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.
Yeah, and I have to give him at least some credit for pushing through the law requiring pharmacists to dispense contraceptives.
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:
“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.
Just get on with it! Too much blabbery and not enough voting.
Voting’s over (to the extent that they have all the votes needed). Buh Bye!
59-0 vote to remove from office.
Bye-bye, Blago!
Wow. Now for my favorite part–the political death penalty!
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.
Gone Blago gone. He was impeached by a unanimous vote. Then they voted to disallow him from political office in Illinois for all time.
Wasn’t the original vote one against? IIRC, he’s got some one like a sister or sister in law in the legistlature?
He was already impeached, what happened just now was a conviction. Anyway he’s done. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
: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.
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’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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Inflamed rhetoric. Is there any other kind?
Sure. There’s understated rhetoric, subtle rhetoric, low-key rhetoric. “Rhetoric” doesn’t mean hysterical ranting.
I put some topical ointment on my inflamed rhetoric and it helped.