Blago, Etc.

The Chicago Tribune wants Blago to resign the governorship, thus paving the way for the GOP to take BOTH the governorship AND Obama's Senate seat, for the timing of the arrest is everything.

The Tribune proved it was non-partisan in its reporting by withholding information at the request of U.S. attorney Fitzgerald.

Blago will resign, of course, and will be forgotten. The GOP has just put out its opening salvo for the 2010 elections by comically running on a "clean government" theme.

And people by the millions, including so-called Clinton supporters, will fall for Fitzgerald's antics.

The FIRST thing Obama should do when he is inaugurated is to get rid of all of the U.S. attorneys including Fitzgerald, despite howls from the GOP and a misguided public. We have too many urgent problems to allow the Republicans, like they did during the Clinton years, to pervert the courts for partisan reasons.
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The AP says Blago could still appoint somebody for the vacant Senate seat, but does anybody actually think he will be allowed to do so? You've got Democrats like Pat Quinn and Dick Durbin calling for a special election--which is the goal of the GOP in order to steal a seat.

God, this whole thing is transparent. I suppose Obama will be pressured by the fascists to appoint a special prosecutor after he's president, and here we go again with Clinton II. The GOP will obstruct Obama at every turn, since the Democrats don't have a filibuster-proof majority, and then they will pervert the courts with "investigations" of Obama in order to help their own political chances, just as they tried to do with the Clintons.

The Republicans will never change. They are dirtbags who should be permanently marginalized.
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