By 59-0, Illinois state senators have voted to oust their governor, despite his delivery of an impassioned plea from the senate floor. What were they thinking? Blago's knack for enlivening our public discourse with the judiciously chosen irrelevance will be sorely missed:
Mr. Blagojevich told a strange anecdote about John Warner, the former senator from Virginia, who it seems once mistook Mr. Blagojevich, then a freshman Congressman, for a staff member and told him to fetch coffee. Mr. Warner was married to Elizabeth Taylor at the time, and Mr. Blagojevich told the State Senate, “that’s all I could think about.” It was not quite clear how all that was supposed to help his case.
Still, he went down fighting, displaying his mastery of the non-apology:
“I want to apologise to you for what happened,” he said, looking earnest and speaking as if he felt pretty badly about it all. “But I can’t. Because I did nothing wrong.”
Most Blago-esque single line of the day:
"I did a lot of things that were mostly right."
Illinois senate tells Rod Blagojevich to not let the door hit him in the butt on the way out
Personally, I am going to miss this guy. He epitomizes the worst of Democratic politics.
Posted by: The Intellectual Redneck | January 30, 2009 at 01:15 AM