me thinks that this indictment is hypocritical since his crimes are common behavior.

For example, nobody is mad at Obama for giving Hillary a job based, perhaps, on an agreement they made during the campaign.

IMO, Blagojevich is being taken down just like Spitzer since Blagojevich went after the banks and-- by implication, Bush Adminstration Policy, over the Republic Windows and Doors situation.

Blagojevich even wanted Illinois to stop doing business with the Bank Of America:

SOURCE #1 (bloomberg) ; SOURCE #2 (sean paul kelly)

The real crime here isn't petty nepotism but rather the behavior of the Bushies who are behaving like the Grinch: they're stealing everything on their way out the door.

But what it is ain't exactly clear.

Who is really naive enough to not realize that a lot of horse-trading goes on whenever a governor has to appoint anyone?

Be that as it may, we shouldn't forget that in withholding state aid for the Tribune, he put about $1 billion of JP Morgan's investment in Tribune in chapter 11 limbo, and another $7 billion of JP Morgan's $ backing Tribune bonds in the same doghouse. Couple that with the unprecedented and incendiary comments about Bank of America, a thoroughly corrupt DoJ, Spitzer's ouster after an Op Ed about the Comptroller of the Currency and lax lending standards, as well as the Siegelman prosecution, and you've got to wonder how much do we really know about anything that's going on here?

when the mortgage mess cost us so much more?

I don't know if it's true but supposedly the union workers were doing a sit-in and becoming noticed; so, was the arrest simply to stop people from saying "I'm Mad As Hell And Not Going To Take This Any More"?

and that is assuming that you can use logic and reason to figure out Blago's motives.

Or that there is more to Fitzgerald than meets your eyes.

You can take off the tinfoil now.

since the white crayon can't be seen on white paper. Thus, it's rarely used.

this situation is about Bush smearing the artwork of others with his nasty, black, grease.

I might have your suspicions as well. But Blago has been at best a quasi-populist. Mostly he's just been inept. There are going to be very few people in Illinois not glad to see him go.

Now here's crossing our fingers that a progressive Lt Gov Pat Quinn can be effective with the next two years and get re-elected after that. It should be very do-able. Even if the Bush regime were behind this, which I doubt because they are no fans of the Federal Attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald of the Valerie Plame prosecution, they could well end up regretting getting what they wished for.

..."for which the press conference was called" does not seem to be part of his vocabulary at this point.

Obama’s Health Care Briefing (transcript).

The press conference. on the other hand, was not dominated by discussion of the Illinois issue, but reports on the press conference were- see the VOA spin: Obama: No Contacts With Disgraced Governor

_{Yes, I can come up with a post-election signature, just... not... yet...}

today I'll say that I hate mayonnaise and like asking waitresses "why did you put mayo on my sandwich? I didn't ask for it."

usually, and unless I specifically tell them "no mayonnaise," I scrape it off since any other reaction would be cruel to those who have nothing to eat.

so maybe that guy, who got cream and sugar with his coffee, should be reminded how lucky he is since some folks have nothing to eat and can only dream about having cream and sugar in their coffee instead of having the living nightmare that "there's cream and sugar in my coffee so I'm going to die!"

Seriously, it's suppose to project my obstinate, bitchy nature. Also, it's from Stephen King's novel "The Stand."

If I had wanted cream and sugar, then why order the damn coffee?