(Picture Courtesy of the New York Times)
“The Illinois House voted overwhelmingly Friday to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, an unprecedented action that sets up a state Senate trial on whether he should be thrown out for allegedly trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat and other charges,” according to the Sacramento Bee.
Blogejevich’ attempt to sell President Elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat was just the tip of the iceberg. Other charges included the fact “that Blagojevich expanded a health care program without proper authority, that he circumvented hiring laws to give jobs to political allies, that he spent millions of dollars on foreign flu vaccine that he knew was not needed and could not be brought into the country.”
To what extent will Blagojevich’ impeachment continue to haunt his appointment of Roland Burris to replace Obama in the U.S. Senate? And will this mess continue to trip up the Obama administration and the ability of Senate Leader Harry Reid to do his job?
I think that the parallels between Blago and a misbehaving/disruptive student are incredibly similar. Both take forever to get rid of, no matter how flagrant the violations are, and both are incredibly disruptive to people who have little time to waste on their BS when there is so much important work to do and so little time to do it in.
Will it trip up the Obama Administration? No, but its the sort of thing that the media loves when they should be focusing on who’s helping solve the economic problems and who is part of the economic problems. Several members of congress have always been part of the problem and getting them to understand the problem and its solution is like teaching a pig to sing: it’s a waste of time and it annoys the pig.
Look at how effective these boobs have been on addressing global warming, illegal immigration, out of control banks and the exporting of American jobs to third world countries. Do we really think the Dana Warbacher’s of Washington D.C. will suddenly become lawmakers and give up their obstructionist ways?
Reminds me of a Christmas Carol I heard this year:
Dana Rohrbacher’s Favorite Things! (by Sharon Tipton)
KIDNAP DISSENTERS TO WHISK OFF TO PRISON
DISSING OUR FOUNDERS AND COMMITTING TREASON,
KILLING DEMOCRACY, ENDORSING KINGS,
THESE ARE OLD WARBACKERS FAVORITE THINGS!
BAIL OUT JACK ABRAMHOFF, FORGET THE WORKERS
GETTING A TAN HANGING OUT WITH THE SURFERS
CONTRACTOR INVOICES GET WIFE THE BLING
THESE ARE OLD WARBACKERS FAVORITE THINGS!
WHEN THE PRESS BITES!
WHEN CODE PINK SINGS!
WHEN I’M FEELING SAD,
I SIMPLY REMEMBER THE MONEY I’VE MADE
AND THEN I DON’T FEEEEEEEEL SOOO BAD!!!!