You have to love what's going on with the continuing investigation into Illinois Governor Blagojevich's pay-to-play scandal.
Our newly-elected First Rookie from Illinois is already swimming in troubled waters of his own making. Far from being forthcoming and transparent about his campaign's involvement with Blago, the President-elect has: incorrectly claimed no contact by his campaign staff with Blago on the issue; promised information that didn't materialize; stonewalled a reporter's question; and embarrassedly watched as his chief of staff has had many more contacts with Blago than the New Messiah's campaign initially admitted.
Now, he and two aides are being deposed by the Federal prosecutor.
Nobody is alleging that the First Rookie has involved himself in paying to have his favorite, Valerie Jarrett, appointed to his Senate seat. But it is clear that he has already lost control of both his staff's activities, and then the information being disseminated about his staff's involvement in the scandal.
Plus, no reasonable person can understand how the New Messiah's campaign staff could have possibly not understood what Blago was doing. The Governor spoke with Jarrett and Emanuel. We have heard the Federal prosecutor repeat Blago's comments after talking to, presumably, the chief of staff, saying he wasn't satisfied with just appreciation. Does anyone believe that Emanuel was not asked to cough up something more than thanks?
It's hard to believe that someone on that campaign staff wasn't aware or highly suspicious of Blago's game. Yet none of them, from the President-elect down to the his favored replacement, kept quiet.
It makes you wonder....are they all complicit in having covered up the scheme, or just too stupid to realize what was happening.
Either way, who would want this team of amateurs heading to Washington to repeat their ineptitude for four years with the Federal budget and other important matters?
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