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I'm sitting here stunned at the stupidity of the Governor of Illinois. Stunned.
This goes beyond buying hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of clothing or conducting an interview in front of turkeys being slaughtered. This goes beyond having an affair in the oval office with an intern. Today's allegations against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich are astounding.
From the Chicago Sun-Times Natasha Korecki writes,
"Gov. Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested at their homes this morning in a probe involving the governor’s quest to fill Sen. Barack Obama’s Senate seat.
The charges also include alleged attempts by the governor to influence the Tribune editorial board."
I'll be the first to admit I'm getting a crash course in Illinois politics here, but the guy's name is Rod. I have strong distrust for men named Rod. And why do men named Rod have big hair? Rod Stewart. Rod Blagojevich. But, I digress...
BlogHer's own American Princess resides in the fine state of this now indicted Governor and writes,
"Apparently, he was a big fan of making cash on the recent election of Barack Obama by selling Obama’s vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder/most effective lobbyist/only person who could honestly commit to not tripping him the next time they saw him jogging on Lincoln. According to the Trib, which must be loving this story considering their recent decision to declare bankruptcy, he wanted campaign funds, a generous salary and a high position at one of the labor unions (or another unspecified non-profit…ACORN, maybe?), campaign funds, and an ambassadorship.
Smart man that he is, he decided that the phone — a phone which could be wiretapped — was the best way to conduct his official business. He even decided to brag about the deals in the works to an aide. The complaint is just spectacular (go back to the link up top). At least the old time corrupt Chicago politicians managed to realize that they should do these sorts of things in back alleys or the private rooms of Italian restaurants.
Now, Blago is innocent until proven guilty, no doubt, except maybe when it comes to that heinous hairdo, but he’ll have a hard time explaining away the telephone conversations that the Feds taped. Something tells me that the Feds were meticulous in obtaining the correct warrants in order to conduct the wiretap. This isn’t going to be easy for him to fight."
Of course EM was also quick to twitter, "Haha, America. You totally just elected a #Blagojevich crony. Nice work. We weren't lying. We tried to tell you."
To which I just had to respond with information from the actual indictment, "Blago said he knew Obama wanted Senate Can.1 but 'they’re not willing to give me anything except appreciation[Expletive] them'."
That's right all you conservatives dying to connect the Obama dots on this one. Blagojevich himself gets caught saying Obama would give him NOTHING BUT APPRECIATION.
So please, stick those "AH HA! Gotcha's!" right back in your little bloggy arsenals.
Of course despite all that EVIDENCE, Politcal Mavens isn't buying it,
"The grand jury has also now issued subpoenas on the suspicious land deal between Obama and incarcerated con Tony Rezko.
It’s so lovely to know that our incoming president comes straight out of this muck.
Obama was on the Blagojevich speed-dial since 2004.
The wiretaps are everywhere. Do you think that the president-elect might have a comment on the selling of his own seat? (As of this writing, a statement from the Obama Transition Team 'is in the works.' Language must be parsed carefully, you see.)"
To which I would have to respond, how, exactly, does any government official operate in the state and NOT have some sort of relationship with the GOVERNOR? Does this also then implicate every single politician in the state? Or are you just singling out the Democrats? Or maybe just Obama, because you're DYING to find some dirt on him?
Blagojevich himself says in the wiretap Obama wouldn't play. But hey, keep muckraking there kids.
I'd also like to point out the involvement of US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald who calls the corruption charges, "truly a new low," is the same Patrick Fizgerald who investigated the Plame affair and poor, poor Scooter Libby. You know the Patrick Fitzgerald the Right also loved to claim was just out on a conservative witch hunt? Yeah....uh huh.
So now we all sit here wondering what the Governor of Illinois does as he walks out of jail this morning. Does
