I’ve been enjoying John Kass’s take on the Blagojevich matter in the Tribune for the last week. Yesterday he wondered whether the case of feditis that Gov. Blagojevich has contracted is transmissible, say, to President-Elect Obama or Mayor Daley:
But just imagine if Dead Meat talks to the feds, or stands up on his hind legs to fight back if fellow Democrats impeach him in the Illinois legislature. The governor might actually mention a few of the legislators’ deals. Ouch.
Obama, though not personally implicated in any of this, wouldn’t like it much. The national media outlets were desperate to portray him as someone about to transcend our politics. But in Chicago he was just a smooth guy on the way up, looking the other way.
If crazy hair and strange utterances—even frightening expressions in public—are the criteria for a politician who’s been “disabled,” I wonder why the Illinois Democrats didn’t apply their standards to another guy.
Mayor Richard Daley.
Sometimes he frightens people, his hair gets wild, his eyebrows fly off his forehead, his face turns purple, his jaw juts out, like when he’s channeling his inner Mayor Chucky.
It happened a few years ago, when the Tribune revealed he gave $100 million in affirmative action contracts to white guys who were friends of his with Outfit connections. Even Obama didn’t question the mayor’s sanity then. Nor did any other Democrat who valued his or her career.
Unless Gov. Blagojevich actually has something to bargain with on somebody higher up, say, Mayor Daley, he definitely is what Kass has dubbed him: Gov. Dead Meat.
