Comments on: Blago’s Dog and Pony Presser

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:42:27 +0000

48 Lab Dancer “There’s a certain meth in this madness”
Maybe that explains things…Blago is on meth

Yeah, I’m no clinician (thank God).
It’s possible his thought process is this unstable, but I’m really with Josh Marshall on that whole, “What is this guy on?” question. Last week at one point, I wondered whether (like GWBush) he’s alcoholic. Or whether substances are involved, even legal meds that he’s not taking on a predictable basis.

Something’s awry.
But as FormerFed pointed out last week, there are much larger issues..

Problem is, if the people making decisions have zero credibility, then things fall apart.
As we’ve seen.

By: Leen

Leen — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:47:42 +0000

One can only imagine where those Blago/Rahm/others conference call tapes would end up in the data mining world. What key words would have started to alarm the system “fuck this and fuck them”. aye yi yi.

48 Lab Dancer “There’s a certain meth in this madness”

Maybe that explains things…Blago is on meth

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:45:56 +0000

FWIW, he may be ‘crazy like a fox,’ but the whole thing strikes me as ultimately tragic.
However, it is also interesting to me that Blago is kind of resonant of GWBush; that’s part of what keeps this item on my radar. Egotistical, envious, and not in Obama’s league, and he’ll never, ever forgive them for being smarter and more adept.
Scary stuff.

By: randiego

randiego — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:37:47 +0000

Just saw the tape on Keith. Plenty of gall… what on earth does he think is the endgame here?

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:13:42 +0000

Maybe. All that glitters is not gold.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:59:09 +0000

“If you lined up 1,000 people and said pick the one that might do this to themselves, he would be the last person I would choose,” said Wayne Caplan, who worked at Sheldon Good for six years and knew Steven Good personally. “He had a zest for life. He has a wife and kids and he had so much in his life.”

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:57:46 +0000

His wife created a wildly lucrative real estate career out of thin air by selling properties to and for state vendors who knew their contracts depended on going through her. You can only look at her client list in awe and wonder.

Huh. Now here’s a coincidence: (Chicago) Real estate power broker dead of apparent suicide

By: R.H. Green

R.H. Green — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:49:21 +0000

Adding in the point that Stout donated the money for both Dem candidates, and you begin to see an elction strategy that worked.

By: LabDancer

LabDancer — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:24:40 +0000

Which makes MacBlago not which: a cartoon, or a villain?

Have to say: BOTH of ‘em come across pretty darned cartoonish - & if you’re saying MacBlago’s not a villain, then you’re not only going to have convince the me, and at least 114 Illinois state house members, and some percent up to 92 of the poll-able residents of Illinois, but also the US attorney for the SD of Illinois, one P. Fitzgerald.

Good luck.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:11:18 +0000

He beat him in part by keeping Burris in the race to siphon off a sufficient number of votes from blacks who otherwise tended to support the CPS chief.

Wow, is that interesting.

I’d encourage you to put the info in your comment into an Oxdown Diary.