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LET BLAGGY BE BLAGGY!

Dick Durbin Wants To Strip Blaggy’s Rightful Appointment Powers, For Some Reason

It seems DADDY over there in the Senate wants to give “the people” the right to fill Obama’s Senate seat, which would be a vulgar trashing of the Constitution, taking the choice away from the potty-mouth arrested governor who is on tape trying to sell it, for money, and what not.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) today called for the Illinois General Assemby to quickly pass legislation for a special election to fill Barack Obama’s Senate seat, saying that any replacement appointed by Blagojevich would be tainted.

Oh Dick Durbin, have you forgotten everything about your state’s politics? Do you think that just because Blaggy’s in jail, the corrupt General Assembly members have stopped bribing him for their preferred replacements? Obviously the voters of Illinois deserve nothing, anyway, since their recent electoral judgment has produced two (2) consecutive criminal governors and one douchebag Senator who started running for president after four minutes on the job.

Let us hope that this quote-unquote legislation doesn’t pass before Blaggy goes nuts and angrily appoints “Rahm Emanuel’s Tenth Finger” to the Senate, while giggling.

[Chicago Tribune]


3:31 PM on Tue December 9 2008
By Jim Newell
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  1. NoWireHangers says at 3:35 pm, December 9th, 2008

    Blago should appoint himself. Right now. That would be pretty awesome.

  2. tonehedge says at 3:37 pm, December 9th, 2008

    I’d appoint Campbell Brown.

  3. As a Chicago resident, let me just say: I can’t get enough of this shit. This holiday season, Illinois politics is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

  4. tonehedge says at 3:37 pm, December 9th, 2008

    Bill Ayers is still around right?

  5. magic titty says at 3:38 pm, December 9th, 2008

    What’s wrong with taint, Sen. Durbin?

    Also, I love how much Newell dislikes Obama. Because Jim Newell don’t like nobody, motherfucker.

  6. He should appoint ACORN - of wait that is not a person.

  7. roundofapplause says at 3:40 pm, December 9th, 2008

    Jesse Jackson is gonna be pissssssssed off!!

  8. They will need to make the change, since ANYONE that Blago appoints will be immediately suspect. In fact that strong breeze blowing through Chicago is caused by everyone running as far away from Blago and his ’short list’ as they can get!

  9. hedgehog says at 3:42 pm, December 9th, 2008

    Dick is calling Rod a Dick.

    Apparently, the key to getting elected to higher office in Illinois is being named after a phallus. Does “Barack” mean “penis” in Kenyan?

  10. qwerty42 says at 3:43 pm, December 9th, 2008

    How about Larry Craig? He has experience and this would keep him out of the Minneapolis airport.

  11. qwerty42: No, He’d never leave O’Hare, and not because of all of the fuckin delays like normal folks, he’d be having too much fun to ever leave the termainal, what with all of those bathrooms and all!!!

  12. Blago’s posted his bail and he is out on his own recognizance.

    Presser claiming his innocence and announcing Barry replacement in 3…. 2….. 1….

  13. FreshCliches says at 3:50 pm, December 9th, 2008

    hedgehog: Peter O’Toole for Governor!

  14. Vanity Smurf says at 3:51 pm, December 9th, 2008

    hedgehog: It means “blessed” in Swahili, which I suppose you could translate as “hung” and thereby retain you phallocentrism. Cocksucker.

  15. actor212 says at 3:51 pm, December 9th, 2008

    Who is the Cubs manager?

    Even after all this, he’d probably be grateful.

  16. Mr.Handsome says at 3:53 pm, December 9th, 2008

    This is a decision best left to the beautiful people.

  17. choinski says at 3:57 pm, December 9th, 2008

    You had me at “Dick Durbin wants to strip”

  18. I think Wonkette posters should choose. Maybe it could be the best eco driver or the Comics Curmudgeon.

  19. Newsflash: Blago walks, temporarily. He should be fitted for one of those stylish straight-jacket things in classic institutional white.

  20. gjdodger says at 4:08 pm, December 9th, 2008

    He may be Daddy, but the little runt sure isn’t “Big” Daddy.

  21. ToeCramps says at 4:18 pm, December 9th, 2008

    Dick is being a total dick right now! First he wanted Bush to pardon his old ass crime spree friend Ryan (former guvna of IL) for the same crap that Blago is in trouble for and now he want Blago to get da hell out of dodge?

    Don’t get it. Blago & Ryan can be cellies. But they can’t play together in Dickie D keeps trying to change the rules of the game!

  22. obfuscator says at 4:20 pm, December 9th, 2008

    Dreamer: “Blagojevich Names Mickey Mouse to Senate Vacancy”

  23. tank this says at 4:26 pm, December 9th, 2008

    Blagojevichmakah is a great new holiday here in IL.

  24. tank this says at 4:26 pm, December 9th, 2008

    Aren’t we at 3 corrupt governors in a row now?

  25. pondscum says at 4:59 pm, December 9th, 2008

    tank this: I don’t know of any scandals involving Jim Edgar.
    He’s a good guy…for a republican.

  26. shortsshortsshorts says at 5:01 pm, December 9th, 2008

    pondscum: Jim Edgar was a good man, but they haven’t found the bodies yet, so there’s that.

  27. pondscum says at 5:05 pm, December 9th, 2008

    shortsshortsshorts: And now that he’s at the U of I, there’s plenty of room to bury them. What do you think the South Farms are all about anyway…

  28. Lascauxcaveman says at 5:44 pm, December 9th, 2008

    choinski: You had me at “Dick Durbin wants to strip”

    Had you *what* exactly? Had you gagging?

  29. sarcasticusername says at 6:05 pm, December 9th, 2008

    is dick durbin a secret republican? because that’s who he wants to hand a senate seat to. i can see it already, sarah palin will use her book advance to buy a place in illinois some time next week thus getting her hands on a senate seat this way. god help us all.

  30. tank this says at 6:07 pm, December 9th, 2008

    @pondscum Right, I was forgetting Edgar’s brief run with sanity (though there was still a $20 million scandal).
    But if Blago goes to jail, that’ll be 4 out of the last 8 Illinois Governors convicted.

  31. Hans_Christian_Henderson says at 6:32 pm, December 9th, 2008

    Do any Kennedys live in Illinois?

  32. Hans_Christian_Henderson says at 6:33 pm, December 9th, 2008

    They probably should pick someone who is on
    parole, just to be on the safe side.

  33. Scandalabra says at 6:44 pm, December 9th, 2008

    It’s too bad Heff decamped to California.

  34. Orthette says at 7:52 pm, December 9th, 2008

    Well, this will give eternal political bridesmaid Jim Oberweis another election to run in.

  35. Alan Keyes?

  36. ladymacbeth says at 8:43 pm, December 9th, 2008

    if this jinxes the chance of the olympics it will be a double delight.

  37. josereyes.theroof says at 9:37 pm, December 9th, 2008

    Ditka.

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