Simply not surprised, after all, it's Chicago politics:
U.S. conservatives rubbed their hands with glee on Wednesday over news that the Democratic governor of Illinois has been accused of attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama.
Federal prosecutors said Obama was not connected to charges on Tuesday that Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to sell the seat Obama vacated shortly after winning the presidency on November 4 for financial and other benefits for himself and his wife.
But news of his arrest came at a perfect time for conservatives reeling from big losses in November's congressional and presidential elections that put Obama in line to succeed U.S. President George W. Bush on January 20.
The story's shock value and explosive quotes from wiretaps by FBI investigators ensure the Blagojevich scandal is something voters will talk about amid questions about possible links between Obama and the governor.
"Folks, this sitcom just gets better and better every day. This is unbelievable! Except that it's all too believable," said Rush Limbaugh, a leading conservative U.S. talk radio host.
Obama should escape being tainted by the scandal since he has never been close to Blagojevich, analysts said, and Limbaugh did not accuse Obama of involvement in the alleged crime.
But Limbaugh said it was evidence of Democratic Party corruption.
It's evidence for ideological corruption. It's evidence for supreme arrogance. It's evidence for a rottenness that goes to the core.
It's the end game for liberalism, the mindset that redefines good as evil and evil as good.
No... not gleeful at all.
Just mindful, given my history and exposure to progressivism, that this is the expectation. Oh it's always couched in terms that suggest decency and goodness and even Godliness as the goal, but given time, you see the results... you see through the lies... and you simply come to understand, the end is anything but those things.
Yes, there are exceptions (I'm not stupid) but this is largely the rule.
I've been exposed, as a hobby really, to liberalism front and center since the late eighties and I've engaged, via the Church, in everyday life and certainly on blogs, forums and discussion sites, with liberals for twenty years and there's simply a dishonesty that is palpable.
But no, I'm not gleeful. At all.
And as an aside, I've seen enough of Obama and his behaviors, his associations, his lies, to know that we'll be seeing more of this.
It's simply a matter of time.
H/T to Michelle for the gleeful crap from Reuters.
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