Schadenfreude for the freepers who defended this scumbag and claimed “Fitz is a overzealous hack who has no case” and that “Blago will walk”.
Gotta wonder about those “conservatives”. Apparently they were so bitter about the Scooter Libby case (it’s unfathomable to believe a person with an “R” next to his name who happened to work for Dick Cheney could have done ANYTHING wrong, of course!), that they defended ANYONE else Fitzgerald indicted, including the sleaziest Chicago machine crooks on the planet, hoping those criminals would skate so it would make Fitz look bad. Some “conservatives” even claimed the indictment of uber-RINO George Ryan was “partisan”, despite the fact the only people defending Ryan were liberals. Shame on them. Shades of the O.J. defenders who hoped he got off just so they could “stick it to the man”.
Of course their original talking point about Fitzgerald, that he was a “partisan Democrat”, was proven wrong a long time ago whne he brought down Tony Rezko and a bunch of Daley henchmen, and was especially dead and buried after he indicted the top RAT official in Illinois. Yeah, no doubt conservative Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald just loved recommending “partisan Democrats” to George W. Bush, right?
The shocking thing is they STILL can’t admit Fitz had a case. They’ll claim all kinds of conspircy theory stuff that he cut a backroom deal with Dems. Earlier, they claimed he was “angling to be Attorney General for Hillary Clinton”. If Fitz indicted Obama himself, they’d claim he cut a “backroom deal with Joe Biden” to be A.G. in Biden’s adminstration after Obama is forced out. Nothing will ever please the Fitz haters.
Let’s hope a particularly vengeful Blagojevich decides to name names from his prison cell. And of course, I wouldn’t be surprised in Pat Quinn got indicted sometime in the future. Illinois needs a three-peat on slimey combine Governor indictments.
I don’t agree with the Libby prosecution but yes those people are silly.
Blago has a surprising amount of sympathy from the right (even my mom said she feels sorry for him) for various reasons. None of them matter, deserves to do hard time. I’d offer him a deal to TALK.
Watch his wife end up with some job (payoff) so he doesn’t talk.
What I want to know is how can the Jury be 11-1 female? If it were the other way around would that even be allowed?