President barack Obama and his White House have interjected themselves into the state and local ballot litigation in an attempt to influence the pending determination by the Illinois Supreme Court, and have coordinated and conspired with Rahm Emanuel to do so.

I forgot to mention this yesterday. But I’m going fishing this weekend, and you’re going to be blessed with the fine hospitality of bmaz and the likker cabinet until sometime Monday. But while I’m sneaking my last Toobz fix in before Mr. EW wakes up and makes me put away the computer for the weekend, [...]

One of the most telling anecdotes in this must-read Edward Luce skewer of the way a small circle of Obama advisors (Rahm, David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Robert Gibbs) dominates his Administration is this story about his trip to China. On Mr Obama’s November trip to China, members of the cabinet such as the Nobel [...]

I’m going to start a running tally of the ways that Obama’s stupid treatment of his report on contacts with Blago will backfire. Consider this count number one.

The dates reported in the Blagojevich report, along with dates from the complaint.

The WSJ notices something I pointed out Tuesday. There was a two-hour meeting on November 10 at which Blago’s team tried to concoct a way to get Obama’s team to give something of value in exchange for Valerie Jarrett’s appointment to replace Obama as Senator, closely followed by Jarrett’s withdrawal from consideration. What the WSJ misses, though, is that there’s pretty clear evidence that Obama refused to deal with Blago.