Wow, it seems so early in the year for me to be getting pissed about political ads. I can see already that the most annoying of all are going to be the Rod Blagoevich re-election campaign ads.
Top Ten list of Flashy Rod's impressive accomplishments in his first term:
1. Alienate 95% of the Illinois legislature. Check.
2. Spend the least possible amount of time as possible in Springfield. (No one told him that's the state capital and where things like legislation are pursued.) Check.
3. Build up a $14 million campaign warchest, largely by traveling and gathering money out of state. Check.
4. Buy several million dollars of flu vaccine (from a foreign source, and against FDA rules), get the vaccine 6 months too late to even use it, ship it off to a third world country, and then try to get out of paying the bill. Check.
5. Raise user fees and taxes on business all over the place, then have the temerity to tout the fact that you haven't raised income or sales tax rates. Thanks, and check.
6. Raid the state pension funds to balance the budget, so that (a) you don't have to make hard choices about cutting spending, and (b) can keep your "no new taxes" pledge when you run for President in 2012. (After all you saw what happened to Bush 41.) Check.
7. Follow the time-honored IIlinois tradition of putting your political cronies and other assorted hacks in every slot you can find for them. Check.
8. Air your ugly intra-family dealings so that all of us can listen in. Check.
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Please, enough already, Rod. You are a do-nothing, feather your own nest, Bill Clinton-wanna be, no talent, all hair political hack.
For a much more thorough and entertaining look at Blago boy, see The Rod Report. http://rodreport.com/
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