Who’s Worse: Madoff or Blagojevich?
December 15, 2008 1:05 PM
One is an elected official accused of trying to sell a vacant senate seat…violating the trust of the voters who put him in office, making a mockery of elected power.
The other stands accused of carrying out one of the biggest financial frauds in history…potential bilking investors big and small, including charities, of 50 billion dollars…making a mockery of the rules and standards the regulate how we invest in this country.
Which is worse?
Ha! Trick question! It’s Dick Cheney!
Wow, that’s some hard-hitting journamalism! Any other comparisons you all would like to throw out?
Meanwhile, journamalists vow to get tough on The One.
Comment by Sturm Howser on 12/17 @ 6:57 am #
Bush is worse. He cost us trillions. We could have built uncorruptable robots to serve as governors with a few million.
Trillons, poof!
Comment by Barbula on 12/17 @ 8:16 am #
Anyone else getting the unsettling feeling that the MSM and SEC(Cox) are laying the groundwork for a $50Billion bailout of Madoff’s clients? Them being all charitibly and well connected.
Comment by Bob Reed on 12/17 @ 8:30 am #
Journalists vow to get tough on the one…
What does that really mean..? That they won’t accept his Wizard of Uhhs obfuscation? That they’ll press him hard when he takes only three questions during a press conference..? That they’ll publicly ask him what became of all the vaunted transparency he spoke of during the election..?
No…
It just means they;re gonna try harder not to scrape him with their teeth while fellating him; that’s change he can believe in!
Comment by Rye Taylor on 12/17 @ 8:36 am #
I think they the victims’ lawyers will file spider web lawsuits that’ll list as defendants all the banks that are flush with the free tax payer monies that BushCo gifted them. The banks will settle generously with the plaintiffs from that tax payer money whereas otherwise they wouldn’t.
Comment by MAJ (P) John on 12/17 @ 9:24 am #
#4 – I think you misunderstand the possible uses of the funds the “G” is giving the banks. Now if Congress had it to do all over again, they probably would leave a nice portal for the plaintiff’s bar to come thundering through to get their 40% contingency fees…
Comment by Techie on 12/17 @ 9:39 am #
The Deciders!
Comment by irongrampa on 12/17 @ 10:40 am #
I quit reading tripe like this. My gag reflex is by no means strong enough.
This isn’t to say we’ve given up, we’re working to change what we can, in our VERY local arena, as always.
I REFUSE to cede my country to these morons.
Comment by alppuccino on 12/17 @ 10:43 am #
I’m enjoying seeing Spielberg take it in the shorts. It’s way better than a 72 year old Indiana Jones. C’mon!
Comment by Mr. Pink on 12/17 @ 10:55 am #
Anyone using the phrase “BushCO” should smack themselves in the face.
Comment by Sdferr on 12/17 @ 11:06 am #
He is the very model of a modern Major-Domocrat.
Comment by Sdferr on 12/17 @ 3:12 pm #
On the Blagojevich front, via Insty, “the Illinois Supreme Court has rejected the unprecedented request of Attorney General Lisa Madigan to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office”