tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post4452088702149496753..comments2023-10-24T11:23:31.580-04:00Comments on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Blago's Masterful Closing Argument - First TakeWilliam A. Jacobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16433685588536441422noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-25673489805022939732009-01-29T23:57:00.000-05:002009-01-29T23:57:00.000-05:00Illinois has had some good governors and some not ...Illinois has had some good governors and some not so good, some crooked governors who got sent to prison, some crooked governors who didn't, some non-crooked governors. They have never had a governor removed, no matter how bad, by impeachment.<BR/><BR/>Blagojevich is a (for those here who evidently know nothing about him except what they've heard from him on tv or about him on tv) a *remarkably* bad governor.<BR/><BR/>Is he glib? Sure. Is that a mark of a good governor. No.<BR/><BR/>Public opinion turned against Blago shortly after his re-election in 2006. If the Legislature had any guts he would have been removed shortly after he attempted to spend hundreds of millions (possibly billions) of money not appropriated by the Legislature for programs not authorized by them.<BR/><BR/>The Federal problems merely offered the Legislature a handy excuse for doing what they wanted (and should have done earlier) to.<BR/><BR/>Those who forget that impeachment is a political crime should probably cease commenting as if it were a criminal trial.<BR/><BR/>If the impeachment was 'wrong' the voters will punish the impeachers (I give you Bill Clinton in 1998). The rest is irrelevant.JorgXMcKiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509568525555189690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-64844037896203685662009-01-29T17:49:00.000-05:002009-01-29T17:49:00.000-05:00I couldn't top that one if I tried!I couldn't top that one if I tried!William A. Jacobsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16433685588536441422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-42801163417950052362009-01-29T17:01:00.000-05:002009-01-29T17:01:00.000-05:00THE KANGAROOS OF CORRUPTIONIt´s time to move from ...THE KANGAROOS OF CORRUPTION<BR/><BR/>It´s time to move from Illinois--<BR/>Corruption rules the land:<BR/>Blagojevich, a whipping boy,<BR/>Took his defiant stand,<BR/>But, since his manner did annoy<BR/>(No evidence to hand)<BR/>Due process thereby to destroy<BR/>Voted an angry band.<BR/><BR/>The legislators painted him<BR/>A kind of reckless goof,<BR/>Because his words weren´t always prim--<BR/>Yet still they had no proof:<BR/>The angels and the seraphim<BR/>May fly up near the roof,<BR/>But in the chamber men were grim<BR/>As justice turned aloof.<BR/><BR/>Presumption of one´s innocence<BR/>In this case having waived,<BR/>The mobocrats, they did commence<BR/>Upon the path they paved<BR/>Long in advance--and who knows hence<BR/>Their precedent depraved<BR/>Will lead to what? The consequence<BR/>May be freedom enslaved.<BR/><BR/>He strove to do the people´s good,<BR/>The governor´s words came rich,<BR/>But still the motley angry brood<BR/>Preferred to bait-and-switch:<BR/>Although his truth they understood<BR/>It was a witch-hunt which<BR/>To judgment rushed, and him they booed<BR/>As though he were a snitch.<BR/><BR/>Sententious proud the Mighty Quinn<BR/>He led them in their jeers,<BR/>The angry throng, and by his spin<BR/>Turned truth, from what appears<BR/>Self-evident, to something thin<BR/>Which mob concensus clears,<BR/>And though the governor sought to win<BR/>Commonsense no one hears.<BR/><BR/>"A world of allegation doth<BR/>Not make a criminal act,"<BR/>So said he, but, as behemoth<BR/>The mob cared not for fact:<BR/>"Impeach, impeach!" they cried, none loath<BR/>Reticence to retract,<BR/>Conjectures hurling rancid wroth<BR/>As calumnies attacked.<BR/><BR/>So their removal of the Guv<BR/>Went off without a hitch--<BR/>Whom none might bend so they did shove,<BR/>Wrath wrought to feverish pitch;<BR/>Ill-tempered legislators of<BR/>Corruption in each niche,<BR/>Sans justice--much less human love--<BR/>Due Rod Blagojevich.<BR/><BR/>Yet, whom all shun, the gods salute,<BR/>And so man´s race is run:<BR/>Although the facts men may confute<BR/>Colluding everyone,<BR/>Who falls so low in men´s repute<BR/>The heavens do not shun,<BR/>Telling him, "Your speech was a beaut,<BR/>And you a man, my son."<BR/><BR/>Before the mob he had his say<BR/>But they removed him anyway<BR/>Ere evidence came into play:<BR/>Good people, it is time to pray<BR/>That when the court your work reviews<BR/>In calumny and wrathful ruse<BR/>The judgment-sitters in their pews<BR/>Be not the same ole kangaroos.<BR/><BR/>.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10988062653757521167noreply@blogger.com