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This is getting to be entertaining. The problem for Illinois Democrats is how to impeach Blogojevich, without dragging Obama's team into the mess. So, they've got to generate legitimate evidence against Blogojevich on the one hand, but leave the Obama team clean on the other hand.
What will be extremely interesting is if we see an impeachment hearing with very little actual evidence against Blagojevich, which would, to me, imply that the really dirty stuff, that's in the hands of Fitzpatrick does indeed implicate those that the Illinois Democrats are trying to protect.
It could be a very interesting sideshow to start off the new Administration. Then again, it could be nothing at all.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axZaypeCjNl4&refer=worldwide
Blagojevich Impeachment Panel Split on Subpoena for Obama Aides
Dec. 26 (Bloomberg) -- An Illinois panel considering the impeachment of Governor Rod Blagojevich is divided over whether to subpoena aides of President-elect Barack Obama and a U.S. congressman.
The committee is looking into the Democratic governor’s alleged attempt to auction Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat.
Blagojevich’s attorney, Edward Genson, today sent the 21- member impeachment committee a list of witnesses he wants summoned to testify before the panel next week. The list includes Obama’s chief of staff appointee Rahm Emanuel and adviser Valerie Jarrett, both of whom were interviewed last week by federal prosecutors in a corruption probe of the governor’s office.
Republican members of the impeachment panel want Democratic Chairwoman Barbara Flynn Currie to grant Genson’s request to subpoena Emanuel, Jarrett and U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., a Chicago Democrat and aspirant to Obama’s former Senate post.
Currie, the sole member of the panel with the authority to issue subpoenas, didn’t return phone messages seeking comment. Last week, she indicated she doesn’t plan to seek testimony from anyone involved in the U.S. attorney’s criminal investigation.
Republicans can’t force Currie to issue subpoenas because Democrats control a 12-9 majority on the panel, state Representative Roger Eddy said.
“I think we should subpoena these people, but there is no way in the world the Democrats are going to allow them to be questioned,” Eddy, one of nine Republicans on the panel, said today in a telephone interview.
What will be extremely interesting is if we see an impeachment hearing with very little actual evidence against Blagojevich, which would, to me, imply that the really dirty stuff, that's in the hands of Fitzpatrick does indeed implicate those that the Illinois Democrats are trying to protect.
It could be a very interesting sideshow to start off the new Administration. Then again, it could be nothing at all.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axZaypeCjNl4&refer=worldwide
Blagojevich Impeachment Panel Split on Subpoena for Obama Aides
Dec. 26 (Bloomberg) -- An Illinois panel considering the impeachment of Governor Rod Blagojevich is divided over whether to subpoena aides of President-elect Barack Obama and a U.S. congressman.
The committee is looking into the Democratic governor’s alleged attempt to auction Obama’s vacant U.S. Senate seat.
Blagojevich’s attorney, Edward Genson, today sent the 21- member impeachment committee a list of witnesses he wants summoned to testify before the panel next week. The list includes Obama’s chief of staff appointee Rahm Emanuel and adviser Valerie Jarrett, both of whom were interviewed last week by federal prosecutors in a corruption probe of the governor’s office.
Republican members of the impeachment panel want Democratic Chairwoman Barbara Flynn Currie to grant Genson’s request to subpoena Emanuel, Jarrett and U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., a Chicago Democrat and aspirant to Obama’s former Senate post.
Currie, the sole member of the panel with the authority to issue subpoenas, didn’t return phone messages seeking comment. Last week, she indicated she doesn’t plan to seek testimony from anyone involved in the U.S. attorney’s criminal investigation.
Republicans can’t force Currie to issue subpoenas because Democrats control a 12-9 majority on the panel, state Representative Roger Eddy said.
“I think we should subpoena these people, but there is no way in the world the Democrats are going to allow them to be questioned,” Eddy, one of nine Republicans on the panel, said today in a telephone interview.