“Blagojevich Democrats like [Lieutenant Governor] Pat Quinn did nothing to stand up to Gov. Blagojevich and his ethical lapses,” said Joe Birkett, the DuPage County state’s attorney who has long had his eyes on statewide office.
Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) and Senate President Emil Jones (D-Chicago), Blagojevich’s closest legislative ally for years, have called the legislature back to Springfield to vote on a measure that would put the selection of an Obama successor into the hands of voters.
Huh. Where have I heard that name before?
Blago democrats – it’s the new term. They’re not really democrats, ’cause, you know, real democrats are honest and stuff. Hope and change!
I hear there’s some news out of Mowcow.
Interesting, thor, but that doesn’t look like it has anything to do with Obama lying to the press.
Why did he do it?
Thor has degenerated into alphie status. Anybody hear from Jeff? Anyone?
Blagorat, Obamarat, Fwrankrat, Doddrat: subspecies of Demorat.
Didn’t he say that he was going to be gone until after the holidays, OI?
I see thorhoid, the asspilot, is up early to derail the thread.
Huh. I have an impostor, I see. Ignore him, please.
I’ll play along …
You know, we stupid Americans could learn a lot from the Russians. I can’t believe we’re complaining about a corrupt Dem governor with ties to the President Elect. Until we’ve been through what the Russians have …
bla bla bla …
Wow it sure didn’t take long for McCain to shank the RNC in the back.
Mr. Pink – I’m beginning to think that McCains wasn’t such a great candidate after all. If ONLY we’d known sooner.
Heh.
Haha. Am I twisting the knife in the flabbiest most sensitive quarter of your protruding belly? Teh raging neocon sock puppet mimics those who best press the r-wingers defeated-retreat buttons!
I am that good.
Over in the Blago thread, that tool parsnip was claiming that we were obligated to obey McCain because he is the “leader of our party”.
I LOLed.
You, no. You’re well past the learning stage in your life, or pretend to be, one of the two.
More than a dozen new witnesses have come forward. Let the plea bargaining commence!
(via Hot Air)
Over in the Blago thread, that tool parsnip was claiming that we were obligated to obey McCain because he is the “leader of our partyâ€Â.
That almost makes me feel sorry for the retarded root vegetable.
McCain was given issues with which to contrast himself with his opponent and the other party, instead of taking them and using them he agrees with Dems at around a 90% clip. Even if O! was completely on the up and up in this instance, it still appears he lied about contacts between his staff and Blago. Contacts he will deny knowing about in the same vein as he denies knowing about Wright, Ayers, Rezko, blah blah blah. For McCain to just go out of his way to defend him before any information has even come out is retarded.
More retardation:
“The committee’s report details the inexcusable link between abusive interrogation techniques used by our enemies who ignored the Geneva Conventions and interrogation policy for detainees in U.S. custody,” Sen. McCain said in a statement. “These policies are wrong and must never be repeated.”
So al Qaeda  which is not and cannot be a party to the Geneva Conventions, and which has never done anything but torture and kill its captives  ignores Geneva and follows its torture/kill practice because of American policy rather than twisted jihadist ideology? Really Senator?
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WTF???? That is freakin retarded. That sounds like something that would come out of Murtha’s mouth.
10 to 1 Murtha wrote it.
OMG! Crooked pols? In CHICAGO??!
Why didn’t anybody tell me?
(end O’B impersonation)
Thank you for your Service, John McCain. You have delighted us long enough.
Now how can this be? Some root vegetable had assured us that this would all fade away in a couple of days. It’s almost like this story has legs or something.
Very clever, neocon impostor. Maybe you can even fool the slope-browed repugs here.
Emil Jones is a wholly owned subsidiary of Exelon/Commonwealth Edison. He single handedly knocked out proposed legistlation that a majority of Democrats favored, and all for a mere $200,000.
I think most IL Dems were offended – not at the fact he was acting corruptly, but that he was doing so for so very little…
Oh, it gets better. Did you note the name of the first legislator named? State Rep. Mike Madigan (D) is my representative. He’s the House Majority Leader. He’s the father of Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D), who’s trying to get the Illinois Supreme Court to declare that Gov. Blagojevich (D) is, purely because he’s under Federal indictment, unable to execute his office and thus should be removed from office not by impeachment but under a law similar to the Federal Constitutional amendment that provides for transferring power over to the Vice President if the President is disabled, ill, etc.
So, never mind all that nasty stuff about “impeachment” and “conviction” – they’ll just push him out of the way on a quick vote without giving him a chance to defend himself (i.e., name names). Very handy. We’ll see if the Illinois Supremes give their blessing to this putsch.
I know, Ron. The other thing, of course, is that Rahm added Lisa Madigan afterwards to his list of Obamapproved nominees for the Senate seat. It wouldn’t be so sticky for old Rahm if she had appeared on the original list, but . . . you know what they say about hindsight.
I’ve seen that Madigan name before I think. And Mell. Who said what? Oh, yeah.
Getting riftier today, no doubt.
Ron. I think Blago is hanging on until somebody in the party makes him a deal. However unrealistic that may be. He knows he’s sunk. He also knows that he has the goods on a lot of dems both at the state and fed level. He wants someone to save his family from ruin and the promise of a state job after this is over.
I wonder how much he’s got on Dick Durban? That fraud has been unusally quiet over all of this.