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Breaking: Illinois Impeaches Blagojevich

In a dramatic display of anger and solidarity over a political scandal that has made Illinois a national laughingstock, lawmakers on Friday voted 114-1 to impeach disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
It's the first time in the state's history that the Illinois House has voted to impeach its governor The impeachment proceedings will now move to the Illinois Senate for trial. It is unclear when that will begin. The one lawmaker voting against impeachment was Rep. Milton Patterson, a Chicago Demorcrat who represents the South Side. Rep Elga Jefferies, also a Chicago Democrat, voted present.

The governor's spokesman has said he will not resign, so it looks as though we're going to get the joy of a Senate trial.

More [ace]: Burris amends his previous declaration he'd had no contact with Blago's representatives about the Senate seat to say, oh yeah, by the way, I had some contact with Blago's representatives about the Senate seat.

Burris also contacted a Blago aide to get his nephew a state job.

Shockingly, Barack Obama took money from the same cat who paid former Commerce Secretary designate Bill Richardson for favors.

At the press conference where he was named to the Commerce spot December 3, Richardson said to Obama, “The catchphrases of your economic plan - investment, public-private partnership - that is the Department of Commerce.”
This column explored Richardson’s use of “public-private partnership” a month ago, and argued that the term is often a euphemism for corporate welfare, and always an invitation for corrupt pay-to-play deals. In at least one case, we now know, federal investigators have the same suspicion.
CDR Financial Products Inc. (formerly named Chambers, Dunhill, Rubin & Co., although there never was a Chambers or Dunhill) in 2004 won $1.5 million in contracts from New Mexico’s government while the firm and its president David Rubin donated at least $110,000 to Governor Richardson and his various campaign committees.
At a high-dollar, star-studded Obama fundraiser in Los Angeles over the summer, Rubin also cut a $28,500 check to Obama and other Democrats—not the sort of small-dollar donor Obama typically bragged about when rejecting federal matching funds and the spending limits that go along with them.

The Examiner also mentions this correction:

That $20,000 contribution that I said went from Blago to Bill Richardson? Reverse the direction and you've got it. Bill Richardson gave Blago the $20K two days after both were re-elected, not the other way around.

It's amazing to me that Barack Obama was part of this cesspool for years and yet never got dirty. Truly, he is The One.

Posted by: Slublog at 11:38 AM

Comments

1 Glad to see Elga Jefferies following the Barack Obama Path to Stardom with her vote.....

Posted by: John Tant at January 09, 2009 11:39 AM (tVWQB)

2 What, no magnificently coiffed flaming skull? Was he laid off, too...?

Posted by: Kensington at January 09, 2009 11:41 AM (fhJCy)

3 I can still haz Senate Seatz, right?

Posted by: LOL Burris at January 09, 2009 11:44 AM (hlYel)

4 NYTimes headline: Illinois Legislature moves to strip hard-working man of job.

Posted by: Techie at January 09, 2009 11:44 AM (906oR)

5 Shouldn't the magnificently coiffed flaming skull also be on the main page?

Posted by: Arbalest at January 09, 2009 11:45 AM (pmAMk)

6 HAI UR HARE BEES TWO THICK

KTHX BAI

Posted by: LOL Illinois Legislature at January 09, 2009 11:46 AM (fhJCy)

7 Estimate 2 weeks to try the impeachment in the IL Senate.

Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2009 11:47 AM (f6os6)

Clinton was impeached too.

What is the likelyhood Blago will get to stay the governor?

Whats the next step?

Posted by: Micheal at January 09, 2009 11:48 AM (iggjG)

O'bitch set me up.

Posted by: Rod Blagojevich at January 09, 2009 11:48 AM (MKFU7)

a Chicago Demorcrat who represents the South Side

Wasn’t that the stomping grounds of Al Capone?

What is the likelyhood Blago will get to stay the governor?

Not a chance.

Posted by: Vic at January 09, 2009 11:49 AM (f6os6)

11 Innocent until proven guilty.....aw hell, he's making Obama look bad! Hang the bastard before he takes anyone else down with him!!!

Posted by: Andy_asdfdrw45asdfff at January 09, 2009 11:51 AM (A4mFs)

Was the "1" vote actually a "Present" vote?

Posted by: andycanuck at January 09, 2009 11:57 AM (55TIb)

Just the sight of the Blago-haired flaming skull warms my cold Moron heart. And takes the edge off the global warming climate change I'm experiencing here right now.

Posted by: Fallen Sparrow at January 09, 2009 11:57 AM (SOf9N)

14 A little OT, but the Jeffries chick made me wonder....exactly why is it that these clowns are allowed to vote "present" on anything? It seems to absolve them of any responsible decision making. A truly cowardly approach.

Posted by: Twinks at January 09, 2009 11:57 AM (KGbOi)

15 The Illinois Senate can remove Blago without finding him guilty of any crime - they don't actually need a reason to remove him other than they want to. He's gone.

Posted by: Bald Ninja at January 09, 2009 11:59 AM (4pdbX)

16 If they hack him off, think he'll take any of them down with him? They're not giving him any good reasons to keep his mouth shut.

Posted by: Ella at January 09, 2009 12:02 PM (jeP9I)

17 Illinois, don't feel bad... you were a laughingstock way before any of this happened.

Posted by: Cautiously Pessimistic at January 09, 2009 12:10 PM (ltwze)

18 Jeffries lost a primary, a Democratic Primary to boot. This is like attending your familly's turkey day and getting stiffed with no turkey. Jeffries is pissed and headed for the unemployment line.

Paterson is also trying to be run out of his seat by the official Democratic Party in Illinois.

Fun times in my home state. Bring on the stimupalooza to keep this party in power!

Posted by: Herbert Hoover at January 09, 2009 12:12 PM (AHrTm)

19 Via the Capitol Fax Blog.

The Senate trial is scheduled to start January 26th and is expected to last about nine days or so.

Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland at January 09, 2009 12:15 PM (AHrTm)

20 Living in Illinois, This has been a date long in the coming. He should've been ousted years ago, But many lawmakers were afraid of him. The man has been implicated being in cahoots with the mob, the Chicago Dailey political machine, Tony Rezko, and others.

He thinks he's untouchable, I hope they imprison him for a long time.

Posted by: CrackrJak at January 09, 2009 12:16 PM (KrAHH)

21 Abe Lincoln was wont to comment on Chicago's venality, calling "that wicked city", if memory serves me (read it not long ago in Shelby Foote's Civil War).

Posted by: J David at January 09, 2009 12:22 PM (uMxF4)

22 The man has been implicated being in cahoots with the mob, the Chicago Dailey political machine, Tony Rezko, and others.

Hmm....

Where have I seen that before about a certain Illinois pol but wasn't allowed to hear from a certain Presidential candidate because he was too honorable to discuss such things, even it meant losing the election.

It's like deja vu all over again, Chicago style.

Posted by: SlaveDog at January 09, 2009 12:23 PM (H6Jyg)

23 Ella: If they hack him off, think he'll take any of them down with him? They're not giving him any good reasons to keep his mouth shut.

I don't believe he'll give up any ghosts in an impeachment trial - he'll just lose his job if he's convicted, and any secrets he still has will still give him some degree of political authority, even if it's behind the scenes. A criminal trial, however, is different. I think he just might sing a pretty tune if Fitz's charges look like they'll stick.

Posted by: Jazz at January 09, 2009 12:27 PM (hnq5i)

24 This is not the magnificently coiffed flaming skull I know.

Posted by: Barry Obamuh at January 09, 2009 12:32 PM (ivZjP)

25 Of COURSE we had to elect Obama. Can you imagine what would have happend to His Saintlyness if he had remained in that Chicago mire much longer?

It was a rescue job.

Posted by: Techie at January 09, 2009 12:58 PM (906oR)

26 The one lawmaker voting against impeachment was Rep. Milton Patterson, a Chicago Demorcrat who represents the South Side. Gotta watch out for them Demorcrats.

Posted by: Robb Allen at January 09, 2009 01:00 PM (MPhK9)

27 That's politics. Hair today, gone tomorrow.

Posted by: andycanuck at January 09, 2009 01:04 PM (55TIb)

28 Wow...This is a first: A "Teflon President-Elect"!

Posted by: JoeTee at January 09, 2009 01:05 PM (prdCq)

29
We all learned what happened to John Gotti's neighbor. Blago's connected, wonder if they'll put him inna barrel of acid too. Let him sleep with Jimmy Hoffa.
Give him a dirt nap to keep him quiet.

Posted by: WonderWartHog at January 09, 2009 01:09 PM (LVT6e)

30
So, if Blago is convicted and removed from office, lieutenant governor Patrick Quinn becomes governor. Now, what if he appoints someone other than Roland Burris to the Senate - which he is likely to do?

Burris's appointment is legal, and he's being held up only because secretary of state Jesse White is sitting on the certification of his appointment - probably illegally, since the Illinois constitution does not give him veto power over the governor's appointments. But Quinn's appointee will claim he (or she) is legally senator because ... well, because. So the courts get to decide.

By the way, White said today that he would approve Burris's appointment if Obama asked him to. And he's pissed off at having to do the Democrats' dirty work for them. Today's WSJ quoted him as saying that "they leave me holding the bag ... I've been put in a wheelchair and thrown down four flights of stairs."

More popcorn! More popcorn!

Posted by: Brown Line at January 09, 2009 01:16 PM (VrNoa)

brown line: so white, the sec'y of state of Illinois, whose signature is not required, only recommended, says he will sign on dotted line for burris if bambi asks him to.

way to go white! draw bambi into harry reid's mess! i may come to love white as much as i love blago!

Posted by: kelley in virginia at January 09, 2009 01:56 PM (g568/)

32 Wow, that was quick. Isn't there supposed to be a prolonged agonizing ordeal with multiple counts and...

This isn't an impeachment, it's a sub-bus tossing.

Posted by: AmishDude at January 09, 2009 02:01 PM (T0NGe)

33 Well, apparently they figured out a way to do it so that the governor couldn't reveal too much that was damaging to them. Maybe the Burris appointment was the deal they cut.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 09, 2009 02:03 PM (PQY7w)

34 Blago may have been impeached but considering what he's done so far I hope that son of a bitch goes down swinging. And I'm talking going totally thermonuclear.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 09, 2009 02:33 PM (1Jaio)

35 IL SC rules SoS sig not required
says Burris has met all legal requirements of the state for the Senate seat! KEWLIN'
linky to story and pdf of ruling here

Posted by: MiM at January 09, 2009 02:40 PM (Vf0nL)

36 Rod "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" Blagojevich

Posted by: mojo at January 09, 2009 02:42 PM (g1cNf)

37 Harumph!

Posted by: Unclefacts at January 09, 2009 02:56 PM (M+Vfm)

38 "Rep Elga Jefferies, also a Chicago Democrat, voted present."

Could she be arrested for impersonating the President-Elect?

Posted by: Bob Hawkins at January 09, 2009 03:29 PM (pnBkj)

It's amazing to me that Barack Obama was part of this cesspool for years and yet never got dirty.

In every situation like this, there is always one guy who seems to dodge all the shit when it comes down. Normally, he's the guy that's the dirtiest. He's just really good at avoiding flying shit.

Posted by: Steve L. at January 09, 2009 03:53 PM (Gkhxf)

"Shockingly, Barack Obama took money from the same cat ..."

Shouldn't 'Schockingly' be in quotes?

Posted by: slug at January 09, 2009 03:55 PM (n8Nln)

41
"brown line: so white, the sec'y of state of Illinois, whose signature is not required, only recommended, says he will sign on dotted line for burris if bambi asks him to."

Kelly, here's what the WSJ said today (page A4):

"Separately, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White said he had no intention of signing off on Mr Burris's selection unless he is forced to by a court or is asked to by Mr Obama."

So The One publicaly supports Burris, but he won't pick up the phone to get the signature that Reid claims he must have to let Burris in. I guess you could say that he voted "present" on this one.

Just what we need in this time of crisis: a weathervane as president. Christ, why couldn't McCain have run a halfway competent campaign?

Posted by: Brown Line at January 09, 2009 04:02 PM (VrNoa)

42 Believe me, the only Democratic "anger" in Illinois is that the son of a bitch was so stupid as to get caught.

We'll see if actually gets removed, though: I suspect he has enough shit on his fellow Democrats that they'll quietly back away from that final step.

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