Obama Citizenship

Chicago Politics: Gov. Blagojevich Convicted of Impeachment, 59-0

By Phil

As RedState.com gets right to the point:

They threw him out 59-0:

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ? Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been convicted at his impeachment trial and thrown out of office.

His removal comes nearly two months after his arrest on charges of trying to sell Barack Obama?s vacant Senate seat. He becomes the first U.S. governor in more than 20 years to be removed by impeachment.

?and AoSHQ reports that they?re apparently setting it up so that he?ll never hold office in Illinois again.

However, many think this show has only just begun (as Politico.com reports), especially with respect to Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel…

[Gov. Rod Blagojevich is] going down swinging, with a call to fire Rahm Emanuel for being as guilty as he — according to a theory under which he is being impeached for fighting for citizens right to cheap prescription drugs.

Lawmakers should ?demand that President Obama fire Rahm Emanuel? because he favored the program. Blagojevich suggested Sens. McCain and Kennedy be ?indicted as co-conspirators.”

?I followed every law and never, ever intended to violate any law,? Blagojevich said. ?I?m here to give every possible explanation to every one of these allegations. Who knows, maybe you?ll reconsider and allow me to call those witnesses.?

Gina Cobb has some interesting things to say about this as well.

I also don’t think that US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is done with this quite yet.

-Phil

Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).