[450donn]

The Illinois governor and his chief of staff are in jail for allegedly trying to sell Obama's vacated senate seat to the highest bidder?
Guess federal politics have/will not changed. Still the same old corruption. He was trying to get a seat paying 250K to 300K for himself either in a nonprofit or union.

[N0help4u]

No only getting bolder and more creative!

[magprob]

I think I have figured them out. When you see a politician acting as if he or she cares about the people and start talking tough as if they are going to do something about it, they are probably under investigation or know they are going to be arrested tomorrow.
God I love it when one of the phony bastards goes to jail!

Watch the video.

Illinois Governor Suspends Business With Bank Of America

[inthebox]

No only getting bolder and more creative!

He should have put it up on E-Bay ;)





g&p

[smearcase]

It will continue as long as we allow lobbying and huge campaign chests. Plus the pardoning of the ones who are caught and jailed, which makes the prosecution a joke. So they go up for a year (if that) for stealing two million, which in the end isn't a bad rate of pay for sitting at some Federal country club for a year. Then, get pardoned and lobby for a few years at similar rates.

[tomder55]

This is just the logical extension of machine politics and patronage. What is the difference between this and Joe Kennedy buying JFK his first Congressional seat ?

Edit

1960 JFK wanted his Senate seat to go to the swimmer(Teddy Kennedy) . But Teddy was too young for the position. So he arranged with the Guv of Mass. To fill the seat with his good buddy Ben Smith, a Harvard roommate and the mayor of Gloucester, Mass.
Now JFK and the Guv Foster Furcolo were political rivals .Furcolo wasn't entusiastic in doing JFK's bidding .But Kennedy sat the Guv down and negotiated... an "extremely frank give-and-take" according to Teddy Kennedy biographer Burton Hersh.

Earlier it was revealed that Joe Biden's vacant seat will be filled by his Senate Chief of Staff Ted Kaufman. Not accusing anything here ;but one does have to wonder what quid pro quo went into that deal .I am pretty sure Biden wants his son Beau Biden to inherit the seat as soon as it becomes available after he returns from his tour in Iraq .

The thing is ; we know OB1 has met with Guv Blogo... we have the pictures to prove it. If Obama doesn't come clean this will dog him throughout his Presidency ;just like Whitewater did to the Clintoons.

[magprob]

I loved Lettermans top Ten last night:

For $10,000 you can be the Pope.

[dontknownuthin]

Several Illinois governors have gone to jail an he will be the next. He not only tried to get some payola for the Senate Seat, he also tried to get the editorial board members of the Chicago Tribune fired for being critical of his administration and asking for his impeachment, in exchange for releasing some state funding for the sale of a Tribune owned property - Wrigley Field. And he tried to strong-arm the head of Children's Memorial- the main children's hospital here in Chicago - for a huge campaign donation in exchange for state hospital funding. And he tried to do the same for multiple other deals.

Now he won't resign, and is wasting more tax dollars and paralyzing the state from getting anything done in a terrible financial time because he's so cheap, he can only think of his own paycheck. His wife's a cheat, too. It's unreal.

[Clough]

I loved Lettermans top Ten last night:

For $10,000 you can be the Pope.

For $19.50 I can become a licensed minister.

Progressive Universal Life Church - Ministerial License

The sad thing is, that in most places in the U.S. it would be legally recognized as being legitimate.