Comments on: Senators should announce they’ll refuse any Blagojevich appointee to Obama’s seat http://donklephant.com/2008/12/09/senators-should-announce-theyll-refuse-any-blagojevich-appointee-to-obamas-seat/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:33:07 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: J. Harden http://donklephant.com/2008/12/09/senators-should-announce-theyll-refuse-any-blagojevich-appointee-to-obamas-seat/comment-page-1/#comment-429480 J. Harden Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:45:49 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=11873#comment-429480 F-that, Kranky. No smoking gun necessary - at some point a critical mass of circumstantial evidence exists that some a-hole, at the very least, needs to spray disinfectant before jumping in bed with his scumbag friends. Obama was a senior advisor for Hot Rods campaign in 2002. Here's the deal: Obama doesn't need to be "tied" to any particular act of corruption for one to make a perfectly valid assessment of his willingness to associate & support criminals. This is who we have elected and honestly, I don't mind. The GoogleBoyz can yack on about the transparency because they put some low level staff meetings on the net, but the fact is -- this Administration is going to be greased and wired for action. They probably won't put those meetings on the web. Don't be a hater, its just the way Chicago pols work and it generally gets things done. F-that, Kranky. No smoking gun necessary – at some point a critical mass of circumstantial evidence exists that some a-hole, at the very least, needs to spray disinfectant before jumping in bed with his scumbag friends. Obama was a senior advisor for Hot Rods campaign in 2002.

Here’s the deal: Obama doesn’t need to be “tied” to any particular act of corruption for one to make a perfectly valid assessment of his willingness to associate & support criminals. This is who we have elected and honestly, I don’t mind.

The GoogleBoyz can yack on about the transparency because they put some low level staff meetings on the net, but the fact is — this Administration is going to be greased and wired for action. They probably won’t put those meetings on the web.

Don’t be a hater, its just the way Chicago pols work and it generally gets things done.

]]> By: kranky kritter http://donklephant.com/2008/12/09/senators-should-announce-theyll-refuse-any-blagojevich-appointee-to-obamas-seat/comment-page-1/#comment-429441 kranky kritter Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:42:53 +0000 http://donklephant.com/?p=11873#comment-429441 This is stunning story about a guy who has turned about be a shameless scumbag, And who has been apparently been caught red-handed. That means everyone and his brother are rushing in to express concern, disgust, amazement, etc. It also means that I personally am going to get very sick of and very bored by this story pretty quickly, except for the part where Blago starts trying to drag-o down other pols with him. I really can't get worked up about who gets appointed to the senate seat now and how folks have to rush in to ensure this and that. Why? Because I simply take the following as virtually foregone conclusions: • Blago won't make the appointment, or if he does it won't stick •The very public unfolding of this scandal will make it virtually inescapable that a special election be held, regardless of who is unhappy about that There's a 3rd foregone conclusion here, too: • most of the noisiest people in this will be the opportunists This bullet point 3 will be the most useful one for folks trying to understand this story as it unfolds. There is going to be public dogfighting over the unexpected tasty scrap that has dropped to the floor, a senate seat. And there is also going to be a determined attempt to tie Prez-elect Obama to whatever malodorous components of this he can be tied to. It'll be 6 degrees of Blago and Rezko and the appearance of impropriety. I suggest a simple policy regarding such efforts: SGOSTFU, or essgo estfoo. Show me the smoking gun or... . This is stunning story about a guy who has turned about be a shameless scumbag, And who has been apparently been caught red-handed. That means everyone and his brother are rushing in to express concern, disgust, amazement, etc. It also means that I personally am going to get very sick of and very bored by this story pretty quickly, except for the part where Blago starts trying to drag-o down other pols with him.

I really can’t get worked up about who gets appointed to the senate seat now and how folks have to rush in to ensure this and that. Why? Because I simply take the following as virtually foregone conclusions:

• Blago won’t make the appointment, or if he does it won’t stick
•The very public unfolding of this scandal will make it virtually inescapable that a special election be held, regardless of who is unhappy about that

There’s a 3rd foregone conclusion here, too:
• most of the noisiest people in this will be the opportunists

This bullet point 3 will be the most useful one for folks trying to understand this story as it unfolds. There is going to be public dogfighting over the unexpected tasty scrap that has dropped to the floor, a senate seat.

And there is also going to be a determined attempt to tie Prez-elect Obama to whatever malodorous components of this he can be tied to. It’ll be 6 degrees of Blago and Rezko and the appearance of impropriety. I suggest a simple policy regarding such efforts: SGOSTFU, or essgo estfoo. Show me the smoking gun or… .

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