***The SJR gets it right this morning - the Impeachment has nothing to do with criminal action or civil action or Constitutional due process.  Impeachment is an employment action similar to a union employee getting fired.  There has to be an investigation and a hearing and an appeals process before remediation OR termination.  Crazy Rod is getting the same thing a union state employee would, in essence, get.  He doesn't deserve this process.  He deserves to be let go effective immediately.

***This is how Steinberg put it over the weekend:  "Afford me the same rights that you ... have," Blagojevich said Friday afternoon, announcing his intention to fight, fight, fight to keep his job in the face of corruption charges.

OK, let's do that, but don't confuse legal rights with work rights. I don't have a right to be an utter incompetent and bring down international ridicule upon my workplace and still keep my job. I bet you don't have that right, either. That the governor thinks he does is a sign of just how divorced from reality he has become.

***The Sun-Times says it is time to go:    At his news conference, Blagojevich quoted the opening lines from the poem "If," by Rudyard Kipling, in which a father instructs a son in the qualities it takes to be a man.  It's a shame that Blagojevich stopped quoting the poem when he did because other stanzas speak to his predicament. Perhaps most poignantly, Kipling warns, do not make your dreams "your master."  "If" celebrates the virtue of perseverance in the face of the vagaries of fate -- and we're all for that.  But there is a time to fight -- and there is a time to call it quits.

***Everyone around Crazy Rod is willing to speak w/the Feds:  A key figure in Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged scheme to sell a U.S. Senate seat has sought immunity from federal authorities in return for his cooperation in their ongoing probe, the Tribune has learned.

Raghuveer P. Nayak, an Oak Brook businessman and political fundraiser, is the unnamed "Individual D" who prosecutors say was being squeezed by the governor for campaign cash in return for appointing U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to the Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama, sources said.

***Is there ANYONE who didn't see this coming:  Rahm Emanuel was cleared by an investigation by Greg Craig, the former Clinton White House lawyer, into contacts the Obama transition team had with Gov. Rod Blagojevich's office

So, when you run your own investigation into your choice for COS and the investigation is run by a buddy of your incoming COS, thank goodness you incoming COS will be found to not have had much, if any, contact with Crazy Rod.  Phew.  What a relief...

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