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How Deep Is This Muck?
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Posted by Glenmore 2008-12-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1  How Deep Is This Muck?

Damn wish it was up to BHObama's big ears.
Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-12-10 01:20||   2008-12-10 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 NostraRicky predicts this story's going to get spiked over the weekend news cycle. Jake Tapper at ABC is all over this story for now, but as a commenter in one of the Blago-gate threads there said, he's an MSM figleaf, there to make it look like they're doing their jobs. This story's going to get squashed most ricky-tick...the MSM has waaaay too much invested in making the Obamessiah look like he's really capable of bringing peace, healing the economy, calming the seas and curing the heartbreak of psoriasis.
Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2008-12-10 01:31||   2008-12-10 01:31|| Front Page Top

#3 For now, this kind of things will slip on his armor. But wait a few months when paradise on earth fails to materialize and pople realize that Obama or not Obama they have to pay for rent and gas. Then it will stick and it will be time to Watergate him.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2008-12-10 02:11||   2008-12-10 02:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Wtaergate him not only for tghis but for his status (native born or not?) and the shady things in his campaign financing. But now it is too soon.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2008-12-10 02:37||   2008-12-10 02:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Glenmore: {Could not resist posting this in honor of our own Muck - where has he gone?}

Glenmore, At least Two active Rantburgers should know....

1) Deacon Blues
2) Shipman

:)
Posted by RD">RD  2008-12-10 03:07||   2008-12-10 03:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Blagojevich really steps in it.


Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-10 04:12||   2008-12-10 04:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't be so sure. Libs have been known to eat their own. Just gotta get a look at the phone records.
Posted by Hellfish 2008-12-10 08:29||   2008-12-10 08:29|| Front Page Top

#8 I believe the University of Chicago Hospital VP position may soon get some air time as well.

One must wonder.... if Axelrod, Rham and all of Obama's NYC donk Amish Goldman-Sachs handlers knew the Feds were going to lower the boom on Blago and that Obama might very well go down as well. With bets down and insurance, Joe Biden then quietly takes a 'stage left' and the Hilderbeast and Slick with their 18 million step in with.... staff already in place. And there you have it, a Clintonian redux.
Posted by Besoeker 2008-12-10 09:09||   2008-12-10 09:09|| Front Page Top

#9 “Sure, the majority of the media is going to give this a pass.”

Funny, even though the Governor has been under investigation for years I don’t remember the MSM ever digging too much on the Obama/Blagojevich association. Yet there is something very satisfying about watching the usual talking heads squirm. Even Obama’s “journalistic” cheerleaders are entertainingly uncomfortable with the Blago revelation. Instantly when the screen shows a picture of Obama and Emanuel standing behind the Gov. the apologetic stammers begin. The reason the media has initially given Obama a pass is not simply because of their reluctance to throw him under bus. It’s because it will expose their glaring bias by their complete refusal to probe his Chicago roots during his “Historic Journey”.
Posted by DepotGuy 2008-12-10 09:18||   2008-12-10 09:18|| Front Page Top

#10 U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, please keep your S&W close at hand and your security detail on their toes.
Posted by Besoeker 2008-12-10 09:31||   2008-12-10 09:31|| Front Page Top

#11 The whitewash has already begun. The press spent last night ginning up stories about how Obama was never that close to Blago, and touting the "ethics" bill Obama was pushing in Illinois.

Weird, though, how long it took to correct the statement about O! and Blago working together on the Senate seat.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2008-12-10 09:33||   2008-12-10 09:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Obama's links will be whitewashed and swept under the rug by all the politicos and talking heads.

I am just curious when the promised land fails to materialize and buyers remorse sets in if all that dirt will stay hidden.
Posted by DarthVader 2008-12-10 10:58||   2008-12-10 10:58|| Front Page Top

#13 Axelrod this evening issued a statement saying. "I was mistaken when I told an interviewer last month that the President-elect has spoken directly to Governor Blagojevich about the Senate vacancy. They did not then or at any time discuss the subject.")
Bullsh*t. This is what we in the South call Crawfishin".
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2008-12-10 11:57||   2008-12-10 11:57|| Front Page Top

#14 PS, I think Muck4Doo is somewhere between Jupiter and Mars trying to find the way home.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2008-12-10 11:58||   2008-12-10 11:58|| Front Page Top

#15 Well, if Billary starts seeing blood in the water, I would take odds on the recurrence of Slow Joe's anuerysm ailments.
Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-12-10 12:09||   2008-12-10 12:09|| Front Page Top

#16 It's odd to think that he might be picking Administration positions based on how much the vacant Senate seats might pull in.

If ever there was a time for a reform movement to clean Washington this is it. To bad third parties tend to be run by cranks for cranks.
Posted by rjschwarz 2008-12-10 12:13||   2008-12-10 12:13|| Front Page Top

#17 Bullsh*t. This is what we in the South call Crawfishin".

Exactly Deacon.

Nov. 5th

CHICAGO, ILL. -- Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.

That's one of Obama's first priorities today.

He's meeting with Governor Rod Blagojevich this afternoon in Chicago to discuss it.
Posted by beavis 2008-12-10 12:33||   2008-12-10 12:33|| Front Page Top

#18 #15 Well, if Billary starts seeing blood in the water, I would take odds on the recurrence of Slow Joe's anuerysm ailments.
Posted by Woozle Elmeter

Ditto Wooozie. Joe Biden = dead man walking
Posted by Besoeker 2008-12-10 13:14||   2008-12-10 13:14|| Front Page Top

#19 If Hillary is Sec State, she would be 4th in line to the Presidency. Nancy Pelosi & Sen. Byrd better watch out also.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-12-10 13:23||   2008-12-10 13:23|| Front Page Top

#20 If he were a Repub, we would have heard about this October 31st.
Posted by Varmint Craising2396 2008-12-10 13:25||   2008-12-10 13:25|| Front Page Top

#21 I suspect the Hildebeast jumps to lst in the Donk VP line if Joe resigns due to health, common sense, etc.
Posted by Besoeker 2008-12-10 13:26||   2008-12-10 13:26|| Front Page Top

#22 I guess (after the fact), Enlightened One is NEVER close to anyone.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839  2008-12-10 14:16||   2008-12-10 14:16|| Front Page Top

#23 He hasn't liked that wife of his since the beginning. And those kids, with their shifty eyes, he's always kept his distance from them.
Posted by Fred 2008-12-10 14:41||   2008-12-10 14:41|| Front Page Top

#24 YJCMTSU

Chicago to host 30th Annual Governmental Ethics Conference
The City of Chicago and its Chicago Board of Ethics, and the Cook County Board of Ethics, the Illinois State Board of Elections and the Illinois Executive Ethics Commission are proud to host the 30th Annual COGEL (Council on Governmental Ethics Laws) Conference, to be held at the Westin River North Hotel from December 7- 10, 2008.
Posted by Beavis 2008-12-10 16:24||   2008-12-10 16:24|| Front Page Top

#25 I got my ticket!
Posted by Blago (illeagle) 2008-12-10 17:11||   2008-12-10 17:11|| Front Page Top

#26 If you hurry, looks you got a chance to catch the last night, Blago.
Posted by tu3031 2008-12-10 17:24||   2008-12-10 17:24|| Front Page Top

#27 Was the Governor a keynote speaker at that Ethics event?
Posted by CrazyFool 2008-12-10 18:09||   2008-12-10 18:09|| Front Page Top

#28 Jeebus! Beavis' link (#17) has been removed from the news site (I had bookmarked it earlier). This is the website for the CBS affiliate KHQA. Fuckers have already begun the historical white out. Scary. 1984 scary. Dan Rather scary.

Luckily, the article is preserved at Free Republic: Ill. governor meeting with Obama today [Obama had Nov 5 meeting with Blago]
Posted by ed 2008-12-10 19:44||   2008-12-10 19:44|| Front Page Top

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