Chicago Sun Times:

“The harm here is not measured in the value of money and property,” Judge Zagel tells Blagojevich.

“The harm is the erosion of the public trust in government; [people's] confidence in and trust in government,” Zagel said.

The judge is right. Blagojevich is the living embodiment of the corruption in politics that regular people fear. The very worst kind. His so-called “public service” was nothing more than a vehicle for his personal enrichment. He didn’t give a damn what happened to the people of Illinois, he was only interested in what he could trade for money. The way he brazenly spoke about enriching himself on those FBI tapes is horrifying. It is people like Blago who make the American people so cynical about politics.

Another person who should be sitting in a prison cell is Jesse Jackson Jr. He was more than happy to purchase Obama’s Senate seat from Blago. Were it not for the FBI stepping in he likely would have.

Here’s Bob’s take on Rod Blagojevich’s failure to testify in his own corruption trial:

I completely agree.

The following audio perfectly illustrates why the majority of the public loathe politicians. Rod Blagojevich is the poster boy for a crooked two-faced scumbag politician.

(hat tip Michelle via Conurls)

Take a look at this video of disgraced former Governor Rod Blagojevich flaring up on the steps of his Attorney’s office. He calls out US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and the entire government for lying and conspiring against him. He calls Fitzgerald a coward hopes he’s “man enough” to appear in court tomorrow.

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Blago is truly a national disgrace. He’s a slick talking crook who belongs in prison. You can take one look at him and see he’s a lying scumbag. It blows me away that he was ever elected to anything.

This guy truly has no shame…

Corrupt gov. Rod “The Hair” Blagojevich shrewdly played Harry Reid and the democrats like a fiddle. He correctly surmised that in the politically correct atmosphere we all currently reside in, the race card could successfully be played against the liberal democrats in the senate.

He noticed that without Barack, the senate had no black people in it. Since the race card is the favorite card in Chicago he pulled it out and named Roland Burris to the U.S. senate. Then sat back and dared Harry Reid not to seat him.

Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush (and former black panther) compared the reluctance of the senate to seat Burris a form of “lynching” and “hanging.” A day or so later Rush compared the white senators holding up Burris’s senate seat to “George Wallace” and “Bull Connor.”

Once those words were uttered it was no longer a matter of if Burris would be seated but when. That kind of divisive race-baiting is like a dog whistle to a liberal democrat.

Predictably, Harry Reid folded like a cheap suit and Burris will now get to be a U.S. senator.

For the record, I don’t dispute Burris’s qualifications to be a senator, I just hate it when people so blatantly use the race card to get ahead.

Corrupt Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected to defy pretty much the entire political establishment and make an appointment to Barack Obama’s senate seat. His choice according to the the Chicago Sun-Times is former Attorney General Roland Burris.

Former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, 71, had lobbied the governor for the position in recent weeks.

Burris made a previous attempt at the Senate seat in the past — unsuccessfully. In 1984, he was beat out for the Democratic nomination by Paul Simon.

Illinois Sec. of State Jesse White says he will block Burris’s appointment. White must certify any appointment made by Blago and has indicted he will not sign-off on any appointment made by the governor no matter who it is.

Incidentally, senate majority leader Harry Reid has already said he would refuse to seat anyone Blago appointed if it were to get that far. Reid has final say over who is seated in the United States Senate.

Blago’s lawyers say they knew nothing about a senate appointment and were never consulted on the matter.

Rod "The Hair" Blagojevich and Roland Burris

Jonah Goldberg has another great column today, this one about disgraced governor Rod Blagojevich.

Here’s a little taste:

...There’s the enormous I-should-have-had-a-V8! moment as the mainstream press collectively thwacks itself in the forehead, realizing it blew it again. The New York Times — which, according to Wall Street analysts, is weeks from holding editorial-board meetings in a refrigerator box — created the journalistic equivalent of CSI-Wasilla to study every follicle and fiber in Sarah Palin’s background, all the while treating Obama’s Chicago like one of those fairy-tale lands depicted in posters that adorn little girls’ bedroom walls. See there, Suzie? That’s a Pegasus. That’s a pink unicorn. And that’s a beautiful sunflower giving birth to a fully grown Barack Obama, the greatest president ever and the only man in history to be able to pick up manure from the clean end.

If that’s not good then I don’t know what is.