Here's Your Way Out, Blago!
Here at TPM World Headquarters we were kicking around various ways Blagojevich can extricate himself from his rather dire plight. And we think we finally hit on a solution.
Blago should use his one phone call to contact Patrick Fitzgerald himself and inform Fitz that he's willing to offer him Obama's Senate seat in exchange for dropping the charges.
Food for thought: If Blago did that, it really wouldn't be much more startling than the stuff he is alleged to have actually done!
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Y'all are too funny today!
I'll take the nod. I'd make a great Senator. Of course outside of some used cat litter I really don't have anything to trade for the nomination...
December 9, 2008 2:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'd give up some catnip for the nomination.
Think Blago would go for that?
December 9, 2008 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
CATNIP....
yeah. Solves all problems. ;)
Hiya Pete.
December 9, 2008 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
STASH! How's things?
December 9, 2008 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Quite nice, today.
Any of us Felines will be a better nominee with catnip, dontchyathink? ;)
December 9, 2008 3:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
With or without, we're just better, period.
O/T:Stash looks exactly like a previous cat I had: Lucy. Pete really liked Lucy. Lucy thought Pete was an irritant (she was 11 years older than Pete). She was the most amazing hunter.
December 9, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Buddha is pleased to make all y'all's acquaintances :-)
December 9, 2008 3:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lovely name for a cat.
December 9, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hi Buddha. A little odd for me, you understand, given that I was raised in a bi-religious house and Buddhism was one. Still, nice name. ;)
December 9, 2008 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
The name suits his demeanor perfectly :-)
My father taught theology and philosophy so I spent every day in a Comparative Religions class...
December 9, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Stash used to be a hunter too. I hated him hunting. So I started to put bells on his collar. Every time he'd catch something, I'd add one more bell on his collar. LOL. By the end of summer, his collar would be full of bells and he had develop the most stealthy gait. It was funny to watch. My friends thought I was into cat torture. ;)
Which it was....
He does not go out much any more. I'm afraid to let him out. Too old. He's doing fine though.
December 9, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
word on the street is that Rahm was the whistleblower!
December 9, 2008 2:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course, we no know that was the word out of the mouth of one reporter for a Chicago FOX affiliate, and his lips were moving.
So how is that the "street"?
December 9, 2008 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe he should have tried that before Fitz slammed the book down on him.
(PS: I really do hope Rahmbo had a part in the takedown, that would be awesome)
December 9, 2008 2:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Funny! Rumor is the hammer came down quickly after the Governor's office reached out to Rahm Emanuel and Rahm tipped off investigators.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/09/rahm-blago/
If true, epically stupid on the Governor's part. Rahm doesn't seem like the kind of guy you want to blackmail. Kind of brilliant on Obama's part adding him as Chief of Staff.
December 9, 2008 2:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
If it's true all I can say is Awesome. I already thought Emanuel was an impressive pick, this would be a great icing on the cake.
December 9, 2008 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would expect Rahm's response would have been: ,,!,, . Who knew he'd respond with 0~0 (insert Law & Order clank clank)?
December 9, 2008 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Huh. Just got the meaning of this: ,,!,,
That's very clever!
December 9, 2008 2:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
assuming rahm doesn't have any dirty laundry for rod to pee on.
December 9, 2008 2:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here is dailykos dairy with more reporting on Rahm.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/9/13126/0244/125/671113
December 9, 2008 2:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
If Rahm was the whistle-blower, I hope that RNC keeps blaring about Obama's involvement.
That crow they're going to have to eat should be nice and large.
December 9, 2008 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS...
December 9, 2008 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bat Guano...
December 9, 2008 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
{hmmmm.... i was sure this kinda news had to be bat guano for someone....}
December 9, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
You called?
December 9, 2008 4:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
EXCELLENT NEWS
December 9, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
!!! FOR...
(thank god I wasn't just going to be left hanging to blurt out the old gag once again.)
December 9, 2008 3:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
BLAGO!!!!!!!!
heh. ;)
I'd never let that tagline hang...
December 9, 2008 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Usually, one must go to Kentucky to find a gubenatorial corruption scandal with this much crudity and stupidity involved in it.
Although I do recall that the stuff that Ryan was convicted of doing was just as crude and just as stupid.
December 9, 2008 2:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's my take on it too. Blogo has been in the crosshairs for three years now. Anyone with any sense would be laying low. It's just breathtaking that he would be this brazen.
December 9, 2008 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm all for Fitz getting the Senate seat, in any way. Then stick him on the Ethics committee, and watch how many Senators start peeing in their pants because he's investigating them.
December 9, 2008 2:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ironically, of course, Fitz would make an excellent US Senator not least because he does not appear to particularly want it. Seriously, Pat Fitzgerald became such a hero to some of us after his exceptional work on the Scooter Libby trial that a lesser man might have been tempted to immediately parlay that into the traditional "Path to Power": Write book, go on CNN a lot, keep eye out for congressional seat/governorship/senate race, climb ladder. That he has stayed in the Prosecutors office and focussed on continuing to route out nasties of all parties...
Good, clean government. How refreshing. Yay Fitz!
December 10, 2008 4:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
LOL.
December 9, 2008 2:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
So, with all the briefings Obama's staff are getting, do you think they knew about this already?
December 9, 2008 2:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds like a fun day at TPM World Headquarters. :)
December 9, 2008 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the way out for Blago is to make the appointment who he is told to make in exchange for dropping all the charges in this COMPLAINT to prevent it from becoming an indictment.
Emil Jones is going to tell Blago who he has to appoint in order for his ass to wind up with only the charges he had prior to today.
December 9, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
If Blagojevich was a Japanese elected official he would do the honorable thing and jump out of a window.
December 9, 2008 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Blago should use his one phone call to contact Patrick Fitzgerald himself and inform Fitz that he's willing to offer him Obama's Senate seat in exchange for dropping the charges"
You guys were so close to the perfect "out". Substitute Bush for Fitz, and dropping the charges for a pardon, and you would have the perfect example of what is wrong with current politics.
December 10, 2008 2:10 AM | Reply | Permalink