I’m going to have to go with Ryan on this: Until Illinois can free itself from the sleazy grasp of Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the Land of Lincoln should be a ward of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. It’s a tough solution, but a fair one. If efforts to legally remove him continue to progress at breakneck speed, we may not even have to move beyond the trial separation stage.
After the Illinois House followed through on their threat to impeach Blago, voting 114-1 in favor of such an action and moving the onus of kicking-to-the-curb to the state Senate, the governor did what any sane individual would do under such circumstances, and held a press conference/poetry reading
[w]ith senior citizens, a man in a wheelchair, a crying baby and a Humboldt Park teen who had liver surgery assembled behind him on the podium … Blagojevich sought to portray his impeachment as vindictive payback for fighting on behalf of needy citizens. … Blagojevich admonished lawmakers to follow the Golden Rule and, as at his first press conference following his arrest on federal corruption charges, Blagojevich recited portions of a poem: Alfred Tennyson’s Ulysses.
See, everyone’s against him because he loves society’s dispossessed, its needy, maybe even its lepers and whores. Because he offers them salvation when no one else will, politicians across the political spectrum have forced a crown of impeachment upon his pristine mane. Blago just hopes they can be forgiven, for they know not what they do.
Neither, apparently, does Roland Burris, but you don’t have to turn to the New Testament to find incompetence.
