Check out Todd's post directly below this one:

In the meantime, Obama is doing what he can to distance himself from Blago.

Like Obama will have to work hard to "distance himself" from the guy who called him a "motherf***er" on tape!

"President-elect Barack Obama's carefully parsed and vague statements regarding his own contact and that of his team with Governor Rod Blagojevich are unacceptable.  Considering the severity of the allegations against Governor Blagojevich, the President-elect should immediately disclose any and all communications his transition team has had with the governor's office along with any Service Employees International Union (SEIU) officials involved in the matter.  Obama's promise of transparency to the American people is now being tested."

What does SEIU have to do with this?

These people are now in the tiny minority of voters and general listening audience. Expect those who are going to be out on the limb trying to convince someone that a person who is recorded on tape, as saying something like

"Obama, that jerk - he wants me to be honest about this and not take a bribe - well, fuck him I'm not going to do that"

As I wrote on my blog, what we're seeing here is a real cleaning house - they're party-blind. It doesn't matter who you are. If you're a corrupt, rush-limbaugh bush republican you're on your way out.

The wingers dont really care.  They're looking for something to rage and feel they are really right about.  Which is a short summary of the Right wing blogosphere in toto.

They have realized they are not really shedding people after all; about 60 million voted for McCain despite misgivings and all indications he would lose, which is about the same as the 61 million for Bush 4 years ago.  Though they are vaguely aware that they might be running up a treadmill demographically, losing more voters to dying than gains in new ones for quite a few more years.  And the new ones are too concentrated in the South.

They do realize the Deep South is electing Republicans and knocking out Old Democrats.  Not that they understand why, but it's not like understanding ever has much to with their behavior.

They are now fishing for reasons to get people to vote against Democrats outside the South.  It's not a successful game, but what else are they going to do: talk about all their successes?

They should allow Pat Quinn to step in and appoint Alexi the state treasurer to the position.  He, Danny Davis and Tammy Duckworth are clear of any wrongdoing of the Governor. Lisa Madigan is going to be the next governor of Illinois anyway and Alexi is very popular as well the two might as well be on the same ticket in 2010.

The lone republican woman in my office said that "Bambam is in trouble" because "he obviously knew about this, and that's why he smokes so much."

I just walked away, laughing, because there's nothing I can say that will make sense to her.

they are already in full-on Vince Foster mode during the election, with all the birth certificate stuff.  It's only gonna get crazier.

I was glad to see most of us in the liberal blogs bash the Illinois governor in no uncertain terms. The right wingers should be ashamed of themselves because while they do not hesitate to complain about the corrupt Democrats, they will be a lot more restrained, and actually whine about being picked on when it is their candidate who is under scrutiny.

Hell, even now, I see a lot of whining about the media protecting democrats despite the fact that people like Keith Olbermann and Maddow have been merciless towards the Governor. While I have seen some criticism of Ted Stevens by the Republican cohorts in the media, it was never half as serious as the criticism of the Illinois guy by Olbermann. And even when some of the right wingers criticized Ted Stevens, it was always qualified with a "but there are DEmocrats who do it too and get away with it".