BLAGO UPDATE

More schadenfreude goodness:

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. Chicago Tribune

From Ed Morrissey:

As I wrote this week, no one would be surprised to hear that Emanuel and Obama had enough interest in the latter’s replacement to get in contact with the man who would normally make that appointment, Governor Blagojevich...

However, Barack Obama and his team chose not to give that honest and common-sense explanation. Instead, they issued categorical denials that Obama and his staff had contacted Blagojevich or his staff about the succession. It’s a mystifying claim, and one that will apparently get proven false fairly easily. Now, instead of just saying that contact existed but that no one had tried making deals, they have thrown away their credibility on a very foolish point — which will lead to the conclusion that Team Obama has something very significant to hide.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. If this is his level of skill in dealing with something of this magnitude, I shudder to think of his ineptitude when dealing with larger issues...like say, a nuclear Iran.

Jugears McMarxist: inexperience, arrogance and delusions of grandeur.

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