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A source close to President-Elect Obama confirmed today that the Obama team is considering its legal options to “fight the scurrilous rumors and libelous claims that Obama would not play ball with Blagojevich’s pay-to-play schemes.”  Speaking on condition of anonymity, the person made it clear that the Obama camp is not pleased with the suggestion that he will not play hardball Chicago style politics.

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was recently arrested and is facing numerous corruption charges.  According to a 76 page complaint filed by  US Attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, Blagojevich had an elaborate scheme for trading the appointment of the person of President-Elect Obama’s choosing to the senate seat vacated by his election in exchange for a cushy union job.

The potentially libelous accusations are from recorded phone conversations obtained during the Blagojevich investigation.

Blagojevich: “They’re [Obama] not willing to give me anything but appreciation. [Bleep] them!  I’ve got this thing. And it’s [bleeping] golden. I’m just not giving it up for [bleeping] nothing. I’m not going to do it. I can always use it. I can parachute me there.”

Some legal scholars believe the Obama team may have a strong case.  Wm.  Ayers, best-selling author and well-respected professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago says, “I can see that team Obama certainly has standing, the suggestion that Obama doesn’t have the stomach for Chicago politics will harm his ability to work in this system in the future.”

During the interview, the Obama confidant became visibly agitated, going so far as stabbing in the air with an imaginary knife at the mention of certain names.  The source continued with details of the harm done to Obama’s reputation.

“Listen, he [Obama] is only going to be President for 8 years – maybe a few more with the right Supreme Court appointments.    After that, he’s gonna return to Chicago where he will need the juice to survive in that atmosphere.  Seriously, ya think that he can get anything done in Illinois if people like Rezko or Daley think he’s a [bleeping] boy scout?  They’ll [bleeping] eat him alive”

“Plus, its just not [bleeping] true!  People will see right through these accusations.  The facts speak for themselves, Obama gave that [bleeping] hillbilly $20 Million and position as Secretary of State for just a [bleeping] endorsement!”

UPDATE:  IowaHawk reports:

The ongoing corruption probe into Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich took a dramatic turn this evening, as federal agents working for US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald announced that they had seized the governor’s eBay account.

Tags: humor, satire

Time magazine has an interesting article on one of the various cogs in the left-wing activist machine.  The article , which doesn’t mince words, shows a well-funded, organized operation that is committed to defeating “anti-gay” candidates at every level across the nation.  Time recounts how the group of wealthy donors dumped large sums of cash into the 2005 Virginia legislative elections where four candidates seen as “critical of gays” saw defeat.

This unofficial group of wealthy benefactors has become known as the “Cabinet.”

Among gay activists, the Cabinet is revered as a kind of secret gay Super Friends, a homosexual justice league that can quietly swoop in wherever anti-gay candidates are threatening and finance victories for the good guys.

Some Cabinet members also donated tens of thousands of dollars in certain Iowa and New Hampshire races in 2006, when Democrats regained control of both states’ legislatures. Those states’ Democratic majorities now ensure that, among other things, efforts to amend the Iowa and New Hampshire constitutions to ban same-sex marriage will fail.

Those named as members of the Cabinet:

• David Bohnett of Beverly Hills, Calif., Billionaire Co-Founder of Geo-Cities.
• Timothy Gill of Denver, tech multimillionaire;
• James Hormel of San Francisco, heir to the famous meat company;
• Jon Stryker of Kalamazoo, Mich., the billionaire grandson of the founder of medical-technology giant Stryker Corp.;
• Henry van Ameringen, whose father Arnold Louis van Ameringen started a Manhattan-based import company that later became the mammoth International Flavors & Fragrances.
• Jonathan Lewis, grandson of Joseph, co-founder of Progressive Insurance
• Linda Ketner, heiress to the Food Lion fortune, who is running for Congress against GOP Representative Henry Brown Jr. of South Carolina.

The left-wing of this nation has certainly learned how to play big-league behind the scenes politics.  Where is that Vast Right Wing Conspiracy when you need it?

Tags: gay mafia, national

Here is a very enlightening video featuring footage gathered for an upcoming documentary on how the media impacted the 2008 election. Check out the details at HowObamaGotElected.com

When you couple the mainstream media’s criminally negligent reporting of facts with the American citizenry’s willful ignorance of history and basic civics, we get the American Idol presidency of Barack Obama.

The Obama voters that I have spoken with fall into two categories:  1) Those who have no idea where he stands on any issue.  2) Those who understand his ideaology but think he will be unable to pass any of his “more dangerous” ideas.  There is no category three for those who agree with Obama on his ideaology because I don’t know any socialists.  I guess I need to get out more.

Tags: 2008, media, national

The Republican Party of Iowa is helping recruit volunteers to monitor Minnesota’s looming senate recount on behalf of Sen. Norm Coleman’s campaign. “Vounteers urgently needed!” reads the heading on an email sent out by the state party yesterday. The Iowa GOP is seeking two-week commitments from individuals beginning on Monday.

The recount is slated to start on Wednesday. There are expected to be roughly 120 locations across the state where ballots will be manually inspected by local election officials to determine which candidate voters intended to support. Authorized representatives from the campaigns of Coleman and Al Franken will have the ability to challenge any decisions that they deem questionable.

The Franken campaign is assembling its own team of recount observers. According to spokeswoman Colleen Murray, they have lined up more than 1,000 volunteers to help monitor the process,  including 250 attorneys.

Tags: 2008, GOP

Is this a sign of serious voter apathy in Iowa?  Or is it simply a matter of the “devil we know.”

This from the Register

Not a single challenger even came close to knocking off one of Iowa’s congressional incumbents in Tuesday’s election, according to unofficial state vote counts updated Wednesday.

It’s a sign of the power incumbents wield, said Arthur Sanders, a Drake University political science professor. Incumbents have name recognition, a record to run on and, generally, can raise money more easily, he said.

“When you combine all of those things together, it becomes very, very difficult to beat an incumbent and that’s why most of them win re-election,” Sanders said.

Republicans in the Iowa Senate are likely to consider new leadership in the wake of an election that again shrank their numbers.

The share of Republican seats has slipped each election since 2000, dropping from 30 to 29 to 25 to 20 to 18.

Iowa House Republicans meet Monday, and “we’ll be watching them,” said Sen. David Johnson, a Republican from Ocheyedan who supports Wieck.House Republican leader Christopher Rants of Sioux City also faces a challenge from one of his closest advisers, Kraig Paulsen, a Republican from Hiawatha.

House Republicans have seen their numbers shrink from 56 to 54 to 51 to 47 to 44 since 2000.

Take a few minutes to examine the election results from the Des Moines Register.

Tags: 2008, iowa house, iowa senate