The Illinois House of Representatives voted 114-1 today to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The matter now goes to the state Senate, which will try the case and decide whether to remove Blagojevich from office.
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Bye Bye Blago! Resign now and spare yourself the embarrasment. I just hope the voters vote out the moron who voted no. He’s a black representative who probably is in cahoots with Roland Burris.
What he did was unethical but not illegal. And it isn’t anything most politicians do but don’t get caught at.
I point out that Larry Craig is still in the Senate. Why do the Dems have to out goody two shoe the scum of the Earth?
unethical but not illegal? ahhh, I see BJ is in his customary state of total denial of facts.
Lessee..the governor was ARRESTED AND CHARGED by the FBI for violation of federal laws involving conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and bribery.
nope..no laws broken here…just ethics. Dream on, bj…dream on…
Time for Blogo to leave the building …
“I point out that Larry Craig is still in the Senate.”
I don’t think blasting homos is helpful.
“Lessee..the governor was ARRESTED AND CHARGED by the FBI for violation of federal laws involving conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and bribery.”
While I believe Blagojevich is likely guilty as charged, in the U.S., one is not effectively guilty until one is CONVICTED.
…glub glub Blago, your ship is sinking…
The more I hear about this guy, the better I like him. I don’t know why he has to be sacrificed to what, placate the cons? To hell with them.
What’s the spin?
That since he didn’t actually take the money it wasn’t illegal?
oh brother….a democrat could be caught red handed killing school children, and bj would claim a “vast right wing conspiracy” or something equally ridiculous. Let’s see bj defend John Wayne Gacy, shall we?
Face it, bj…a democrat got caught. Accept it rather than making ridiculous excuses for his actions.
Can you say goodnight, Blogo?
Looks like the Illinois SC says his appointment is legal.
BJ, Blogo’s a scum bag. Politicians who do what he did deserve to be put out to pasture, regardless of party.
Buh-buy, Blago.
If the Illinois legislature wanted to avoid the “taint” of an Senator appointed by Blago after he tried to “pay to play” Obama’s former seat, they should have impeached and removed Blago before he made the appointment of ‘Tombstone’ Burris (have you seen this guy’s monument to himself?).
The Democrats in the Senate, of course, made sure that the scandal was kept in the headlines by going through the elaborate dance of refusing to seat Burris, until they, uh, caved and seated him (something they legally had to do anyway – duh. Let’s not let a little thing like the law get in the way).
The Democrats in the Senate, and Illinois, could not have handled this worse. Congratulations.
“BJ, Blogo’s a scum bag”
Oh I don’t know. I heard him talking today about what he had done and tried to do for Illinois. And he DID manage to get reelected to he must have been doing a competent job.
Now, if Ted Stevens had won in Alaska. There is a very good chance that Sarah Palin would have used her capacity as Governor to assume that Senate seat as a stepping stone in her political career. There was much talk about it and the cons were all for it. You tell me how that is different from what Blogojevich did.
That question is not just for Walker.
How is what Palin might have done any different fromwhat Blogojevich might have done?
Plus the guy has fire and aint afraid of a fight.
We need more Dems like that. I guarantee you we will see that the cons are gonna take as much advantage of getalong Obama as they possibly can.
“I heard him talking today about what he had done and tried to do for Illinois. And he DID manage to get reelected to he must have been doing a competent job.”
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bush has told us what he has done for us too, without ever mentioning what he did to us. Plus, bush was reelected. You think this same criteria means bush did a competent job?
Blogo was having a bad hair day and wanted to make a few bucks, like the other Chicago politicians do. He just got caught.
I’m only defending the guy to the extent of asking how what he was thinking of doing is any different from what Sarah Palin was thinking of doing.
It was within his duly elected duties to appoint whoever he wanted to a vacant Senate seat. He apparently wanted to see what he could get out of it. It would have been the same with Palin.
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BlueJay
Posted January 9, 2009 at 5:20 pm | Permalink
I’m only defending the guy to the extent of asking how what he was thinking of doing is any different from what Sarah Palin was thinking of doing.
It was within his duly elected duties to appoint whoever he wanted to a vacant Senate seat. He apparently wanted to see what he could get out of it. It would have been the same with Palin.
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That’s not the only thing Blago is in trouble with the FBI.
There are pay/kickbacks (donate to my campaign fund) from Illinois government contracts, sweetheart deals on appointments and positions in the Illinois government.
And, that’s just what has been released. Who knows what else Blago has been up to.
I’m betting that one dissenting vote was the high bidder on that Senate seat that was for sale when Blogo got busted.
Cosmo, I found the guy with the crystal ball.
It’s BlowJay. He know what Palin was going to do. Ask him about the flooding.
I’m wondering who the 1 vote was.
Milt Patterson, a Democrat, also from Chicago, was the one dissenting vote, saying he did not feel it was his job to impeach the governor.
The Guardian
I notice that Democratic Sec State Jesse White refused to sign the appointment. White knows about corruption – he has had to try to clean up the corruption left behind by George Ryan, whose corruption in both the Sec State office AND as governor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ryan
bth
Posted January 9, 2009 at 7:07 pm | Permalink
I notice that Democratic Sec State Jesse White refused to sign the appointment. White knows about corruption – he has had to try to clean up the corruption left behind by George Ryan, whose corruption in both the Sec State office AND as governor.
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Yet another detraction by a Lib. It’s off-topic and irrelevant to the thread.
Reg, you think the only posts that are revelant are your own.
How much relevance to any thread topic is there to leveling criticism of other poster’s comments?
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Mary_Caruso
Posted January 9, 2009 at 7:40 pm | Permalink
Reg, you think the only posts that are revelant are your own.
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Nuances not withstanding, I can pretty much identify what is meant to be a detractor and what isn’t.
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BJ, Palin’s not involved with this. This is about an idiot abusing his power. The fact he got re-elected says much about the voters. Remember the moron caught with 90 grand in his freezer? He got re-elected. Like Barnum (or someone) said, “there’s a sucker born every minute”, and a lot of em vote . . . both Republican AND Democrat.
I beg to differ Walker.
And you did not answer.
Sarah Palin is just dumb enough that she might have made the blunder of arrogantly taking the seat Ted Stevens. It was within her right if the opportunity arose. More politely, she would have resigned and let her Lt. Governor appoint her.
Quid pro quo.
How is it ok when they do it?
BJ, You are entitled to your opinion.
Dems., unlike repubs are not all intertwined members of ‘the collective’, so they do not all speak with one voice, on virtually any matter.
Larry Craig is not still in the Senate. His term expired a week ago, and his elected successor holds that seat. What Craig did was in the area of personal sexual shenanigans, which spoke poorly of him, but had nothing to do with using his office to auction off favors for big money.
I find it totally amusing the way people on this blog rush to defend/attack Republicans/Democrats because of their own personal biases when these things happen. There are plenty of corrupt ones in both parties – call it the same both ways or you have no credibility.
Back when Patrick Fitzgerald was prosecuting Scooter Libby all the CONs said he was out of control. Now that he’s after a Democrat, he’s the rod and the staff of the law that comforteth them.
(sigh)
I’m pretty sure, as conspiracy laws are written, Blogjevich is probably guilty of something illegal. (But then, I’m not a big fan of conspiracy laws.) “Rod” (it sounds so much more macho than “Rodney,” doesn’t it?) is simply a stupid politician. Politicians talk about the stuff he talked about all the time, but they do it a bit more subtly.
Impeachment is appropriate because it’s a political, not legal, judgment. He’s clearly politically untenable by now.
Without the political overtones, Fitzgerald is free to pursue the legal issues we’ll see if Blogojevich is a crook or merely an arrogant fool.
But then, I’m not a big fan of conspiracy laws
Of course, given your writing on the AG thread, it’s clear you don’t understand conspiracy law.