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Keep him and he keeps your name clean hun obama? hmmmm

Fitzgerald is a patsy for the Dems. He arrested Blago on Tuesday after Blago met with JJ Jr (candidate #5) on Monday. Fitzgerald should have let this go awhile and nabbed them both after the $1M pay to play. Instead, Fitzgerald shortcircuited the whole deal and now has nothing but a bunch of conversations, no actions. With a good lawyer, Blago will walk.

No again! Let all the Bushes nominees go home. Anyone will do a great job. The repugs just want to go on and on with this BS!

i give up on finding any one to trust.

Denver dem.

There's truth in what you say.

Chuck Shumer...involved in the fanny mae/freddic mac meltdown debacle along with Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, doing business as usual.

Chuck Shumer...involved in the fanny mae/freddic mac meltdown debacle along with Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, doing business as usual.

I think is the best...hope is here we us forever...the only one looking at for the american people

DEMOCRATS SHOULD KEEP QUIET AND LET PRESIDENT ELECT OBAMA DO HIS JOB.

we'll know exactly where Obama stands in relation to Illinois and Chicago politics.

Can you imagine if Obama gives Fitzgerald the boot? Oh you know something is up then!

Not even in office and already implications of illegal behavior, welcome to Washington Chicago politics. Gonna be a long 4 years.

Why is it that the DONKEYS always allow the attorney to dig dirt on them, but the ELEPHANTS do such a great job at stamping them out? Clinton/Monica drama was due to a weak attorney...

He needs to be kicked out. Obama, when U're in office, you will need to concentrate on the economy. U dont need someone like Fiz to breathe under you. He doesnt serve you. He serves the elephants.
This is for all you facists on here who want to tie Obama to some jerk Illinois governor. This is just a partial list of Bush scandals. Halliburton's Corruption; Iraq's Decline; Abu Ghraib Prison Torture; CIA Pre-9/11 Intelligence; Failures; HHS Deceptive Ad Campaign; HHS Scully Scandal; Government-wide Accounting; Problems; Sex Education Misinformation; CAPPS II Failures; Real Costs of the Iraq War; US Attorney Firings; Walter Reed Army Hospital Neglect; Mishandling North Korea nuclear issue; Outing a CIA Agent; Lying to the American People; Hurrican Katrina; Warrantless wiretapping; Selling government to K Street lobbyists; Duke Cunningham, a corrupt politician steered money towards office supplies for Cheney; And there's much, much more.

I'm sure to all of this you lying scandalous repugs would just say (in the words of your hero) "So"?

If he is who people thinks he is, then he could caught the real criminal mafias in the name of Cheney and Bush. Why go for the small fish while leaving the big one mr Putz?

Bill is not interested. Please come back tomorrow.

to replace him at this time would like an attempt to bury this issue

Looks like Fitzgerald is making his own case with the Blago fiasco.

Yes, keep him on the job. Lock up the crooks...from both parties.

I agree.

And you Senator Schumer ... should do this type of urging in private ... not in public. I sure hope you are not attempting to be seen as relevant in the conversation about corruption in Illinois.

Am I the only one that thinks Fitzgerald is a push over and useless as a US Attorney. People remember this is the same putz that allowed Cheney and Bush to walk all over him during the Valerie Plain investigation, and the best he could do was some purgery charges on Scooter Libbey, when the goal of the investigation was to get Karl Rove and Dick Cheney. We need a real ball-buster as a U.S. Attorney someone that will not be pushed around by political motivations. So to the comments on CNN, I full heartily disagree. Fitz is a putz.

Shumer is an idiot, Obama already said he would in a June 5th article

I concur.

Good Idea.

Definitely, Fitz needs to stay!!

yea leave fitz in there UNTIL he finds that obama or other washington dems/aides are going to be on trouble and then Kick him out the door!

He'll keep Fitzgerald only after he makes him agree not to bring the Obama family into Rod-gate

Has PE Obama even indictaed that he is going to replace Futzgerald? He has praised him and deferred to his investigation. Too many politicians, and pundits are trying to get their name in print blowing hot air!!

I'm not sure why there's speculation. Obama has over the past couple years repeatedly expressed his confidence in Fitzgerald and supporting his continued appointment.

I say hire him on as the next attorney general.

The guy is golden.

This story needs to include the information that Obama HAS said he wants to keep Fitzgerald.

liberal trash schmuer

afraid of Obama looking like he's part of the corruption if he gets rid of Fitzgerald who is prosecuting Blagojevich?

I expect that since those in Justice who will be , and have probably done so, vetting all of the U.S. Attorneys now holding office, will do so with the notion that honest performance of their duties will be the criterium for being retained in office. Thei Democratic administration must prove to the people that merit and performance are what keeps people in their jobs, not partisan politics.

Mr. Fitzgerald has demonstrated those qualities very publically. I would expect that somewhere down the road he will, if he wants, be nominated to the federal bench. I think he is much more qualified than almost every judge appointed by Bush.

Obama has the right to put whomever he wants in that position. Every other President has done just that – regardless of pending cases or investigations.

If he puts his own choice in, I believe that person will throw the book at that Governot scum-bag...precisely because it is a highly publicized case and it will send a powerful message to politicians that Obama means business and is not going to tolerate this sort of thing.

In my Opinion he should have been named attorney General

there is no working-known in the political spectrum

with the creditability of Fitzgerald

he has all the credentials

and his office have Scooter Libby and Tony Rezko on his wall.

WHO ASKED YOU? I AM SURE PRES-ELECT CAN DETERMINE THE RIGHT COURSE.

Patrick has been one of the more aggressive prosecutors in recent history...definitely deserves to be recognized for his hard work.

When he's finished with Blegocrookovitch, name him special counsel to investigate the corrupt administration of George W. Bush.

I would agree with Schumer, except I find it suspicious that the US attorney that couldn't competently track down and prosecute the treasonous behavior in the Bush administration is now calling the typical slimey corruption we unfortunately see all-to-often in politicians a "new low". Oh really? Trying to sell-off a senate seat is indeed pretty pathetic, but is it in fact lower than endangering the lives of our CIA agents by outing them? At the very least, where was all this accusatory and disdainful rhetoric from Mr. Fitzgerald when he was pursuing the criminals in the white house?

I smell a [R] turd.

Why keep him, other than so that he can continue the coverup.

The whistle was blown WAY TOO EARLY on this case.

May be that's why he did what he did yesterday. It's possible he heard that Obama might have someone else in mind for the job and he decided to show him how tough he can be on crime and corruption.

Schumer, I basically agree.
But I do wish Fitzgerald had this level of 'outrage' while investigating the outing of a CIA operative. He basically gave up because of the "numerous barriers thrown up" and the sand being thrown in his eyes" to cover up.

he basically gave up... so he would up indicting an underling (libby)... then watched him make a (silence for pardon) deal.... get convicted... and go free.

What a photo ! I wouldn't let this individual be my child's school bus driver ! ! !

I live in Florida. I voted for Ralph Nader in 1996 and 2000. I don't regret it. At the time, Bill Clinton and Al Gore had moved the Democratic Party to the center/left. Gore won the election but it was close enough for Bush and his right-wing cronies to steal it.

Now, I went against my instincts and principles in 2008 and voted for Obama. But, based on this story and his center/right cabinet appointments, it appears as though progressives like me got burned. It won't happen again. So, all you Clinton/Obama Democrats, be prepared to pay the price the way the Republicans paid the price this year. Because it will come if this keeps up. This country is in miseralbe shape and the politicians, Wallstreet and Big Business only seem to care about themselves.

My apologies to Ralph Nader and even the Green Party for not sticking with my core beliefs and instead voting for false hope. This is all very sad indeed:(

Let him finish the job... but I imagine Obama will get rid of him as fast as possible... given:

"The newspaper also reported that Mrs. Blagojevich also had a long business relationship with Antonin "Tony" Rezko, the Chicago developer and former Obama fundraiser who was convicted on fraud charges earlier this year. The Blagojeviches reportedly refuse to disclose how much the real estate company made off Rezko."

I'm hoping Vegas takes odds on who will be the first to cut a deal... and spill ALL the beans.

arm twisting Obama to comply to things like these? This politics is so corrupt.

Good man. Obama will keep him. What a lot of you must remember, Obama was not raised in Chicago. He was raised in Hawaii with very pure and honest virtues. With dreams and visions of goodness and that is what Obama wants for IL and America!!! A dream? Maybe but it is possible! Read "Audacity of Hope"–its all their!!

In Chicago politics, the fear of Pat Fitz is the begining of "political wisdom"

Schumer mind your business if Obama wants to keep he knows what to do, just beat it.

Looks like Schumer knows that PE Obama's likely reaction will be to fire the investigating attorney and thus derail any investigation.

Not real change at all in the incoming adminstration.