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rightwingnuthouse.com - 12/14/2008
BLAGO STINK IS EXPANDING
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The Blago Blow-Up is beginning to churn like the contents of one’s stomach following a helping of bad escargot. You begin to realize you just ate a heaping, steaming plate of snail flesh and begin to wonder if it will just give you gas or perhaps end up deposited unceremoniously on the ...
blogs.wsj.com - 12/15/2008
The Real Story Behind the Rushed Blagojevich Bust: How the Feds Are Frustrated by Losing (Maybe) ...
— blogs.wsj.com — Cam Simpson reports on the Rod Blagojevich case in Chicago. Conventional wisdom holds that U.S. Attorney Patrick... Fitzgerald ordered the FBI to arrest Rod Blagojevich before sunrise Tuesday in order to stop a crime from being committed. That ... (more) The Real Story Behind the Rushed Blagojevich Bust: How ...

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rasmussenreports.com - 12/15/2008
45% Suspect Obama Team Involved in Blagojevich Scandal
— rasmussenreports.com — Forty five percent (45%) of U.S. voters say it is likely President-elect Obama or one of his... top campaign aides was involved in the unfolding Blagojevich scandal in Illinois, including 23% who say it is Very Likely. Just 11% say it is not at all ... (more) 45% Suspect Obama Team Involved in Blagojevich Scandal

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swamppolitics.com - 12/13/2008
Rahm Emanuel, Blagojevich staff talked
— swamppolitics.com — by Bob Secter Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's pick to be White House chief of staff, had... conversations with Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration about who would replace Obama in the U.S. Senate, the Tribune has learned.  ... (more) Rahm Emanuel, Blagojevich staff talked

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Is the Chicago way the change we need?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Perhaps I was mistaken in a previous paragraph. It may not be such a straightforward task for Obama’s people to assemble a contact list. If other members of the Obama transition team are as apparently confused as was Axlerod about whether they had contact with Blago’s office, this could take some time. As Rick Moran observed about Emmanuel’s multiple contacts with the governor’s office: ...

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