Five more things make another post

[ksmith]

1) Hour and a half massage this evening. Lovely.

2) Leftover chicken for dinner, with gravy made from the stock, leftover sweet potatoes, and the cranberry relish I made a couple of months ago. The stuff's good for two months, so it should be ok. Sure did taste good.

3) Watching Rachel Maddow discuss her interview with Blago. Did he incriminate himself?

4) Working on goals at work. *gah*

5) New cookbook arrived. Wlliams-Sonoma's "Essentials of Slow Cooking."

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Blago (no, haven't seen the interview):

You're closer to this, both physically and media-wise. Is the presentation of FBI evidence in his impeachment trial going to jeopardize the pending prosecution, by prejudicing potential jurors? I mean, everyone *knows* he's guilty . . .

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

This from a short article in today's Trib:

U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald is allowing an FBI special agent to testify at Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment trial, though his testimony about the profanity-laced covert recordings obtained of the governor will be sharply limited, documents filed in the legislature this afternoon show.

David Ellis, the House prosecutor for the Senate impeachment trial, today notified senators that Fitzgerald will allow FBI Special Agent Daniel Cain to testify as to the accuracy of the secret recordings which federal authorities used to file criminal charges and arrest Blagojevich at his home on Dec. 9.

So, Fitzgerald is limiting the testimony, which iirc he needs to do in order to not jeopardize his case. That's all I know, I'm afraid. I'm tired of Blago's face and I want him to go away. I just watched him on the Rachel Maddow Show invoke MLK and Harry Truman and try to align himself and his wife with the rest of the Illinois unemployed. Rachel went over his interview with a lawyer afterward, and it was his opinion that Blago didn't do himself any favors with the interview, as he gave an interpretation to his words that is obviously false if you listen to what was said in other parts of the tapes.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I can see a swarm of lawyers claiming he can't get a fair trial and impartial jury because of the impeachment publicity. Guess it boils down to whether getting his ass out of the governor's chair damnfast outranks putting said ass in a cell . . .

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I know that when the news first broke, there was concern that Fitzgerald had to move faster than he wanted to in order to prevent Blago from appointing a senator via one of his quid pro quo deals, and that maybe the criminal case wasn't as strong as it needed to be to insure conviction. I've even seen a few op-ed pieces in the paper discussing whether Blago had actually broken any law. Getting him out of office may be the best that can be done. His legal bills so far are astronomical and both he and his wife unemployed and likely unemployable for the foreseeable future. Imprisonment would be the coup de grace, but the bulk of the damage has, I think, pretty much been done. In contrast to Ryan's case, there are no deaths that can be attributed to Blago's actions or inactions, so the press for prison may be less.