Blago’s human shield strategy; Durbin stands in the Senate door; Update: Signed, sealed, delivered

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 9, 2009 04:19 PM

Scroll down for updates…Allah’s got vid…bonus poetry recitation!

Man, is he milking it or what?

Gotta love the histrionics. Blago’s press conference was a “big &$*%^^ you” to Rahm Emanuel (who got name-checked while Blago touted his health care heroism) and the Illinois legislature.

Most delicious: The human shield strategy.

Blago’s healed women with breast cancer, saved children, and wants to keep families from losing their homes.

How dare he be impeached!

Meantime, this development in the Burris story, via Chicago S-T:

A potentially troublesome new detail emerged about Roland Burris’ controversial U.S. Senate appointment Thursday after a state House panel voted unanimously to recommend Gov. Blagojevich be impeached.

For the first time, Burris indicated that he asked Blagojevich’s former chief of staff and college classmate, Lon Monk, to relay his interest in the Senate seat to the governor last July or September.

“If you’re close to the governor, you know, let him know I’m certainly interested in the seat,” Burris said he told Monk.

That testimony appears to differ from an affidavit Burris submitted to the impeachment panel this week in which he stated he spoke to no “representatives” of the governor about the Senate post prior to Dec. 26.

Federal prosecutors, who identified Monk as “Lobbyist 1″ in their criminal complaint against Blagojevich, indicated they tapped Monk’s phone in November as Blagojevich moved to fill President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat.

Whether the new Monk detail poses any threat to Burris’ efforts to persuade Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to allow him to be seated isn’t clear, but Republicans on the state impeachment panel see a contradiction.

“There is an inconsistency between his testimony and the affidavit,” said state Rep. Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs). “I’ll leave it to Sen. Reid to determine what value that has to their process.”

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Update: Durbin stands in the Senate door. RAAAAACIST! Won’t seat Burris with the SecofState signature.

Update: SecofState signs off.

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  1. #1
    On January 9th, 2009 at 4:23 pm, Jeddite said:

    His hair is a crime against fashion and good taste and is impeachable on those grounds alone.

  2. #2
    On January 9th, 2009 at 4:30 pm, tarpon said:

    Michelle scores a direct hit. He isn’t going alone.

  3. #3
    On January 9th, 2009 at 4:39 pm, drivingjack said:

    Michelle scores a direct hit. He isn’t going alone.

    Oh, no! Michelle is responsible for Blago’s impeachment.

  4. #4
    On January 9th, 2009 at 4:40 pm, MsUnderestimated said:

    I was able to catch the whole video and Ihave it on my site here. How surreal was that??? Where’s a shoe-thrower when you need one?

  5. #5
    On January 9th, 2009 at 4:41 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    Blago’s healed women with breast cancer, saved children…

    From a very old comic routine…

    Saaay, Halleluiah! This is the right reverend Dr. Billy Saul Hargas here on behalf of the First Church of the Gooey Death and Discount House of Worship. Where this week, you may make a blessing pledge of five dollars for just three ninety-eight and receive credit with him for the full entire five dollars - say halleluiah!

    Put your hands on the radio; Billy Saul gonna heal y’all!

    Gawd! Elmer Gantry is the governor of IL!

  6. #6
    On January 9th, 2009 at 4:44 pm, Dan Lee said:

    Webster’s dictionary should add Blago’s name as “another” definition for the word “Arrogant”.

  7. #7
    On January 9th, 2009 at 4:53 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    Sorry. It’s actually “Billy Sol Hargis” and it is from Imus, but it is damn funny!

  8. #8
    On January 9th, 2009 at 4:54 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    …after a state House panel voted unanimously to recommend Gov. Blagojevich be impeached.

    Forgive my anal-ness, but, doesn’t ‘unanimously’ mean ‘without opposition’? Wasn’t there one vote against impeachment, thereby making it NOT unanimous?

  9. #9
    On January 9th, 2009 at 4:58 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Anally, a panel isn’t the same as the entire State House.

  10. #10
    On January 9th, 2009 at 5:02 pm, deadeye said:

    I watched this thing with much embarrassment since I am a resident of Illinois. I thought he was having a breakdown and would pull a Glock any minute. It would have been funny if the press corps would have just not shown up.

  11. #11
    On January 9th, 2009 at 5:20 pm, englishqueen01 said:

    Golly. Obama hasn’t even taken the Oath yet and it’s already a 3-ring circus.

  12. #12
    On January 9th, 2009 at 5:22 pm, JHSII said:

    From the Left: “It’s not racism when we do it!”

  13. #13
    On January 9th, 2009 at 5:38 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Dick “Turban” Durbin emulating George Wallace at the University of Alabama?

    Priceless.

  14. #14
    On January 9th, 2009 at 5:40 pm, MrOlympia said:

    Its hard to comprehend how the next few years will play out with THE ONE. Without his partners in crime, THE MEDIA, his buddy Blago would not be in this situation because THE ONE would not be anywhere near the Presidency.

    I can’t wait to see what else Blago has up his sleeve. I know what THE ONE has up his sleeve and THE MEDIA will be there to spin, lie, cheat, steal or whatever it takes to protect their MESSIAH.

    OK, so where is Ayers going to sleep in the White House?

  15. #15
    On January 9th, 2009 at 5:47 pm, InCali said:

    I’m wondering when Blago will use the poem that starts… “There once was a man from Nantucket…”

  16. #16
    On January 9th, 2009 at 6:22 pm, Yashmak said:

    All issues of partisanship aside. . .

    It seems (increasingly of late) that no one in Congress possesses the slightest degree of economic knowledge/history, or even how the United States government works.

    Granted, we’re seeing some extraordinary situations, but COME ON! Doesn’t anyone up there know how things are supposed to work anymore?

    I’m deeply disturbed by all of this.

  17. #17
    On January 9th, 2009 at 6:26 pm, prendad said:

    Reminds me of some old horror/sci fi movies. If they were released today, maybe they would be titled:

    SOMETIMES THEY (liberals) COME BACK!!!

    WHEN WORLDS (egos) COLLIDE.

    INVASION OF THE COMMOM SENSE SNATCHERS.

    CONGRESSIONAL ENCOUNTERS OF THE WORST KIND.

    YOUNG BLAGOSTEIN.

    THE BUDGET THAT ATE THE WORLD.

  18. #18
    On January 9th, 2009 at 6:33 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Blago’s healed women with breast cancer, saved children, and wants to keep families from losing their homes. (?)

    Has Bro Blago been Commissioned by He Who Has Come to Heal the Sick, Raise the Dead, Lift the Lame and Clear the Temple?
    Has Chicago become the new Jerusalem? Come Palm Sunday I would not be too terribly surprised to see one or both of those asses ride a colt, a foal of a donkey, into Chicago with Aldermen, Keith Oberman, Kath Couric and Chris Matthews placing palm fronds before HIM or them.

  19. #19
    On January 9th, 2009 at 6:46 pm, ChicagoRobb said:

    Durbin is doing this because he just got re-elected. Six years may as well be six hundred years in today;s news cycle. I bet if his term was up in 2010, he would not be doing this.
    I bet Blago will wait for the last minute to resign as his office allows him three tools.
    1. The ability to propose wacky legislation, such as the free rides for seniors he forced down the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority or Catastrphes Twice Annually)
    2. It is his best card for a lighter jail term or probation. George Ryan commuted all the Death Row prisoners to life, hoping to affect the possible jury pool.
    3. It allows him to take as many down with him as possible. He knows where the bodies are buried and he may name names.

  20. #20
    On January 9th, 2009 at 6:52 pm, ThatSamIAm said:

    Nothing new. Dems love to use children to get their way. Long history of that. Some do it in more dangerous ways than others but all Dems have it in their playbook.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. put children in harms way during his protests/campaigns. I know, nobody is allowed to say anything negative about MLK,Jr but there it is. It’s a fact. Just like you can’t mention his adultery or anything else. Obama supporters used children in all sort of scary ways in their ads.

  21. #21
    On January 9th, 2009 at 7:04 pm, right_on said:

    Durbin couldn’t block the surge, so he found something smaller to block befitting his stature…he’s waiting to be called “hero” for his uncommon bravery in political combat.

    I hope Blagovich keeps sticking the Dems in the eye…he will be forever known as, “Blag the Impaler” (my apologies to Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula.)

  22. #22
    On January 9th, 2009 at 7:50 pm, Speakup said:

    Ya just gotta love ole Dick “true colors” Durtbin.

    He’s such a boon for the GOP.

    Whats hilarious is now Democrats get scruples where none could be found before.

    Where was their conscience when cold cash Jefferson was busted frostbite handed?

  23. #23
    On January 9th, 2009 at 7:54 pm, richardbo said:

    Dexter Alarias #8–Remember this is a Democrat state. They count however they want to get the results they want.

  24. #24
    On January 9th, 2009 at 8:51 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    prendad, THE BUDGET THAT ATE THE WORLD is REALLY scary. I think CONGRESSIONAL ENCOUNTERS OF THE WORST KIND is a series on PMSNBC.

  25. #25
    On January 9th, 2009 at 9:20 pm, zorro said:

    Gov. Blagojevich is the quintessential democrap. Oath and ethics be damned, it is all about the acquisition and retention of POWER.

    I cannot wait for the Charlie Rangel ethics hearings to start up, but there is no chairperson for the House “Ethics” Committee (if we could use that phrase during the dark Pelosi years). I am beginning to believe that the corrupt Mr. Rangel, permanent Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, will get away with his crimes.

  26. #26
    On January 9th, 2009 at 9:30 pm, fmfnavydoc said:

    Michelle, et al,…

    Doesn’t this get you thinking of how many other Donkeycrat members of the Senate are “closet” racists???

  27. #27
    On January 9th, 2009 at 10:17 pm, Socky said:

    Kwame Kilpatrick, Democrat Mayor of Detroit.

    Rod Blagojevich, Democrat Governor of Illinois.

    And Now, Sheila Dixon, Democrat Mayor of Baltimore

    The Democrat Chief executives, and all three dirty, rotten, scoundrels… and not in the charming Steve Martin/Michael Caine sense. Rotten in the Democrat graft, perjury, and theft sense.

  28. #28
    On January 10th, 2009 at 12:31 am, Salt said:

    On January 9th, 2009 at 4:54 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    …after a state House panel voted unanimously to recommend Gov. Blagojevich be impeached.

    Forgive my anal-ness, but, doesn’t ‘unanimously’ mean ‘without opposition’? Wasn’t there one vote against impeachment, thereby making it NOT unanimous?

    I believe the one vote they show was the “Present” vote and not a “nay”.

  29. #29
    On January 10th, 2009 at 4:01 am, bansharia said:

    A huge amount of damage was done to America during Clinton admin while people were distracted by the endless scandals.
    KEEP EYE ON THE BALL GANG Much is going on already in Obambiworld.
    EXAMPLES
    The lands deal will be voted on Sunday part of said bill takes away hunting rights on public lands.
    HELLO NRA? are you on vacation?
    Next week Dems will pass a bill that increses fed tax on smoking by 150%
    ( an increase of aprox 63 cents PER pack).

  30. #30
    On January 10th, 2009 at 4:03 am, bansharia said:

    The ciggie tax hike is part of the S-CHIP gignatic expansion bill they are ramming through!!!
    HEADS UP GANG

  31. #31
    On January 10th, 2009 at 7:49 am, Jeff2161 said:

    On the bright side, mighty generous of Reid to consider seating a legitimate appointee to the Senate. After talking to his lawyers, of course.

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