Any last words, Mr. Blagojevich?

“I’m here to appeal to you, to your sense of fairness, your sense of responsibility and to the truth,” he said in a closing address that lasted less than an hour. It was the first time he had appeared at the impeachment trial, which began Monday.

“I’m asking you to acquit me and give me a chance to show my innocence,” he said. “And if you’re not comfortable with an acquittal, then extend this process and get more evidence, if you can get it, to show that I did something wrong or give me a chance to bring my evidence in.”

Dilusional to the very end but at least officially out of office. Have they started to tear his name off the Illinois iPass highway signs yet?

The Illinois Sentate voted 114-1 today to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  It was expected.  Not much of a story here… except….  who the hell voted NO??

The lone “No” in the 114-1-1 vote on the impeachment of Gov. Rod Blagojevich was Rep. Milton Patterson, a Chicago Democrat from the Southwest Side whose office is on West 63rd Street.

After the vote, he said he didn’t feel it was his job to vote to impeach the governor. Asked whether he thought Blagojevich has been a good governor, he said, “I have no comment on that.” Asked his vote should be taken as a defense of the governor, he said, “I’m not defending anybody.” 

If it isn’t an elected State Representative’s job to vote on a democratic process, then who’s job is it?

I’m not quite sure why the picture of Gov. Rod “Crooked-is-as-crooked-does” Blagojevich sits under an article on the ‘morning-after’ pill.  Coincidence?  I think not:

Just as I predicted, the GOP has its laser beam of blind rage pointed directly at Obama… for the dirty deeds of the Illinois governor?

Shortly after the news broke that Blagojevich was arrested for, among other things, seeking to profit for filling the Senate seat vacated by Obama, the RNC fired off an e-mail to reporters that included laudatory remarks the president-elect has made about the troubled governor in the past.

Included in the RNC e-mail was an Obama quote: “If the governor asks me to work on his behalf, I’ll be happy to do it.”

The e-mail also noted that when Obama endorsed Blagojevich for a second term, The Associated Press reported the president-elect said: “We’ve got a governor in Rod Blagojevich who has delivered consistently on behalf of the people of Illinois.”

The GOP’s not bitter.  Nah.

Never mind actually focusing on the issue at hand which is of an idiotic governor who wasn’t even TRYING to hide his corruption.   Is the GOP blatantly trying to miss the point?  Is this a Jedi mind trick?

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (pronounced blah-goy-ah-vich) has been arrested on Federal corruption charges.    He “allegedly conspired to sell U.S. Senate appointments, engaged in ‘pay-to-play’ schemes and threatened to withhold state assistance to Tribune Company for Wrigley Field to induce purge of newspaper editorial writers” [pdf]

I’m predicting that the big question rolling around the minds of wingbat conservatives is “How can we connect this to President elect (ex-Illinois Congressman) Barack Obama?”

More to surely follow.