Jay Bookman

By AJC/DNC Management

December 12, 2008 2:06 PM | Link to this

Wait until the two “business men” step out of the shadows and rat out Rhaman.

That’s when it gets good.

bwa

By DebbieDoRight

December 12, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

Tammany Hall ghosts to Blago: “That’ll do pig, that’ll do.”

By mike hussein smith

December 12, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

Jay, I’m shocked you’d stoop to the tawdry guilt-by-association tactics usually employed by wingnuts. Nothing in your post supports the headline or suggests JJJr. knew what these businessmen may have been doing. Perhaps they ratted on Blago, and were working with Fitzgerald to tighten the noose around the Guv’s neck. Or maybe not. My point is that you don’t know, the Tribune doesn’t know and, God knows, neither do Corporal or AC/DC.

By getalife

December 12, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

Blago already owed a lawyer firm 500K and now he will owe much more.

The pay to play is business as usual in Washington so Obama should appoint Fitz corruption czar to try to slow it down.

By "The Corporal"

December 12, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

Headline: SILENCE OF THE RAHM

By mike hussein smith

December 12, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this

So Saxby and Johnny are probably crooks? Is that what you’re saying, Getalife? OK, let’s sic the feds on them. Bring forth your evidence now and we could rid Congress of all the trash bags in no time. What are you waiting for?

By Taxpayer

December 12, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

Jay,

I assume you’re throwing out a little sarcasm-tainted meat or something to feed the rabid right wingers. Then again, that was a mighty big and bright full moon last night.

By "The Corporal"

December 12, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

Oh, I see, when Aytch promised transparency he meant unless you were accused of something stupid, unethical or criminal.

And of course transparency can never but used to move evidence toward criminal.

By getalife

December 12, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

You are right Mike.

They are worthy of our trust.

My bad.

By Wyld Byll Hyltnyr

December 12, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

Just wait until they tighten the screws on Blago and his wench. With Rezko in the pen and ready to trade his way out, there is no telling on which pile of shoes this fetid mess might land. But, for now, at least, “It’s jess wordts”

By tcoach

December 12, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

Strange how on a day when it is obvious that a dem has done something wrong and also gieves the implication of other dems either doing wrong as well or not complying with the transparency mandate, the blog seems to be kinda light today.

By Midori

December 12, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

Can someone here clue me in as to wtf Corporal is talking about?

By "The Corporal"

December 12, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

To Obami and Mrs. G.

Unless you have surrendered please go to “Obama the Transformer” at 1:29.

Fix bayonets !

By AJC/DNC Management

December 12, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

Before the filth stops oozing from the Chicago sewer, the Republicans will wind up looking like Little Bo Peeps.

Karma.

By Midori

December 12, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

what’s even stranger still is that day after day this blog is inundated with a bunch of wingnut kooks.

Wooten full up or something?

By tcoach

December 12, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

Midori you never got back to me.

Do you forgive any indiscretions that may be made by the Obama team because Bush may have also done the same thing?

Is that your expectations, for our president to be as good as Bush?

Just sounded like it from your post on the previous thread.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 12, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

If Blagojevich’s instinct for enrichment rose to criminality, it’s hardly unusual. Even the most impeccably liberal scourges of greed manage to get rich quickly after public life. In a two-and-a-half-year period between working in Clinton’s White House and running for Congress, Barack Obama’s new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, made $16.2 million in investment banking at the small firm of Wasserstein Perella. All it took, surely, was hard work, a little luck — and knowing Clinton fundraiser and Wall Street mogul Bruce Wasserstein.-National Review

Criminals, hacks and felons, change you can count, uh, on being passed under the table in an envelope.

ew

By DebbieDoRight

December 12, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

Can someone here clue me in as to wtf Corporal is talking about?

We stopped reading his comments, (as well as that insane AJC Mgmt guy), months ago, join the movement, keep your sanity…..

By AJC/DNC Management

December 12, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

Still, Obama has promised to hold his administration to a far higher standard. “It’s not enough to just change the players; we have to change the game,” he says. An ethics bill he proposed in 2007 was aimed partly at empowering ordinary citizens to report ethics violations.

Blah, blah, blah-

Obama said that he had no personal contact with the governor’s staff and has asked his team “to gather the facts … so we can share them with you over the next few days.” That’s the kind of thing politicians say when they know they have a problem but they aren’t sure how bad it is.-LATimes

Spin and cover up, Nixon would be proud.

It’s a good thing he hired up all those KKKlinton goons.

By getalife

December 12, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

“A local Fox News affiliate reported that at the time that Coleman allegedly received $75,000 in unreported payments from a prominent Republican businessman, he was also struggling to make payments for the restructuring of his home.

Good government officials wondered whether there was something more than coincidental to the financial exchange. And, indeed, there is other compelling — and up to this point, unnoted — evidence to suggest that Coleman was soliciting monetary favors from his GOP backers.”

It is ok, we should trust them.

By Just A'wonderin

December 12, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

By “The Corporal” December 12, 2008 2:40 PM Oh, I see, when Aytch

Would someone please define “AYTCH.” Don’t make no sense a’tall.

By Dusty

December 12, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

Sooooo, Bookman actually reported on what sounds like dirty dealings by dubious Democrats.

Some “regulars” here obviously believe that this is “dissent”, a cut from the workings of Democrats.

So where are all those quotes from Jefferson about how good is DISSENT for stable government, etc. etc. About freedom of speech and none should be dismissed and let everyone speak.

I’m listening. I’m listening. Where’s all that approval of dissenting voices??? That demand for honesty???

By Hillbilly Deluxe

December 12, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

Corruption should be rooted out, no matter its party or ideaology.

By Ray

December 12, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

Je$$ie Jackson, Jr. Like father, like son. Wonder if Je$$ie Sr was going to fund the purchase of his son’s Senate seat with tax free Rainbow Collalition dollars? What a scummy pair. Pure Democrats both…..

By Dusty

December 12, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

Dear A’wonder@3:41

I’m not sure but maybe the Corporal meant:”Right back AYTCH.” Ya think???

By "The Corporal"

December 12, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

To Midori and Just A’wonderin

I am SO sorry …. you obviously missed my post yesterday.

Remember how you guys have been so derogatory toward President Bush by calling him Dubya - for W his middle initial ?

Well, ……… I mean well, turn about is fair play so when I saw yesterday that the had decided to own up to his middle name Hussein (which he wouldn’t do during the campaign) and is going to use it for his swearing in ceremony, then I decided to nickname him Aytch for his initial H.

I got the idea from a Confederate private in the War Between the States who wrote a diary/book entitled - you guessed it - Company Aytch (for Company “H”).

How appropriate!

So, when you saw Dubya it meant Bush.

When you see Aytch, it means Obama.

And let’s getthose “H’s” on those windshields out there libs !

……………… :o)

By Midori

December 12, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

Agreed, Hillbilly Deluxe.

Yet I don’t see Liberals high fiving each other in agreement for any wrong doing by Dems - unlike Republicans who root, cheer and sneer the wrong doings of their party members.

By Midori

December 12, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

um, Corporal — I thought I had seen and read it all here, but that’s pretty damn silly.

Bush was and is always referred to as “Dubya” by his friends and family.

I’m quite sure Obama’s friends and family came up with something more, um original in way of a nickname. As well as far less stupid.

By more boom boom

December 12, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

ha ha Corporal!

or maybe it could be b-Aytch :)

By Bud Wiser

December 12, 2008 6:20 PM | Link to this

Apparently Jesse Jackson Sr has not taught Junior the proper techniques for a good financial windfall that can be generated by a proper shakedown.

By Taxpayer

December 12, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this

All I see so far is an embarrassment for Jackson at best, not an indictment unless they’ve got something stronger on tape.

By Ray

December 12, 2008 7:01 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer.

But don’t you just get the feeling that Jessie Jr is so scummy, just like his dad, that he would stoop to this kind of political suicide? Is he so damned dumb that he thinks, like Blago, that these things will not catch up with him? Is he so free in his position in the House and with his voter base, that he can be so blatant and so in your face that he thinks that 47% of America will not get the message? Don’t you libs see the real person? He’s making you look bad.

By Taxpayer

December 12, 2008 7:33 PM | Link to this

Ray,

I have never cared for Jesse Sr. — I just plain do not like the man. As for Jesse Jr., I don’t know anything about him. My comments are based purely on the information provided by Jay and all I can conclude is that there’s not enough information presented to make me believe that Jesse Jr. would be indicted for any crime. That could change in a heartbeat given the right information. As for the “libs” comment, I wouldn’t know since I don’t consider myself a “lib”. Finally, the “look bad” comment is one that I would apply to people that do bad things regardless of their label.

By Frederick Douglass

December 12, 2008 8:28 PM | Link to this

So the quandary surrounding Obama’s birth is solved. Yea, apparently he’s the spawn of Jesse Jackson and embattled Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. Anatomically impossible you say, nothing’s impossible in an era where Sarah Palin ccould become a VP candidate. Well back to Obama, he has to be the son of Jesse and Blago. what else would explain his being linked to the shortcomings of these men and their families?

By sunshine and thunder

December 12, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this

JAY

Why haven’t you written a piece about the lack of vetting of BHO by the media?

There was absolutely none, nada, zero, zilch.

There should be outrage on the part of any paying customer of the MSM that they didn’t do their jobs.

Hell, all it took for the media to send legions of investigators to Alaska was a small matter of two words: Sarah Palin.

To this day there are idiot left nuts who still think Dubya snorted cocaine because some media fool hinted at it.

If this were reversed and this sort of taint were around Dubya immeditately after the 2000 election it would be the aim of every journalist with a pulse to investigate everybody in Texas in search of a Pulitzer.

By Frederick Douglass

December 12, 2008 10:15 PM | Link to this

Neil Bush’s ex-wife tried to out Dubya for snorting coke on Matt Laurer’s show. She claimed to have witnessed the brothers toking up at Camp David. Laurer quickly cut to a commercial, and when he returned,the poor woman was mysteriously gone.

By "The Corporal"

December 13, 2008 1:06 AM | Link to this

To Midori

Well then, Obama is my friend and I’m referring to him as Aytch.

Get used to it.

By "The Corporal"

December 13, 2008 1:41 AM | Link to this

Very interesting Wall Street Journal article:

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/12/10/blagojevichs-big-conference-call-and-valerie-jarretts-clean-break/

By Cheryl

December 13, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

To Corporal: Thank you for telling us about “H”, I asked you a couple of days ago why you thought “Dubya or W” was a slur, and now I understand….. it’s very strange, but at least it makes a kind of sense….in a twisted sort of way, but “H” it is…. But you were sticking up for Ray by trying to make his racist comments (Buckwheat) be something other than racism, and made some good points, but Ray is not on your side because just look at this:

by Ray

Taxpayer.

But don’t you just get the feeling that Jessie Jr is so scummy, just like his dad, that he would stoop to this kind of political suicide? Is he so damned dumb that he thinks, like Blago, that these things will not catch up with him?

You See Corporal? Now what has Congressman Jackson, ever done, or said that would make this man from Georgia, who I am certain has NOT followed his career, say he is “Just so Dumb, or scummy”?

Congressman Jackson, holds 3 degrees, including a Doctorate of Divinity, he holds a Law Degree, and of course a Bachelor’s Degree Magna Cum Laude. His wife also holds a Law Degree as well.

He replaced a disgraced Congressman, and has served honorably for years. He mounted a run for Mayor of Chicago, but decided to stay in the Congress instead, the Daley Machine is still too powerful, evidence he is not the corrupt one……

He is a husband and father, and member in very good standing in his community. He is a “new generation” which over the years have been elected in Illinois to replace the old ones who seem steeped in corruption, and the people of Illinois and his district love Cong. Jackson and his counterpart, President Elect Obama. So exactly what makes him “so dumb” and so scummy?

You see Corporal, why I say Ray is a Racist Pig, and frankly, I hope he is a VERY old man, with limited time left….. The world will be a little nicer with him confined to history.

By The Corporal

December 13, 2008 11:03 PM | Link to this

To Cheryl

I hear you but I can’t really answer for what is in Ray’s heart regardless of the words he uses.

That said, too many on these blogs are being very ugly. Strong satire is fine (I do a lot of that myself) but name calling should stop.