Speeding To Hell In A Handbasket Strapped Under The Bus

Wheeeee!  Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved to spin.  Shoulda been a journalist.  Or an Obatician, but nah, that sounds like a doctor who only delivers little Baracks.  I shudder to think.  Even though, it would be kinda cool to be a Mainstream Media Barackaspinner, (talk about redundant) I could make stuff up about him and pretend like it was true and nobody would say anything.  Anyway, a love of spinning would come in handy for just about anybody, since the drivel the professional spinners spin is almost comprehensible only when you’re already dizzy.

Where to begin?  Well, I could start with this obsession pseudo-journalists with unnatural attractions to Barack Obama seem to have.  Maybe it’s their natural response to his feminine side, recently discovered by Ms. Magazine, but, whatever the reason, they just seem to feel compelled to pledge their assistance to the President-In-Distress.  Whether he falters or not.  First, there was He of the Wet and Tingly Leg, who not only soars to on-air orgasmic heights at the mere sound of the object of his affections’ voice, but was moved to declare his need to prostrate (prostate?) himself at his true love’s feet, if ever necessary.  It’s his job, after all.

Maybe it’s not about Barack(a) Obama, maybe Joe Scarborough spikes his guest’s coffee with truth serum or scotch or something that makes them confess their darkest fantasies, but not to be outdone, and to prove that Obama man-love is post-racial, Tavis Smiley also declared his undying love on Morning Joe; and he seemed to be highly insulted that anyone would dare question such a thing:

Of course, how could anyone, male or female, not love a (wo)man who wears his misogynist-stomping SuperUniform under his(her) daily business attire?  Sexxxxaaaayyy.

In other news on this side of the looking glass, the Obacrats just can’t help doing everything they can to make even their staunchest supporters scratch their heads and go, “Huh?  Who the fuck elected these guys?”  While the God-fearing Obamessiah, who has only been to church once since he kicked his former pastor under the bus, and that was to diss all the black men white people write about now who are inspired by, but too lazy and irresponsible to be like him, scampers above the turbulent waters of corruption that sustain his hometown, his acolytes continue to stumble and bump into each other like blind men in broad daylight.

His own party is pissing on his stimulus package and questioning his judgment out of one side of their mouth, while they pledge to do as much as Mathews/Smiley for him out the other, while at the same time, the Governor They Love To Hate has got them so tied up in knots they can’t even find their right hand to see if it’s doing what the left hand obviously is – playing pocket pool.  From Politico:

Democrats angry over the botched handling of the Roland Burris imbroglio are putting the blame on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin and President-elect Barack Obama — even as new legal developments in Illinois throw the issue back to the Senate again.

Democratic sources say that Reid and Durbin underestimated the storm that would be caused by their attempt to deny a seat to a 71-year-old African-American.

“Reid operates in this tight, little circle with Durbin and [Sen. Charles] Schumer and [Sen. Patty] Murray,” complained one veteran Democratic senator, granted anonymity to speak candidly. “He needs to talk to more people, and maybe these kinds of situations won’t occur again.”

Other Democratic insiders put some of the blame on Obama, complaining that he kept his distance from the Burris controversy then jumped in at the end to claim the mantle of peacemaker — much as he did in the flap over Sen. Joe Lieberman’s support of Republican John McCain’s presidential bid.

“A lot of people were pissed” with how the Burris situation was handled, said a Democratic source involved in the discussions.

Doesn’t seem likely that anybody’s going to get un-pissed any time soon either.  Even though the fact that Blago’s pick should be seated is a no-brainer since he’s still the governor and even if he is impeached it doesn’t invalidate anything he did before he’s inevitably convicted, and nobody in their right mind would even want to come close to suggesting such a thing, Dick Durbin seems confused enough to…suggest such a thing.  Hanging his hat on a technicality already invalidated by the Illinois Supreme Court, namely that it matters not whether petulant Ill. Sec. of State Jesse White signs Burris’ hall pass, Durbin insists on standing behind his line in the sand.  From AP-Yahoo News:

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said Friday that Roland Burris should not be seated in the U.S. Senate because he has failed to get the secretary of state’s signature on his appointment to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the chamber.

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Durbin noted that if Blagojevich is convicted at his state Senate impeachment trial, he will no longer be the governor and Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn will take over.

“I think it’s best to suspend activities in the filling of that vacancy until that impeachment trial in the Illinois Senate is concluded,” Durbin said. He said Quinn could “then have the authority to make this appointment in a clean, legal way and make his recommendation and his appointment known to the United States Senate.”

Gee, I’m not a lawyer, but, I wonder which law allows the Senate to suspend a sitting Governor’s powers?

So, as the wheels on the bus go ’round ‘n ’round, and the spinners continue to spin, the country barrels headlong to hell in that handbasket, fickle Supergirl-In-Chief hides in an undisclosed phone booth trying to decide which outfit to wear.

The Only Corrupt Politician In The Most Corrupt State

In a classic case of a herd isolating a wounded pack member to be sacrificed to a hungry predator in order to save the majority, the Illinois legislature is determined to impeach their governor, Rod Blagojevich, for crimes he has not even been officially indicted for, much less convicted of.   Motivated by either their intense dislike of the man they consider to be crazy, and his foul mouth and poofy hair; or by their morally unassailable position against the man they know to be the only corrupt politician in the state called a contender for the title of “most corrupt” in the United States by an FBI agent at the press conference announcing his arrest, based on years of allegations, gossip and innuendo; or, more likely, their natural, self-preservation-based fear that should the wolf be allowed to hunt the one they deem tasty on their turf, he might find the scent of their flesh equally compelling; whatever, from the herd’s point of view, Blags has got to go.

Doesn’t mean he’ll go quietly, however.  In fact, in a press conference today, he made it very clear that rather than be hung out  to dry, he’s going to hang around and fight.  Of course, that has naturally caused the herd, and the crows in the media they’ve convinced to make like vultures and circle around his undead carcass in order to point the predators his way, much consternation.  Just search Google News for “Blagojevich press conference” and read the more than 5,000 articles that come up ridiculing the man if you don’t believe me.  Let’s face it, without the crows, the herd couldn’t make a case against him that violates the normal rules of due process.   He’s been convicted by the press without benefit of trial or indictment, been criticized by herd leaders for not testifying in his defense, and is being impeached because of it.

Since witches can be hunted, and crooks can be scapegoated, the question is, is Blago holding things up, or is he simply holding the bag?

He is the only corrupt politician in the most corrupt state in the country, isn’t he?  Even though, when you consider that the “Chicago Way,” based as it is upon the political embrace of mob tactics, (or “the Outfit” as it’s known in the city) Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn’s entry in the “poem war” he chose to wage with Blago, again invokes images of a much desired Frank Pentangeli solution to the herd’s (not the hunted’s) problem.

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He Only Has To Be Accused

The Illinois committee’s report points out that Blagojevich does not need to be found guilty of a crime for the House to impeach him.

”It would, in fact, be unreasonable to limit impeachable offenses to criminal conduct,” the report says. ”An impeachment inquiry is not a criminal proceeding and its purpose is not punitive. Rather, impeachment is a remedial proceeding to protect the public from an officer who has abused his position of trust.”

New York Daily News

Proof?  We don’t need no stinkin’ proof.  Somebody said, a U.S. Attorney, no  less, on TV, for Goodness sakes, that the guy was on a crime spree, because, he said, he heard somebody say to somebody else on the phone that he was gonna, and, then he said the governor said if they didn’t do what he wanted, bleep ‘em.  What kind of way is that for a Governor to talk, huh?  Mother bleeper?  We never liked him, anyway.  He tried to get flu vaccines delivered to Illinois during a shortage.  What kind of slimy, lowdown crook would do something like that?  And the casinos he ripped off for the horse race guys are taking bets on jail time.  Are you kidding me?  He must be guilty, I saw it on TV.  He shoulda had the decency to resign.  He knows Rezko, you know?

Yeah, but Rezko didn’t help him buy a house.

However, as we can see in this Dec. 28 You Tube video, Blago’s impeachment and conviction is pretty much a done deal.  What until proven who?