Because he wuvs the baby.
If eight years of Watching the Defectives in the Bush Administration has pounded home one point by now it is this: there is absolutely no limit to the scope, scale and brazenness of the lies a stone gangsta sociopath in a position of power will tell.
None.
From the Chicago Tribune:
"So the House's action today and the causes for the impeachment are because I've done things to fight for families who are with me here today," Blagojevich said.
You heard him right; this week Governor Shakedown chose to share his Awesomeness with us once again by strutting and fretting yet another hour on the international stage -- this time behind a breastwork of the ill, the aged, the dispossessed and the infirm -- and raging that the only reason every single human in the Illinois Statehouse (minus one) was out to get him was that they hated sick kids and senior citizens.
Breathtaking.
And by next week?
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Farbeit from me to defend Rod. In his addled, delusional brain he is a dedicated public servant. Consider his "career" in politics. Is it any wonder that he's wondering what the hubbubs about?
As a neighborhood waif, under Dick Daley I he lurked his way up in his ward organization. He saw how the sausage was made. He saw the perks, he saw the money, he'd found his calling.
For all its scum-dipped, blood stained, borderline to blatant criminality, Street level politics in Chicago was still about serving da peoples. The costs of doing business within a particular ward were known, understood and accepted even by those who didn't much care for the pols or their practices.
Nothing's straight-up. Everything tosses into the kitty.
Would that it didn't work this way, but unless/until it's broken, it's the way of the world.
Washington D.C., Springfield, IL or Lakeview, in Rod's experience sausage was sausage. Enough people don't want to know how it's made.
Sans the arrogance, more discrete about his actions, and more beholden to them what made him, do you doubt he would be enjoying the limelight he so obviously craves?
His sin was not attempting to sell the empty senate seat. It was attempting to usurp the Chicago Way. It was trying to launch a hostile takeover by dint of being Gov. It was in trying to renegotiate his deal with himself calling the shots.
He's learning that you don't get into a pissing contest with the family. He's in the way now. Has been for several years, but now he's stepped in it and doe's whose usta back his moves ain't lifting a finger.
Making him out to be a raving loon is a necessary part of the removal process. When he sings, and we both know he will, his lyrics need to sound like they're from Looney-Tunes. He's disgraced. Discredited is still a work in progress.
If you told people how things actually function in Chicago, would they believe you?
Good SHOT, Drift!
wunnaurbest...:o)
Gaspin' for breath at the shoppework. :o) :o) :o)
Didn't you love the nouveau "bomber-crew"? You know, at the end of the WWII film the faces of the departed B-17 guys, lost over the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factory, float through the clouds while an ethereal voice calls the roll:
"Modulewski!"..."Here!"
"Smith" (pilot, of cuss..) Here!"
"Morelos"..."Here!"
"Running Bear!"..."Here!"
"Rastus!"..."Here!"
Only this one had to do with the "mission" of trying to save the political ass of the miserable, cynical-beyond-words, piece of shit who had dragged them out on that stage to use for props...just like he's dragged Burris out to use on the dems like it was Capone keeping the troops in line by beating one of them to death with a baseball bat, between the entree' and dessert.
"But, But, it's leeeeegal! So we have to have him in the Senate... or the 'murkan judicial system will collapse and all of our genitals will rot off. Plus! If we put him in the rules committee for a few weeks, it will be "playing politics"! (shudder!)"
Fuck. That. Shit.
EmptyWheel has a good thread up about how the deal between Blago and Burris went down:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/01/09/the-method-to-blagojevichs-sam-adams-madness/
It triggered this, for me:
Burris, by himself (sorta-kinda) as he considers Blago's offer:
"Lesseee...just HOW fucking crooked will I look if I take this and do a 180 on Blago's fitness to do JUST this kind of thing as he appoints ME to the Senate? I mean, I did say that Madigan was right when she called for the state Supremes to dump Blago...and there is that little thingy of me saying that Blago was incapacitated. Some people might thing that I was just one more political sleaze, whoring himself out, and I wouldn't want that .....
..............would I?"
Little-Red-Devil-with-Pitchfork, sitting on Burris's shoulder:
"Fuck that shit! We're talking power! A fat salary! Prestige!
Admiration!...
Okay, on that last one, only with people from murky gene pools, or republicans who want you there to point to when Blago finally eats it. But, it'll be too late by then. Once you get in, no one will be able to come after you. All you'll have to do is scream that they keep a tear-stained copy of "Gone With The Wind" under their bed, and a "stars and bars" flag in their closet, and they'll go away.
Burris: "You think?"
Little Devil: "i KNOW! After the past 8 years, what's one more George Bush-style ethical shitmire?
Fer chrissakes, Lindsay Graham is running around bragging about what a success Iraq is. You think they're gonna worry about a 90 second pornflick of you going soixante-neuf with a crooked governor? Just keep shreiking
"rule of law!"..."rule of law!" and no one will be able to stop you.
Burris, beaming:
"Okay! I'll take it! Gimme that cell phone."
Little Devil, with open-handed slap to Burris's head:
"NO, you dumbshit peckerhead! NOT with the phone. Meet someone at a bus stop under the Loop El...as a train goes by, in case he's wearing a wire."
Burris, reaching for his overcoat:
"Oh. Yeah."
OT kinda: HEY!! You all get over to the weblogs and vote!! Drifty is coming AWWWWWN strong and within 50 or so of overtaking the lead here!! Cool.
http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-individual-blogger/
Incredible photoshop, Drifty!! :lol:
I voted. Early and often. :o)
And I think Drift just slipped into a 1/10 of a percentage point lead. :o)
Lessseee...can we offer a seat on the municipal water board to some people? :o)
And that HAS to be the wickedest fucking photo-shoppe I've ever seen.
No smileface big enough. :o)
Go Drifty Go!
Drifty pulls ahead!!
OK, now back to politics...or is the award politics as well?
glad to see the awards thing finally moving in the right direction -- AND -- glad to see comments are still as good as always -- go rehctaw and tanbark!
Blego has some real audacity what can I say ...
Looks like the Senate blinked though ...
I also blog about "political issues" www.sokatie.com
Right now I'm working mostly on civil rights stuff, but I have family in the military and I have a degree in Econ. So, I hope to start blogging about those things too ...
Yeah!Go!Go! Drifty!
Nice pic.. =)
i have a somewhat jaundiced view of awards but the driff gettin' best blogger would be cool because i know that all the while he can hear George C. Scott whispering in his ear: "all glory is fleeting!"
plus we can count on him staying away from jeeps and shit like SUV's....
Tanbark, that's SENATOR Burris.
Instead of saying "let us wait and see" from the very beginning of this cockup, good ole Harry proves yet again that the Dems could screw up a 2 car parade.
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