Don't Cry For Me Illinois

Don't cry for me Illinois
The truth is I never left you
All through my campaign
And in the Senate
I voted present
Please keep your distance

And as for fortune and as for fame
My campaign raked them all in
Though it seemed to the world
Their credit was good
They were donations
From strange relations
And foreign entities
The money was here all the time
When Blago whispered to me

Don't cry for me Illinois
The senate seat I left you
When I’m in DC
You will remember me
Your prosecutor
Should keep his distance

Has Rod said to much?
There's nothing more I want to say to you
But all you have to know
Is on nightly news shows
And what I say is true

Here is the live feed

[Link: www.wgntv.com...]

I am not guilty
I will fight till I take my last breath

Does Balgo know that mere solicitation of a bribe is also a criminal act?
He did that.

re: #2 Shug

Here is the live feed

[Link: www.wgntv.com...]

You read my mind! Thanks.

I cant stop staring at 'the Hair'.

Blago looks pissed.

He's gonna take people down with him

He's going for it.

HE'S QUOTING KIPLING?

Quoting Rudyard Kipling now.

HE'S FUCKING NUTS.

He is being delayed, I guess.

As Dennsi Miller says, he looks like a Dehydrated Janet Reno before you add water

He's lonely.

Oh. And pure as the driven snow.

Chutzpah has been redefined.

It's not working- what is he saying?

He's "lonely."

re: #11 MandyManners

No, he is freaking corrupt and nuts

I intends to? This is his one shot.

I was framed, sniff, sob, choke, whine...!

Democrats, afford him the same rights you want to give to Al qaeda terrrorists

Thanks for your fucking prayers.

He's ronery?

Everybody, "reserve judgment".

Ha Ha, he's using a Kipling quote. I don't remember Kipling using @#$$% -
#@@&*

Thoughts and prayers?
From who?
The 4% who approve of him?

What an ass.

what a crook

I wonder if he really believes that he's innocent.

Thanks to all you {bleep} for showing the {bleep} today, you {bleep}ing {bleeps}

re: #27 pink freud

what a dick

re: #15 MandyManners

Chutzpah has been redefined.

Nope. He is taking a hit for Obama. If he fights, it will prolong it, and we will not hear anything until after the swearing in. This will take months to start up in court.

re: #29 Killgore Trout

I wonder if he really believes that he's innocent.

He believes he is entitled. He is special.

Wow...that was lame.

re: #25 JHW

The poem is supposed to refer to when you aren't lying your head off, I think.

"Merry Christmas"

re: #29 Killgore Trout

I wonder if he really believes that he's innocent.

He believes he can beat the rap

re: #32 Walter L. Newton

Nope. He is taking a hit for Obama. If he fights, it will prolong it, and we will not hear anything until after the swearing in. This will take months to start up in court.

GTMA

re: #25 JHW

Ha Ha, he's using a Kipling quote. I don't remember Kipling using @#$$% -
#@@&*

Kipling knew soldier speak but Kipling never Kipled.

That was it?

And with that he vanishes off stage. Who was that masked man?

re: #24 reine.de.tout

Everybody, "reserve judgment".

To bad the Tribune didn't - the prosecutor could have nailed him in the act instead of just planning it.

re: #33 reine.de.tout

That's probably pretty accurate.

So how is he going to be removed from power?

re: #31 winston06

what a dick

As someone here once said: Somewhere, a dick is missing its head.

A few lumps of coal for Blagojevich.

I love how he said he has the truth on his side. Someone needs to sit him down and play him those tapes.

re: #41 Charles

Hamas representatives in his office? LoL /jk

Blago - "Hey, what the hell did you expect? You're the same nimrods that have been electing corrupt politicians all my life. I was just doing my best to live up to your expectations"
/

re: #41 Charles

And with that he vanishes off stage. Who was that masked man?

Welcome to Chicago, Charles.

That's about all I can say.

re: #20 Dustyvet

I was framed, sniff, sob, choke, whine...!

eh, that damn vast right wing conspiracy at it again...HA!

Well now where John Bultarski ended up after getting kicked out of Faber

re: #37 Shug

He believes he can beat the rap

These folks believe they have an exemption; the normal laws do not apply to them. They are special, you see. They mean well, you see. They will take care of us, you see. So they have an exemption.

So he's going to fight the charges while in office?

Me and Patty, she is the linchpin, He isn't taking a hit for BHO, he is eating it to keep his wife out of jail.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
Rudyard Kipling

"This governor has only one agenda."

I couldn't hear what the agenda was. LOL.

re: #45 pink freud

As someone here once said: Somewhere, a dick is missing its head.

LOL

As Mark Levin put it the other day, (paraphrasing) Obama came out of the cesspool that is Chicago tied up with all these scum and theives, Blago, Rezko, Ayers, Emmanuel and etc. And we are supposed to believe that he of the whole bunch is the only one that is clean?

This is unreasonable to believe this is not possible, this just is a disgrace.

I was perfectly willing to give the man his chance to succeed. But this in my opinion blows it for him even before he takes office.

We are truly f*cked.

re: #54 Sharmuta

talk about hunger for power

re: #25 JHW

Ha Ha, he's using a Kipling quote. I don't remember Kipling using @#$$% -
#@@&*

Gunga Bleeping Din.

re: #42 DaddyG

To bad the Tribune didn't - the prosecutor could have nailed him in the act instead of just planning it.

How does this myth keep going around? The Trib released its information after the Feds decided to take Blago down. Money had, apparently, already changed hands.

I think Blago's hair should challenge Geert Wilders hair to a fight.

So he's going to fight the charges while in office?

bagowind: "When in politics do as the crooks do. Did I say that, oops I meant nice people, not crooks."

He's doing it for Sick Children

barf

Let's give him props for his grammatical prowess. How many people do you know who have used the F-word as a subject noun, object noun, adverb, adjective and verb in a single sentence?

Compare Governor Sarah Palin to this schmuck. Who can be proud of voting for Blago or supporting him for office, or keeping him in the taxpayer's wallet?

TV is defending the idea that ''talking and doing'' are different things and that he's innocent of any ''act.''
I thought that solicitation did not require sex for cops to bust the john.
Just naming a price for sex.

re: #55 lifeofthemind

Me and Patty, she is the linchpin, He isn't taking a hit for BHO, he is eating it to keep his wife out of jail.

OR, put her in jail and keep himself out?

re: #68 alegrias

can not compare...

re: #62 Honorary Yooper

How does this myth keep going around? The Trib released its information after the Feds decided to take Blago down. Money had, apparently, already changed hands.

Oops... I didn't have that info.

Of course Blago will step aside if the people suffer...

A year from now he will be a quiz show answer, forgotten by everyone.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling

Btw, we have a snowstorm here in Toronto now

re: #54 Sharmuta

So he's going to fight the charges while in office?

Of course. Did you expect anything less? It's a tradition in Chicago to continue holding office while fighting the charges. Aldermen (of which Blago's FIL is one) do this all the time.

re: #61 MandyManners

Good one. The "Jungle Book" was about Chicago? Who knew?

re: #58 reine.de.tout

I survived finals, Reine! And, the car is fixed too!

Time to do lunch :-)

Pay me, don't pay me. I'm in it to the end

--Blago's lawyer

re: #68 alegrias

Compare Governor Sarah Palin to this schmuck. Who can be proud of voting for Blago or supporting him for office, or keeping him in the taxpayer's wallet?

I actually posted (waaay back last September) that Sarah Palin did not have the experience for this type of corruption.

I stand by the remark.

re: #77 Honorary Yooper

Just wanted verification.

re: #79 pink freud

I survived finals, Reine! And, the car is fixed too!

Time to do lunch :-)

Sure! After the holidays? Before new semester?

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
Rudyard Kipling

The dude answering questions is stammering a lot. (And waving his hand around a lot.)

re: #76 winston06

Btw, we have a snowstorm here in Toronto now

Yeah, but that's Toronto!
It's to be expected.
WE had a snowstorm in Malibu the other day.
Now, that's unusual!

re: #67 MJBrutus

Let's give him props for his grammatical prowess. How many people do you know who have used the F-word as a subject noun, object noun, adverb, adjective and verb in a single sentence?

Any drill Sergeant worth his salt? ;-)>

re: #53 reine.de.tout

These folks believe they have an exemption; the normal laws do not apply to them. They are special, you see. They mean well, you see. They will take care of us, you see. So they have an exemption.

I know that's meant sarcastically, but he does have history behind him...the people really don't seem to give a shit. They really do get the government they deserve.

Where did he get this thug ?

re: #73 LilyGecko

Of course Blago will step aside if the people suffer...

Yeah, but which "people"? It sure as hell ain't the people of Illinois.

re: #86 mean Gene

i saw it on tv

re: #47 Sizzlack

I love how he said he has the truth on his side. Someone needs to sit him down and play him those tapes.

* * *
Tapes and DVDs of crazy ranting friends of Obama mean nothing. Keep up with the CHANGES.

re: #70 reine.de.tout

OR, put her in jail and keep himself out?

Nah, he couldn't make it stick, everyone is lined up against him.

re: #89 Shug

Where did he get this thug ?

Chicago- the windy thuggy city

He's my prediction: Blago will never serve jail time. He'll take this to the very end and the commit suicide.

"We can't say...we can't comment. No, no, no."

re: #83 reine.de.tout

Sure! After the holidays? Before new semester?

Yes and yes. Stressfree!

I thought Chris Farley was dead?

re: #89 Shug

Where did he get this thug ?

Which thug? (No TV in the office, just the radio).
Thugs are a dime a dozen in Chicago.

re: #91 winston06

Global climate change. (I mean, you cannot call that ''warming,'' can you?)

Question guy looks like he's conducting a song, he's waving his hands so much.

re: #94 Sharmuta

the guy looks Samoan. Everybody big Samoans make the best lawyers.

re: #95 Killgore Trout

Warden Norton.

re: #100 mean Gene

lol... GW is a liberal made myth

re: #95 Killgore Trout

He's my prediction: Blago will never serve jail time. He'll take this to the very end and the commit suicide.

Nope. If his predecessor is any indication, he'll do jail time, and deny he actually did anything wrong.

When the Easter Bunny comes knockin', the court will be rockin'

re: #67 MJBrutus

Let's give him props for his grammatical prowess. How many people do you know who have used the F-word as a subject noun, object noun, adverb, adjective and verb in a single sentence?

Its not that hard really.

Go fucking fuck the fucking fuckers as fast as you fucking can, you fuck.

Blago has this in common with Obama, he has never had a real job and was a low level hustler, BHO is just smoother.

"But, but Sarah Palin couldn't quote Kipling."
Moonbat response.
/

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling

FOX NEWS just begged any Blago supporter to come forward, they need the balance.
And Blago said they were out there...

Is trying to get editors fired from the Chicago Tribune by withholding public funds a violation of the 1st Amendment?

IMHO, I think this is worse (in many ways) than the other corruption.

Don't mess with my Bill of Rights ---grrr

Could be Blagos theme song: money

re: #105 Honorary Yooper

Nope. If his predecessor is any indication, he'll do jail time, and deny he actually did anything wrong.

reckon he will get religion after two months in the can like many others do? (smile)

Isn't there a rule? That if you are from Illinois you don't have to be an honest person?

Kinda like if you are a radio DJ or rockstar it's legal to smoke marijuana?

Honest Abe was the last.

Some idiot comparing Harry Truman and Blago regarding their polling.

Blago is no Harry Truman.

re: #88 LGoPs

I know that's meant sarcastically, but he does have history behind him...the people really don't seem to give a shit. They really do get the government they deserve.

Unfortunately, it's not all that sarcastic.

Many politicians do indeed believe they are above it all, because they "mean well", because they do whatever they need to, to "take care of the children" (gag), etc., etc.

It takes a certain amount of over-confidence and super-ego to go into politics to begin with. There are those who temper it with an appropriate degree of humility (GWBush, Sarah Palin). Then there are those who believe that their election is a sign that they have been elevated above the common man.

re: #111 mean Gene

LOL. When he said that, I thought, "What supporters?"

Shepard Smith issuing a plea for any supporters of Blago, anyone please to come forward. LOL

Have impeachment proceedings started in Illinois?

re: #97 pink freud

Yes and yes. Stressfree!

get in touch when you're ready.

re: #4 mean Gene

Does Balgo know that mere solicitation of a bribe is also a criminal act?
He did that.

Plus the whole conspiracy thing. Those are often stickier charges than the underlying offense.

re: #119 pink freud

there isn't any

re: #116 Honorary Yooper

Some idiot comparing Harry Truman and Blago regarding their polling.

Blago is no Harry Truman.

but Blago also uses a fat Man to do his dirty work

Any reasons Blago won't answer his questions?

re: #124 Shug

but Blago also uses a fat Man to do his dirty work

Does Jake know?

re: #111 mean Gene

FOX NEWS just begged any Blago supporter to come forward, they need the balance.
And Blago said they were out there...

Rpger Ailes can give me a call and I'll take the gig. I need a job.

re: #81 jwb7605

I actually posted (waaay back last September) that Sarah Palin did not have the experience for this type of corruption.

I stand by the remark.

* * *
Sarah Palin as a novice politician tossed this kind of entrenched corrupt Republican out on their Moosecaboose.

Frank Murkowski ring any bells for you? It should.

Sarah Palin wouldn't stand for five minutes of Chicago style politics as usual.

re: #62 Honorary Yooper

I need to learn more about this. I thought Fitzgerald said during the press conference that the Tribune came to the FBI with the information.

re: #120 Sharmuta

Have impeachment proceedings started in Illinois?

They're just getting started with the filings in the House.

Good thing he did this indoors so the sniper teams didn't have clear shot at him.

/

It just occurred to me I had that exact haircut and color back in 1977.

Back then it was in style. Now it looks really stupid. What is he, the Sixth Beatle?

re: #103 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I was thinking Budd Dwyer. Some egos just can't cope with the disgrace.

I don't know how this is all going to shake out, but I am pulling for a long and protracted, and public, Impeachment Trial.

re: #130 Honorary Yooper

They're just getting started with the filings in the House.

Does it work in Illinois like it does in Congress?

re: #128 alegrias

* * *
Sarah Palin as a novice politician tossed this kind of entrenched corrupt Republican out on their Moosecaboose.

Frank Murkowski ring any bells for you? It should.

Sarah Palin wouldn't stand for five minutes of Chicago style politics as usual.

Precisely why I voted for her.
That would have been change we could have believed in.

re: #129 ggt

I need to learn more about this. I thought Fitzgerald said during the press conference that the Tribune came to the FBI with the information.

The Trib was going to run a story about it, and Fitz asked if they hold off for a little bit. The Trib obliged.

Lego my Blago! /

re: #134 Sharmuta

Does it work in Illinois like it does in Congress?

Yes, impeachment of a governor is the same process as impeachment of a president.

re: #131 JammieWearingFool

Good thing he did this indoors so the sniper teams didn't have clear shot at him.

/

It just occurred to me I had that exact haircut and color back in 1977.

Back then it was in style. Now it looks really stupid. What is he, the Sixth Beatle?

Nah, he's the chief cockroach...

Hey. Didn't you know? Blogojevich is a saint.

All he has to do is stay upright long enough for Obama to buy his silence with the promise of a Presidential pardon. Clinton was a master at this, to the point that he ended up having to run an article (in the NY Times, of course) defending the 100+ dubious pardons he gave out to friends, family, and other affiliated criminals.

re: #132 Killgore Trout

I was thinking Budd Dwyer. Some egos just can't cope with the disgrace.

wait until his convictions. it's early days

re: #124 Shug

but Blago also uses a fat Man to do his dirty work

Blago was a nuclear bomb going off under the edifice of the Chicago Machine.

re: #88 LGoPs

I know that's meant sarcastically, but he does have history behind him...the people really don't seem to give a shit. They really do get the government they deserve.

* * *
Chicago's Daley MACHINE gets what it wants, with help from SEIU and ACORN and UAW and other unions and political machines with ward heelers and muscle.

Blago is just a vehicle for them.

re: #106 Shug

Rudyard Kipling?
;-)

re: #131 JammieWearingFool

What is he, the Sixth Beatle?

The Sixth Beetle is living at the bottom of a well and waiting for the right time to come out.

It is forbidden to speak of the Sixth Beetle without humility.

He's a saint, I tell you.

No more answers today.

/were there any answers at all today?

Yooper!

re: #128 alegrias

* * *
Sarah Palin as a novice politician tossed this kind of entrenched corrupt Republican out on their Moosecaboose.

Frank Murkowski ring any bells for you? It should.

Sarah Palin wouldn't stand for five minutes of Chicago style politics as usual.

Being an honest and moral person isn't a matter of experience.

It is the Blagos and the Obamas and the Bushes who are full of experience.

Tha's really worked out well for us huh?

re: #95 Killgore Trout

He's my prediction: Blago will never serve jail time. He'll take this to the very end and the commit suicide.

Must.Resist.Vince.Foster.Reference... gaaahhh

re: #140 Lynn B.

Hey. Didn't you know? Blogojevich is a saint.

And too sexy for his clothes.
/just ask him

dont you love how BHO declines to answer questions. HIs chief of staff is waist deep in this sh*t and the President Elect is m,ore or less hunkered down,probably praying that Blogo won't leak anything about him. And he's not ever the President yet. We are, as someone before me so eloquently put it, truly f*cked

re: #147 Lynn B.

Didn't half the questions get answered with "I don't know/I can't comment."

re: #138 Honorary Yooper

Yes, impeachment of a governor is the same process as impeachment of a president.

So- the House would impeach, the Senate would try the charges. Does the Chief Justice of the IL Supreme Court sit as the officiating judge?

Hair today
Blagone tomorrow

The guys a crook, but might walk after being impeached. He just needs to prove he just talked about pay for play, but never received anything. That's what he talking heads are saying at least.

re: #153 LilyGecko

Didn't half the questions get answered with "I don't know/I can't comment."

Yes.

re: #139 Dustyvet

Nah, he's the chief cockroach...

No, that's Jimmy DeLeo (D-How You Doin') and Mayor Shortshanks.

Blago is lower on the totem pole.

Yep. Hot Rod is pure as the driven snow.

re: #67 MJBrutus

Let's give him props for his grammatical prowess. How many people do you know who have used the F-word as a subject noun, object noun, adverb, adjective and verb in a single sentence?

It's easy.

Gotta go. BBIAW

Gunga {Bleep} a poem by Rudyard Kipling

Stanza the First:

You may talk o' {bleep} and beer
When you're quartered {bleep}out 'ere,
An' you're {bleep} to penny-fights an' Aldershot it;
But when it {bleep}s to slaughter
You will do your {bleep} on water,
An' you'll {bleep}the bloomin' {bleep}s of 'im that's got it.
Now in Injia's sunny clime,
Where I used to {bleep}my time
A-servin' of 'Er Majesty the {bleep},
Of all them blackfaced {bleep}
The finest {bleep}I knew
Was our regimental {bleep}, Gunga {Bleep}.
He was "{Bleep}! {Bleep}! {Bleep}!
You limpin' lump o' {bleep}-dust, Gunga {Bleep}!
Hi! slippery hitherao!
Water, get it! Panee lao!
You squidgy-nosed old {Bleep}, Gunga {Bleep}."

Blago denies any wrongdoing.

His proof?

It's the way things have always been done in Illinois and Chicago politics. If you want anything done, you have to play along. He was just better at it than everyone else. No one likes a sore winner, so they're on him. That's why he's innocent. /must resist urge to go Iowahawk on Blago... Iowahawk does a better job anyways.

re: #144 alegrias

Chicago's Daley MACHINE gets what it wants, with help from SEIU and ACORN and UAW and other unions and political machines with ward heelers and muscle.

Blago is just a vehicle for them.

As is Obama. That's all Obama is.

That was akin to him bringing a knife to a gunfight.

re: #107 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Blago? Is that you? Must have snuck in during Charles' last open door :-)

re: #112 ggt

I don't know many politicians who don't executive themselves by projecting who they are personally. What benefits their time in office also benefits them personally. They only alter course publicly if it's convenient to temporarily lie to achieve votes from the naive.

I don't think Blago is that much different from Obama.

Is Caroline Kennedy buying her Senate seat? Is it being sold to her? I think certainly Pelosi and Reid have been involved in the profiting from political favors. And Biden as well.

Blago is being used as a distraction so that other crimes have time to hide and cover their tracks. Oh my that thought is almost nirtherish.

Remember your Emily Post, Boys and Girls. There is the gimme, (Blago) and Please and Thank You (Caroline K).

re: #159 Wendya

Yep. Hot Rod is pure as the driven snow.

Yep, as pure as the snow where the huskies go.

/Don't eat the yellow snow.

re: #149 Harry Tuttle

Being an honest and moral person isn't a matter of experience.

It is the Blagos and the Obamas and the Bushes who are full of experience.

Tha's really worked out well for us huh?

I meant to be replying to

"re: #81 jwb7605

I actually posted (waaay back last September) that Sarah Palin did not have the experience for this type of corruption.

I stand by the remark.
"

UPDATE at 12/19/08 12:21:58 pm:

Quotes:

I’m here to tell you right off the bat that I am not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing, that I intend to stay on the job and I will fight this thing every. Step. Of the way. I will fight, I will fight, I will fight, until I take my last breath. I have done nothing wrong.

Wow, the ego on this man. The false indignant righteousness.
The chutzpah.

Gonna' go do a bit of shopping. Have a great day, Lizards!

re: #138 Honorary Yooper

Yes, impeachment of a governor is the same process as impeachment of a president.

So Blago just needs to convince his state senate that this was a sexual matter and as such, was a private affair. He certainly used the F word enough to give that line of reasoning credibility...
/

I don't get the whole Caroline Kennedy thing at all.

He's a bleeping saint, is what he is.

/ok. enough.

re: #172 gop_patriot

Wow, the ego on this man. The false indignant righteousness.
The chutzpah.

Naw, he's just holding out for a better deal from prosecutors. It's the same with many the political hacks and criminals (one in the same, I know). They'll profess their innocence and claim to fight this all the way, and the moment they sniff at a good deal, their sense of self preservation kicks in and take the deal.

He's falling into the Larry Craig trap - deny and avoid all the way to a conviction.

On Fox, Blago was just the opening act for Caylee. They're desperate to shuttle us over to murder. Can Aruba be far behind?

What was the Kipling quote?

Was it:

Makin' mock o' governors who rob you while you sleep
is fitter than them governors, whose favorite word is [bleep]

(okay, so I took a few liberties)

Slimy.

Every time he said the word "fight" it seemed like he wanted to use the other "f" word.

re: #154 Sharmuta

So- the House would impeach, the Senate would try the charges. Does the Chief Justice of the IL Supreme Court sit as the officiating judge?

Embarrasing as our current Federal Solons are, with the Illinois state legislature it is like Karl Marx's observation in The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon "History comes around twice, the first time as Tragedy, the second time as Farce." What a bunch of clowns, Marxism by fools that Groucho would be pressed to parody.

re: #175 ggt

I don't get the whole Caroline Kennedy thing at all.

The Democrats are the party of wealth and prestige. What's not to get?

re: #175 ggt

I don't get the whole Caroline Kennedy thing at all.

She is the torch-bearer of Camelot. As such, she is entitled to whatever office she wishes, as well as complete adulation and deference from the unwashed masses.

re: #179 Occasional Reader

Not bad:)

re: #181 oronpam

Every time he said the word "fight" it seemed like he wanted to use the other "f" word.

A lot of Chicago pols us those words, it's not unique to Blago. The Machine is effectively a political mafia.

Sure, sure Blagojevich, we believe you.
/do I really need this?

re: #178 FightingBack

On Fox, Blago was just the opening act for Caylee. They're desperate to shuttle us over to murder. Can Aruba be far behind?

I may be jaded but don't you find it convenient that the girls body just happened to show up around this time. Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you.

re: #184 pink freud

She is the torch-bearer of Camelot. As such, she is entitled to whatever office she wishes, as well as complete adulation and deference from the unwashed masses.

We are such a bunch of sheep...
*shaking my head*

HAVE A GREAT DAY ALL!

re: #177 lawhawk

Good point. :/

re: #184 pink freud

She is the torch-bearer of Camelot. As such, she is entitled to whatever office she wishes, as well as complete adulation and deference from the unwashed masses.

Gah.
Next, she'll do an Obama and run for President ...its the turn of the Kennedys again, adnwhat could be betetr than a female Kennedy ...

re: #175 ggt

I don't get the whole Caroline Kennedy thing at all.

She's rich and a Kennedy. She wants to be a Senator (and maybe Pres?); she gets what she wants. Think of Hill grinding her teeth.

re: #170 Honorary Yooper

Yep, as pure as the snow where the huskies go.

/Don't eat the yellow snow.

Or "pure as New York snow", to quote a great line from "Bette Davis Eyes".

re: #193 yma o hyd

Gah.
Next, she'll do an Obama and run for President ...its the turn of the Kennedys again, adnwhat could be betetr than a female Kennedy ...

A sober kennedy?

re: #193 yma o hyd

Gah.
Next, she'll do an Obama and run for President ...its the turn of the Kennedys again, adnwhat could be betetr than a female Kennedy ...

Shhh!

/wouldn't surprise me at all

Dear bought, and clear, a thousand years our fathers' title runs. Make likewise we their sacrifice, defrauding not our sons.
Kipling

re: #194 FightingBack

She's rich and a Kennedy. She wants to be a Senator (and maybe Pres?); she gets what she wants. Think of Hill grinding her teeth.

GMTA!

re: #171 Harry Tuttle

I meant to be replying to

"re: #81 jwb7605

I actually posted (waaay back last September) that Sarah Palin did not have the experience for this type of corruption.

I stand by the remark.
"

The upside ... I largely agree with you.
The downside ... if (even) Sarah Palin stays in politics for another 30 years, the muck will probably taint her noticeably, too.

Can you name a "career" politician that violates the premise?

re: #141 Diamond Bullet

All he has to do is stay upright long enough for Obama to buy his silence with the promise of a Presidential pardon. Clinton was a master at this, to the point that he ended up having to run an article (in the NY Times, of course) defending the 100+ dubious pardons he gave out to friends, family, and other affiliated criminals.

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Hey everyone. Today marks the 10th anniversary of Clinton's impeachment--12-19-1998.

Remember Al Gore and other Dems held a press conference to say Clinton was the Best President Ever, after Clinton's impeachment was announced?

re: #182 lifeofthemind

Embarrasing as our current Federal Solons are, with the Illinois state legislature it is like Karl Marx's observation in The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon "History comes around twice, the first time as Tragedy, the second time as Farce." What a bunch of clowns, Marxism by fools that Groucho would be pressed to parody.

So- you're telling me the fix is in, just like with Clinton, and they won't convict him?

re: #196 LGoPs

A sober kennedy?

Certainly soberer than her uncle, I'd say ...

re: #200 jwb7605

The upside ... I largely agree with you.
The downside ... if (even) Sarah Palin stays in politics for another 30 years, the muck will probably taint her noticeably, too.

Can you name a "career" politician that violates the premise?

Borin' Orrin Hatch comes to mind.

Maybe the 0 can appoint him Iranian Outreach Ambassador. Iran will likely keep him as their guuest (in chains) and they can have him.

re: #200 jwb7605

The upside ... I largely agree with you.
The downside ... if (even) Sarah Palin stays in politics for another 30 years, the muck will probably taint her noticeably, too.

Can you name a "career" politician that violates the premise?

Ronaldus Maximus.

I am not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing

-- Blago

I am not a crook

-- Richard Milhouse Nixon

re: #184 pink freud

She is the torch-bearer of Camelot. As such, she is entitled to whatever office she wishes, as well as complete adulation and deference from the unwashed masses.

You're absolutely right. I cringe every time I hear the MSM say the kennedys are America's royalty.

So he's going to court? I'm sure the judges will be handsomely bribed.

Still watching Fox. Guess now it's just a matter of time that another pretty white person disappears, then they'll have something new to talk about.

I hate this shit.

re: #201 alegrias

* * *
Hey everyone. Today marks the 10th anniversary of Clinton's impeachment--12-19-1998.

Remember Al Gore and other Dems held a press conference to say Clinton was the Best President Ever, after Clinton's impeachment was announced?

Yeah, I forgot about that. In your face shameless...
*spit*

re: #206 Harry Tuttle

Ronaldus Maximus.

Thanks. The exception that proves the rule!

re: #200 jwb7605

The upside ... I largely agree with you.
The downside ... if (even) Sarah Palin stays in politics for another 30 years, the muck will probably taint her noticeably, too.

Can you name a "career" politician that violates the premise?

But I do take your point. Absolute power...

Speaking of "I am not a crook..."
Has anyone see "Frost/Nixon" yet?

I will fight, I will fight, I will fight, until I take my last breath.

Sounds a lot like John McLame during the election campaign. LoL

re: #203 yma o hyd

Certainly soberer than her uncle, I'd say ...

wonder if she drives any better?

re: #210 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Turn it off. And I mean that in the nicest way.

Why Kipling though? Surely Yeats is more appropriate.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all around it

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

re: #197 pink freud

Shhh!

/wouldn't surprise me at all

Amazing, isn't it, how easy it is to grasp the hopes of such budding senators, from those dynasties.

re: #201 alegrias

* * *
Hey everyone. Today marks the 10th anniversary of Clinton's impeachment--12-19-1998.

Remember Al Gore and other Dems held a press conference to say Clinton was the Best President Ever, after Clinton's impeachment was announced?

I was trying to forget.

/And thank you so much for bringing up such a painful memory. While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?
//Princess Bride

“I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.”

John Gotti

re: #175 ggt

I don't get the whole Caroline Kennedy thing at all.

My conclusion is there is not much there there. Not a deep subject - no real reason, except that she is a Kennedy, alive, lives in the state, and is not a drug addict or felon.

I'm sure a simple call to Madoff will provide him with a scheme to get him off the hook.

re: #219 yma o hyd

Amazing Sickening, isn't it, how easy it is to grasp the hopes of such budding senators, from those dynasties.

Yes.

re: #202 Sharmuta

So- you're telling me the fix is in, just like with Clinton, and they won't convict him?

No I am saying that any trial with these escapees from the zoo in fancy dress means less than a Senate that seats Franken after he steals the election. He might get convicted and he probably is guilty but when nothing is legitimate nothing is safe.

re: #218 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs

It's truly eerie how well Yeats predicted Hillary.

re: #217 FightingBack

Oh, it had been white noise for a few minutes. Looked up and saw it on, thought, "Ugh." and changed the channel.

"I've got a hell of a lot of weapons to fight - I've got my GUNS! I've got my CLAWS! I've got my CUTLASSES! I've got DYNAMITE! I've got a hell of a lot of weapons with which to fight! I WILL FIGHT! I WILL FIGHT! I WILL FIGHT! I WILL FIGHT! I WILL FIGHT! I WILL FIGHT! I WILL FIGHT! I WILL FIGHT! "

The Rev. Jim Jones, 18 NOV 1978

re: #222 Cattt

And, she votes every now&then. You gotta give her that.

What does he know, or think he knows, that we don't.

Popcorn stock is going to skyrocket.

re: #201 alegrias

* * *
Hey everyone. Today marks the 10th anniversary of Clinton's impeachment--12-19-1998.

Remember Al Gore and other Dems held a press conference to say Clinton was the Best President Ever, after Clinton's impeachment was announced?

Today also marks the 20th anniversary of the Lockerbie terrorist plane tragedy.

Dems are incapable of putting the interests of their state or country ahead of their own. Just look at the behavior of Gore 2000 vs Nixon '60. Or of Blago now and Nixon '73.

But why should Dems do he honorable thing? There's no incentive to do so, since they know they'll be treated differently. Look and Gerry Studds vs. Larry Craig. Or Reid, Landrieu, and Dachle slathering unqualified praise on Senator Byrd vs. Trent Lott's remarks about Strom Thurmond.

The fix is way in. Blago's going nowhere now, and in a few years he'll probably run for Senate himslef, and the press will help everyone forget this little "misunderstanding".

re: #220 gop_patriot

Quoting "The Princess Bride". DING!

Wonder if Charles could set up an "auto-ding" for me for those.

re: #225 lifeofthemind

It would be the Illinois Senate trying him.

Yooper- what are the odds the IL Senate will convict, iyo?

re: #232 Lizard by the Bay

Blago's going to follow George Ryan to jail, if Fitz's history with these cases is any indication. I'd say Blago's looking at much more time than just 6-1/2 years.

re: #233 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

You've got me hunting coconut oil and Orville Redenbacher's loose popping corn. I think it was you who mentioned this a few days ago? Brought back memories ...

I hope your wife is doing better. Merry Christmas!

re: #76 winston06

winston we had that last nite and this morning enjoy

re: #190 LGoPs

We are such a bunch of sheep...
*shaking my head*

* * *
Not me. Don't include me in your collectivist guilt trip.

I did not vote for the Tony Sopranos Party.

...and the verdict is:

Guilty. You get to spend 6 months in Madoff's 7 million dollar penthouse apartment pent up with Bernie. Enjoy the champagne & caviar.

re: #95 Killgore Trout

He's my prediction: Blago will never serve jail time. He'll take this to the very end and the commit suicide.

shot 10 times to the back of the head

re: #235 Sharmuta

Yooper- what are the odds the IL Senate will convict, iyo?

That's like Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado. They pick the person next in line to be executed, to be the Lord High Executioner.

re: #183 experiencedtraveller

The Democrats are the party of wealth and prestige. What's not to get?

The party of graft and deceit is more like it.

re: #241 yochanan

shot 10 times to the back of the head

Suicide again?
/

re: #241 yochanan

With his hands tied behind his back

The socialist left, media and academic friends will reframe/rewrite this episode to turn Blagojevich into a victim of Republican prosecution and the Chicago Way into politics as usual for the New America. It may take several months or even years, but it will happen and Obama will be the hero in the story who kept cool above it all. Blagojevich is counting on it.

Speaking of Blago:

I just saw results of a survey that found that 84% of Democrat politicians enjoy sex in the shower.

The other 14% said they hadn't been to prison yet...

re: #239 alegrias

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I did not vote for the Tony Sopranos Party.

Hell, they're not even that. At least "T" would know what to do about Iran. Fugheddaboutit.

re: #235 Sharmuta

Yooper- what are the odds the IL Senate will convict, iyo?

Well, since it is no longer controlled by Blago's ally, Emil "Evil" Jones (D-Commonwealth Edison), the Senate may be more inclined to convict this go-around. The current president of the Senate is John Cullerton (D-DeLeo).

re: #245 bulwrk

With his hands tied behind his back

And the gun is no longer at the scene.

Blah Blah Blah.

This story is more dead than W. Mark Felt.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

re: #242 Kosh's Shadow

Um- okay... Was just looking for some insight.

re: #241 yochanan

shot 10 times to the back of the head

Fell down an elevator shaft onto some bullets.

re: #247 christheprofessor

Speaking of Blago:

I just saw results of a survey that found that 84% of Democrat politicians enjoy sex in the shower.

The other 14% said they hadn't been to prison yet...

One up ding...:)

Ah, Sweet Caroline, so many Limo Libs in NY, so few Senate seats.

re: #241 yochanan

shot 10 times to the back of the head

Chicago suicide!

I'd like to hear a statement from Patty, too. She'd probably crib from that famous potty-mouth Will Shakespeare.

So, if Blago thinks the Senate seat is worth something more than "Thanks and I appreciate your confidence in me." Isn'tit time to check up on the other 99 in the Senate. I think today's Senate is not exactly an august body.

re: #214 rawmuse

Speaking of "I am not a crook..."
Has anyone see "Frost/Nixon" yet?

* * *
Forgive my asking but why would you give leftist Ron Howard a dime out of your pocket?

re: #81 jwb7605

I actually posted (waaay back last September) that Sarah Palin did not have the experience for this type of corruption.

I stand by the remark.

If you mean, she doesn't have the experience to make her corrupt, let alone to this degree, then I concur.

If you mean, she doesn't have the experience to deal with people as corrupt as Blagojevich, you're wrong. She's actually dealt with such people, and unlike Obama, she has no patience or tolerance for corrupt politicians in either party.

re: #208 xtraBilly

You're absolutely right. I cringe every time I hear the MSM say the kennedys are America's royalty.

Why? Tyrant and despot are two synonyms for royalty.

re: #234 Sharmuta

It would be the Illinois Senate trying him.

As I said, theObama's old colleagues are a crowd that would have to use the back door at a Teamsters or Used Car Dealers meeting.

re: #244 jwb7605

Suicide again?
/

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
-Og Mandino

re: #232 Lizard by the Bay

my congresscrook jan s. hubby was convicted of bank and tax fraud a tax statement she signed and she still gets re elected in fact she was talked about for the zero's sen. seat. and of course none of them ever mention the conviction it should noted the hubby spent his 7 mos under house arrest.

re: #252 Sharmuta

Um- okay... Was just looking for some insight.

If I stopped making jokes and references like this, I'd go nuts.

re: #235 Sharmuta

About the same as John Bultarski's GPA.

re: #258 JHW

I'd like to hear a statement from Patty, too. She'd probably crib from that famous potty-mouth Will Shakespeare.

Out, out damn spot...:)

re: #260 alegrias

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Forgive my asking but why would you give leftist Ron Howard a dime out of your pocket?

Hugh Hewitt says it is actually pretty good. And he knew Nixon.