Did B of A have the Gov arrested? That should be part of the investigation. What role

did Cheney play in this? Is Cheney still pulling Paulsen strings in this bailout process?

...interesting timing though I must admit...

Don't you wonder what they were waiting for?

before he was indicted, tried and jailed. These investigations often take considerable time. And the reason for the timing of the arrest was that the circumstances dictated action before he made a tainted appointment to the US senate and before he took other acts that they evidence indicated were bought and paid for.

It was a cynical political move by a governor with a 13% approval rating facing federal corruption charges.

Blago has been up to his ears since he stepped in to office.

What a vague post.

Blagojevich cut all State ties to the Bank of America yesterday because they cut off funds to a local business.

Looks more like Blago decided to flame out, sort of like really obvious DU trolls. Just took himself on a wild ride before he goes to jail. That or he's insane.

I think that's why we've seen more speculation on who'll replace Biden or Clinton than who'll replace Obama. My response to the latter speculation was always, "our governor's a complete whackadoodle; speculation is useless."

Guess I wasn't entirely correct though. Turns out he was a crook with actual motives instead of just flailing about blindly as usual. Okay, he was apparently blind to the fact that he was already UNDER SERIOUS INVESTIGATION. A sane person would have at least attempted to be more circumspect.

I really still haven't seen any concrete evidence connecting him to any earlier crime. But now the evidence of guilt in this gives a lot of credence to the earlier circumstantial evidence.

I didn't realize that the IL governor was such a nut. I guess we're lucky that this didn't surface before the election.

Sorry, this guy is a greedy criminal all on his own.

The scum tried to extort Obama.

Blago basically held an auction for Obama's Senate seat.

Sometimes crooked politicians get caught.

This investigation--which is being led by Patrick Fitzgerald (you know, the fearless crusader who took down Scooter Libby and exposed Bush's corruption)--has been going on for three years. Blagojevich knew he was right fucked, and he knew he was about to be arrested; he's got toadies in every office building in the state.

So, on the eve of his judgement day, he went out and tried to play the populist card. His support of workers was not only almost entirely unprecedented in his miserable career, it was done purely to make people think that he was a Fighter For The People being taken down by the Evil Corrupt Attorneys. Gov. Ryan (R-Prison) did the same "look at how virtuous I am" thing before he got hauled away and thrown in the clink.

If you believe, even for a second, that Blago was arrested in any tiny, insignificant part because of what he did regarding Bank of America, you are an absolute sucker happy to fall for what one of the most corrupt politicians in America is selling you.

and I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't contacted Obama about the investigation since they also have him on tape saying Obama will give him nothing.

Criminy, it's Illinois machine politics, and someone just got caught red-handed.

They. Have. Him. On. Tape. What else do you want?

Criminy, it's Illinois machine politics, and someone just got caught red-handed.

They. Have. Him. On. Tape. What else do you want?

why should anyone care about the timing?

You should be glad that another corrupt poll will see the inside of a jail cell.


BTW, it appears that the Gov's concern for the common man re: BOA was a charade drummed up at the last minute to deflect the fact that Johnny Law was about to knock down the door.

Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.

orchestrated this. Totally.

Because this one is particularly overboard.

But thanks for playing

:eyes:

I have worked in large civil cases where some of the biggest and best known corporations in the world tried to use the FBI as their personal henchmen, all while fighting discovery in civil court proceedings which would prove such big companies were lying.

They use the FBI like it's their handmaiden, trying to muscle those who seek large recoveries in complex financial cases. We were able to prove they were lying about many key representations and actions, including those they reported to the FBI. In the end, the FBI found no basis for the claims of the big oils company involved.

The civil judge sanctioned the oil company, forced them to produce witness after witness to prove my case, and the oil company settled when they knew they were beat.

Only the naive think all the FBI and US Attorneys do are clean actions. I'm aware of a case pushed by the Bush I Justice department which was clearly a political hit job, but I'm not at liberty to discuss it. I will say this. They required us to produce a truckload of highly organized records, and when we produced them, they never even copied them. It was all about making us work, making us spend enormous amounts of time and money. They targeted a major Democratic player.

I am shocked at the way so many who claim to be Democrats so quickly swallow whole everything the Bushies tell them.

So far, I haven't seen any evidence of any heroic actions that would have earned the Bush administration's enmity against the Illinois governor.