tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post3830506589928921081..comments2024-03-28T09:14:20.479-05:00Comments on driftglass: Breaking: Feds Bust the Blagoodriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-2093799085122097622008-12-10T17:16:00.000-06:002008-12-10T17:16:00.000-06:00I'm confused!I thought this was the way things wor...I'm confused!<BR/><BR/>I thought this was the way things worked normally - you know, if you buy/steal the office, you get to do anything you want (see Cheney/Bush/Libby/Yoo/all their appointees for further enlightenment).<BR/><BR/>My first thought was "Whom did he piss off?" Not Fitz surely. And if your Illinois (don't abbreviate it!) officials are so universally corrupt, doesn't it seem strange when <I>they</I> decide to enforce the laws against one - or a few (h/t to Bluesy)?<BR/><BR/>But I'm out of my element. We send the corrupt govt. officials to jail in NC (see Rep. Jim Black for further evidence).<BR/><BR/>SuzanCirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-78034869043417198352008-12-10T07:12:00.000-06:002008-12-10T07:12:00.000-06:00Howdy from a regular reader. Your link to Greenwal...Howdy from a regular reader. Your link to Greenwald's Salon article isn't working right now because the URL has an extraneous "%20" on the end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-81063122808015635102008-12-09T15:52:00.000-06:002008-12-09T15:52:00.000-06:00Though he was unbearably crass about the whole qui...Though he was unbearably crass about the whole quid pro quo situation, I would have expected that a plum like that appointment would have been would have been bartered before or after in the same way that many diplomatic appointments are made. Ambassadors are not the most qualified going to the area most in need, but the most "entitled" getting the choicest locales.<BR/>Glad he got burned but there's a whole lot of the way that government operates "normally" that needs to be scrapped.LanceThrusterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12034741254580206813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-73290266774875457132008-12-09T15:18:00.000-06:002008-12-09T15:18:00.000-06:00I can't imagine that I'm the first to say it, but....I can't imagine that I'm the first to say it, but...<BR/><BR/>Merry Fitzmas, Blago. Enjoy the coal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-63167916049950363622008-12-09T15:15:00.000-06:002008-12-09T15:15:00.000-06:00Good people, I give you the joys of British Englis...Good people, I give you the joys of British English:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blag" REL="nofollow">http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blag</A><BR/><BR/>(informal, late 19th century) To steal. <BR/>(informal, 1940s) To deceive, to perpetrate a hoax.Mentis Fugithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07964443139632139131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-84091255670072096622008-12-09T14:51:00.000-06:002008-12-09T14:51:00.000-06:00Dude! I need a scorecard to keep track of the line...Dude! I need a scorecard to keep track of the lineage of political corruption over there. And when does Fitzgerald get to kiss ass and take names on a Federal level within the chimp pardoning everyone in sight?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-73581213418844270472008-12-09T13:15:00.000-06:002008-12-09T13:15:00.000-06:00There's a very real reason for those of the populi...There's a very real reason for those of the populist/progressive bent to feel a bit of sunny optimism here. <BR/><BR/>Any misgivings that I've ever had about an Obama administration have always stemmed from the reality that there is no forceful, respected progressive/populist voice operating from a position of genuine power who also occupies a presence in the public realm to both push and provide cover for the Obama administration. For a long, long time we've needed someone who can stir the fires without looking like a raving lunatic. Perhaps that person is about to arrive. <BR/><BR/>I believe that Pat Quinn, our lieutenant governor, has the potential to be this voice. To be Huey Long to Obama's FDR. To be the one pol who will both propose and push the kind of reforms that are almost unilaterally poo-pooed by the punditocracy as left-wing socialism but are, in reality obvious, necessary, common sense and undeniably designed to "Promote the General Welfare" with the strictness and most literal meaning that this grand phrase implies,or more properly, demands.<BR/><BR/>Go get 'em, Pat...just make sure you go light on the duchy.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10340697439623009731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-19572464820749384202008-12-09T12:19:00.000-06:002008-12-09T12:19:00.000-06:00that this kind of "deal making" doesn't happen ALL...<I>that this kind of "deal making" doesn't happen ALL THE TIME - probably going on for Clinton's and Biden's seats as well.</I><BR/><BR/>Don't know about Biden, but here in NY we just bestow the seat on whichever member of a political dynasty is in need of a gig at the moment. See e.g., Clinton, Hillary and now Kennedy, Caroline.res ipsa loquiturhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05018035443337807830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5873646718708436542008-12-09T12:13:00.000-06:002008-12-09T12:13:00.000-06:00Blago was a stooge who decided he wanted to govern...Blago was a stooge who decided he wanted to govern, and make his own decisions. He wouldn't follow orders, and so had to go. I'm surprised at 2 things - 1) that Fitz bothered with this, and 2) that this kind of "deal making" doesn't happen ALL THE TIME - probably going on for Clinton's and Biden's seats as well.FastEddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14153295050766780138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-25180378058629230042008-12-09T11:43:00.000-06:002008-12-09T11:43:00.000-06:00You mean "Republican Governor Jim Edgar." A politi...You mean "Republican Governor Jim Edgar." A political hack, but an honest one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-29666237821222108692008-12-09T11:24:00.000-06:002008-12-09T11:24:00.000-06:00Oh, Blagoo. Couldn't you just have had $5,000/hou...Oh, Blagoo. Couldn't you just have had $5,000/hour sex with teenage hookers like a respectable governor? Did you have to drag BHO into it? Schmuck.res ipsa loquiturhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05018035443337807830noreply@blogger.com