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| The New Blago-Sphere |
| 2008-12-26 |
| "Dr. K." @ "My Corner of Main Street" There is a new Blago Sphere, at least in the short term. This scandal is so rich, not only in vocabulary, but in the ever widening ripples as each day passes. Initially, I thought he was a Republican. No! NO! NO! He's a Democrat. Maybe Obama is the rose that rose from the dung heap of Chicago politics, maybe. But if you are surrounded by manure how do you walk through the stockyards without getting any on your loafers? Gov. Blagojovich sounds like Jerry Lundergard from Fargo. "A finder's fee won't do it for me, Wade. No, no, I, I need, I need the prinicipal." In the middle of our financial crisis (real or manufactured) a public servant can only think of himself and his wife. In a recessional market Gov. Blagojovich is, apparently, selling a senate seat. Ah, the industry of ink, or rather key strokes and blogs and articles and pundit punditry grind out the meat of, or more correctly, the sausage of political scandal. But we really want to see how it is made. Come on, let's go see what they put in the sausage and where did they get all of the stuff: meat, fat, spices, left overs, bits of bone, anything left over from the slaughter house floor. City of big muscles, er, make that muscle. Lean on folks to get what you want from them. Get what you can for your public service and put it on Ebay, finally. But in this age of key strokes, where did the email trail go along with the phone taps? Who said what and when? Who wrote what and when? Delete. Delete! DELETE! Meanwhile, key strokes multiply as the story grows fatter than a sow on an Illinois farm. And the Blago sphere is a bubble growing like a tick filling with blood. And like Jerry Lundergard Blogojovich is probably having his fits of foul vocabulary at home because his plan has been undone and is now exposed to the acute slant of winter light. |
| Posted by:Mike |