“Staggering,” said Fed prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, of “the breadth of corruption” laid out in yesterday’s complaint vs. Gov. Blagojevich, including this extremely disturbing item:
In other conversations, FBI agents say the governor, his aide and others tried to use the governor’s position to withhold state assistance to the Tribune Co. to induce the firing of a Chicago Tribune editorial board member critical of the governor. [Italics added]
He apparently has no shame.
Blithe Spirit 
Blogo had “a dime dropped on him” to protect the Democrats and Obama — he was expendable because he is so stupid, blatant, and generally despised.
Obama is lying about not discussing his successor with the governor because there were newspaper and TV accounts of their meeting shortly after the election for this purpose. There is nothing scandalous in their discussion because as head of the party, Obama would definitely want to be happy with whomever was chosen. It’s only if there were a quid pro quo that it would be a problem, so why lie about it?
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