Face facts, Blago. Your career is over. You tried to auction off Obama’s Senate seat like an autographed baseball card on ebay. You tried to strongarm the editorial staff of the Chicago Tribune.You tried to shake down a children’s hospital. And you’re such an incompetent asstard loser that you couldn’t even pull any of it off! And you kept on keeping on when you knew the feds were bugging you!
The whole country is laughing at you. You are an embarrassment to the state of Illinois, and that takes some doing. Politicians generations hence will use you as a story to frighten their children. You will never again hold another public office and you’re almost certainly going on a vacation to Club Fed. Pols accused of corruption usually can count on at least a few defenders, at least within their own party. But in your case, the Democrats want you gone. Obama wants you to resign. The Democratic Congressional Caucus wants you to resign. Every pol in Illinois but yourself wants you to resign. The people of Illinois want you to resign. Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert want you to resign. Everybody wants you to resign.
You need to take a page from Elliot Spitzer’s book. All they had on him was hookers. Parking-ticket stuff, compared to what you’re facing. He might conceivably have wriggled out. But he cared enough for the great state of New York to step aside as gracefully as possible under the circumstances and allow a smooth transition to Paterson. Go thou and do likewise. Let Quinn take over and start cleaning up your mess.
Both the Wiki article and the GD thread on this guy mention that he has a 4% approval rating. THAT’S unpopular. I’d have thought that he’d need to drive a limousine painted with a hammer and sickle over a grandmother’s convention while eating kittens to get that low a rating.
I’m pretty sure that was even before the scandal broke; I do recall a 13% approval rating a few months back. His own Lt. Governor hasn’t spoken to him at length in over a year, and attempted to introduce a recall election mechanism so that we could get the Gov out of office. Now that’s hated!
I would love to talk to the 4% just to see what makes them tick. Did they misunderstand the question? Drunk? Just being contrary? Thought they were being funny?
The couldn’t .He was about to name someone. That would have given us a lot to discuss.It would have installed someone who would have been under immediate question and scrutiny.
Coming from the land of the Tydings brothers, Marvin Mandell, and Spiro T. Agnew I want to thank the great state of Illinois for lowering the bar and then burying it when in comes to corruption.
He (Blago) tried to confuse us. Seriously. See, there was this previous asshole governor, George Ryan. Then this guy named Jim Ryan, no relation, ran against Blago for his first term. Blago spent a huge chunk of his advertising and speechifying trying to convince people that the two Ryans were the same.
Or, in the words of wikipedia:
Then later he ran for reelection against a Republican chick no one had ever heard of with a funny name (Judy Baar Topinka). The only thing we hate more than a crooked politician is a Republican.
I’d like to thank the Governor of Illinois for proving himself a bigger dickwad than our own Kwame Kilpatrick, mayor of Detroit, who resigned recently amid scandal.
Yes, he used his resignation as a bargaining chip as well. Thank heavens we got him out before he qualified for a full pension…
