The media will miss this highly entertaining man to offset the boring daily dose of Mr. Obama.

I agree.  None of this says anything even about his character, let alone a crime. 

Too much drinking and not enough thinking.  Politics are a function of the people.  Where you have corruption at home, you have corruption in government.  Where the people have little character, so do their leaders.  Men stopped being men when they started drinking alcohol;  “If you can’t beat em’, join em’.”.  It’s that moral collapse that ails our Western Culture today.  Alcohol is the drug of denial.  And in the state of denial, the only true crime is being human, a ‘mistake’ worse then sin. 

Be real, be sober.

Hemi,

All this time I thought he was in Ohio, well it seems there are more screwed up states than one could shake a stick at. It would take an Octopus with hands and feet to count on it’s fingers and toes how many states are really screwed up. 

Has anyone read that Iceland has crashed like a Hamas rocket. As for politicians who care about anyone but themselves they are few and far between.

Values are different for people like Blago, how about non existent.

Leefeller, I think it’s hard for this guy to give up the fight. This chutzpah that’s on display now got him to the governor’s office. I was going to say mansion but the home he’s been shown leaving on the news is just a house and that’s heartening. Bright or dim-witted these politicians are different animals. And this animal’s fighting for its’ life.

Why is this guy able to keep up this positive veneer? I heard this morning that he’s been offered a package in order to get him to step down. Why doesn’t he take it? My conclusions at his stage are that there’s much more to this story. He wants the entire contents of the tapes to be divulged. Why? Is it possible that there are bigger fish in this frying pan? Is that why the Illinois state senate has been slow to act? Is it possible that he vented the tough talk to no one in particular? He impresses me as a man holding a “get out of jail free” card.

It’s too bad for Illinois but I don’t see them marching with torches and pitchforks in Chicago. For the rest of us it’s a side-show. I don’t think this is taking anything away from the critical issues in the news. I can’t remember a time when we’ve been more saturated with critical issues. The critical issues are a circus so why
not a side-show too?

Bush an ex governor of Texas showed us his way of enlightenment, and since the election we have seen plenty of Palin in the ass. This Balgo’s barber, probably hates his guts, an idiot like Balgo should be promoted to imbecile for his comments spewed on TV, it is a sadness to behold so much ignorance from are supposed representatives. 

Perceived ignorance of these so called leaders, reflects on their states as a whole and this is why nothing changes for the better.

I do not know if swearing and talking about selling a senate seat is much worse than falsifying intelligence , manipulating the low the media and the public. The corrupt governor is not any way close to crazy goerg who destroyed two countries. Million died, maimed and became homeless because of georg, shouldn’t he be tried too?

Not only do I heartily agree with Mark Twain’s characterization of Congress as “America’s native criminal class”—I would extend the membership to every political officeholder from mayor on up.

So I generally believe that if one scratches a politician, one will find a self-serving, self-important venal crook.

Still, the Blagojevich Caper was too pat from the get-go.  It was presented as if it were the equivalent of those long ago ABSCAM sting videotapes catching politicians with their crumby paws in the cookie jar—or the report of Rep. Jefferson’s 90 grand in the freezer.

And the crowd went wild when the Illinois legislature fast-tracked the impeachment, as if the lege were making up for all the criminal malfeasance of the Big Congress’ failure to impeach when the impeachin’ was good.

I would love to believe in a legislature so devoted to principle and ethics that they zealously safeguard the rights of We the People without fear or favor.  However, I perceived the Illinois legislature as more closely resembling a pack of hungry hyenas descending on a gutpile—more a result of the smell of blood than an orgy of responsibility.

I wasn’t familiar with Blago before this scandal, but I can see that he’s just goofy enough to come off like one of Amerika’s Dumbest Criminals.

He may be as bad, or worse, as his critics claim.  But it would have been far more prudent for the Illinois legislature to let the grown-up prosecutor do his job first, instead of jumping on an impeachment bandwagon that can only interfere with the real prosecution.

The Puddinhead Posse seems just a trifle too eager to get in ahead of the sheriff.

At last a voice of reason amongst all the hysterical bullshit.