Hillary plays patty-cake with the creeps who slurred her family

10 comments April 23rd, 2008

 

Hillary Clinton is ALL CHUMMY these days with billionaire crackpot Richard Mellon Scaife, who financed some of the more vicious attacks on the Clintons during the 1990s.

Has she no shame?

Karl Rove’s name comes up in the Rezko case — and not in a good way

19 comments April 23rd, 2008

 

The Chicago Tribune reports today that a federal prosecutor said in open court this morning that a potential witness in the Tony Rezko corruption trial would testify about efforts involving the White House to get U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald fired.

The Tribune piece says:

More bombshells were lobbed in the Antoin “Tony” Rezko trial even before the jury was seated this morning and they involved a purported attempt to pull strings with the White House to fire U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald. In a hearing before court began, prosecutors said they hoped to call Ali Ata, the former Blagojevich administration official who pleaded guilty to corruption yesterday, to the stand.

Assistant U.S. Atty. Carrie Hamilton said she believed Ata would testify to conversations Ata had with his political patron, Rezko, about working to pull strings to kill the criminal investigation into Rezko and others when it was in its early stages in 2004.

“[Ata] had conversations with Mr. Rezko about the fact that Mr. Kjellander was working with Karl Rove to have Mr. Fitzgerald removed,” Hamilton told U.S. District Judge Amy St. Eve.

That sentence is loaded with a who’s who of political heavyweights. Bob Kjellander was the veteran Republican National Committeeman from Illinois who was a sometimes business associate of Stuart Levine, who has pleaded guilty to conspiring with Rezko to rig state boards for contracts.

Karl Rove for years was President Bush’s chief political strategist as well as an old friend of Kjellander. Patrick Fitzgerald was and is the U.S. attorney in Chicago who pressed the investigation of Rezko. Hamilton said the conversation she hoped Ata would testify to was about having Fitzgerald replaced by someone else, she said, “so individuals who have been cooperating in this investigation will be dealt with differently.”

St. Eve did not make a ruling on whether Ata will be allowed to testify.

Here’s the most insightful analysis of the Democratic race in the wake of Pennsylvania

1 comment April 23rd, 2008

 

THIS GUY clearly explains exactly how Hillary Clinton’s stunning victory has dramatically changed the political landscape.

I don’t think any of us expected to wake up this morning to find this kind of situation.  The mind reels at this unlikely turn of events.

UPDATE: Freeport native Dan Balz offers THIS ANALYSIS.

UPDATE II: HERE’s another interesting analysis from Hillary’s old pal Dick Morris.