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Burris Denied!

House votes 114-1 in favor of impeachment.

There always has to be one.

This doesn't necessarily affect Burris, since he was appointed prior to the impeachment. It would be up to the state to certify him, which is still pending.

I will make it legal - Senator Palpatine

NPR is reporting that Reid and Durbin have met with Burris, and he's in.

The farce reaches new, albeit modern levels. RB is boycotting his own impeachment and going on TV instead.

(One local radio station has reportedly offered him his own talk show).

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - If there's such a thing as a "normal" impeachment trial, the one that starts Monday in Illinois doesn't qualify.

The defendant, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, won't participate. He'll be talking to Whoopi Goldberg and Larry King instead of facing the state Senate. And while the Democrat acknowledges his conviction is certain, he refuses to resign.

Blagojevich (pronounced blah-GOY'-uh-vich) complains that the trial rules are unfair, but he and his lawyers didn't try to influence the rules as they were written or afterward.

After weeks of near-silence, Blagojevich has begun an energetic public relations campaign, comparing himself to the hero of a Frank Capra movie and a cowboy being lynched for a crime he didn't commit. He said that when he was arrested on federal corruption charges, he took solace from other leaders who have been jailed.

"I thought about Mandela, Dr. King, Gandhi" and that helped him gain perspective, he said in an interview that aired Sunday on "Today."
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"This man mystifies me," said Ann Lousin, a professor at Chicago's John Marshall Law School.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28843378

What kind of smurfing sociopath is this guy?

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

dv wrote:

What kind of smurfing sociopath is this guy?

Enough that his own lawyer quit.

Other news: IL 1st lady has been fired from her job.

Fired? Epic lulz.

Link, in case anbody's interested.

dv wrote:

LLEVIATHANN wrote:

dv wrote:

What kind of smurfing sociopath is this guy?

Enough that his own lawyer quit.

Other news: IL 1st lady has been fired from her job.

Fired? Epic lulz.

Link, in case anbody's interested.

I guess his clout ain't what it used to be.

Ya know he's gonna get smeared so bad he'll have to move in next to Jimmy Baker and Michael Jackson.

Congratulations to the residents of Illinois.   I'm sure its a relief.

heh...the exteme right gave it to him.

wiki:

Illinois Republican Party

The year 2002 proved to be one of the most damaging years for the Illinois Republican Party. It suffered immense losses statewide as allegations of corruption emanating from the office of Governor George H. Ryan culminated in federal criminal indictments. The party lost its stronghold over its historical base, the Chicago suburbs. The party lost the governorship to the Democratic Party of Illinois, under Governor Rod Blagojevich, a former member of Congress, from Chicago. To make matters worse, donors withheld funds from the Republican organization and the party was driven into near bankruptcy.
In order to save the state party, Topinka, the only statewide Republican officeholder, was appointed chair that year. Upon assuming the role, Topinka quickly drafted a reorganization plan hoping to fill Republican coffers once again as well as rebuild the party's public image. Topinka's tenure as the head of the Illinois GOP expired in January 2005; her replacement was Andrew McKenna.
[edit]Illinois gubernatorial campaign

On November 7, 2005, Topinka announced that she would not seek re-election as state treasurer — instead, she entered the gubernatorial primary, hoping to challenge Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich. The Republican primary was deeply divisive; her tenure as Party Chairman destroyed her support from the conservative wing of her party, and it was feared that her pro-choice and positive gay rights positions would be detrimental to her standing with the same conservatives. In December she announced that she would join forces with DuPage County State's Attorney Joe Birkett as a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois.
In February 2006, the candidates for the Republican nomination for Illinois Governor began running their first TV ads for the March statewide primary election. Rival candidate Ron Gidwitz's advertisements, attacking Topinka, were rebuked in the same week by the Illinois Republican Party: "In an unprecedented action, the Illinois Republican Party has officially rebuked the Gidwitz campaign for this ad because the Party found that the ad violates the Party's "Code of Conduct," which was enacted to police proper conduct among Republican candidates."
Later in February, candidate Jim Oberweis, another rival for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, started a series of attack ads for television markets, against Topinka, that were even more widely criticized, mostly for using "fake" headlines on the images of actual Illinois newspapers.[2][3] These ads, like Gidwitz's ads, also came under review by the Illinois Republican Party.[4] Because of the controversy generated, several television stations withdrew Oberweis's ads.[5]
On March 21, 2006, Topinka won the Republican nomination with 37 percent of the vote.
On November 7, 2006, she lost the race to Blagojevich, giving an upbeat, humorous speech after his acceptance speech. In it she thanked many, hoped that more young people would be interested in public service, and wished all well.[citation needed]
After her 2006 defeat in the polls, she auctioned off much of her political memorabilia from her campaign office in January 2007.[citation needed]

In Like Quinn!

One head of the Hydra cut off.

And he was. A wealth(?) of material on YouTube... http://www.youtube.com/results?search_t … lagojevich

Blago has been officially indicted... 'Bout time.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blag … 09.article