On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:05:24 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:50:38 -0700, jps wrote:

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:36:53 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:32:09 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

For the barbed-wire wrapped around the broom handle treatment?


This is what we get to look forward to.

I know, I know it's almost a 60-day old article, but what-the-hay....


http://www.atr.org/il-governor-quinn...se-taxes-a3037

Legislature killed that, I think.
What gets me is how Blago called it.
How many times did you hear him say he was being railroaded so Quinn
could raise taxes?
Blagojevich - most honest politician in Illinois.
Good hair too.
And maybe the poorest. Poor politicians are usually the most honest.
Real family man too.
They're really trying to break him.
He's got his wife working on a TV show to keep the kids fed.
Wish I would get called to serve on his jury.
INNOCENT!

--Vic

Oh boy. He may have been playing politics by Illinois rules but he
sure went about it in the most idiotic fashion.

Those media showcases when he was going down were a bloody circus. He
looked like a clown with big hair instead of a red nose.

You let the talking heads and mockers influence you.
While the typical politics of one hand-wshes-another was dirt
when Blagojevich was doing it, at the same time all the players
in the Hillary Clinton NY Senate seat appointment were doing the same
thing. Why didn't he tap Caroline Kennedy's phone calls?
The ONLY difference is Fitzgerald wasn't tapping the phones in NY.
Then blabbing about the taps in a news conference.
Highly prejudicial. Lincoln rolling over in the grave and all that.
Fitz is a maroon going after a poor honest guy like Blago.
It's going to be a VERY interesting trial.
Blago is broke, and never had any wealth.
Denny Hastert is the guy who should be in the dock.
Did you see that Fox expose on him?
Even my Rep friends think Hastert is a crook.
Blago will be vindicated!!!!!
But I don't think Jesse Jackson Jr will fare well.

--Vic

I usually agree with you. We've parted company on Blago.

You say Jesse Jr. is going down but assume that shouldn't cause a
trickle up effect?

Blago's brother was a proxy, working on his behalf. You can sell a
seat but if you get caught, you're screwed.

Evidently, those that are better connected have more sophisticated
methods of selling influence. If you try to play any game, business
or otherwise, and lack the resources, you're gonna be left open to
risk.

That was Blago's downfall. He wasn't well enough connected and didn't
have the intelligence behind him to be so aggressively corrupt.

On Caroline Kennedy, the reason she was going to get the seat is
because of name cache and her ability to raise money for the Dems. Did
you hear that money changed hands for the appointment?

Hastert and Murtha are both scum. Porkin' mother****ers who only
care(d) for their own.