Pressure on Emanuel over Senate scandal

The Guardian ^ | 12/15/08 | Ed Pilkington

[jimbo123]

Barack Obama's choice to be his White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, is coming under mounting pressure to make a full disclosure about his contacts with the disgraced governor of Illinois over the billowing Senate "seat for sale" scandal.

Federal investigators are looking into communication between Emanuel and Rod Blagojevich, the governor who was last week charged with trying to sell the Senate seat vacated by Obama to the highest bidder.

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Blagojevich is expected today to respond to calls for him to quit. According to the Illinois attorney general, Lisa Madigan, he will either resign or agree temporarily to step aside in a deal that would allow him to keep drawing his salary.

[screaming eagle2]

Don’t know.If this keeps going Pres-elect Obama’s white House is going to have some real problems.And the losers will be us.

[Ann Archy]

Yes....SADLY. Our Justice system is BROKEN.

[alloysteel]

The NYT is beyond reasoning with at this point.

Their minds have already been made up, do not confuse them with either facts or reality.

Obviously the British newspapers are printing lies and fabrications.

[conservativesister]

What was it the press said about his “elbows”?

Wonder who he elbowed on this one?

[conservativesister]

What was it the press said about his “elbows”?

Wonder who he elbowed on this one?

[Paladin2]

More likely:

"Blagojevich is expected today to respond to calls for him to keep quiet."

[tsomer]

NO ONE is putting pressure on Emanuel because HE KNOWS where EVERYONE has buried their bodies.....

You're exactly right. And that guy seems to play for keeps.

But I suppose O's boys do too.

Em, stay off airplanes and keep out of the parks.

This could get fun. Popcorn anyone?

[Harley]

That's what happens when you get your people from Mayor Daley's political training camp. Click====> Here.

[rod1]

Madigan’s and the MSM’s wishful propaganda.
So isn’t Madigan akin to JJJr and Mary the Moon baby. They have inherited positions.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Some wonder if President Obama will dismiss Fiztgerald. Most say no it'd be too risky.

Will I am just as concerned about the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California which includes San Francisco.

30-Y.O. Unsolved SF Murders Reopen

Local and federal LEO looking for who among the suspects murdered the policeman with a bomb. "The most prominent among [the suspects] is Bernadine Dohrn, a former leader of the Weather Underground and now a law professor at Northwestern University in Illinois."

The investigation is still going and Ms Dohrn is still one of the suspects the last time I looked at current news.

Will President and Mrs. Obama turn their backs on the lovely Mrs. Bernadine Ayers, nee Dohrn? I don't think so. The current U.S. attorney will be dismissed and IMO Rat Party (formerly the traditional Democratic Party) Congress and Senate hacks will pressure local LEO to drop the investigation.

[SierraWasp]

"Now you listen to me. I am going to say this again: I did not have discourse with that man, Governor Blagojevich."

Perfect! After all, he's actually the first black Bill Clinton, anyways!!!

[tubebender]

he's actually the first black Bill Clinton,

LOL...that is a winner by itself Waspman...

[metalurgist]

Rahm is a punk. If he ever tried to pull his BS with real blue collar Americans he'd get the ass beating he so rightly deserves.
But, when he acts like a bad ass among the weak kneed effeminate political class, he's feared.
Our Republican representatives need to be replaced if they haven't got the stones to stand up to this a$$wipe.

[Grampa Dave]

Hopefully, the Gov will not resign and stay on to $crew, er serve his voters. Hopefully, this will last longer in the media, than the Fitzy/Armitage/Powell/Plame/CIA sideshow did.

Rahm, "I never had sex with, er, discourse with the Illinois Governor. Hell, President Obama and I don't even know him."

Chicago Team Obama

Hey Zer0, How are you hanging in there with the big boys? How's your smoking and facial tics coming along? Enjoy your ride. The fun is just beginning.

[Grampa Dave]

“will he step aside and claim his birth certificate is missing some facts to beat the ChiTowne hubbub...”

Great senior minds think along the same levels. I posted the same possibility this past weekend.

[Grampa Dave]

“Looks like we are getting more news on this from the UK than our own press.”

That has been true for a long time.

During the Monic Liplenski mess with Bubba, my wife and I spent a few weeks in the UK. The fishwraps over there skewered him daily. I brought back an extra small suitcase loaded with what they had printed and had been spiked by the MSM here.

It was a safe and easy prediction that many of the major MSMers would make Zer0 look innocent and like a hero in shining unspoiled armor in this incident.

[Grampa Dave]

“will he step aside and claim his birth certificate is missing some facts to beat the ChiTowne hubbub...”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2148756/posts

Globe: Obama - Born in the USA?
The Globe ^ | Dec 14, 2008 | The Globe

Posted on Sunday, December 14, 2008 3:59:58 PM by BP2

PRESIDENT-elect Barack Obama is being rocked by a series of shocking new lawsuits charging his election was illegal! GLOBE’s special report reveals why some national leaders believe his Hawaiian birth certificate was forged - and that America’s next commander-in-chief was born in Kenya, which could doom his presidency.

It’s must reading...