Comments on: The Method to Blagojevich’s Sam Adam’s Madness

By: MartyDidier

MartyDidier — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:32:59 +0000

In my opinion Burris is a team member in the Political Mafia!

Marty Didier
Northbrook, IL

By: Palli

Palli — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:40:10 +0000

You are right in descriptions of all three- though my disgust for Cheney’s banal evil is a less scholarly word than sociopath and isn’t Bush one of the flunkies for Cheney.
OT But I got to say how alienating it feels to be able to see/feel these guys for what they are and watch so many others not recognize the obvious, or more likely, subjugate their authentic response out of some innate self-loathing. My skin cringes. It doesn’t take much experience to “read” them, so how do they get positions of power? Why do other polititians tolerate it in early careers? I know it is the eternal question but it needs to be understood in this age of media manipulation.
Fox brings on that woman to read body language…has she or anyone else on “real” TV ever called out Steven’s scurried rat walk, Cheney’s hate-filled sneer, or really heard McCain’s interminable “my friends” or even acknowledged Valerie Plames calm testimony without a single flirtacious flip of her hair? Carter stood a bit off from the presidential alumni line up the other day, notice and perfectly understandable to me! Once noticed has the meaning been validated so as to train viewers to trust their first impressions.

By: radiofreewill

radiofreewill — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:47:59 +0000

I read Cheney as a ‘high-functioning’ Sociopath – he can smother most challengers to his plans by masterfully using the bureaucracy – but, when he makes open displays of power, he’s decidedly clumsy, at best. He doesn’t think well on his feet, but he’ll mull over ‘getting’ someone obsessively in his free time.

Bush, otoh, is much closer to Blago, imvho – impulsive, raw, over-driven with bravado – but ‘knows’ how to work a crowd emotionally to obfuscate his actual intent.

At this point, at least, Bush appears to be ringed by much better flunkies than Blago – if Blago’s guys had the wink-and-nod down, they wouldn’t get caught on tape talking Pay-to-Play.

By: Adie

Adie — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:39:48 +0000

Is this the whistle-blower you’re referring to?

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/sto.....id=6594544

By: tanbark

tanbark — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:24:40 +0000

Good stuff, ‘Wheel. :o)

We could make a ‘toon strip out of it, with thought-balloons over Burris’s head, as the idea of his being in the U.S. Senate sinks in:

“Lessseee…just HOW fucking crooked will I look if do a sorta-kinda 180 on Blago’s fitness to do JUST this kind of thing, as he appoints ME to the Senate? I mean, i DID say that Madigan was right when she called for the state Supremes to dump him…and there is that little thingy of me saying that he was incapacitated. Some people might think that I was just one more political sleaze, whoring himself out, and I wouldn’t want that……………………………..would I?”

(Little-Red-Devil-with-pitchfork, sitting on Burris’s shoulder:

“To hell with that! We’re talking power! A fat salary! Prestige! (Okay; the last one, only with people from murky gene pools, and republicans who want to be able to point to you when Blago finally eats it, but it’ll be too late by then. Once you get in, no one will be able to come after you. All you’ll have to do is scream that they keep a tear-stained copy of “Gone With The Wind” under their beds, and a “Stars and Bars” flag in their closet, and they’ll go away.”

Burris: “You think?”

Little Devil” “i KNOW! After the past 8 years, what’s one more George-Bush-style ethical shitmire? Fer chrissakes, LIndsay Graham is bragging about about what a success Iraq is. You think they’ll worry about a 60 second porn-flick of you going soixante-neuf with a crooked governor? Just keep shreiking “rule of law!”…”rule of law!” and no one will be able to stop you.

Burris…beaming:

“Okay! I’ll take it! Gimme that cell phone…”

Little Devil, with open-handed slap on Burris’s head:

“NO! You dumbshit peckerhead! NOT with the phone. Meet someone at a bus-stop under the loop El…as the train goes by, in case he’s wearing a wire.”

Burris, reaching for overcoat: “Oh. Yeah….”

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:21:42 +0000

Aw shucks!
239 hrs & 39 min

By: Adie

Adie — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:19:06 +0000

Have I told you yet today? I LOVE you for that countdown. Thanks much.

By: Adie

Adie — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:13:41 +0000

Hi Gang. Hey, when does Perry Mason show up?

And is that pic perfect for the occasion or what?! Blotto looks terrified that Burris will mess up his script. hm-m-m.

Fine series of intriguing twists & turns, EW. You ought to string these together, fudge a few details, and make write a novel. It writes itself. Oye.

I especially like previous scenes wherein current state lege members virtually beg the country to forgive their mess of a government. T’is indeed.

Remember the M.A.S.H. episode when the bored medicos split up and shared a pot-boiler of a novel, and then someone lost the last chapter and all heQQ broke loose? Don’t you do that to us EW. We’re hanging on every word. Will it come out as “pay per view?” as it were?

By: bgrothus

bgrothus — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:00:41 +0000

I see grandma with wire is ancient WaPo history. Sorry for OT.

By: tanbark

tanbark — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:55:06 +0000

This is why Driftglass is one of the best :

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/

:o)