defense of “all Democrats do this” and “President Obama approved of my conduct”!
Resign on Jan 20.
If Governor Blutarsky resigns, it’s because he is working/has worked a deal with Fitz, and is about to sing....
And he knows where ALL of the bodies are buried.
“I think he realizes there are some people out there who want him to resign,” Guerrero said. “I think the suddenness of all this is something he has to take some time to sort through things.”
Guerrero added, “There’s a lot of things he would like to say to the people of Illinois, and he probably will say them when the time comes.”
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An impeachment would take months. Take your time, Blago ... and more leaks, please! :)
What laws did Blagojevich violate?
He didn’t take a bribe, and didn’t appoint a candidate.
He didn’t get the Tribune to fire editors he didn’t like.
He asked a fund manager for a contribution and when it wasn’t forthcoming the fund manager got $2.25 billion to manage anyway.
He has been investigated for five years but never before charged, and has $500,000 in legal fees outstanding to Sidley & Austin, a large Chicago law firm. It seems to me that he was trying to protect his family just as Barack Obama did by getting his wife named to a job with 3x the salary and an independent board position when he was in a position to throw her some business.
The press conference announcing the filing of charges seemed to be as filled with hyperbole as Fitzgerald’s press conference announcing the arrest of Scooter Libby. He charged the governor with stealing from the citizens of Illinois the opportunity to provide us with honest government. Well, when have we ever gotten that? If Blagojevich has not violated any other laws, then he hasn’t deprived us of that, has he?
It seems to me that politicians always receive contributions from people who support what they do, including the appointments that they make. I don’t see that Blagojevich’s actions are any different from those of anyone else in my state or federal government.
I for one — as an Illinois native (I will show you my birth certificate) and voter — would urge Blagojevich to stay in office and fight this charge. Show us how everyone does this, including ambitious state senators who become presidential candidates in a few short years.
Why should he resign? To clear the decks for Obama and eliminate the problem before it ties in to him more definitively? Let him stay and fight for his name like a man instead of skulking off in the night!
When Republicans in office get into deep trouble, they tend to resign quickly, but when Democrats in office get into deep trouble, they tend to keep their power for as long as they possibly can. What a “nice” double standard that Republicans and Democrats have among each other!
Please do it Rod! Your leaving no matter what, don’t make us Illinois taxpayers pay for the hallabaloo it would take to kick you out.