Make my Day......GOV Blagojevich arrested.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Now this is how you handle PR!

The Obama team finally released its report at 4:30 pm on the day before Christmas Eve, with Obama and Emanuel thousand of miles away and unavailable for comment until after the holidays. Well played, sir.

[Zkribbler]

Re: Now this is how you handle PR!

Originally posted by Naked Gents Rut
The Obama team finally released its report at 4:30 pm on the day before Christmas Eve, with Obama and Emanuel thousand of miles away and unavailable for comment until after the holidays. Well played, sir.

What?? He doesn't have a phone?

[Naked Gents Rut]

In addition to talking with Gov. Blagojevich about who would fill President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat, Obama's newly minted chief of staff had something else on his mind: his own congressional seat.

Just after accepting the top post with Obama, Rahm Emanuel discussed with Blagojevich the possibility of keeping his congressional seat "warm" for him for a couple of years, the Sun-Times has learned.

Emanuel expressed interest in returning one day to his elected position because he was on track to become U.S. House speaker, the Sun-Times previously reported.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1347443,CST-NWS-rahm24.article

The review itself answered just one of those questions — we now know that White House Counsel Greg Craig led the review, which didn't include any documentation of what materials it went over — but it raised others, among them: Why did Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett communicate with Craig through her lawyer, whom the report does not name; how many conversations did incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have with Blagojevich; and why was Obama himself interviewed by prosecutors?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16836.html

[Ramo]

In addition to talking with Gov. Blagojevich about who would fill President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat, Obama's newly minted chief of staff had something else on his mind: his own congressional seat.

You realize the only power Blago might have over House vacancies is the timing of the election, right?

[Swissy]

Originally posted by Ramo

In addition to talking with Gov. Blagojevich about who would fill President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat, Obama's newly minted chief of staff had something else on his mind: his own congressional seat.

You realize the only power Blago might have over House vacancies is the timing of the election, right?

One of the leading candidates to fill Emanuel seat is Deb Mell, Blagojevich's sister-in-law. So it may have been brought up casually.

[Naked Gents Rut]

The plot thickens...

In a dramatic development in the ongoing impeachment proceedings, lawyers for Gov. Rod Blagojevich want two key aides to President-elect Barack Obama and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to testify before the House impeachment committee.

Sources tell CBS station WBBM-TV that a letter sent by Blagojevich's lawyers to committee chairman, State Rep. Barbara Currie, asks that the committee subpoena Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Jackson.

On Tuesday, a transition official disclosed that Obama, Emanuel and Jarrett, have been interviewed in connection with the federal investigation into Blagojevich. The transition official, speaking on a condition of anonymity, also confirmed that Emanuel had been captured on wiretaps taken as part of the investigation

http://kdka.com/politics/obama.blagojevich.subpoena.2.894552.html

[TCO]

Re: Re: Now this is how you handle PR!

Originally posted by Zkribbler


What?? He doesn't have a phone?

Brrrrrrinnggg. Brrrrrrinnnng. Brriiinnnngggg. Brrrrrinnng.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Heart-ache...

Gov. Rod Blagojevich's attorney will not get to call key aides of President-elect Barack Obama to testify at impeachment hearings after U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald told an Illinois House panel doing so would "significantly compromise" his ongoing criminal investigation of the governor.

The chairman of the House impeachment committee, state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie (D-Chicago), will respect Fitzgerald's request and not issue the subpoenas for incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and close Obama friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett, panel spokesman Steve Brown said Saturday. Ed Genson, Blagojevich's attorney, sought their testimony before the impeachment panel.

Brown said Currie, who holds the power to subpoena witnesses before the 21-member panel deciding whether to impeach Blagojevich, also will not call two other witnesses Genson sought: Democratic U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., whose emissaries allegedly offered to raise cash for the governor in exchange for the seat, according to federal prosecutors, and Nils Larsen, a Tribune Co. executive vice president who helped engineer Sam Zell's purchase of the company.

Genson requested the testimony of the two Obama advisers after the president-elect's transition team issued an internal report Tuesday that noted Emanuel had one or two telephone calls with Blagojevich and about four calls with Blagojevich's then chief of staff, John Harris, about filling Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat. The report said Emanuel recommended Jarrett to Blagojevich for the seat.

The report also said there was no indication that Blagojevich was seeking to enrich himself with a Cabinet appointment, ambassadorship or high paying job as alleged by federal prosecutors on secret recordings filed with the criminal complaint that resulted in the arrest of the governor and Harris on Dec. 9. Blagojevich has denied any wrongdoing. Harris resigned Dec. 12.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-blagojevich-impeach-28dec28,0,1793912.story

[Dinner]

So have the idiots stopped trying to blame Obama for some one else's misdeeds?

[Zkribbler]

Blagojevich to name Obama successor

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich today is expected to name former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate, CNN affiliates the Chicago Tribune and WLS-TV reported, citing sources familiar with the decision. Burris' appointment would fill President-elect Barack Obama's seat. Democratic leaders in the Senate have warned that they would reject any Senate pick made by Blagojevich, who faces criminal charges.

[DinoDoc]

I think he's trying to prove Reid a coward by forcing him to actively refuse to seat his appointment.

[Imran Siddiqui]

That's just freaking hilarious. The balls on the guy...

[snoopy369]

That's just great ...

[Imran Siddiqui]

Interestingly enough Burris ran against Blago in the gubanatorial primary. Perhaps this is Blago's way of tainting Burris? Because there is no way he's getting that seat.

[snoopy369]

Nah, he probably offered him $5 and a chewed apple core for the seat, thus being the highest bidder at this point.