# Go, Blago, go! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 19, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974 "2008-12-19T20:55:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/141 "2009-01-29T19:50:39Z")
Here’s your hat, there’s the door, don’t bring your ass, 'round here no more. That woulda been sweet, because you KNOW the wifey would leave his ass at Union Station. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/142 "2009-01-29T20:20:48Z")
> [@buttonjockey308](#): > > Admittedly though, some of the things he did (i.e. drugs from Canada) I agreed with. Yeah, and I have to give him at least _some_ credit for pushing through the law requiring pharmacists to dispense contraceptives. > [@](#): > > I can’t wait for the criminal trial. Yep, I think we are in for some more fabulous television, and a couple of interesting years before the next regular election. Or at least [Pat Quinn thinks so:](http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1403328,CST-NWS-quinn29.article) “We can do great things in the next 700 days,” Quinn said. “I plan to fumigate state government.” I wish Pat Quinn, and the people of Illinois, good luck - we’re all going to need it. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/143 "2009-01-29T21:58:36Z")
Just get on with it! Too much blabbery and not enough voting. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/144 "2009-01-29T22:43:11Z")
Voting’s over (to the extent that they have all the votes needed). Buh Bye! ---
**Author:** ![Convict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Convict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Convict)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/145 "2009-01-29T22:43:36Z")
59-0 vote to remove from office. Bye-bye, Blago! ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/146 "2009-01-29T22:47:39Z")
Wow. Now for my favorite part–the political death penalty! ---
**Author:** ![Convict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Convict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Convict)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/147 "2009-01-29T22:59:51Z")
And the switch has been thrown. Good luck Gov. Quinn–the state is a mess and you’ve got a tough job ahead of you. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/148 "2009-01-29T23:02:38Z")
Gone Blago gone. He was impeached by a unanimous vote. Then they voted to disallow him from political office in Illinois for all time. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/149 "2009-01-29T23:10:40Z")
> [@Convict](#): > > 59-0 vote to remove from office. > > Bye-bye, Blago! Wasn’t the original vote one against? IIRC, he’s got some one like a sister or sister in law in the legistlature? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/150 "2009-01-29T23:12:01Z")
He was already impeached, what happened just now was a conviction. Anyway he’s done. Good riddance to bad rubbish. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/151 "2009-01-29T23:14:19Z")
> [@wring](#): > > Wasn’t the original vote one against? IIRC, he’s got some one like a sister or sister in law in the legistlature? :smack: Just read the actual news story - House voted to impeach him w/one dissenting vote, the actual impeachment trial was in the state senate. Yea, I knew that. Sure I did. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/152 "2009-01-29T23:26:45Z")
Yes, yes, yes, _yes, yes, yes_, YES! That arrogant, corrupt piece of scum is out of office! Gone, baby! Roadkill, sayonara, toast. I will not be truly happy until he goes to prison. He doesn’t have to have a cell near Ryan’s; hey, maybe the state pen has separate wings for Democratic and Republican ex-governors. But sent up for some serious time, oh yes, please. Look at license plates from that angle, Rod. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/153 "2009-01-29T23:33:18Z")
I’m half expecting him to pull an R. Budd Dwyer. He seems to have a serious persecution complex coupled with a martyr complex and a healthy dose of delusional behavior. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2009, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/154 "2009-01-29T23:44:55Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > Yes, yes, yes, _yes, yes, yes_, YES! > > That arrogant, corrupt piece of scum is out of office! Gone, baby! Roadkill, sayonara, toast. > > I will not be truly happy until he goes to prison. He doesn’t have to have a cell near Ryan’s; hey, maybe the state pen has separate wings for Democratic and Republican ex-governors. But sent up for some serious time, oh yes, please. Look at license plates from that angle, Rod. I know in my state, most of the ‘high profile’ folks are in lock up together - that would include celebrities, politicians, former cops, prison guards and so on. So, it may indeed happen. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/155 "2009-01-30T00:20:15Z")
[QUOTE=wring] I know in my state, most of the ‘high profile’ folks are in lock up together - that would include celebrities, politicians, former cops, prison guards and so on. So, it may indeed happen. [/QUOTE] Which could be sweet. Sure, I’d rather he share quarters with folks who’ve done much less expensive damage, like robbing convenience stores or selling weed. They could only be positive role models for him. But sharing a cell with Ryan would work. It’d be hard to fit both of their egos in there but they could talk corruption for hours, bragging about their best buy-offs. Ryan was more a Brylcream kinda guy but he could give Blags pointers on the prison commissary’s stock of hair care products. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/156 "2009-01-30T00:33:14Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > I will not be truly happy until he goes to prison. He doesn’t have to have a cell near Ryan’s; hey, maybe the state pen has separate wings for Democratic and Republican ex-governors. But sent up for some serious time, oh yes, please. Look at license plates from that angle, Rod. I keep picturing the kind of deadly, violent, evil gang wars we saw on Oz, but instead of Aryan Nation vs. Latin Kings it’s Democrats v. Republicans. And instead of shivs and steel pipes, it’s subpoenas and inflamed rhetoric. I need a hobby. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/157 "2009-01-30T00:48:39Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > So much for that theory (unless this says something about his opinion of Larry King). > **Shirley** : I’m not complaining (it’s always flattering to have one’s quips noticed), but that has to be the slowest reaction (five-and-a-half weeks) I’ve ever seen. Must be getting obtuse in my old age. > I know. I know. You just discovered the thread. Sir, you are correct. I only just discovered and trolled the thread with great amusement yesterday. I like to do that with sports, politics and religious things in life. FMS knows I don’t actually care or grasp any of it all. Fast forward, get the gist of it all and then go off to MPSIMS where eveyrthing is fluffy and sparkly. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/158 "2009-01-30T00:52:27Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > I keep picturing the kind of deadly, violent, evil gang wars we saw on Oz, but instead of Aryan Nation vs. Latin Kings it’s Democrats v. Republicans. And instead of shivs and steel pipes, it’s subpoenas and inflamed **rhetoric.** > I need a hobby. Inflamed rhetoric. Is there any other kind? ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/159 "2009-01-30T01:16:39Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Inflamed rhetoric. Is there any other kind? Sure. There’s understated rhetoric, subtle rhetoric, low-key rhetoric. “Rhetoric” doesn’t mean hysterical ranting. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974/160 "2009-01-30T01:24:54Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Inflamed rhetoric. Is there any other kind? I put some topical ointment on my inflamed rhetoric and it helped. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go-blago-go/477974.md?page=9)