Flying shoes and corrupt politics rule the day

Last week Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, was arrested for allegedly putting President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat up for sale. Basically he got caught engaging in pay-to-play politics. This type of politics runs rampant at both the state and federal level but the Illinois governor has taken it to new heights. The Illinois legislature has given him six days to resign but since he hasn’t they are moving ahead with an impeachment investigation. The Illinois attorney general has asked the state Supreme Court to revoke the governor’s power to assign the Senate seat stating he is incompetent to do his job. Everyone is calling for the governor’s resignation. Now it’s just a waiting game.

In other news...
During a goodbye tour, while in Iraq at a news conference, a reporter threw his shoes at President Bush. Secret Service was slow to react but the reporter was eventually subdued. The President said he is not embarrassed and that the reporter wanted to call attention to himself. People in Iraq are protesting the reporters arrest stating that President Bush deserved what he got. The Iraqi authorities say that it was poor etiquette to throw the shoes while the Iraqi prime minister was within target range and could have been hit. They haven’t apologized for the reporter aiming at President Bush. It is said that shoe throwing is an insult in Iraqi result. I don’t care what people say, I’ve been laughing about this all day. Not because I wanted the President to be hit or hurt but because it was so bizarre to see the President dodging a pair of loafers and the Secret Service nowhere to be found.