Shh! Don’t Let the Terrorists Know About Our Other Tall Buildings!
Senate candidate Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), responding to a White House-backed plan to transfer Gitmo inmates to a shuttered maximum security prison in Illinois:
As home to America’s tallest building, we should not invite Al Qaeda to make Illinois its nu, mber one target.
Great job, Obama! al-Qaeda had never even heard of the Sears Tower until literally just now, when you started talking about moving detainees to Illinois!
Seriously, I know that Republicans don’t actually care about what happens to Gitmo detainees and are just looking for a way to stick it to Obama, but don’t they realize that, by their own logic, 9/11 was an attack on New York, not the United States, and that we should blame New Yorkers for whatever they did to draw attention to the fact that the World Trade Center was really tall?
Update: The domain noterroristsinillinois.com has already been picked up by Kirk’s Senate campaign. It redirects to his campaign website and has been used in fundraising emails. Terrorism trials: just another political trick for the GOP.
11/16/09 10:52 am | | Permalink | Tags: al-Qaeda, Guantanamo Bay, Illinois, Mark Kirk, September 11
In Which Everyone Laughs at the Expense of Milton Patterson
Haha, oh Milton Patterson. What’s that you say? Who’s Milton Patterson? Milton Patterson is the only member of the Illinois House of Representatives who voted not to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich. And why did he vote this way? Because he thinks it’s not his job to impeach the governor of his state.
And here is the reason why we are all laughing at him.
SECTION 14. IMPEACHMENT
The House of Representatives has the sole power to conduct legislative investigations to determine the existence of cause for impeachment and, by the vote of a majority of the members elected, to impeach Executive and Judicial officers.
1/10/09 4:11 am | | Permalink | Tags: Illinois, impeachment, Rod Blagojevich
Tuesday Early Morning Update
Don’t ask why I’m awake…
- The world’s favorite shoe-throwing journalist is in Iraqi judicial custody, which “ordinarily signals the start of criminal proceedings.” Ummmm ordinarily? That sounds a little ominous, especially since the guy is the newest Iraqi national hero. (Associated Press)
- The Illinois House voted unanimously to appoint a special committee that will start the process of impeaching Blago. Hooray for bipartisanship! (ABC 7 Chicago)
- Your President-Elect has chosen Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar to be the next Secretary of the Interior. Okay okay, I’m sure Salazar will be great at the job but HEY BARACK IT WOULD BE NICE TO STILL HAVE SOME SENATORS LEFT WHEN YOU’RE DONE PICKING YOUR CABINET KAYTHANKS! (Los Angeles Times)
- Microsoft has released an iPhone graphics application. Yeah, you read that right. Microsoft thinks people all rushed out to buy iPhones because they just wanted something shinier to run Microsoft shit on. Hilariously and unsurprisingly, the app is really buggy. (InternetNews)
12/16/08 7:23 am | | Permalink | Tags: Illinois, impeachment, Interior Department, iPhone, Iraq, Ken Salazar, Microsoft, Obama Administration, Rod Blagojevich
Illinois AG Takes Blagojevich to Court
Looks like there’s trouble in Blagoland:
llinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a motion with the state Supreme Court about Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s “inability” to do his job, Madigan spokeswoman Robin Ziegler said Friday.
Madigan will hold a news conference Friday about the matter, her office said.
Madigan said Thursday that stepping down is the “right thing” for Blagojevich to do.
She added, “If he fails to, the two other options are obviously the Legislature moving forward on impeachment, or I have the opportunity to actually go to our Illinois Supreme Court and ask them to declare basically that our governor is unable to serve,” she said.
In that case, Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn would become acting governor, she said.
Madigan had said she wouldn’t wait “terribly long” to take action.
Well, this should be fun.
12/12/08 10:47 am | | Permalink | Tags: corruption, Illinois, Lisa Madigan, Rod Blagojevich
Friday Morning Update
- Well, the Big 3 bailout failed in the Senate last night because Senate Republicans didn’t want to pay auto workers a fair wage, to which the auto workers shockingly objected. Anyway, it now falls to the White House to take some of the money previously allocated to bailing out millionaire bankers and use it to bail out some $50k-per-year blue collar workers. Good luck selling that one to the millionaires. (Washington Post/Politico)
- Convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens is a sore loser. He refuses to meet with Mark Begich, the man who will replace him in the United States Senate in January. Maybe Stevens tried to send him an email, but it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. (Anchorage Daily News/Wikipedia)
- Clinton supporters are putting pressure on NY Gov. David Paterson not to appoint Caroline Kennedy to fill Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat, noting that Kennedy has never been elected to any office. I thought dashing good looks and poltical experience were hereditary in the Kennedy family? (NY Daily News)
- Illinois House Democrats and Republicans are meeting to discuss the logistics of impeaching Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Huzzah for bipartisanship! Also, Illinois newspaper editorial boards are humorously conflicted over whether Blaggy should resign or be impeached. Hmmmm…. (AP/FOX News)
12/12/08 10:18 am | | Permalink | Tags: AK-Sen, bailout, Caroline Kennedy, corruption, David Paterson, Hillary Clinton, Illinois, Mark Begich, NY-Sen, Rod Blagojevich, Ted Stevens
Thursday Update, More Blagojevich Edition
What else is he hiding under all that hair?
- Well, it’s just another day at the Governor’s office, working on the budget, helping Illinois families, dodging questions about his indictment. You know, the usual. (ABC News)
- Howard Dean says Blago has committed a “disgraceful abuse of the public trust” and should resign in order to save the legislature the trouble of impeaching him. Howard Dean is going to go to Illinois to root out corruption. And then he’s going to go to New Hampshire! And South Carolina! And New Mexico! Yaaaaahhhh!! (TPM Election Central)
- Also jumping on the “Blago should resign” bandwagon: all fifty Democratic U.S. Senators. Thanks, Rod, for helping create this impressive display of Democratic unity. (Politico)
- Hilariously, the state with the most corruption per capita is… North Dakota! Yes, tiny North Dakota has a whopping 8.3 corruption convictions per 100,000 residents, compared to Illinois 3.9. Of course, this just means that North Dakota is better a prosecuting corruption, which doesn’t bode well for the morals of Illinois juries. (USA Today)
12/11/08 2:33 pm | | Permalink | Tags: corruption, Howard Dean, Illinois, North Dakota, Rod Blagojevich, Senate
Illinois Voters Want Blago to Resign, Don’t Think He Will
Polls show that the people who elected him think Rod Blagojevich is a dick:
Eighty-four percent (84%) of Illinois voters say indicted Governor Rod Blagojevich should resign, according to a Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state Wednesday night. Just nine percent (9%) disagree.
Seventy-nine percent (79%) say Blagojevich should end up in jail.
Despite the strong desire for the governor to resign, only 18% believe he is Very Likely to step down. Another 22% say a resignation is Somewhat Likely.
Just seven percent (7%) say the governor is doing a good or excellent job in office while 83% rate his performance as poor.
Blagojevich who was arrested Tuesday on federal corruption charges including an attempt to sell the U.S. Senate seat recently vacated by President-elect Barack Obama has consistently been one of the nation’s most unpopular governors, if not the most unpopular, in previous Rasmussen Reports surveys. Fifty-nine percent (59%) say that their Governor is less ethical than most politicians. This is the first time in more than a decade of asking this question that a politician challenged on ethics has been seen as less ethical than his or her peers. Most recently, following the conviction of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, 67% of Alaska voters said Stevens was at least as ethical as his peers.
What a corrupt asshole this guy is. Hopefully he’ll just resign and save himself the trouble of being impeached by the legislature or ousted by the state Supreme Court.
12/11/08 10:10 am | | Permalink | Tags: corruption, Illinois, Rod Blagojevich
Joe the Plumber Lashes Out at McCain, and more
- Joe the Plumber reveals that he was actually “appalled” by McCain and his campaign, but he stayed on the campaign bus anyway because he was afraid of the black guy and also wanted to drill, baby, drill Sarah Palin. Way to stand up for your convictions, asshole. (Politico)
- Sen. Dick Durbin wants a special election to fill Barack Obama’s Senate seat, taking the power of appointment away from indicted douchebag Rod Blagojevich. Of course, the only problem is that any bill to hold a special election would have to be signed by, you guessed it, Blago himself. Good luck with that one. (MSNBC)
- In other Blago-news, add Attorney General Lisa Madigan to the growing list of people who wants Blagojevich out of office. If he doesn’t resign and if the legislature fails to impeach him in a timely manner, Madigan is prepared to ask the Illinois Supreme Court to vote Blago out of office, which they can do under a somewhat obscure court rule. (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Moving on to more hilarious crimes committed by elected officials, the Minnesota Court of Appeals rejected Idaho Sen. Larry “Wide Stance” Craig’s appeal to withdraw his previous guilty plea in the infamous Minnesota airport bathroom sex sting case. The court ruled that tapping his foot in an adjacent bathroom stall in order to solicit sex is not protected under the First Amendment. Damn! (Bloomberg)
12/10/08 10:53 am | | Permalink | Tags: 2008, Illinois, Joe the Plumber, John McCain, Larry Craig, Rod Blagojevich, Sarah Palin
Obama Takes Georgia and Illinois
With only 7% of precincts reporting, CNN calls Georgia for Obama.
This, of course, is based solely on exit polling. Same deal in Illinois, with 0% of precincts in.
2/5/08 6:23 pm | | Permalink | Tags: 2008, Barack Obama, Georgia, Illinois, Super Tuesday
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