Thursday - December 11, 2008

Yeah, what she said

Huge noise on the TV last night and this morning over the Illinois governor mess. Funny thing though; at least a third of the noise was the talking heads swearing up and down that Obama didn’t know a thing about it, and another third was more talking heads going on and on about how Jesse Jackson Jr, aka Candidate #5 (not to be confused with Client #9), didn’t know a thing about it either.

Uh huh. Riiiiight.

Debbie Schlussel writes what we all figured out and didn’t say out loud:

Look for Son of Jesse to get away with it, just like daddy always does. Justice isn’t blind at all. Our federal justice system sees things through very tinted, politically correct glasses.

Commenter C at her site states another fact the media can’t be bothered to mention

[U.S. attorney] Fitzgerald is the same guy who politicized the Libby affair, and didn’t go after the real culprits, Powell & Armitage.

So did the FBI swoop in and make the bust when they did - the morning after Blagojevich met with Jesse Jr - to save Jr’s reputation or to haul him into the net too eventually? The affidavit was made out on Sunday, Jr interviewed on Monday, Blago was busted Tuesday morning. So if they had a real-time wiretap, anything recorded on Jr isn’t part of the original indictment. Got to protect the icons ya know. Even the Sons of Icons. Or Jesse Jackson Jr could actually have no part whatsoever in any of this mess, and be an entirely honest politician, as he has apparently been for the past 12 years. In Chicago. Hey, it could happen.

This is one big mess that might take months to pan out. Expect more arrests. Also expect the MSM to give scant coverage to this story starting Friday. By January 20th it will be down the memory hole.

Oh, and Fitzgerald is going to need a bigger cap. His current one is getting rather full of feathers in it.

It’s unusual for a federal prosecutor to have on his resume two such politically sensitive investigations in different parts of the country. And that’s not all. In an extraordinarily productive seven-year tenure, Fitzgerald also won the conviction of the previous Illinois governor, Republican George Ryan, who is in prison for racketeering.

All of which raises the question: What’s [or Who’s] next for the 47-year-old Fitzgerald?

Ordinarily, an incoming president chooses new U.S. attorneys, but Obama has pledged to keep Fitzgerald on the job, so the latest corruption case is not likely to be Fitzgerald’s swan song.

“I think he has been aggressive in putting the city on notice and the state on notice that he takes issues of public corruption seriously,” Obama told the Chicago Tribune in March.

Fitzgerald was appointed by a Republican president, George W. Bush, but Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said last week he will recommend another term for the prosecutor if he wants to stay.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/11/2008 at 12:27 PM   
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