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    Blago's Boffo Book Bucks Blocked?

    Blago's Personal Pearl Harbor

    Blago Impeached a Week Too Late

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    Blago Appoints Senator!

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    Image of El Matardillo El Matardillo
    05/22/09

    In reply to Blago's Boffo Book Bucks Blocked?
    That's Katastic's tail on his forehead, right?
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    Image of contradicto contradicto
    05/22/09

    In reply to Blago's Boffo Book Bucks Blocked?
    They are passing a bill that prohibits someone cashing in on their misdeeds? This is AMERICA! What that hell?
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    Image of dado dado
    01/23/09

    In reply to Blago's Personal Pearl Harbor
    Blagojevich better watch out. Richard Holbrooke is back on the scene and he loves taking down a few Serbs from time to time.
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    01/23/09

    @dado: He denied he was a Serb. Thus, assuring everyone that he is, in fact, a Serb.
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    Image of caligulash caligulash
    01/24/09

    @saythatscool:

    Do you have an example?
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    Image of rosaluxembourgeoise rosaluxembourgeoise
    01/24/09

    @saythatscool: Michael Jordan and Barack Obama are Serbs?


    It's all far more tragic than we'd thought.

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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    01/24/09

    @caligulash: I don't follow. Are you asking me to provide you an example of when he denied he was a Serb or when people realized he was one?
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    Image of friend_of_a_friend friend_of_a_friend
    01/23/09

    In reply to Blago's Personal Pearl Harbor
    This guy is the gift that keeps on giving. Personally, I would love to see him go to jail so he has more time to work on his batshit crazy metaphors and perhaps, God willing, compose a little poetry.
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    01/23/09

    In reply to Blago's Personal Pearl Harbor
    Blogs like this may comprise the court of Public Opinion, but in the eyes of the law, he is still innocent. There's been no hearing or trial to ascertain the full truth, nor has the defendant had the opportunity to defend himself. Sorry, but at the moment, he's as innocent as any of us.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    01/23/09

    @bmoredlj: oh shut up
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    Image of The One The One
    01/23/09

    @bmoredlj: Then feel free to leave here and go debate it on a law blog.
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    Image of Astigmatism Astigmatism
    01/23/09

    @bmoredlj: He's "innocent" in the sense that he hasn't been convicted of anything and therefore can't be stripped of his office or thrown in jail. But we can still say that he's a clownish slimeball who we've heard on tape trying to sell Obama's senate seat to the highest bidder and who deserves to end up in jail. We just can't throw him in jail until the courts finish having their say, but that's not what Gawker's trying to do here.
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    Image of jiminy.peep jiminy.peep
    01/23/09

    @bmoredlj:

    Blurgledy durble doo, flibbidy wibbledy floop.
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    Image of jiminy.peep jiminy.peep
    01/23/09

    @jiminy.peep: Well, I fucked that up.
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    Image of The One The One
    01/23/09

    @jiminy.peep: No, it actually makes more sense than bmoredlj.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/23/09

    @jiminy.peep: Amusing fuckups are part of the gestalt around here. Worry not.
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    Image of uninspired uninspired
    01/23/09

    In reply to Blago's Personal Pearl Harbor
    His personal D-Day will be occur during his first prison shower.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    01/23/09

    In reply to Blago's Personal Pearl Harbor
    Waterloo. It's your Waterloo, Rod.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/09/09

    In reply to Blago Impeached a Week Too Late
    Regarding that photo, it's about time that the civilized world nailed Mike Myers for something.
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    01/09/09

    In reply to Blago Impeached a Week Too Late
    Illinois can take care of itself, my only wish is that most of these scandals include power, money, and sex (sounds like I'm Robert Penn Warren, huh?). Where is the sex part? Does his hair creep out at night to the local park and hide in shrubs waiting for a nice shag to come along?
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    01/09/09

    @Rumpelstilskin: Get it? Shag? Oops, I just wet myself.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/09/09

    @Rumpelstilskin: Got it. That wasgood.
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    Image of The One The One
    01/09/09

    @Rumpelstilskin: Be thankful you don't have to deal with a sex component of the scandal. Many of us New Yorkers are still trying to get past the mental image of Spitzer naked except for black socks.
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    Image of Rumpelstilskin Rumpelstilskin
    01/09/09

    @The One: And it happened here in Washington. I can sort of see it, if I squint real hard.
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    Image of The One The One
    01/09/09

    @Rumpelstilskin: Why oh why would you want to see it?
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    Image of Grogan Grogan
    01/09/09

    In reply to Blago Impeached a Week Too Late
    Steven King, we hardly knew ye.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    01/09/09

    @Grogan: Thank you! I thought I was the only one who thought he looked like the younger, jackassy brother of Stephen King.
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    Image of Fishnets and Cigarettes Fishnets and Cigarettes
    01/09/09

    In reply to Blago Impeached a Week Too Late
    Ok, who was the 1 douchebag who voted NOT to impeach?
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    Image of Fishnets and Cigarettes Fishnets and Cigarettes
    01/09/09

    @Fishnets and Cigarettes: never mind. I take it back.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    01/09/09

    In reply to Blago Impeached a Week Too Late
    To all those reading this post who are intrigued and asking "who is the one who voted against?":


    Look closely at Gawker articles and you will find that some text is maroon colored (that's a dark red for those of you who don't know what maroon is when not paired with 5). The text is a different color because it's a link. If you click "One guy voted no" this amazing thing happens and an article appears telling you who he is.

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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    01/09/09

    @Lymed: I don't understand.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    01/09/09

    @Lymed: What are these colors and "link" things you speak of?
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    Image of SybilDisobedience SybilDisobedience
    01/09/09

    @Mama Penguino: "Ar-ti-cle"?! PSSH! Here you go making up words again!!!
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    01/09/09

    In reply to Blago Impeached a Week Too Late
    will his hair be able to stay in office?
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    Image of ZenWarrior ZenWarrior
    01/09/09

    In reply to Blago Impeached a Week Too Late
    I can't believe anybody would vote for a guy with Elvis hair, named Blago
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/09/09

    @ZenWarrior: Yeah, now that yu mention it, there IS an Andy Kaufman element to all this.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    01/09/09

    In reply to Blago Impeached a Week Too Late
    I cringe even as I write this, but isn't the case against Blago a little...thin? (Unlike his hair, heh.)


    I don't know the law here, but unless there's some purpose-built statute somewhere, I'd say we're dealing with an unconsummated conspiracy, and the key evidence showing that it rose to the level of conspiracy (i.e., not just a bunch of ill-advised individual statements) will come from dodgy co-conspirators who themselves are not a lot more trustworthy than Blago. What am I missing?

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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    01/09/09

    @skahammer: Nothing. I think that part of the issue here is that, whether or not he can be convicted, the AG is trying to ensure that Blagojevich's political career is ruined.
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    Image of midwesternmom midwesternmom
    01/09/09

    @skahammer: Illinois law is quite vague here, but unable to govern seems to be the main point. And there have been days of testimony of Blago ignoring subpeonas, refusing to respond to requests to explain why he gave $1,000,000 of State funds to a private school (which then bought a condo and gave Rezco the commission), refusing to explain why he spent $2,000,000 on foreign drugs that were not allowed into the US, expanding a health care program after the legislature shut it down, not handling any requests from districts whose representatives he hates, even when the requests come from private citizens...sigh.


    The list of what he won't do is endless. The federal indictment is not needed to get him out.

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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    01/09/09

    @skahammer: You really can't put someone in prison for bullshitting, can you?
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    Image of The One The One
    01/09/09

    @midwesternmom: How the hell did he get re-elected? Or did he only start this shit in his second term?
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    01/09/09

    @Weegee's bored: My endless rounds of litigation against Mountain Dew, which despite all advertising evidence just serves to make me sleepy and fat, say no.
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    Image of Joe_Welcome Joe_Welcome
    01/10/09

    @skahammer: you can do whatever you want, just don't get caught. that thing about the money going to the school was shady as fuck, but blago was tap-dancing his ass off to explain that away. and he pretty much was in the clear.


    the straw that stirred the hemlock was blago being recorded on a federal wiretap saying "i needs my mothafuckin' money, mothafucka!" or something like that.


    and with that, you have an impeachment and then a senate trial and then a guy with puh-lenty of free time to go jogging.

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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    01/10/09

    @Joe_Welcome: "i needs my mothafuckin' money, mothafucka!"


    Wait -- Blago is my landlord, too?

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