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Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

emyjo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:52:14 -0000

Thanks for trying Lisa. I think it is pretty obvious this guy is truly nuts!! What is it about that black jogging suit that just seems weird??

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Inish Mein — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:37:34 -0000

Yes, the voters elected him twice- so what exactly does that say about the caliber of opposition?
Blago going out to jog and saying the press is harrassing him is much like Britney Spears going to Walgreen's at midnight for a candy bar saying she has no privacy........ don't want to deal with the press.... use a treadmill-

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Lurker — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:31:22 -0000

There's just no dignity. He has no dignity. It's getting REALLY embarrassing now.

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Mommy — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:25:53 -0000

I love a good comedy and this is a good comedy.

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

ivoted4judy — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:10:24 -0000

In some of the Chicago and Cook County political corruption cases some one of the charges were that the indictees were doing "little or no work". I think it might have been in the Bruce Farley case, and a few others. I would think that today's jogging exhibit by elvis would give Fitz another charge. We all know of Rod's no show work days, cmon Fitz add those to the next indictment. i would LOVE to hear Rod's explanation of his work habits

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

wordslinger — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:06:30 -0000

AA, I didn't know that, cool.

I know in the final weeks, James Schleisinger, then Sec. of DOD, ordered the Joint Chiefs not to carry out any orders by Nixon unless they had his counter-signature. Whether that was prudence, insubordination or treason is in the eye of the beholder.

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Little Egypt — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:05:14 -0000

Sweet Polly, I predict there will not be a MRS. to push under the bus, unless she stays around a while longer. Surely no woman envisions this kind of future when she marries.

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:59:35 -0000

I can't imagine a person holding such a high position acting in such a reckless, chaotic, harmful manner without the assistance of drugs. If so, that will be one line of defense for him I'm sure.

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Ahem — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:57:31 -0000

With a little more straining and struggling the hairball is about to pass. Patience!

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

happy citizen — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:54:55 -0000

our government works! when there is wrongdoing we can remove someone without a revolution and bloodshead. our constitution and laws work.

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Justice — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:53:50 -0000

If the governor would show up for work in Springfield and stay in the Mansion, no one would be bothering his neighbors. He does make the assumption that this actually bothers his neighbors. Perhaps he should start focusing on running in place, much like he will be doing in his not soon enough to be new home.

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Ghost — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:53:01 -0000

Nero fiddles, Blago Runs.

The end result is the same, Illinois is burning down.

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Blago Sphere — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:48:52 -0000

This Just In;

Order entered for Mandamus

http://www.state.il.us/cour...
They must have gotten the call from Rahm

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Stu Kenney — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:46:42 -0000

I for one find todayâ€™s events sad, though necessary for Illinois. In 1992, Rod and I ran as a team in his first and my last campaign, he for state rep and me for connected senate seat, then held by Bruce Farley and later thankfully won by Lisa Madigan. The Rod Blagojevich I knew then, and also when he first ran for governor, was nothing like the man Iâ€™ve witnessed of late. I hope some good comes of this, not just for Illinois, but also for Rod and his family.

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:44:20 -0000

I for one find today's events sad, though necessary for Illinois. In 1992, Rod and I ran as a team in his first and my last campaign, he for state rep and me for connected senate seat, then held by Bruce Farley and later thankfully won by Lisa Madigan. The Rod Blagojevich I knew then, and also when he first ran for governor, was nothing like the man I've witnessed of late. I hope some good comes of this, not just for Illinois, but also for Rod and his family.

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

VanillaMan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:42:46 -0000

If Reid, Durbin and Obama want to extract themselves from Burris and Blagojevich, they will need to change the senate rules so that they can seat Burris. Demanding that the Illinois SOS must sign a paper because their rules require it, just doesn't work. It isn't a law. It is one of their rules. If they don't want to follow that rule, then they can change that rule.

Hanging Jesse White over a Senate rule is an act of cowardice by Reid and Durbin. Shame on them!

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Anonymous Coward — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:42:04 -0000

Whoops, sorry..

http://www.sj-r.com/archive...

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Arthur Andersen — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:42:01 -0000

word, did you know that the Dickster's football was "disarmed," so to speak, by members of his staff when he started asking to personally keep it close at hand?

The protocol was (and still is) that the football is in the custody/control of a an Army officer detailed to the WH and is not brought to the POTUS until the stuff may be going in the fan.
Even though RMN wasn't likely capable of opening it up and starting WW III on his own, they wanted to remove any possibility of such and gave him a "football" without the necessary stuff inside.
The real football stayed with the assigned officers.

very scary, indeed.

If that were ever AA, God forbid, I would have probably taken out half of Asia by accident because I was trying to put some car magazines or some free stuff I lifted off Air Force One into the wrong briefcase.

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Anonymous Coward — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:41:28 -0000

Nice pic... He looks absolutely deranged. (which we all knew anyway)

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

observation — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:39:41 -0000

DownHere: Madigan says "check mate". How true!

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Sweet Polly Purebred — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:39:05 -0000

I will try again sans the JRT remark.... Maybe he's jogging his way to Springpatch for the Elvis-a-thon that will be in town. As to the running back and forth, maybe he is calculating how far he can go from the house before a home monitoring device alarm would go off?

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Speaking at Will — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:34:42 -0000

For some reason the Lynard Skynard song, "gimme three steps" comes to mind. I would like to see a version of that tune re-written to reflect Rods Current situation.

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Blago Sphere — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:31:33 -0000

Although I think it would be the wrong decision legally, I am still looking for the politicians in the black robes; Illinois Supremes, to kick the can down the road by denying Burris motion for a Writ of Mandamus to compel Jesse White to sign and Seal Burris' Certificate of Appointment to the U.S. Senate.

I suspect they'll send Burris to federal court to have him work to overturn the Senate Rule requiring the signature and seal on the Certificate of Appointment as an unconstitutional extra qualification for becoming a member of the U.S. Senate.

Reid and Durbin will be put in a box to either waive the requirement, or defend in court the 200+ year old rule that has never been waived before; according to Durbin.

This will bring the issues full circle to where it started; with Durbin, immediately after Burris appointment, when he called for a Special Election.

Do you think he will wait for Obama to tell him what to do again if this happens, or will he be able to make a decision for himself?

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

Sweet Polly Purebred — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:31:21 -0000

BTW - do you think he will do the honourable thing like Mr. Fawell did and offer to take the brunt of the punishment in leiu of his female partner or do you think Rod will just push Patti further under the bus as he slips out the other side unscathed??? I bet the thought of Dick Mell e famiglia raising his girls while he and the missus will send him sideways and over the edge.

Re: The governor goes jogging while the House votes on impeachment

lifer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:28:23 -0000

"Somebody's got to be unafraid to lead the freak parade!"