Looks like there’s more bad news on tap: President Bush is apparently ready to sign yet another government handout, this one to automotive companies about to go bankrupt. As with Bush and the Republicans’ laws to bailout banks and subsidize seniors’ drugs, this amounts to massive government intervention. We’re in a spiral toward National Socialism: Republicans must remember that Bush and their Grand Old Religious Party made huge advancements toward this coming disaster—and Democrats must face that their party and their new president have the power to pull us out of the spiral and return the nation to freedom, capitalism and individual rights.
The corruption scandal involving Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is not surprising to those of us familiar with politics—in both parties—in the Land of Lincoln (and Kerner, Walker, and Ryan). Whether blowhard Blagojevich’s thoroughly corrupt tactics are tied to President-elect Obama remains to be seen, however, there is a discrepancy over whether the Obama team had talked with the governor about Blagojevich’s appointment to Obama’s soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat. Obama at first said no, but, earlier, a top aide had said that the Senate seat had been discussed and there’s certainly the hint of a quid pro quo in Blagojevich relationship with the man who took the governor’s former seat in Congress, Obama’s secretive designated chief of staff, Rep. Rahm Emanuel. Knowing that he was under likely surveillance by the feds—United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald as a modern-day Elliot Ness—why did observably brazen Blagojevich figure he was apparently immune from prosecution? Look for this story to have long legs—if the press dares to dig.
