Comments on: FDL Blagojevich Coverage Recap: Blago Birthday Edition

By: posaune

posaune — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:33:04 +0000

Hey, at least we aren’t faced with corruption withdrawal!

Call this the Corruption Transition Team, no?

By: bigbrother

bigbrother — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:35:39 +0000

Fritz and other ethical prosecuters should be tasked with a “purge” of the corruption in government. Sadly Blagojevich is an example of business as usual where insider elite make the decisions for “We the People”.
Power corrupts and without oversight it grows. Trading favors is really the rule in politics. Example the letter Leahy wrote to Specter asking for consideration for the support he had given for a entourage trip abroad.
It crosses party line.
Progressive side of the Dem party have not been infected with politics as usual. Whether political brand the rule of law and ethical standards should apply. Far as I am concerned Blagojevich is guilty at least of being less sophisticated in deception techniques.

By: valletta

valletta — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:29:21 +0000

yup yup!
thank g*d for peeps like leahy, feingold, sanders, etc.

and now, another hearing with arlen “silver bullet” specter….gahd, am i up for that?!
oh, yeah, this time we’re the majority

i like leahy’s below-the-surface bubbling sense of justice….a little anger with a smile on his face, much like Fitz

By: bigbrother

bigbrother — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:25:38 +0000

Dire Forecast for Global Economy and Trade
NYT

By: neurophius

neurophius — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:17:44 +0000

hey, nahant. thanks!

By: neurophius

neurophius — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:17:26 +0000

isn’t the U.S. Senate a wonderful place?

By: nahant

nahant — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:09:03 +0000

Dugg IT Neuro!

By: bigbrother

bigbrother — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:07:44 +0000

OT;
8 really, really scary predictions
Dow 4,000. Food shortages. A bubble in Treasury notes. Fortune spoke to eight of the market’s sharpest thinkers and what they had to say about the future is frightening.1 of 8 Nouriel Roubini

This an interesting 8 part story, where we are for how long and where we are going economically.

By: tw3k

tw3k — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:06:12 +0000

A Holder fan?

By: nahant

nahant — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:03:28 +0000

DAM Blago BLOGO!