Gov. Blagojevich arrested

I am shocked, shocked to find corruption in Chicago politics!

Hey, got to make money these days any way you can. Does anyone think that the exact same bidding war is ongoing in NY and Conn?

This man certainly does not like the 2A.

By stifling the Trib, it is now clear that he doesn’t like 1A

I bet he now likes 4, 5, 6, and 8

This would be kind of funny but the sad truth is he got busted doing what many others are already doing to one degree or another.
Being things like this don't happen by mistake. I wonder what the real reason is that he's arrested.
David, get better and remember grape juicy has twice the bug killers and body healers as OJ.

Now if they could get Daley and Bloomberg.

Get well! Not another scorpion bite I hope.

Perhaps senator Richard Durbin can request to have his pending sentence commuted?

That would be about par for the course around here.

Have we lost our faith in government yet?

We must wait first for the final results of the investigation and the outcome of the case as against Gov. Blagojevich before coming up with the conclusion as regards his guilt.

News Review, I'm pretty sure the Bill of Rights hasn't been incorporated as regards to Illinois. At least, that's the impression one gets.

Has anything really changed in Chicago politics since Al Capone knocked Mayor Joseph Z. Klenha down the City Hall steps?

I am sure Mayor Daley is just shocked and surprised!

If Blagojevich is indeed removed from the Governor's mansion (which he's virtually never inhabited anyway- he Gulfstreams down to Springfield for a day visit every now and then), for gun-rights people, his obvious replacement, Pat Quinn, will be unfortunately every bit as bad.
Quinn is another Chicago hack with a slightly-cleaner reputation, but he has been vociferously anti-gun since day one.
Just to reminisce, Blagojevich was an old-timer alderman's son-in-law who was installed in the Illinois House, campaigning on a platform almost exclusively devoted to gun control. Being photogenic, and seeming well-spoken, he followed the familar Daley Machine path to higher office. He was often mentioned as a Presidential candidate someday, too, as such other illustrious Daley products like Carol Moseley Braun and yes, Barack Obama.
Next Illinois governor: Lisa Madigan, momentarily the State Attorney General, and daughter of long-time Illinois Senate president Tom Madigan.
The next Machine spew, and also being mentioned for US president, Madigan the junior is a cold, efficient Machine operative and will be along shortly after the Obama era passes.

The best part is the stuff the FBI apparently has him on tape saying. Pretty damning stuff.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1209081rod1.html

The real question????? Will he be the husband or wife when he is behind bars?????? Good ridence!

It would make an interesting study to find out what ratio of anti gun politicans are felons versus pro gun politicians that are felons. It would seem in a brief look that the anti gun politicans are on the high side of this ratio.

Par for the course in Illinois. Just one of many Illinois governors to be arrested over the years.

But I will bet he has some others sweating. No one can come up out of Chicago politics and be clean. Daley and even Obama have to be worried.

Stomach flu that has been going 'round?

The "Curse of the Gunnies" strikes again! :^)

All this could not have happened to a more deserving "fellow" like Blagojevich. Hope he gets sent away somewhere dark for a long, long, LONG time.

Score one for the FBI. I bet all this stuff came out now instead of April or May '09 because we and the present Administration all knew once AG Holder took office, all this would have... convienently...disappeared.

So, all we had to do to get better gun laws in IL was pay a bribe? Wouldn't that have been a lot easier - and more successful - than all this lobbying and writing letters and so on?

>>>The real question????? Will he be the husband or wife when he is behind bars??????

Heh. I was thinking the same thing.

Wouldn't it be sweet if Blojobovich (sp) ended up in a cell with an OJ clone who is given a daily dose of v****a in his chow?

Turns out I've got the appointment of Obama's Senate seat in hand. Will trade for 1903 NRA Sporter in shootable condition.

Here's a link to the indictment:

http://daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com/2008/12/blagos-going-down.html

The Judge ordered him to give up his passport and his FOID card. Another asshat thinking he's better than his subjects. I'll lay money he carried concealed too.

> We must wait first for the final results of the investigation and the outcome of the case as against Gov. Blagojevich before coming up with the conclusion as regards his guilt.

No we don't, just as we're free to conclude that Capone was a murderous thug even though he was never convicted as such.

However, I'll predict that the Gov won't do time on this. Guilty as sin and free as a bird is the Chicago way.

I must submit that Blagojevich will do the time. Don't underestimate how badly he's offended (and I'm using polite language, there) the Machine types.
They dislike attention, and Hot Rod has them swimming in it.
Besides that, Blagojevich's ineptitude and inability to comprehend even basic political niceties have already corroded whatever support he might have had.
Be assured, all the boss cares about now is how much more damage their Downstate loon will do.

I get now! Hillary and her Don are taking him out by shutting off his Chicago power base. He's been blackmailed into picking "her" buddies because he's not legally born here and it's all a power play. Bush's DOJ is in on it. OK, I'm an idiot so what do I know.

I remember well when that POS was a vocal anti-gunner in the US House. Good riddance to a bad man.

And please refer back to the note that the Feds forced Blagojevich to surrender his Firearms Owners Identification card.
Blagojevich, one of the most anti-gun politicians in Illinois, whose legislative career consisted primarily of anti-gun proposals, had an FOID?

(For out-of-staters, a Firearm Owners Identification card is a state-issued, well, something, without which a person may not even handle any firearm or ammunition. Not even touch. It's issued by the Illinois State Police, which has control over the information it holds, and the non-judicial revocation of the card.
It serves as a possession permit. The program was put into place during the late '60s gun-control wave as a pre-confiscation device, to make it easier to locate gunowners.)

I hope your medical issues have been favorably resolved, Counselor.

As for Blagojevich, my paper (SF Comical) had a photo of him accompanying their article on his arrest. I had never seen a photo of him before, and did not know what he looked like. He sure is a "pretty boy". I assumed he'd look like some union thug, you know, Rod Steiger in "On the Waterfront", or maybe something like the current governor of Pennsylvania.

Wow. Could be some tough nights ahead in the Federal Penitentiary for that pretty boy, assuming he doesn't get a stacked jury in Chicago, or clemency from the White House for keeping his mouth shut.

@ Carl in Chicago: Faith in government, that's a good one!