Jezebel: patrick fitzgerald

Barack Obama Elected President Again!

Megan — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:30:00 EST

Enough states' electors have cast ballots for Obama by now that, today, he was officially elected President of the United States. [MSNBC]

He then celebrated by announcing his intention to make Nobel-winner Steven Chu the Secretary of Energy, Lisa Jackson the EPA Administration and Carol Browner to lead a White House council on climate change. [MSNBC]
He might also make Arne Duncan, the superintendent of the Chicago school system, his secretary of education. [NY Times]
He was going to release the results of an internal report that showed that no one had anything inappropriate to do with corrupt Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, but U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald asked him not to. [Huffington Post, Time]
Joe Biden tapped Time's Washington bureau chief, Jay Carney, for his communications director. [Politico]
Caroline Kennedy has decided she does really want to be the next Senator from New York, and even called Al Sharpton for his blessing or whatever it is you get from Al Sharpton. [Huffington Post, Politico]
Meanwhile, Lori Drew is still trying to get the charges against her dismissed. [Wired]
And a 4-year-old broke into a toy store to play with some toys. [Breitbart]

Rod Blagojevich: Putting All Republi-Scandals To Shame

Megan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:40:00 EST

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is free tonight on $4,500 bail and has absolutely no intention of resigning after being indicted on massive corruption and extortion charges. [CNN, Politico, Chicago Tribune]
Barack Obama said he'd had no contact with Blagojevich over the Senatorial appointment Blagojevich apparently was attempting to sell. [Huffington Post]
Blagojevich did, apparently, attempt to trade with SIEU President Andy Stern the appointment of Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett in exchange for a golden parachute into an SEIU-funded non-profit. Jarrett dropped out of the running shortly thereafter. [Marc Ambinder, Politico]
Contrary to early reports, Rahm Emanuel didn't tip off the U.S. Attorneys. [Talking Points Memo]

Other names that have been flushed out of the indictment by bloggers and reporters: Senate Candidate 2, who Blagojevich was reportedly using to fuck with Obama's team over Jarrett, was probably Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan; and Senate Candidate 5, with whom Blagojevich might have had the most serious quid-pro-quo conversation, might well have been Jesse Jackson, Jr. [Marc Ambinder, Marc Ambinder]
Obama might have said that he'd had no contact with Blagojevich over the seat, but Axelrod said otherwise a month ago. He's now saying he was mistaken. [ABC News]
The Illinois legislature is likely to move to impeach Blagojevich, obviously, and they may just change the law and hold a special election to fill Obama's seat. [Politico, The Hill]

Oh, you wanted other news? Fine.

Bill Clinton's going to disclose the names of the 200,000 donors to the Clinton Global Initiative by the end of the year. [Washington Post]
The Minnesota Court of Appeals is definitely, totally not going to let toe-tapping Senator Larry Craig withdraw his guilty plea. He'll continue claiming he is 100%, totally, utterly, without-a-doubt heterosexual and voting against LGBT rights. [CNN]
New York Governor David Paterson has agreed to consider United Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat after she contacted him and asked him to do so. If he did appoint her, she's be the first openly gay United States Senator. [New York Magazine]
Meanwhile, John McCain's going to appear on Letterman Thursday. [ABC News]

Patrick Fitzgerald Is Sexy When He's Steaming Mad

Megan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:00:00 EST

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald — heretofore best known for pursuing the charges in the outing of Valerie Plame and inspiring the term "Fitzmas" with his indictment of Scooter Libby — inspired a little more in me today with his all-American righteous outrage and bitten words when describing the charges against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Check out this "angry" mashup and watch as he practically steams behind the podium, saying that Blagojevich's conduct would make Lincoln "roll over in his grave". Fitzgerald + "rolling over" = my female fantasy.