It's the Rod Blagojevich Suicide Watch!
Yep, I'm afraid Rod Blagojevich is on his way out folks. Let's face it, for the last several days, the self-possessed former Illinois governor who has nothing to live for has utterly squandered his sanity. While the Illinois Senate carried out its Constitutional obligation to protect the citizens of that state, Blagojevich leaped from talk show to talk show like Tom Cruise leaps from couch to couch in his rumpus room. If Britney Spears is any indicator as to what this delusional moonbat is going to do next, this dizzying mania can only be followed by a crushing depression. This is about a month and a half overdue, by my reckoning.
So, Rod, when you are staring into that dark abyss and thinking that everything is completely hopeless, that there is no way that you will avoid spending the rest of your life in prison, remember this: You're absolutely right. You should probably leap into that murky void and embrace the sweet relieving darkness. Indeed it is the only decent thing to do to destroy yourself Rod: How else can you frustrate and abuse your former constituency but deny them the immense satisfaction of seeing you receive justice? In short, your death is the last reward to yourself and the only perk left to you, you selfish disgrace. This thing is golden, and you just don't give it away.
Was that too dark? I never know.
HJ
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2 comments:
I've come to love Blagojevich. The man seems to be living his life as if it were a joke, and I find that refreshing in a politician.
So Blago can't stay in the Governor's Mansion any more. I wonder where he's gonna go? Well, you'd hope that Burris would let him sleep on the sofa. At least for a few days, anyway.
(Actually, one of the things that ticked people off about him was that he never did live in the Governor's Mansion in Springfield - he stayed in his own house in Chicago, and either made people come to him, or took the state airplane at $6K/day instead of the state's daily shuttle flights for free.)
Blago keeps saying that he's going to "fight to clear my name... you haven't proved a crime, and you can't because it didn't happen." And oddly enough, as far as we can tell, that's true. He was caught before the crime in question actually occurred.
That's the rough part. Federal prosecutors are continuing to try and build a case against him, but unless they've got something else, I haven't seen that they have evidence that a crime was committed.
The tricky part is that the intention to commit a crime was there, which was plenty of reason to fire him as governor (as Tashtego, I think it was, said above). But as far as we can tell, he was stopped before the crime occurred.
Now, when you point a gun at somebody, but they stop you before you've pulled the trigger, they've still got you on assault — that's the way the law is written. They don't have him on anything more than "conspiracy to commit," which has a much more convoluted definition. And, to be honest, I'm not positive that "conspiracy to allow yourself to be bribed" is an argument that will hold up. Particularly since his "fucking golden" statement could be read as "I put somebody in there, he owes me, and we can work together to get things done for Illinois." The rest can be chalked up to hyperbole, and your lawyer wouldn't even have to be Johnnie Cochran.
It's like getting caught with a diagram to a security system and a set of lockpicks in your hand, kneeling outside the door to Bubba's Fine Jewels, peering into the lock. Everybody knows you're guilty, but until you've actually broken into Bubba's place, they got nothing on you for the burglery.
(Admittedly, that breaks down a little, since there is a misdemeanor charge for owning the lockpicks in the first place, but you get the point...)
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