Ill. Gov Impeached

[TDDude]

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois House voted overwhelmingly Friday to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, an unprecedented action that sets up a Senate trial on whether he should be thrown out for abuse of power, including allegations that he tried to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.

Impeachment required just 60 votes. The final result was 114-1.

Legislators accused the second-term Democratic governor of letting down the people of Illinois by letting ego and ambition drive his decisions.

"It's our duty to clean up the mess and stop the freak show that's become Illinois government," said Rep. Jack D. Franks, a Democrat.

Blagojevich was out jogging in his Chicago neighborhood when the vote came down.

This really should be a joke but sadly it's not.

During the House's 90-minute debate on impeachment, no one spoke up to defend the governor. But Rep. Milton Patterson, a Chicago Democrat, made the sole vote against impeaching Blagojevich.

It sounds like this Patterson fellow is the only non hypocrite in the bunch.

Only in America would the media feel it's normal for a goup of foxes to put on trial for chicken killing, the most effective chicken killer in their bunch.

Aint Life Grand!!

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From the Chicago Tribune:

Rep. Milt Patterson (D-Chicago) was the lone vote against impeaching the governor. Patterson, from Chicago's Southwest Side, said after the roll call that he didn't feel it was his job to vote to impeach the governor.

Then whose job is it, moran? I can't believe that this guy is actually in such a high office.

[Oldgringo]

From the Chicago Tribune:

Rep. Milt Patterson (D-Chicago) was the lone vote against impeaching the governor. Patterson, from Chicago's Southwest Side, said after the roll call that he didn't feel it was his job to vote to impeach the governor.

Then whose job is it, moran? I can't believe that this guy is actually in such a high office.

Maybe the Honorable Mr. Patterson lives in a glass house? You know what they say about folk who live in glass houses.

[Captain Matt]

If only saints could judge, the criminals would be running free.