Oh no! A representative from the Obama administration---Rahm Emanuel, who might someday be Chief of Staff---spoke to Blagojevich about Obama's replacement! Proving that Obama, who isn't even president yet, LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!
The far right blogosphere is confident that, despite the exculpatory evidence, a link WILL eventually appear in the form of straws suitable for manufacturing bricks to hurl at Obama. Meanwhile, having added up the numbers on their fingers and toes and done their sums, they're sticking the straws in their hair while rising up to chant as one:
"It has not been proven impossible that despite all so-called ‘existing’ evidence, Obama might have attempted to, uh, buy his own, uh, I guess Senate seat."
RNC video after the fold.
Is it too early to impeach Obama, or do we have to wait until he takes office? Technicalities, I know...
And on what grounds rest today's outburst of high-pitched giggling glee among the pathetically wrong-about-everything-for-the-last-8-years right-eous?
One source confirmed that communications between Emanuel and the Blagojevich administration were captured on court-approved wiretaps.
Am I crazy, or did Patrick Fitzgerald recently say, in plain and unequivocal language:
"I should make clear, the complaint makes no allegations about the president-elect whatsoever....We make no allegations that he's aware of anything, and that's as simply as I can put it. . . .
"There's no reference in the complaint to any conversations involving the president-elect or indicating that the president-elect was aware of it. And that's all I can say."
Obama is doomed. Fitzgerald’s blunt exculpatory remarks will prove a fatal blow to the now still-born Obama administration.
Yep, the fact that Emanuel knows Blago and gave him a list of names sure spells "presumptive guilt" to me.
It’s like the reverse of Bush-induced scandal fatigue whereby an administration can commit outrageous war crimes, shred the Constitution, out covert CIA operatives as political payback, etc. to a stubbornly disinterested media (until Katrina at least), but Obama not having done anything wrong other than be a Democrat from a state in which a Democratic governor is in trouble for trying to sell a senate seat vacated by Obama is damning evidence of serious malfeasance that demands opprobrium/non-stop coverage and faux-linkage.
Will this lead to further revelations showing that Obama is guilty by association with someone (who will be, but is not now, Obama's Chief of Staff) who was KNOWN TO HAVE ASSOCIATED WITH Blago?
Anyway, it's amusing to see desperate wingnuts try to spin it around to make it a blot on Obama's still nonexistent page.
Maybe somebody should let the RNC know their candidate lost the presidential election or better still, let them keep spending their money.