Blago getting railroaded?

RandFan said:
I wonder if people are really as stupid as he apparently thinks they are. I hope not.
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A few are. Fortunately most are not. He seems to be the one with a dubious grasp of reality. Anyone whose worldview is based on Hollywood movies doesn't have a very realistic worldview. He might even half-believe his own confabulations.
 
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WildCat said:
Blago's house a few minutes ago:

[qimg]http://home.mindspring.com/~dylanaverysucksballs/Blago's_house.jpg[/qimg]

While across the street the media patiently waits for his return from Springfield, while a woman walking her baby wishes for it all to end (I'm assuming!):

[qimg]http://home.mindspring.com/~dylanaverysucksballs/media.jpg[/qimg]

Sorry for the crappy cell phone image.
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WTF, you in the media, or just happen to live right there? :)
 
RandFan said:
Shades of Nixon. Well, we won't have Blago to kick around anymore...

Hey, Rod and Dick. Sounds like gay porn.
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We still have the Criminal trial to look forward to.
Is says something about Blago that his attorney quit on him in disgust.
 
Regnad Kcin said:
Aren't all lost cause defenses some derivative of the CD?
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Then there's the Bart Simpson defense, which I am sure Blago will try to use at some point ,although it seems stupid to do so considering the taped evidence:

"I did'nt do it, No one saw me do it. you can't prove a thing".
 
Blago is a miserable excuse for a human being, he's corrupt, he's narcissistic, he's vindictive, he probably has no conscience -- and I'm not exaggerating here -- he fits a great many characteristics seen in sociopaths.

Now there are other politicians just as bad if not worse. However they simply have not been caught for their crimes. As a result we can't do anything about it.


INRM
 
INRM said:
...I'm not exaggerating here -- he fits a great many characteristics seen in sociopaths.
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Would you care to list them?

Now there are other politicians just as bad if not worse. However they simply have not been caught for their crimes.
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Bigfoot's out there. We just haven't caught him.
 
Beerina said:
WTF, you in the media, or just happen to live right there? :)
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He lives a few blocks away from me, I took those as I was driving by on my way home from work.

Still several news vans parked outside his house today. Also the usual complement of official looking cars/SUVs in front of his house with what i presume are state provided security people in them, or maybe he pays them himself now.
 
WildCat said:
He lives a few blocks away from me, I took those as I was driving by on my way home from work.

Still several news vans parked outside his house today. Also the usual complement of official looking cars/SUVs in front of his house with what i presume are state provided security people in them, or maybe he pays them himself now.
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He better fire them and use the money to get himself another a lawyer...a damn good Lawyer. If he can find a damn good Lawyer who will take his case after one of the top defense attorneys in Illinois threw his hands up in disgust...
BTW here in Sacramento I have seen Gov. Arnie a couple of times, and Mrs. Arnie a couple more.
 
drkitten said:
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Not quite. Impeachment is about "high crimes and misdemeanors" or "malfesance in office" or some such -- i.e. dishonestly and criminal conduct instead of mere incompetence.

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Globert said:
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"Imagine what future governors will face if I'm thrown out of office for this," Blagojevich said.

Yeah, accountability.
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I think drkitten's idea is more along the lines of the theoretical or supposed than the actual.

In normal practice, impeachment is a political tool that normally provides very little impediment to the potential illegal activities of the executive. Without, incontrovertible evidence of overt criminality impeachment ending in the removal of office of a political executive just isn't going to happen.

Both Nixon and Blago were done in with audio recordings. This kind of easily understood, incontrovertible evidence just isn't available most of the time no matter how corrupt or inept the political executive is. In almost all cases his party will stand by him. People forget (or they weren't born yet) that despite very significant evidence that had surfaced against Nixon the Republicans had no intention of abandoining him until the tapes surfaced.

In the case of Blago, he got hit with a double whammy. Incriminating tapes together with spitting in the face of his fellow Democrats over the Senate appointment. But my guess is that he was considerably less corrupt than a lot of Illinois governors that had preceded him.
 
Apparently Pat Quinn revoked all of Blago's security, so maybe the people I saw hanging out in cars in front of his house were reporters waiting for him to show up. He was a no-show today.

Didn't even answer the door for the pair of Jehova's Witnesses who knocked today. :p
 
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