Thursday, July 15, 2010

The prosecution rests.

"I (expletive) busted my ass and pissed people off and gave your grandmother a free (expletive) ride on a bus. OK? I gave your (expletive) baby a chance to have health care. And what do I get for that? Only 13 percent of you all out there think I'm doing a good job. So (expletive) all of you."

- Rod Blagojevich on the voters who elected him, from a government wiretap recorded on Election Day 2008.

3 comments:

David Masciotra said...

I kind of like it. Corruption, in the Blagojevich form, is largely harmless. Certainly much more benign than purity in the Kissinger/Nixon/Reagan form. I'll take a clownish guy who wants to enrich himself, yet creates programs like the Free Rides for Seniors and Universal Child Health Care, over a true believer, moral purist who wants to advance a destructive agenda that escalates war and enhances inequality.

Ryan W. Bradley said...

he totally stole that from my high school class vice president speech.

Pete said...

Expletive you too, Rod. Don't forget to bring your soap-on-a-rope with you to the slammer.

I admired the intent of the children's health care plan, but the state clearly couldn't afford it. And the free public transit for senior citizens was a deeply cynical, poorly thought-out and totally political ploy to win votes from the AARP set - even my mom (who's liberal, in her eighties and can afford to pay for public transportation on her own) thought it was a stupid idea.