In other words, Senator Dick Durbin has had since November some very significant corroborating evidence that Governor Rod Blagojevich really was corruptly auctioning off a Senate seat. This is information that would have been very helpful when it came to the timing of Blagojevich’s impeachment, seating Burris, and/or fixing the entire problem with a special election. And yet, Durbin did or said nothing.

















Comment by happyfeet on 6/2 @ 7:31 am #
Republicans should form an organization what people can donate to that will work to elect Republican senators that aren’t gay I think. Maybe this is something they could put together by 2012?
Comment by Joe on 6/2 @ 7:37 am #
Dirty Dick Durban is a deceitful devious dicksucker.
Comment by harrison on 6/2 @ 7:38 am #
Maybe Blago was paying for Dick…
to keep his mouth shut.
Comment by Bob Reed on 6/2 @ 7:42 am #
Once again, typical behavior of a member of the most righteous, ethical, congress-evah!…
I mean, as long as no one talks about it, there’s nothing untoward going on, right..?
Comment by Jim (rell one not dhnger) on 6/2 @ 7:56 am #
We’re NOT going to let you REPUTZI DHINGER’S get in the way of are pErgressive thing with your little NIT PIGGLY LITTLE BS complante’s. When you guy’s of rigged the WHOLE SYSTEM against the POOR PEOPLE WHICH IS WHAT ARE PERGRESSIVE THING is helping out with. Plus, your war’s. Like are lit crit prof said last week, THERE’S NO SEMASTIC’S OF WHEN IT’S RIGHT OR WRONG when you’re talking about power between people for the oppressed (like black’s or poor poeple) or people against. You can’t just say that Durbin knew or that he was wrong. THAT DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING IN ARE SEMASTIC’S SO YOU CAN’T GET AWAY WITH IT. ONLY IF IT’S WHITE MEN WHO ARE AGAINST POOR POEPLE, NOT FOR. THAN IT MEANS SOMETHING. But not until than.
seating Burris, and/or
O and what color is Burris? Gee I can’t think. Hmm. Hey he’s black and you dhinger’s are against what a coincidense.
Comment by alppuccino on 6/2 @ 7:57 am #
“Culture of Corruption” has been taken.
“The Mob”?
“Congro Nostra”?
“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”?
“Congress”
Comment by Asymmetric Polyhedron (formerly mojo) on 6/2 @ 8:00 am #
Squealers don’t live long in Chicago.
Comment by JD on 6/2 @ 8:03 am #
Clean up on Aisle Asshattery
Comment by JD on 6/2 @ 8:04 am #
ALL CAPS and a complete inability to spell … SHOCKA!
Comment by McGehee on 6/2 @ 8:05 am #
Wobbly Jim is back! Long time no smell, buddy!
Comment by Dan Collins on 6/2 @ 8:07 am #
LOL, thanks, Spurwing.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 6/2 @ 8:30 am #
Corrupt Democrats covering for each other.
*yawn*
Let me know when someone actually does something about it.
Comment by Jim (rell one not dhnger) on 6/2 @ 8:31 am #
Long time no smell, buddy!
That hurt, dhinger.
Comment by LTC John on 6/2 @ 8:49 am #
#12 – and Illinois ones at that…
Comment by JD on 6/2 @ 9:19 am #
So everyone, except Teh One, was either involved in or knew about this. This is becoming another common theme …
Comment by geoffb on 6/2 @ 9:25 am #
Precisely.
Comment by geoffb on 6/2 @ 9:29 am #
The Armitage-Powell school of, principles good government and how to advance your own ass, for a while.
Comment by JD on 6/2 @ 9:34 am #
Durbin soils the seat once Held by Paul Simon, a man who I agreed with on very little, but had more honor and integrity in his nosehairs than the collective group of Dems in power now.
Comment by Joe on 6/2 @ 9:37 am #
Dick Durbin is a despicable deranged and demented version of Dom Delouise.
Comment by Matt on 6/2 @ 9:39 am #
Stop arguing somastics LTC John.
Winger !
Comment by Eric in Atlanta on 6/2 @ 9:46 am #
Corrupt politicians, by definition, can neither be oppressed nor truly represent anyone, much less oppressed people.
Comment by Agam on 6/2 @ 10:36 am #
Jim (the not-dhinger guy)-
Didn’t you used to be witheld? I always wondered if he was the Iraq War Was Wrong Blog one…
It’s nice to see an improvement in the troll parodies, which have been real pathetic around here lately.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 6/2 @ 10:38 am #
Fitz is up to his old tricks with perjury traps it seems. Ask yourself if Fitz was so concerned about the Blog appointment that he had to stop it and arrest Blag why didn’t he do the same with Burris?
Comment by JD on 6/2 @ 10:40 am #
Agam – Those have not been parodies of trolls, those have been actual trolls that have moved beyond parody.
Comment by JD on 6/2 @ 10:42 am #
Tsk9 – how very partisan and racist of you ;-)
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 6/2 @ 10:42 am #
guys…Jim (rell one not dhnger) and his blog is A JOKE I am pretty sure. IIRC TheIraqWARisWRONG blog is a parody.
Comment by Topsecretk9 on 6/2 @ 10:45 am #
Media Matters is already issuing vicious rants and actions alerts on Fox and Friends for FALSELY SAYING DURBIN WAS INVOLVED WITH BLAGO even though Durbin eagerly offered to broker the deal.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 6/2 @ 10:52 am #
The sun rose this morning, as well.
Comment by Agam on 6/2 @ 11:52 am #
Yeah, I know, JD. Somehow I can more readily not loose my faith in humanity so much if I think of them as parodies rather than actual people actually thinking like that. They are self-parodies, in a way. Jim (not dhinger) has it down to an artform.
Plus, calling some asshole and his friends parodies really makes ‘em mad, and if one sticks with it, they sometimes go away.
I hope Jim sticks around though, and tells more about these semastic theories he’s been studying.
Comment by B Moe on 6/2 @ 1:11 pm #
Hey Jim (rell one not dhnger)!
Long time, no see. Say hello to witheld for me.
TROOTH 2 POWAH!
Comment by B Moe on 6/2 @ 1:13 pm #
Jim is a friend of withelds, guys, and both of them are very good satirists.
Comment by B Moe on 6/2 @ 1:33 pm #
Back on topic, aren’t lawyers required to report information like this, that whole officer of the court deal?
Comment by Jim (rell one not dhnger) on 6/2 @ 2:06 pm #
This is Jim’s wife. Jim is having a big cry right now and can’t post a comment. He says a lot of you dhingers ambushed him in this thread, saying his blog was a joke (he worked really hard on it) and that he smells, etc. He’s inconsolable. I hope you dhingers are happy.
Comment by JD on 6/2 @ 2:13 pm #
Mrs. Jim – You forgot Kyoto.
Comment by kosisok on 6/2 @ 2:13 pm #
Jmi !!!,
Comment by kosisok on 6/2 @ 2:15 pm #
It slike old homo week !!!,
Comment by guinsPen on 6/2 @ 2:22 pm #
Say Jim, has the Fire Department hosed down (once a year whether he needs it or not) Jason yet?
Comment by McGehee on 6/2 @ 2:32 pm #
What, that’s an insult now?
Comment by guinsPen on 6/2 @ 2:39 pm #
Jim (rond)’s wife, is Jim (rond) admitting that he is IWW?
Comment by Kirk on 6/2 @ 2:44 pm #
Long time no spell either.
Comment by Asymmetric Polyhedron (formerly mojo) on 6/2 @ 3:36 pm #
Ah, humor.
I get it.
Comment by Witheld on 6/2 @ 3:53 pm #
Jim is keeping telling me that you guys are taking my name in veins over here. He’s like, every five minutes, here it comes another email from him about the Durbin thread or whatever. I would of comment on this already but the honestly of it is I have not been keeping up with this particular. Something about the hair guy?
Anyway.
Comment by donald on 6/3 @ 4:31 am #
This just brings a whole new slant to Illinois Nazis don’t it?
Comment by Mikey NTH on 6/3 @ 12:09 pm #
It has long been that it is very hard to tell a parody from the real thing. Bad spelling and spittle-flecked rants, utter incoherency, incomprehensibility, and insanity are no longer valid clues to parody.
Comment by JD on 6/3 @ 12:11 pm #
Witheld !