No mercy.
Period.
Chris Dodd. Ted Stevens. Kent Conrad. Alphonso Jackson. Donna Shalala. Sarah Palin. Duke Cunningham. William Jefferson. Tom Delay. Harry Reid. Rick Renzi. Mark Siljander. Brian Krolicki. George Ryan. Charlie Rangel.
Enough.
And after Democrat Blagojevich is tried, he should be marched out to the public square, where citizens of Illinois then take turns pissing and spitting on him.
This sh*t must end.
CHICAGO – Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested on Tuesday on charges he brazenly conspired to sell or trade the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama to the highest bidder in what a federal prosecutor called a "corruption crime spree."
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told a news conference prosecutors make "no allegations" Obama was aware of any alleged scheming.
Blagojevich also was charged with illegally threatening to withhold state assistance to Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune, in the sale of Wrigley Field, according to a federal criminal complaint. In return for state assistance, Blagojevich allegedly wanted members of the paper's editorial board who had been critical of him fired.
"We were in the middle of a corruption crime spree and we wanted to stop it," Fitzgerald said Tuesday, calling the corruption charges against Blagojevich "a truly new low."
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what a scumbag.But this is how washington works folks.He was stupid enough to get caught, bummer.He will be using lots of vaseline in a cell with earl.
You don't find it strange that he is charged in a very public manner just days after ordering the State of Illinois to cease all business relationships with Bank of America?
You don't find it odd that Spitzer is very publicly charged with seeking the services of a prostitute after investigating Wall Street Banks?
How naive are you?
No, I don't find it odd.
Scum is scum, and this guy, and his predecessor, are scum.
Spitzer on the other hand is my freaking hero, and we're in the mess we're in today because he got the boot. But in the end, it was his own damn fault.
I cross-referenced seven articles about Blagojevich before I found one that told me he was a Democrat. No bias in the media. Yeah, right.
>Blagojevich allegedly wanted members of the paper's editorial board who had been critical of him fired.
Well I guess that didn't turn out the way he planned.
"'We were in the middle of a corruption crime spree and we wanted to stop it,' Fitzgerald said Tuesday"
Yeah right -- sounds to me like he stopped his investigation in the nick of time for certain people in the highest of places. Any longer and we might have discovered how much these people were willing to "pay" to have their chosen guy or gal installed in the Senate.
Fitzgerald was a hero to the Dems when he investigated the Republicans. Now that he's hitting the other side I expect we'll soon see the usual talking heads comparing him to Kenneth Star, and he'll be labeled as "out of control".
Bread and circuses.
blagojevich-spitzered
"I cross-referenced seven articles about Blagojevich before I found one that told me he was a Democrat. No bias in the media. Yeah, right."
You are very correct sir. If it was a republican it would have read "GOP, Republican, don't forget a conservative, who Rush loves and may not be a direct member of Bush's administration, but it is still Bush's direct fault, Governor was arrested today......"
Ummm.... why not wait to see who comes up with the cash to get their guy in the Senate?
Might we have found out who was really running things?
C'mon Keith, not to sound like a nut, but its a few months until that Senate seat had to be filled. Don't you think most investigators would wait to catch as many criminals as they could? What was the urgency? Couldn't have been the fact this guy wasn't doing business with BAC anymore, could it?
Who wants to bet the Lt. Governor, when he takes over, goes back to doing business with BAC?
The same Patrick Fitzgerald who laid down and took in the a$$ for Bush? What a short memory you people have. When it came time to put the all-time biggest gang of crooks in jail -- don't you remember what he did? You think there is any credibility to these charges? This reminds me of Ken Starr's charges against Clinton.
'a brutal prison rape'.
I like your thinking on this...
When this towel boy hits the yard, he will be taken into the food chain almost immediately.
DIE U PIG
I modified my post to make it clear that this piece of sh*t is a Democrat
And any of you who continue to identify with either the Democratic or Republican parties are fools.
Complete and total fools.
Keith ... "brutal prison rape"???
Welcome to my camp of ZERO tollerance.
I've called for public executions for quite a while on this site. Welcome aboard!!
Sad how the bag of crap was using desperate workers at that plant just before his take down.
BTW - That gawd awful wig alone merits capital punishment.
Ron Paul in 2012!
We haven't even inaugurated our new President yet and we're already learning that his senate seat was for sale to the highest bidder. Illinois truly is a wonder of political corruptness. I would post some links to stories of corrupt Alderman and the like in Chicago, but I fear it would slow this website to a halt.
In a way I think it's a good thing that there is no consideration for timing on these stories. They are coming at us hard and fast like Roccman with his MREs and fallout shelters. The party is over in America and (JoeSixPack & JaneZinfandel) are waking up to the corruption that's been rampant while they were snorting their life away in Vegas with HELOC money.
Is it too late?
The draft of my original post called for public execution, but I believe capital punishment should be reserved for murder cases only, so thus the public urination and spitting.
And I see that KSM is pleading guilty so that we'll kill him. Wouldn't a better punishment be life in prison in solitary confinement with no chance of parole?
But on these corrupt politicians, I hope they get more than 5 years. Try 50. Never to see the light of day again.
Same for Mozilo and Perry.
Man, I can't wait to have a justice department again.
gotta love corruption. no doubt it's the only way to get somewhere in life.
just remember,it's only cheating 'till you get caught...
maybe the timing of this is related to all the grandstanding he did about BoA, but, generally, when the prosecution says they have someone saying something on wire-tap, they have it.
Do you actually think they would have tried to sell it to Obama if they did not know that he was on the take?
HAHAHA!!!!!!
That press conference was the biggest BS PR stunt I have ever seen.
Folks, this IS how things are done at ALL levels of government. "Contributions" are required for all appointments and consideration. If you think otherwise you are an utter and complete fool.
I still long and pray for the frogmarching of the rogue.
Fitzy is a puppet on a string that does what his masters tell him imo.
And to think what he did is chump change.
If you want to see how this is REALLY done, just look at the millions and millions and millions Bill Clinton has taken in bribes - aka tributes - with bettors thinking Hillary was going to be president.
This should not stand. And yet it does.
hang him!
It sounds like this case was getting too hot to handle! I agree we should have waited to see who was willing to "pay to play".
Or, maybe they already know! But will we find out?
so many corrupt mofos
so few sharp axes
I too find the timing of the gov's arrest highly suspect. Why not wait longer to see how the pick for Senator played out? Clearly it would have expanded the circle of scumbags and led to more arrests.
Not buying it.
This is a VERY good point - why not let it play out even more?
I mean, it's not like he was going to blow something up?
Maybe because he was going to name Jesse Jackson Jr? And Big Jesse was willing to pay?
This story will have legs...
Not even a prostitute in this story and it makes the news?
He just wanted his own golden parachute and figured the seat would get him some cash.
Give the little guy a break.
Sounds like he is one of the better ones these days.
RE Keith: "No, I don't find it odd."
I find it odd. Blagojevich was sticking up for the union workers who got screwed because credit dried up.
So the Bush administration showed the folks in Illinois who's boss.
Sure the timing seems fishy. But the timing would have always seemed fishy - this guy is always pretending to be a champion of the working class so he's always in the middle of some standoff against 'the big bad corporations'.
Meanwhile he's just working for himself and he's for sale to the highest bidder. And who do you think is ultimately the highest bidder? That's right, entrenched monied interests.
It's too bad that this scumbag is only a faker because the working man could use a real champion, not just a faker. The reason the real champion of the little guy is not governor is because of this bs artist - that's the real tragedy here.
Throw the book at this puke.
Why not?
Fear of where the trail ends, is your answer methinks.
The vermin is free on $4500 bail.
My ex had to come up with $10K for failing to complete DWI related community service in a timely fashion.
But it really small potatoes when you compare it to the pay day some of the gangsters on Wall Street are getting away with.
It's time we the people take over and send the guilty to Gitmo with all the other terrorist scum.
The guys have been corrupt for years this is how its done in Chico..
They just got mad at him and then blew the whistle.
You can be as corrupt as you want but as soon as you dont play by the Crook Rules you get slammed. He did not see it coming.
I was wondering if he was shopping conservatives for cash. How about you????????????????????
"I modified my post to make it clear that this piece of sh*t is a Democrat
And any of you who continue to identify with either the Democratic or Republican parties are fools.
Complete and total fools."
Keith,
I am finaly getting under your skin. I never claimed to be a republican. I am just pulling the same shit you had for the last four months but from a different angle. It sure is inmteresting how you have had nothing but crap to say about Republicans and praised dems. In fact I have been saying you have been a chicken shit for abandoning Ron Paul. Now I am the idiot. Fuck You!!!!
He knew he was under investigation, he knew several of his aids had been arrested, he was having conversations about how best to handle his potential indictment, and yet he still incriminated the hell out of himself. He didn't even try to LAY LOW for a while. If this doesn't go to show just how rampant and pervasive corruption is in Illinois, nothing does.
And also note the union involvement. Shocking.
keith said...
This is a VERY good point - why not let it play out even more?
Because he was about to sign a law he was bribed to support, and because the Chicago Tribune was already being asked to hold a pending story about the investigation while they finished securing his arrest.
I love rampant uninformed speculation as much as the next guy, but try reading some of the details of the charges. The answers are all around you. :)
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/rod.blagojevich.charged.2.883170.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-blagojevich-maindec09,0,7734677.story
Fitzgerald thanked the Chicago Tribune, which had been reporting on the investigation, for honoring a rare request about eight weeks ago not to report on certain aspects of the investigation that he said could have been jeopardized.
Tribune Editor Gerould Kern said today that the newspaper delayed publishing some stories at the request of the U.S. attorney's office during the course of reporting on the accelerating investigation of Blagojevich.
"On occasion, prosecutors asked us to delay publication of stories, asserting that disclosure would jeopardize the criminal investigation," Kern said. "In isolated instances, we granted the requests, but other requests were refused."
Small point about the prison rape thing -- that should not be happening in a well-run prison. It's cruel and unusual punishment, and it indicates a system that's out of control. Is that all America can aspire to?
I used to work as a nurse in a couple of state prisons in Florida. We dealt with the aftermaths of rapes, like bloody ripped anuses, injuries from guys being beaten down, and further down the line, the syphilis and HIV that was spread that way. Luckily, it was a fairly well-run place, so there was not much of that.
All you people that chuckle at the thought of prison rape -- you realise your tax dollars are being spent unnecessarily for medical care for the guys who get attacked, don't you? Can you say "Cutting off your nose to rape your face?"
You might just say "Let 'em suffer and die" but is that the sort of country you want to live in? A place where cheque kiters and pot sellers and bank robbers get the slow-motion death penalty? Do you want to just kill everyone who is convicted of ANYTHING more than a misdemeanour?Remember, most people who go to prison eventually get out. You want them to hit the streets filled with disease and twisted mentality?
Lastly, if you have a prison system where sex crimes take place unpunished, it shows the authorities can't even ride herd over the people they've got locked in cages. And that's fucked-up, literally and figuratively. A prison where there's rampant rape is a prison where there's drug smuggling, training schools for future criminals, etc. Is that what America should have?
The prison where I worked was a nasty place, un-air conditioned concrete barracks full of stinking, sweaty half-insane thugs sweltering in the Gulf Coast humidity. It was so bad that inmates would slash their wrists to get into the air-conned sick bay where I worked for a few hours relief. And that was OK with me. The prisoners were nasty fucks, and if they wanted to mess THEMSELVES up, ha-ha!
People who do the crimes they did deserve to suffer. But they should suffer within the bounds of law, not suffer in a criminal way via rape. It sounds like a funny joke, but it isn't. It's an indication that America is down there with Saudi Arabia, Russia and other backwards-arse places.
Blagojevich, Rangel, Bush blah, blah, blah. It sounds like these guys know what's coming and are acting accordingly.
No transparency...it's over.
No acorns...it's over.
Wake up and smell the "soot and ashes".
I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican. For the life of me, I don't understand what this guy did wrong! Seriously.
What? The Feds allege he "illegally threatened" to withhold aid to a private company (a newspaper). The Federal govt. says he threatened to withhold funding unless some people were fired? Isn't that what Congress has done to a number of folks in the banks they've rescued. Didn't Schumer yesterday say that the head of GM should be fired or they won't get govt. money? This guy at the state level says the same thing and he's going to get prosecuted for it? The world has gone mad.
Also, since when is calling in political favors a crime? He said that the opening is "valuable" and he can get something for it. Big deal. That's what politics is. Is there a law that says he can't be political? I don't think when he said "value" he meant money. What he meant was getting political favors done for himself to move himself along so he could make more money in a different position now or down the road. So what? Big deal. That's what politicians do. Hey, he just could have appointed himself to the Senate if he wanted to.
This is much to do about absolutely NOTHING.
It will be dismissed by a judge, but not after another lengthy, costly, and unnecessary skewering by the Feds who are now fully pregnant with this issue and will throw a million charges at him hoping that a couple will stick to the wall.
Just you wait, about 25+ charges will be thown at this guy. When you see that, you know the Feds have no case.
Next issue please!
so this comes out now after the election of your hero not before like the hit job on palin that you were so eager to jump on and obama knows nothing ok i give him the benefit here but really this just does not pass the smell test and the media will shelter this from everything related to chicago and will hound bush but it seems to me that obama will have his own vietnam and its going to be fun to watch this is really turning out to be a sitcom worth a few seasons
You're completely clueless Keith.
This is an attack on Democrats and the American people.
Fucking FBI is infested with entrenched corn fed bible thumping Bush cronies. It's a criminal organization and Pelosi needs to gut it to purge the human excrement.
That's it, it's time for the Libertarian party to rise. The Democrat and Republican parties have failed America. Fuck both of them!
I think he has some kind of mental illness. Seriously. Read some of the things he was saying.
The 'investigation' was moved from the back burner to the front burner after Fitzgerald got 'the call' from the PTB late last night...
Obviously, for Illinois governors, considering that four in the past forty years have gone to jail, prison is not a deterrent.
So thus, we need to ensure that Illinois governors are brutally prison raped.
Only the threat of prison rape will stop future Illinois governors from stealing from the people.
And if prison rape doesn't do the trick, then the people of Illinois will need to come up with even firmer forms of deterrence. Maybe 24 hour non-stop Mama Mia. Or if that doesn't work, possibly sell indicted Illinois governors to a foreign country like Saudi Arabia or Syria, and let them do their thing.
Illinois governors. What are we gonna do with 'em?
So why cant Fitzgerald do something useful and arrest say Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove...Bush in the least for charges for the phoney WMD story???
As gently as I can put it...
These guys need to be F**ked up real bad!
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you still have not mention that this investigation has been going on for quite some time and not a hint of it before the election but your hatred for palin and the joy in the investigation about her non issue ex brother in law consumed your blog for weeks but obama was off limits to you i know i am just a sorry sore loser right wing gun toting conservative but you were taken in by this change con artist and i am looking for the change and all i see is the same crowd we had before so the sit com is about to start and obama's pardon list keeps growing just wait till one of these indicted friends of mr o throws his get out of jail card on the game board
Don't let him have any vasoline. I hope his jail time starts soon and lasts a very long time.
I read some of the indictment, and it is pretty damning, but I do think that the prosecutor will have a hard time making the charges stick, since many of these crimes were threats of omission, rather than outright graft. I doubt if a single dollar changed hands. Much of this seems like wild speculation on the part of the governor. Many people waited for Patrick Fitzgerald to bring justice to the Bushies, and they were sorely dissapointed. Frankly, I have no confidence in a man who cannot find a suitable crime to prosecute the biggest gang of criminals to walk the earth since the Golden Horde.
ABC reports Candidate #5, aka Jesse Jackson Jr., was willing to put money on the table for this plum job. Too bad the U.S. attorney cut this eBay auction short - it could've been downright interesting to see the ante upped by Candidates 1-4!
You're completely clueless Keith.
This is an attack on Democrats and the American people.
Fucking FBI is infested with entrenched corn fed bible thumping Bush cronies. It's a criminal organization and Pelosi needs to gut it to purge the human excrement.
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bitterrenter using a different id?
The vermin is free on $4500 bail.
My ex had to come up with $10K for failing to complete DWI related community service in a timely fashion.
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well, i would rank DWI as a much more serious offense. DWI has the likelihood of killing people.
What blago did was wrong, corrupt, and scummy but the likelihood of killing or injuring anyone else was very low.
why didn't they let this play out and see how many people they could entrap? let the payments flow, the nominations be announced and so on? it would have increased the chances of there being a connection to BO's transition team.
I think the trigger was pulled too early due to democrat meddling.
It sure looks like being presumed innocent until proven guilty won't go this sob's way.
But hey, he's a politicial and he knows that money talks and isn't that what the dealing, fighting and screwing is all about, not to mention the hate-fest sweeping the nation by storm?
What has happened to us all, this love for money and all the "good" things it'll buy in this world. Ask yourself, is it really worth-it?
After-all, there are only so-many reasons people get destroyed, killed, ruined, etc. I'd say money is very near the top of the list.
If you just remember one important thing in life and make sure to tell all the kids, MONEY IS GOD.
where is the call for a special prosecutor that hounded the plame case and do you think any of these obama friends will be dragged in front of a grand jury 5 times like rove looking for a leak an f^^T&^leak when the leak was known to everyone but it was get libby and nail him so lets see the outcry in this case about how we must ensure the integrity of the system and have someone without bias and it is truly remarkable the we have so many people associated with obama and he knows nothing about wright about ayers about rezko about blogo and he became president what a sham but the show has begun early and i said from the beginning he will be a one term president if he makes it till jan 20th
I find it hard to believe that someone rose that high in politics without being more cunning than this.
My bets are:
#1 - He thought he held more power than he did and that he had leverage over parties who might investigate. He was obviously wrong.
#2 - He somehow went off the deep end and has cracked.
#3 - He already knew he was in the crosshairs and decided he wanted to take a few people down with him - either enemies or people who were involved but not yet implicated. (my favorite)
Still, throwing him in jail will be a good start. I just hope he doesn't end up being a sacrificial lamb. There are many cells in need of filling these days, and the national attention span is tragically short.
I grew up In Illinois. I hate that state. All the unions are corrupt, wanna get hired for municipal or state work, it will cost you money. Everybody's taking a kickback somewhere. Cops looking the other way for a good sized "Gift". Illinois sucks. Blagojevich can rot in his cell.
I wonder if ole Gov Ryan can still make any sound when he farts?
Yeah, you go Keith! You tell'em! Oh wait...you support Obama and his gang.
Get in line Keith! Be a good follower and zip it!
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