Comments on: The Blagojevich Corrupt Sausage Factory http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-blagojevich-corrupt-sausage-factory/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:23:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: bobdog http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-blagojevich-corrupt-sausage-factory/#comment-229592 bobdog Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:35:48 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=50871#comment-229592 Forgive my cynicism, but Blagojavich is just the latest in a long line of slimy Boss Tweed politicians going back to Big Bill Thompson. It's a rare month that doesn't include an indictment of one Chicago politician or another, and the corruption is so rife that Chicagoans don't even notice it any more. It's just an accepted way of living. Oh, there's outrage each time the Cook County Board or the state legislature finds yet another scheme to raise revenue (Chicago's 10.25% sales tax, its parking meter outrage or Quinn's 50% income tax increase are just three of the most recent), but "it's the Chicago Way". One or two crusading journalists pop stories about the clumsiest and most visible scams once or twice a year, but the trials drag on for years and when it's all over, nobody cares. Year after year, Chicago's public schools slip further into the bureaucratic abyss, with a 58% dropout rate, a 50% illegitimacy rate, an out of control gang quagmire, urban blight, failing public works, public employee featherbedding and obnoxious public services. The worst part of it all is that these same diseased politicians get reelected every single time the polls are open, like drug-resistant venereal disease. Some of the worst are so imbedded and so arrogant that they simply appoint their own children (Stroger, Jones) to continue the dynasty for another 30 years after they've had their fill. Who's going to stop them? Nobody. It just keeps getting better. And don't get me started on Illinois' Best and Brightest who get sent to Worshington... Forgive my cynicism, but Blagojavich is just the latest in a long line of slimy Boss Tweed politicians going back to Big Bill Thompson. It’s a rare month that doesn’t include an indictment of one Chicago politician or another, and the corruption is so rife that Chicagoans don’t even notice it any more. It’s just an accepted way of living. Oh, there’s outrage each time the Cook County Board or the state legislature finds yet another scheme to raise revenue (Chicago’s 10.25% sales tax, its parking meter outrage or Quinn’s 50% income tax increase are just three of the most recent), but “it’s the Chicago Way”. One or two crusading journalists pop stories about the clumsiest and most visible scams once or twice a year, but the trials drag on for years and when it’s all over, nobody cares.

Year after year, Chicago’s public schools slip further into the bureaucratic abyss, with a 58% dropout rate, a 50% illegitimacy rate, an out of control gang quagmire, urban blight, failing public works, public employee featherbedding and obnoxious public services.

The worst part of it all is that these same diseased politicians get reelected every single time the polls are open, like drug-resistant venereal disease. Some of the worst are so imbedded and so arrogant that they simply appoint their own children (Stroger, Jones) to continue the dynasty for another 30 years after they’ve had their fill.

Who’s going to stop them? Nobody. It just keeps getting better.

And don’t get me started on Illinois’ Best and Brightest who get sent to Worshington…

]]> By: Avitar http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-blagojevich-corrupt-sausage-factory/#comment-228942 Avitar Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:08:06 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=50871#comment-228942 When I read Spider79's statement "Blago is a stain on Illinois politics." I almost fell out of my chair laughing. First, haven't four of Blago's last five predecessors in the Governor's chair gone to prison? Question: "Governor Blagojevich! Why do you think you are going to prison?" Blago: "Tradition!" Second, I am originally from Evansville, Indiana and my Grandfather was on the taskforce that investigated the stealing of the 1960 election for Kennedy, now fifty years ago. The chief feature of Illinois politics according to my Grandfather was the complete absence of a single honest politician in Chicago politics. When I read Spider79′s statement
“Blago is a stain on Illinois politics.” I almost fell out of my chair laughing. First, haven’t four of Blago’s last five predecessors in the Governor’s chair gone to prison?

Question: “Governor Blagojevich! Why do you think you are going to prison?”
Blago: “Tradition!”

Second, I am originally from Evansville, Indiana and my Grandfather was on the taskforce that investigated the stealing of the 1960 election for Kennedy, now fifty years ago. The chief feature of Illinois politics according to my Grandfather was the complete absence of a single honest politician in Chicago politics.

]]> By: Jeff http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-blagojevich-corrupt-sausage-factory/#comment-228874 Jeff Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:32:16 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=50871#comment-228874 Blago is the tip of the iceberg. How about Mayor Daley, Senators John Cullerton and Jimmy Deleo? Alderman Ed Burke, Cook County Board Chairman Stroger? Former guv George Ryan? Judges, small time politicos. Tim Degnan? The list is endless when you think about the corruption. Chicago and Illinois. the City that works when you bribe it enough. Blago is the tip of the iceberg. How about Mayor Daley, Senators John Cullerton and Jimmy Deleo? Alderman Ed Burke, Cook County Board Chairman Stroger? Former guv George Ryan? Judges, small time politicos. Tim Degnan?

The list is endless when you think about the corruption. Chicago and Illinois. the City that works when you bribe it enough.

]]> By: davod http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-blagojevich-corrupt-sausage-factory/#comment-228766 davod Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:40:48 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=50871#comment-228766 "Thanks to the ex-governor's dirty schemes, cleaning up Illinois' political reputation could take years." Why just blame Blago for Illinois corruption. “Thanks to the ex-governor’s dirty schemes, cleaning up Illinois’ political reputation could take years.”

Why just blame Blago for Illinois corruption.

]]> By: Skip http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-blagojevich-corrupt-sausage-factory/#comment-228635 Skip Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:21:27 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=50871#comment-228635 What every happened to the indictment? What every happened to the indictment?

]]> By: Paul -Indiana http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-blagojevich-corrupt-sausage-factory/#comment-228553 Paul -Indiana Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:37:53 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=50871#comment-228553 Chicago politics has been dirty since Prohibition. Blago is not even the worst practitioner. Chicago politics has been dirty since Prohibition. Blago is not even the worst practitioner.

]]> By: ic http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-blagojevich-corrupt-sausage-factory/#comment-228539 ic Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:42:29 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=50871#comment-228539 clean up? Why? Just re-brand. We are good at that, e.g. bribes => campaign contributions, earmark => pay back bribers with money confiscated from the little people, war on terror => (...?) contingency, Iraq withdrawal: "They will be called advisory and assistance brigades," said Gates. "They won't be called combat brigades."... clean up? Why?

Just re-brand.

We are good at that, e.g. bribes => campaign contributions, earmark => pay back bribers with money confiscated from the little people, war on terror => (…?) contingency, Iraq withdrawal: “They will be called advisory and assistance brigades,” said Gates. “They won’t be called combat brigades.”…

]]> By: TexEd http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-blagojevich-corrupt-sausage-factory/#comment-228433 TexEd Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:31:17 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=50871#comment-228433 Ken, I call BS! Chicago and Illinois are dirty and always have been dirty and they will be after Blago. We used to say that New Jersey, Detroit and New Orleans sent their politicians to Chicago and Springfield for advanced corruption training. That is why it is just too funny for anyone to believe in the purity of South Chicago's Mugabe Obama. Ken, I call BS! Chicago and Illinois are dirty and always have been dirty and they will be after Blago. We used to say that New Jersey, Detroit and New Orleans sent their politicians to Chicago and Springfield for advanced corruption training.
That is why it is just too funny for anyone to believe in the purity of South Chicago’s Mugabe Obama.

]]> By: Delia http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-blagojevich-corrupt-sausage-factory/#comment-228423 Delia Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:02:02 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=50871#comment-228423 That "Blago Cabbage Patch Doll" is freakin' HILARIOUS! I don't have time to opine much... I have a major dentist appointment coming up in an hour. *cries* That “Blago Cabbage Patch Doll” is freakin’ HILARIOUS!

I don’t have time to opine much… I have a major dentist appointment coming up in an hour. *cries*

]]> By: RedFred http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-blagojevich-corrupt-sausage-factory/#comment-228418 RedFred Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:55:50 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=50871#comment-228418 There's plenty of slime all over both parties. If you are a rank and file republican, you have no vote in who makes up the State Central Committee. There's a republican civil war brewing here in Illinois, between those who are fed at the pork trough, and those who are fed up. There’s plenty of slime all over both parties. If you are a rank and file republican, you have no vote in who makes up the State Central Committee.

There’s a republican civil war brewing here in Illinois, between those who are fed at the pork trough, and those who are fed up.

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