The big deal?!  The big deal is that he was not horse trading for political purposes.  He was horse trading for personal gain.  Big difference.  And this is not taking into consideration that the selling of the senate seat was just the tip of the iceburg. 

(apparently- since an arrest was made) that it's AGAINST THE FREAKIN' LAW!

In further news, Jim L. reporting on a recent Montgomery County rape victim's claim, "What's the big deal? She was drunk, had on this little dress...hell, she damned near asked for it."

What a scumbag.

Being forced to pay for PBS is bad enough, the leftists like Lehrer they keep on the network is beyond contempt in my opinion.

By the way, this line of thinking is seeming to be a talking point now with some of the talking heads...I heard part of msnbc early this morning, it was just partial so I may have missed something prior, but Alex Twit...oops, I mean Wit was saying something along the same exact lines to somebody she was talking too...I couldn't take it and left the room.

The obvious hypocrisy/bias with these people is outrageous...we all know what would be happening 24/7 with all of this 70 plus pages of possible charges/corruption ect. if this was anybody with an 'R' and if it looked like the tentacles would reach the Pres. Select.

...but hey, it's no biggie if it is anybody on the left.

I have news for these talking heads, they aren't going to be able to wish this away, or talk all the people all the time out of anything when it comes to the Chicago Machine...O especially.

It's only just begun.... 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

But you don't -- but that's what I'm actually essentially asking here, is that -- is that he just went over the line of something that is the way you do business. 

Well, this is just typical of a PBS hack parasite.  He wouldn't know the first thing about business as he draws his ridiculously inflated salary from the taxpayer host through an unnecessary, antiquated government subsidy...yet he feels fit to assert how "you do business". 

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

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One of the other commentators tries to correct this perception.  Who knows if it really sunk in.  Even if a little horse trading was 'business as usual' this went so recklessly beyond that.

I found them trying to paint Blago as being almost insane, interesting.  And the quote 'he just won't go away!' was also amusing.

And of course the absolute clearing of Obama.  His transparency being the 'coin of the realm'...  we'll see.

"part of what I'm hoping to introduce as the next president is a new ethic of [government enforced] responsibility" - B. Obama

What's the big deal???

Good grief. The folks in media are getting dumber by the day. Or more accurately, they are being willfully ignorant to help cover for their liberal ideology and their love of anything connected to Obama.

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What's the big deal?!

 but that's what I'm actually essentially asking here, is that -- is
that he just went over the line of something that is the way you do
business

Lehrer is really, really stupid. 

Noel, the MSM is circling the wagons for Obama and they are worried.  Another guy being interviewed on FNC this afternoon was suggesting the same thing as in degrees of corruption, everyone is flawed just in degrees. It's the old everyone does it, so it's not bad routine.

The bottom line is this, Obama knew Blagojevich for years, Rahm Emanuel knew Blagojevich for years, they all knew Blagojevich and his weaknesses.  The issue here is Obama knew who was corrupt and CHOSE to do nothing for years.   Now we know why Palin irks the Dems so much, she unlike Obama did something about corruption.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.

Somewhere in Alaska...Sarah Palin is laughing her ass off.

For weeks, Obama has been enjoying the love and honeymoon up until this past week. Now that his fellow Chicago Rat has been caught red handed, the Hope and Change (snicker!) is completely covered in mud.

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I just read Ken Connor over on Townhall.com this is his take:

"Perhaps the ubiquity of political corruption is not the fault of shady politicians only.  After all, politicians are elected by the people.  And since ours is a "representative" government perhaps it's time we asked ourselves whether the character of our leaders is representative of the character of our nation"

I think Mr. Connor may be on to something. We can't expect anything different from our Representives if we don't have honor, virtue or high moral character. It seems corruption runs deep in both parties. I for one am skeptical of all of them.

In Reply -
The Big Deal Jimbo (et al.)  
Is not that it's too difficult to believe such an elitist persona may be encompassed in the "something owed for services rendered - payback" mentality (ask David Gregory, Mary Mitchell, & Chuck Todd).  What is incredible is that you and your cronies would be proponents to suggest and attempt to convince us, the United States electorate, that these actions by politians should (now) be accepted as appropriate!  Justification?  "They've always done it this way!"  Wilst you the collective (the MSM droids) thus imply that it is now the "acceptable norm."  Such a statement (though not surprising from your ilk) is one founded in: (a) incredible ignorance; or (b) sanctioned corruption.  Either way, it is the very exploitation of these dubious human weaknesses that our founders attempted - to the best of their consciousness - to expatriate from the political process.  Nice try - I'm not buying your tripe.  
So much for YOUR credibility.   

First, Brooks doesn't know what he's talking about when he mentions Vrdolyak and "the Machine".  Ilived there and have a better insight than him.  So we had all these appointed Senators who went on to distinguish themselves.  So what?  That alone proves the process is good?  Afterall, in Mr. Smith goes to Washington, Mr. Smith was appointed by the govenor who was in the back pocket of the Taylor Machine, which sounds alot like the Illinois "Outfit". Liberal media morons.  No analysis or in depth coverage of corrupt Democrats.  Surprise, Surprise.  And the PEOTUS isn't a Marxist either.