Barack Obama,  Rod Blagojevich

Hot Rod Blagojevich Ignores Obama’s Calls for Him to Resign

Federal investigators arrested the governor of the central state of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, and his chief of staff, John Harris, on Tuesday, alleging they tried to personally profit from appointing a replacement for President-elect Barack Obama in the US Senate

Well, Blagovejich DARED the Unites Sates Attorney to tap his phone (in the video above) and he did. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald tappped Blagojevich’s home phone for over eight weeks. God knows what is on all of those tapes, including contacts with President-Elect Obama’s staff.

But, the Illinois governor is DEFIANT and reportedly will not resign.

His career in shreds, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich clung defiantly to power Wednesday, ignoring a call to step down from President-elect Barack Obama and a warning that Senate Democrats will not let him appoint a new senator from the state.

“Everyone is calling for his head,” said Barbara Flynn Currie, a leader in the Illinois Senate and, like the governor, a Democrat.

One day after Blagojevich’s arrest, fellow Illinois politicians sought to avoid the taint of scandal-by-association.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said at a news conference in Washington that he was Senate Candidate 5 in the government’s criminal complaint — a man Blagojevich was secretly recorded as saying might be willing to pay money to gain appointment to Obama’s vacant Senate seat. Jackson said he had been assured by prosecutors he was not a target of the investigation, and he emphatically said he had not engaged “whatsoever in any wrongdoing.”

Other Democrats in Washington edged away from calls for a special election to fill Obama’s place in the Senate, hoping that Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn would soon become governor and fill the vacancy on his own. That would assure the party of holding the seat, and on a far faster timetable than any balloting would allow.

Ensconced in his downtown office, Blagojevich gave no sign he was contemplating resigning, and dispatched his spokeswoman, Kelley Quinn, to say it was “business as usual” in his 16th-floor suite, situated a few blocks from Obama’s transition headquarters.

“At the end of the day, the top priority for our office is to serve the people, and we have not lost sight of that, nor will we lose sight of that,” Quinn said.

Who knows what is going on behind the scenes with a plea deal. But as Flap said this morning, time is running out for Blagojevich.


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3 Comments

  • Ling

    The most delicious part of this scandal is that there’s no way out for Blagojevich and Harris, and once the Fed’s start working them over, there’s all sorts of dirty laundry going to be washed in public. Doubt if its going to hurt Obama directly, but Rahm Emmanuel seems to be very scared.

  • Babsy

    Gateway Pundit is reporting this morning that the lovely Michelle ‘My Belle’ Obama is named on page 64 of the indictment. This is change you can believe in!

    I really feel sorry for their kids. They deserved better parents.

  • Flap

    When Hot Rod starts to flip for the feds the revelations about Obama and the rest of his Chicago mob will be truly scandalous.

    It will make Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers look normal.