Tuesday, December 09, 2008
IDIOT
This guy Rod Blagojevich, the Illinois Governor (who had a very low approval rating before this) has been on the wire for months.
Now he got nabbed with an audacious attempt to extort money for Obama's senatorial replacement.
Here is Kevin Drum's great summary:
The former Illinois guv, a Republican, is currently in stir for the same kind of thing.
What is the deal here?
I don't know if Obama gets tainted or not. We will see. Rod was heard saying that Obama's preference wouldn't work because all they would give him was their appreciation.
Still. Good it didn't happen before the election. I will have to score a couple points for the prosecutor for political sensitivity.
It is the suave Patrick Fitzgerald, incidentally. I wouldn't want him on my ass.
Blagohevich even looks like a moroon. And the rug!!
Look at this presser from yesterday before the indictments were handed down.
Labels: corruption, politics
Thursday, May 24, 2007
POGUE-OH!
I like David Pogue a lot.
He has a weekly newsletter which covers so many areas.
The new camera I bought is his recommendation.
He was right on about it.
Today, he has a discouraging discovery. The spoils system in the electronic age.
He has found a new web site that tracks the connection between campaign donations and voting record for politicians all over.
It aspires to be a state by state record but so far only California is completely set up.
And boy is that discouraging.
Party means nothing.
They are all on the tit.
Following the Money Trail Online
I tried it out and it is even more discouraging than Pogue lets on.
You may want to wait a couple of days.
Like a lot of these things, the site has apparently gone viral and is overloaded.
All it takes is one article by a Pogue and you get all your servers blown.
Labels: corruption, politics
