Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Blagojevich: Chicago, Corruption and Control

This week, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested on federal corruption charges. A three year investigation has found the governor involved in a pay-to-play scandal for the appointment to the U.S. Senate to replace President Elect Barack Obama. This is only the latest in a series of corruption cases that have seen light in the state of Illinois. By essentially putting up for sale a U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder, Blagojevich has set himself up to be the next governor of the state to be arrested and jailed. Five such governors have been arrested. The previous governor, George Ryan is still incarcerated as of now. To say the least, Governor Blagojevich's arrest is embarrassing. It embarrasses the Governor. It embarrasses Illinois politics. It embarrasses whoever the next senator that is appointed. It embarrasses the democratic process. It embarrasses the President-Elect Barack Obama.

So what does Governor Rod Blagojevich do in response to his arrest?

He went back to work. Like nothing happened. Like he didn't do anything wrong. And has said as much. Now, far be it for me to be against anyone who wants to continue their livelihood after any sort of arrest and released, but it don't take a gynecologist to smell something fishy going on here. It doesn't look good. Not at all. Whether he is guilty or not. His best course of action would have been to recognize this and to go find a good corner and go there and shut the hell up and quit talking like nothing at all happened. Because you're only showing what kind of asshole you really are and giving something good for your enemies to talk about. Which they now have plenty of because Blagojevich wanted to do something stupid.

I mean if it were bad enough, looney toons on the right already believe Barack Obama is corrupt for having associations with Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko or whoever else they want to lump him in with(even though not a single one of these guys has ever held an elected position to corrupt). But we will undoubtedly see the right salivating at the chance to right their wrongs from last month as if Barack Obama's up for re-election next week. They hadn't been this happy since Sarah Palin bought a new outfit. As a natural inclination, after John Kerry lost the election in 2004, most Democrats were looking introspectively at what they did wrong, having a table set for victory only to let the same scumbags who set the table enjoy a five-course meal. But these guys are masters of the blameless. Nothing is their fault. Just look at the world famous Joe-the-Plumber and him throwing McCain under the bus. This is what these guys do.

So why the hell is Blagojevich trying to act like them?

It's bad enough that even Democrats have problems with the ridicilous amount of arrest of elected officials that comes out of this state. It's no wonder why Barack Obama ran for president after only half a term as a senator from the state and less than a two term state senator. Hell, I'd be looking to run for Secretary General of the U.N. if I had to go through the Chicago political machine myself. And then take a shower after I run just to make myself feel better at the end of the day. Someone needs to clean up this state, starting with the state's highest office. Here in Virginia, our governors are only allowed to run for one term. Perhaps if Illinois' governors had this same restriction, then perhaps they'd be interested in actually doing their jobs and less interested in the bullshit they find themselves trapped in doing.

You got to start with something.

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