Asked what contact he'd had with the governor's office about his replacement in the Senate, President-elect Obama today said "I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening." But on November 23, 2008, his senior adviser David Axelrod appeared on Fox News Chicago and said something quite different: "I know he's talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them."
If something like this came up during the campaign, I bet you a bottle of VCP that the MSM woulda kept mum, and Jean-Francois Mac woulda shaken in his boots, and kept even mummer, if that's the word.
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More: Prosecutors also alleged Blagojevich expressed feeling "stuck" as a sitting governor and spent a large amount of time weighing whether he should appoint himself to the vacancy--possibly to avoid impeachment and help remake his image for a potential 2016 run for the presidency.
Run, Blago, run! Sounds like the dream candidate for Pepe.
In the meantime, Blagojevich & buddy micromanage the US economy: Blagojevich, a Democrat, yesterday said the biggest U.S. retail bank won’t get any more state business unless it restores credit to Republic Windows & Doors, whose workers are staging a sit-in.
The Illinois governor met Republic Windows & Doors employees who remained at the factory since Dec. 5, after Bank of America canceled a credit line. The members of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union have won support from politicians including President-elect Barack Obama, who said the 250 workers are justified in demanding benefits and pay.
“They’re absolutely right,” Obama, who gave up his U.S. Senate seat from Illinois last month, said over the weekend.
Chicago-style socialism in full bloom. Pepe ululates.
Horse-trading on Planet Pepe:
The complaint on Blagojevich involves but does not implicate members of the Obama transition, most notably Valerie Jarrett, a high-level Obama adviser to whom Blagojevich was interested in selling the Senate seat.
"Blagojevich was convinced that President-elect Barack Obama wanted senior adviser Valerie Jarrett appointed to the Senate seat and, time and again in the indictment, is quoted laying out a variety of scenarios by which he could benefit from such a move. The two most mentioned: 1) Trade a Jarrett appointment for a spot as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services in an Obama Cabinet 2) Name Jarrett to the Senate in exchange for Obama helping him to get a job as the head of Change to Win, a labor coalition."
The Mafia style of doing politics on Planet Pepe:
The words on the recording sound as if they were uttered by a mob boss. Instead, the feds say, it is the governor of Illinois speaking.
"I've got this thing and it's (expletive) golden, and I'm just not giving it up for (expletive) nothing. I'm not gonna do it," Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich says in a conversation intercepted by the FBI.
... Blagojevich snarls profanities, makes threats and demands and allegedly concocts a rich variety of schemes for profiting from his appointment of a new senator.
"I want to make money," he declares, according to court papers. Blagojevich allegedly had a salary in mind: $250,000 to $300,00 a year. (He earns $177,412 a year.)
Just a day at the office.
Greed
Power corrupts. And, in a one-party state, this is almost inevitable.
yup. that same logic makes the victory of a RWN of Chambliss' ilk a strangely welcome development for the senate.
Pepe, you're rambling again. Have you taken your meds today? Do you have a point you're trying to make? Then try using coherent logic, if that is attainable by your neurons.
Nearly all (if not all entirely) politicos think like this guy thinks, but they don't act on it; or they are never delusional enough to think that they can invincibly and simultaneously go up against both the Feds and the Journalists: does this guy think he's Putin or something?
He got off his meds, perhaps? Looks like some wire is lose up there. Then again, why did Chicago elect him gov?
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