Comments on: Will Blagojevich Shift Focus Back To Republican-Democratic Campaign Mode?

By: Jorge Avilas

Jorge Avilas — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:16:12 +0000

nice article! nice site. you're in my rss feed now
keep it up

By: peter_macgregor

peter_macgregor — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:06:31 +0000

Wow,
I am 25 years old and have a pretty decent job in this country. I was considering joining the Navy. How many corrupt politicians are there. Its horrible and sick that people are fighting for this country and dieing while these corrupt bastards make a mochary of our country. I don't think I will ever serve this country with this shit going on greedy bastard. He should go to jail and recieve beatings

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:16:07 +0000

At least you two aren't as childish and wacky as Mikey is about it, even if you're puzzling when it comes to the depth and depravity of Chicago and other notorious places that dwarf other failed counterexamples defensive Dems may offer.

The GOP currently is almost as dysfunctional as Albany (capital of New York) has been for ages. The party is confused and dysfunctional enough that it really doesn't amount to anything. They can still be bought off in Congress, as we saw with the second round of voting for the Wall Street huge bailout ("sweeteners" in the second bill meant pork and also, as one talk radio show said, served openly as a market in establishing the price of a current Congressional vote), and any "alternative" intervention bill for the failed Detroit auto companies that some of them claim they may or may not be working on (who knows?), at this time, before a new Obama administration and Democratically run Congress next year, is just pathetic.

The overreaction to questioning Obama's exposure to Chicago is unmerited. Obama has to answer for this. In practice he already has been doing this. He has not been able to avoid Chicago sewage (real estate deal with Rezko) but is not a creature of it; he has not formed a team that is all but Chicago in name, even on his staff (where it would matter most) but has included Clintonites and rising Dems from elsewhere in the nation on his team. This is going to be a Clintonite-1990s-forward and new-gen-Dems-from-new-places Washington, not a "run Washington like Chicago" another-Daley adventure. Rather than look at Chicago for intelligence on what to expect, I'd review New Democrats On-Line material from the 1990s as well as look at organizations like the following to see what to anticipate starting next year, rather than look to cesspool Chicago.

http://www.cnponline.org/ht/d/sp/i/185/pid/185

By: Jim_Satterfield

Jim_Satterfield — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:37:58 +0000

Cantor and Duncan just reinforce my disgust with the modern GOP.

By: elrod

elrod — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:59:36 +0000

Republicans are utterly irrelevant here. An already corrupted Bush Justice Department is not going to find anything else beyond what Fitzgerald has uncovered. If there was an improper connection between Blago and Obama on this, Fitz would have said “no comment” or something else when asked. Instead, he emphatically denied any link between Obama and Blago.

As for Chicago being a wasteland of corruption? Whoopdeedoo. So is Alaska. And both Palin and Obama played neutral as quasi-reformers – they each took advantage of the state machines while running against it.

The bigger issue is the Senate replacement. If Blago doesn't go quietly, the legislature will have to impeach him. And that takes time. Also, if they hold a special election, there is a risk Obama's seat could go to a Republican (though the state GOP is even weaker).