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RACISTS IMPEACH BLAGO: “SPRINGFIELD—In a historic vote, the Illinois House has impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich, directing the Senate to put the state’s 40th chief executive on trial with the goal of removing him from office. The vote by the House was 114-1 and marks the first time in the state’s 190-year history that a governor has been impeached…” Well this is just terrible news, isn’t it. But what’s this now? “A spokesman for the governor said he won’t resign.” Hooray! [Chicago Breaking News]
Does this mean Harry Reid gets the last laugh? It can’t, right? I never thought I’d live to see the day.
When the history of the Civil Rights movement is written, surely a whole chapter will be devoted to the brave Illinois Governor who in 1965 was impeached by a racist legislature for daring to appoint a black man to fill the Senate seat vacated by a departing black man.
Errata: the year in the above piece should have read 2009, not 1965. (Apology: Eds.)
Blago on trial? I hope he curses up the stand real good. Fuck this fuck that, etc.
The vote was 114-1? Did he only have time to pay one representative, or did he run out of money?
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You know what Blogo’s problem is – he is not Mexican. If he were Mexican he would not have been impeached.
NoWireHangers: Fuck their fuckin’ impeachment. I’ve got me this governor’s mansion and it’s fuckin’ golden and I’m not givin’ it up for fuckin’ nothin’.
I’m trying to look surprised. No, really. I am.
lazy bastards. They could have done this last year and saved us from Burris…..but NOOOOOOO.
Now you’ve done it, Springfield.
Blaggy’s hair is going to wreak vengeance on the Illinois Legislators.
“A spokesman for the governor said he won’t resign.”
hell no. hole up in the gov’s mansion, call out the state police and Nat’l Guard and declare yourself governor for life. Of course, some of these may side with the legislature. That would set up an interesting situation.
ManchuCandidate: Quick, Serolf Divad, get on a graphic of that!
I always think of this song when I see blago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3hFG_V7VEE
Somewhere, Dan Rostenkowski is muttering the word “pussy” under his breath.
Who’s the hater that didn’t vote for him? Is this like how no baseball player can get elected to the Hall of Fame unanimously?
That lone voter is just not nice!!!!
Is bidz.com advertising here based on our profligate abuse of blingees?
Haha, Blago holing up in the Governor’s Mansion would mean he would have to live there…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich#Residency.2C_commute.2C_and_work_hours
I want to see Blagoyhoweverthefuckyouspellitvich replace Alan Colmes on Hannity & Colmes. Then it could the battle of the awful pompadours on Fox.
Serolf Divad: It’s a civil rights issue all right. I blame all those Croats in the Illinois legislature.
Lascauxcaveman: “Don’t make me get all Archduke Ferdinand on you, man.”
directing the Senate to put the state’s 40th chief executive on trial with the goal of removing him from office.
Does the goal of a trial ever not include “removing him from office”?
“We demand that he be put on trial with the goal of making him dance the Watusi on public access TV.”
JEEZ somebody must have paid a lot of money to get that many Senators to tell Blago to fuck off. I mean an Impeachment’s a pretty fucking important thing. You don’t just give something like that away.
(Oh and whenever you people post that cartoon, above, an angel gets its wings.)
It is fitting and just and good for the depressed intertube economy that he has chosen to go out like Scarface
user-of-owls: Archduke Ferdinand? Wasn’t he the one who got shot?
But I guess that does sound better than “Don’t make me get all Gavrilo Princip on you, man.”
PsycGirl: http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2009/01/live-blog-of-il.html
“Rep. Milt Patterson (D-Chicago) was the lone vote against impeaching the governor. Patterson, from Chicago’s Southwest Side, said after the roll call that he didn’t feel it was his job to vote to impeach the governor. He declined comment on whether he approved of the job Blagojevich is doing.”
That’s probably the biggest compliment Blago has received in years.
Car Ramrod: He declined comment because, although Blago paid him to vote no, he didn’t pay Milt’s asking price.
All of this is meaningless, though, unless or until they impeach the hair. Did we learn nothing from the story of Samson and Delilah?
Lascauxcaveman: Yeah, well it was supposed to be along the lines of ‘don’t make me do to you what we did to the Duke’…sorta…also. Yeah, never mind.
Take a nap, user-of-owls. I’ll spoon with you if that’ll help.
Now has Illinois only had 40 governors or 40 governors that have been put on trial??
The Burris thing now makes sense. He’s the guy who puts people on death row for no reason. Blago’s simply afraid if the guy’s in Illinois it will be death by firing squad, hanging, or whatever is considered the least ‘cruel’ in Illinois.
The Rev. Yevot: Yessssssssss.
Bruno: Oh, I don’t think anything is out of bounds based on a ‘cruelty’ test in Illinois. They still let people be Cubs fans, don’t they? Rest my case.
His name is too hard to pronounce; can we just call him Gov. Bag-o-dicks?
I’m grading some Bar Exam Answers right now, and I have an interesting Con Law Question:
Is the hairy creature that lives on top of Blago’s head entitled to sever the impeachment trial, such that he/she/it gets a separate proceeding and process?
Or is this one of those conspiracy scenarios, where “The Thing” and the Governor can be tried together without the risk of undue prejudice?
Related Issue: Is a hairpiece entitled to the Right to Confront Witnesses?
Neilist: “is a hairpiece entitled” … in all honesty, I truly believe that is his real hair. Stunning, yes.
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/2009/01/hot-rod-blagojevich-heading-into.html
I think we can pretty much set this political rule in stone:
The more luxurious the mane, the douchier the dude who’s sporting it. [see also: Mittens]
assistant/atlas: hey don’t forget j. edwards