A New Low: Corrupted Dems Put Obama's Senate Seat up for Sale

[Lady Dragonfly]

At least them corrupted fools get charged and arrested, and hopefully get punished for it. In some countries people like them get away with bloody murder all the time...

Hopefully. But you will have to jail practically all of them. Of course, they all will be pardoned by the President when you are not looking.

I just had to post these quotes:

Corruption in Illinois is like snow in Minnesota. Hardly news. Mr Blagojevich, in fact, became the fifth of the past eight governors of the state to have been indicted. That's a higher proportion than among professional footballers. Heck, it's a higher proportion than among immediate members of Mob families.

~Gerald Baker, The Times

"If it isn't the most corrupt state in the United States it's certainly one hell of a competitor," Robert Grant, head of the FBI's Chicago office, said Tuesday.

The funniest part is Blagojevich is still in his office - governing. He refused to resign. Emanuel locked himself up in his house and refuses to answer questions. Jesse Jackson Jr., allegedly one of the prospective buyers of the infamous Seat is pressured to resign by some of his angry constituents picketing his residence. It's a three-ring circus.

Oh, and it looks like Rahm did talk several times with Blagojevich about the Senate seat - before and after the elections. I wonder if he will have to go as well. I hope so.

Sarah Baxter:
Emanuel has not yet resigned as a member of the House of Representatives for Illinois, although he has pledged to do so. Obama had to work hard to persuade Emanuel, who had his own independent power base in Congress and a semblance of normal family life with his young children, to join him in the most intensive, high-pressure job in the White House.

However, the scandal is lapping at Obama’s own ankles. Blagojevich is a product of the entrenched graft and corruption that have characterised Chicago’s style of government since the days of Al Capone, the prohibition-era gangster.

He is being investigated by Patrick Fitzgerald, 47, a fearless prosecutor who brought down Scooter Libby, Vice-President Dick Cheney’s neoconservative adviser, and Conrad Black, the media baron.

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As Fitzgerald widens his inquiry across Chicago, witnesses will be lining up to talk – if only to save their own necks. Harris, who has been accused with his boss of planning to sell the Senate seat, resigned last Friday, prompting speculation that he intends to cooperate with federal investigators.

2009 is going to be very interesting after all.