Breaking: Pol Pot Durbin Subpoenaed for Blagojevich Trial
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, April 23, 2010, 12:51 PM
Dick “Pol Pot” Durbin was subpoenaed for the Rod Blagojevich trial this afternoon.
Local KSDK reported:
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says he’s been subpoenaed by Rod Blagojevich’s defense attorneys to testify at the ousted Illinois governor’s upcoming corruption trial.
Durbin discussed the subpoena during an appearance in Chicago on Friday — a day after Blagojevich’s lawyers asked a federal judge to issue a subpoena to force President Barack Obama to testify.
Blagojevich has pleaded not guilty to charges that accuse him of scheming to sell or trade the Senate seat left vacant by Obama’s election as president.
Durbin told reporters he only talked to Blagojevich once about the Senate seat. Durbin says the phone call lasted about 10 to 15 minutes and he suggested 10 to 20 people to consider for the vacancy.
Hat Tip Ed
Don’t stop now… Call ‘em all in, Blago.
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Alice L. commented:
Excellent! It is the “Chicago way”, you know. I almost feel sorry for Blago. Compared to comrades Durbin, Nobama, the Rev. Pfleger and the Rev. Wright, he almost appears normal. Go, get ‘em, Blago! And of course, Rahm Emmanuel.
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
I can hear the sphincters tightening up as I type this.
Blago has achieved “loose cannon” status. I’m going to stock up on popcorn.
DomesticGoddess commented:
C’mon Blago, sing like a bird!
olm commented:
Popcorn Friday!
Stuart commented:
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Blago spilled the beans and cleared the way to the impeachment of Obama.
America saved by a scumbag: the Gods would just howl with laughter.
newton commented:
“Wouldn’t it be ironic if Blago spilled the beans and cleared the way to the impeachment of Obama.”
You know what? I was think about exactly the same thing!
Imagine that. Barack Obama will not be destroyed by his enemies, but by his friends. Ha!
newton commented:
“thinking”, I meant… Dang!
Ben Robinson commented:
The delicious irony of it all . . . Let’s speed this thing up (oh please Lord, before November)!
Havok commented:
a few things..
1st of all.. I hope the corruption involving the whole Chicago mess is stired up and lots and lots of these dirtbags fill up the jail cells meant for the gitmo terrorist, so they Have to be kept down there..
2nd…Blago is a Sociopath..no telling what is the truth involving him and what he “Believes” is real. I have a hard time beleiving anything he says…
last… Blago’s attorney is probably trying to cause so much of an irritation to the Obama Regime, and create a fear of being on the stand under oath, that Obama Issues a full pardon to shut it all down.
wolf t. commented:
Durbin spoke 10 to 15 minutes with Blago in a single phone call, and offered up 10 to 20 names. Was little Dick Durbin just reading off a list of names to Blago? That and hello, how ya doin’ would just about cover 10 minutes.
Phone call:
Durbin: “Blago?”
Blago:” Yeah.”
Durbin: Here’s a list of names (Obama) for the open senate seat. Gotta go. There’s a senate vote coming up. Have to take my Viagra so I screw the American people thoroughly with my vote. Beats porn anyday. Bye. My 10 minutes are up.”
Blago: “See you at the trial, Durbin.”
Chippy commented:
Watch for Tony Rezko and his Iraqi billionaire friend Mr. Auchi and another guy named Alsammarae. They had a meeting with Obama. Afterward that, a deal fell into place for these guys to build power plants in Iraq.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/tony-rezko-and-obamas-shifting-positions-on-iraq/
moron commented:
Yep, a DEMOCRAT responsible for eliciting pergury. As soon as their lips begin moving under oath. However, remember Vince Foster?
Pedro commented:
I walked past Durbin on my lunch hour while he speaking with reporters by the Chicago Board of Trade. I called him a moron. Giggles ensued from the crowd. It was gratifying.
Alice L. commented:
Oh, yeah: and Hillary also! Sing, Blago, sing!
PCM commented:
Blago involved in a fatal “accident” in 3, 2, 1…
squeaky commented:
an opinion piece but where is tony rezko…..
[Why is Antoin “Tony” Rezko under lock and key at an undisclosed location, like some sort of CIA-renditioned al Qaeda operative? And why hasn’t he been sentenced yet?]
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/where-in-the-world-is-tony-rezko-91619594.html#ixzz0lxMRlwut
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/where-in-the-world-is-tony-rezko-91619594.html
olm commented:
OK, this cute little bedtime story coming out of Chicago is bad, really bad. I don’t believe any of the scumbags but I do believe that when you throw Rezko in there this gets real ugly.
What are the chances of someone having the balls to clean this mess up?
I say slim and none.
Pawn commented:
Ron’s going to get a big headache soon.
jerryl commented:
msm at this time we regret too inform you that blago has killed himself because of all the stress hes been under next did you hear the one about ……
Joel commented:
The number of things Obama can screw-up is just amazing. It’s no wonder he was never in the private sector.
tennismom commented:
Thinking a couple of moves ahead…
What’s the law about senators under indictment for felonies like, um, perjury? Don’t they have to step down?
If Sen. Durtbin ‘disappears’, would there be a special election?
Or would Gov. Quim appointment a replacement?
Surely some fine legal minds procrastinating somewhere in the IL govt bureaucracy will answer these queries.
jetstream commented:
BREAKING:
Great news! Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed S1070 Illegal alien bill, protecting Arizona citizens from the violence and lawbreaking. Also signed executive order to protect civil rights – no racial profiling.
(Quotes are paraphrased or exact):
“Safety of citizens of paramount importance, not diversity.” “Language of bill taken directly from federal law.” “Federal government has failed for decades.” “Racial profiling will not be tolerated.”
She is VERY FIRMLY endorsing the new law to put a stop to failure of federal government to enforce the illegal alien laws.
jetstream commented:
More info on AZ illegal alien law here, where signing and news conference was Livestreamed:
http://tinyurl.com/2478prn
squeaky commented:
from fox news…..
[CHICAGO -- The blacked-out portions of a subpoena request filed by lawyers for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich -- which were revealed through a simple computer trick -- suggest President Obama may have played a role in finding his own Senate..]
Corporal Vere commented:
I thank God I am not Blago’s life insurance agent.
olm commented:
Back on Topic, kind of.
Remember way back when……….the choir gay guy at the church, the Wright church, was murdered? Anyone?
OK I have no idea why this guy was killed but he popped into my head.
I have always found it interesting that Rezko and Auchi never really seemed to stick to Obummer. I mean really you have obvious corruption involving Obummer and at least 1/2 the people around him and nothing sticks. The only body being the murdered choir guy who has nothing to do with anything. I don’t know where I’m going except to say at some point you’ve got to wonder if one starts singing will they all go down. And is this so insidious and large that they all can’t go down?
Bobbi commented:
Blago really had to come up the hard way working to put himself through school, because his immigrant parents fled Serbia or whatever. He’s basically like a street kid who’s made it. The only thing separating him from the rest of the filth in the Demoncratic Party is that he is real, and ‘they” got to go to Philip Exeter or have Daddy pay for their education.
Personally, I’m cheering for the guy.
Joanne commented:
Blago doesn’t seem to want to take the whole hit and is going to take down as many as he can with him. Serve them right….take them all down.
jetstream commented:
#28 olm
The choir director was Donald Young (purportedly Obama’s special friend).
And don’t forget the guy who was going to testify about the unauthorized passport access of Obama and McCain, I think his name was Quarles Harris.
seven commented:
Blago will be safer in jail. The chances of Obama testifying? Between slime and none.
Rezco may still be singing like a morning songbird.
There are tapes and records that indict Obama that we have not seen.
Bobbi commented:
my guess is that the people who put Obama’s a** in office arepretty tired of his sorry performance, and might just let the whole thing put Obama away. I would prefer treason charges, because he doesn’t deserve being supported by us for the rest of his sorry life.
D commented:
I think nothing will come of this. I watched Blago on Celebrity Apprentice, for me it was kind of telling to see his facial expressions when Trump asked him a question, he did not lie, but he went all the way around it.. I notice too that this comes on the weekend news cycle… I hope Blago is a splinter in Obi’s finger for a good few months!!!
D commented:
One more question, whatever happened to those computers that were stolen out of impound relating to this case??? I guess they had backups!
bg commented:
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posted the following the other day..
Blagojevich to judge: Make Obama testify
[On the day before he was elected president, then-Sen. Obama personally called a union official about his desire for Blagojevich to appoint Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to replace him in the Senate, according to Blagojevich’s defense filing in U.S. District Court in Chicago.]
Blagojevich Motion: Redacted Material Claims Obama Pushed
Valerie Jarrett For Senate, Took Money From Tony Rezko
[One bombshell accusation included in a blacked-out portion of the document: that the Obama campaign accepted "a large sum of cash"
from convicted felon and government witness Tony Rezko.
The document also alleges that President Obama suggested Valerie Jarrett get his old seat, and that he contacted labor union officials about lobbying the Governor's office on her behalf.]
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bg commented:
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olm @ 3:10 pm #28
re: [Remember way back when……….the choir gay guy at the church, the Wright church, was murdered? Anyone?]
remember it??
heck, i’ve posted about it at least a dozen times..
Three Members of Obama’s Church Killed
[The bombshell may involve the murder of Donald Young, a 47-year-old choir master at former Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ—the same congregation that Obama has attended for the past 20 years. Two other young black men that attended the same church—Larry Bland and Nate Spencer—were also murdered execution style with bullets to the backs of their heads—all within 40 days of each other, beginning in November 2007. All three were openly homosexual.
[..]
Sinclair has also asked: why would Young—whom he had never met—initiate these calls by contacting him on cell phone numbers known only in the Obama camp? Further, a private investigator connected to the Chicago Police Department told the Globe, “Donald Young was silenced because of something he knew about Obama. Donald was in a position where he heard a lot of things and saw a lot of things concerning Barack.”
[..]
Are three murders within the span of 40 days among members of America’s most discussed church—one run by the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright—enough to arouse the suspicions of Chicago law enforcement officials and members of the national media?]
“we the people” don’t have a media.. the Obama WH controls it.. hello??
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bg commented:
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Chippy @ 1:36 pm #13
been posting about their connections to each
other & to Obama for months on end as well..
here’s a sample:
Connecting the Dots: Obama, Rezko, Auchi,
Alsammarae, and the Iraq kleptocracy
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bg commented:
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if the media doesn’t cover this, then
we know where the TPM has to go..
and i Thank God for Sarah
Palin to help get US there!!
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bg commented:
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jetstream @ 2:52 pm #24
re: [Arizona Governor Jan Brewer
signed S1070 Illegal alien bill.]
Amen to that!!
now she’ll be facing all sort of false accusations
and racist innuendo’s as to HER CHARACTER..
evidently Obama’s skin color matter more, but alas, i digress..
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bg commented:
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re: jetstream @ 2:52 pm #24
another link with video via CNN..
Arizona governor signs immigration bill
btw: you can easily tell the so called MSM
is extremely bias concerning this topic.. :p
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olm commented:
Oh my! I thought I knew alot but I didn’t know there were 3 murders.
Jo commented:
Blago wants Obama too. Obama today is running scared in the woods. Maybe he went into the woods to smoke something. He has a habit of smoking stuff because he lives in a fantasy world — where the only thing that matters is him and his inflated ego.
olm commented:
I think Obama is going to need to do more than smoke, at least I hope so.
archer52 commented:
Blago is working it right. If he gets enough people in there they may get queasy enough to pull the plug on the prosecution.
If they don’t then he sets up a case where Rahm and Durbin and others will have to explain to the world how the “Chicago Way” works. We all know that Obama was picked for his rise. Now we may get a peak into how that happened.
The risk for Durbin and Rahm is the same that Cheney, Rove and Scooter faced- getting caught lying. That leaves very little wiggle room because their entire political world is based on lies. The “wink, wink, nod, nod, say no more, say no more” Monty Python type of government.
Blago is in the driver’s seat on this one. If I were him, I’d make sure someone else starts the car in the mornings.
Sojourner commented:
…Blagojevich sends not-so-subtle message to Obama:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-friday-20100423,0,1271799,full.column
Thanks, Rod.
Valerie commented:
I’m having trouble getting my arms around this one, but I have recently observed that every time a certain bunch of politicians starts calling someone else stupid, it’s time to take a closer look.
It seems natural to me that BO as well as various members of the Democratic party would want to bend the governor’s ear about the choice of BO’s successor.
And, I can just hear a guy with a certain kind of sense of humor 1) try to pin those slippery b*stards down to get some co-operation from them, and 2) making jokes about how much money he could get for that one decision – because he knows very well how trustworthy they are.
The upshot it, they can’t implicate him without implicating themselves. It’s an ethics violation to fail to report the solicitation of a bribe.
I bet Blagojevich never in his wildest dreams imagined himself as a PUMA.
BarbaraS commented:
Hopefully Blago taped some or all of these conversations. For his memoirs, don’t you know.
RSmith commented:
To #11: Obama cannot issue a pardon when there has not YET been a guilty plea/conviction. Let the games begin! Come on Blago!! Air out all of your corrupt cowering turncoat former friends! You could clean up Chicago politics and get international acclaim like George Ryan did for his death penalty reform. Only you could actually skate away from this!
ProLifer commented:
To the Left, a loose cannon;
To the Right, a gift that keeps giving…
To me, corrupt — but funny!
bg commented:
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via TRBO
USA v. Rod Blagojevich, No. 08 CR 888. BlagoGate – RezkObama Redux
The RezkObama Reading List
The BlagoGate Reading List
connecting links @ links..
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skeptik commented:
perhaps blago should see if OBL needs a new roommate until the trial. i cant believe im praying for his safety!