THIS SENATE SEAT IS 'A BLEEPING VALUABLE THING'

My parents went to Illinois and all I got was a Blagojevich Sucks T-shirt.


Potty mouth Patti made a few truckers blush with her choice of words that were recorded by the US Attorney's Office.

According to the Chicago Tribune:

“Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested Tuesday for what U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald called a "political corruption crime spree" that included attempts to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.

Blagojevich and Harris were named in a federal criminal complaint that alleged a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy aimed at providing financial benefits to the governor, his political fund and to his wife, First Lady Patricia Blagojevich.

Blagojevich was taken into federal custody by FBI agents at his North Side home Tuesday morning—one day shy of his 52nd birthday.”

I knew he was going to jail and it was just a matter of time, in fact I called this happening in early October. They were waiting for Obama to take office. And of course Blagojevich had some time to keep up his “dirty politics as usual” that he was already in hot water with and they finally nailed him with a large number of dirty deals.

U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald described the corruption by saying that, “(Abraham) Lincoln must be turning in his grave.” It’s such an Illinois “state” reference – the “Land of Lincoln.”

Fitzgerald also quoted a Blagojevich conversation in which the governor said the Senate seat is "a bleeping valuable thing. You just don't give it away. ... I've got this thing, and it's bleeping golden."

When I laughed out loud at this, here in my cube in San Francisco, people came rushing over to find out was so funny. When I explained it to them, they kind of looked at me like I was crazy. I said, “You have to know about Chicago politics to understand!” Seriously, you do!

Thirteen pages of the 76-page criminal complaint lay out detailed allegations of the governor using his power to seek the firing of Chicago Tribune editorial board members as a condition of state financial assistance in connection with the home of the Cubs. Tribune Co. also owns the Chicago Tribune.

The conversations they recorded also revealed Blagojevich feeling "stuck" as a sitting governor and him spending time weighing his options on whether he should appoint himself to the U.S. Senate vacancy. He wanted to avoid impeachment as Gov. and thought it would help remake his image for a potential 2016 run for the presidency. What a freaking narcosis.

Pay to play politics went REALLY too far here and I can’t wait to see how it all unravels. Will his wife Patti go with him to the slammer?