Besides being the most corrupt state in America, Illinois also knows how to play the race card better than anyone. Corrupt Gov. Blago appoints Roland Burris who gave a ton of money to his campaign in the past, but since he’s black he should get to keep the appointment? Racist black leaders in Chicago have been grumbling for weeks about how Obama’s senate seat is “black” and it must remain “black” because somehow that is what is best for the country. As I said last week, I didn’t know Barack Obama’s senate seat was black. In fact, I’m quite sure it’s exactly the same color as every other seat in the senate.

Seeing as how Obama supposedly transcends race, I find it interesting that Congressman Bobby Rush decided to get up during Blago’s press conference and say this:

He urged people “not to hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer” and, after saying repeatedly that Burris would be the only African-American in the Senate, said that he believed no senator would want “to go on record to deny one African-American from being seated in the US Senate”.

Wow, talk about taking two steps forward and one step back. What difference does it make if he’s the only black member of the senate? The senate has to have a black person in it? Does it also have to have a Hispanic, an Asian, and an Arab as well? Also, what’s with all the talk about lynching? Sounds like he’s been hanging out with Rev. Wright too much.

How about electing someone based on the content of their character and their record of achievement instead of the color of their skin.

-Chris Jones

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.

What does it say about Blago, that his mother explicitly asked him to promise not to take bribes?

The FBI arrested the Gov. of Illinois this morning at his home for allegedly trying to sell Barack Obama’s recently vacated senate seat. That sounds like quite an accusation, but the FBI has wiretaps that prove their case beyond a shadow of a doubt.

The Smoking Gun has partial transcripts of many of the taped conversations recorded by the FBI and it’s honestly stunning. When you read the transcripts it will truly make you hate politicians in general. Blagojevich reveals himself to be corrupt down to his bones with the sole agenda of furthering his own career both politically and financially.

In the days leading up to the presidential election as it began to look more and more like Obama would win — Blagojevich began scheming.

The FBI has the governor on tape time after time speculating on all the things he could trade Obama’s senate seat for. He tells his aides that he’s not about to let that seat go for nothing. He speculates on all the potential goodies he could get from the president-elect in return for putting his favored candidate in his old Senate seat.

He probably says a hundred times that he wants to make money and that he wants his wife to make money. He tells his deputy governor to look into what potential boards he could have his wife installed on along with a nice salary.

Both the governor, his wife, and a political consultant discuss how they could arrange things so that nothing is tied to president-elect Obama.

During one phone call, Blagojevich says he doesn’t want to be governor for the next two years and instead wants to make some money. He says he’s not just gonna give this motherf*cker (Obama) his senator for nothing. F*ck that!

One job the governor becomes fixated on is becoming head of a corrupt labor union. Blagojevich wants to be head of the SEIU and he’s convinced Obama can get him that position in return for Obama’s candidate of choice to fill his senate seat. He also wants his wife to get hooked up with a nice job either at the SEIU or somewhere else.

This is further proof that labor unions are nothing but a corrupt arm of the democratic party. The SEIU, UAW, and all the rest should be broken up — but that’s for another article.

What’s most troubling is that all the consultants that Blagojevich discusses his planned illegal activity with are all in agreement that it’s doable. The governor asks various consultants if Obama could get him and his wife this job or that job or a seat on this board or that board and every time they say sure, Obama can definitely do that.

I’m beginning to wonder how high this corruption goes. All these corrupt Chicago politicians seem mighty confident that our newly minted president-elect will gladly go along with their highly illegal schemes. Chicago politics is famous for its corruption so it’s likely Barack Obama can play dirty when its in his interest. Of course, even if he did the media would never cover it so I guess it’s really a mute point.

It’s not often that the public gets to see behind the curtain of politics. These FBI wiretaps give you an unvarnished view of the worst kind of politics this country has to offer. Blagojevich’s incredibly cynical view of his role as governor really plays into people’s worst fears about politicians.

The FBI should charge the governors wife with conspiracy and each and every one of his staffers who participated in these schemes.