Gov. Rod Blagojevich...

   has been impeached by the Illinois House by an overwhelming vote on Friday.  The impeachment now sets Blagojevich up for a Senate trial to decide on whether he should be tossed out of office for abuse of power.

Impeachment required just 60 votes. The final result was 114-1.

Legislators accused the second-term Democratic governor of letting down the people of Illinois by letting ego and ambition drive his decisions.

"It's our duty to clean up the mess and stop the freak show that's become Illinois government," said Rep. Jack D. Franks, a Democrat.

  I will now say that Blagojevich's days are numbered in politics.

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Republicans Fear A Successful Economic Stimulus Package...

   and their fear is rightly based. The last thing that Republicans want to see is Barack Obama and the Democrats succeed in getting the United States economy back on track. That would mean the end of the Republicans in the White House for some time. that would also include, if you and I are lucky, the House and the Senate.

    So, what do the Republicans do? Why, they resort to one of their tried and true tactics. Fear-mongering. You've head some of it already. We cannot afford $1 trillion or so to bring the economy back in line. Or one of their favorites, the new New Deal will not work. According to the GOP, President Roosevelt’s policies actually lengthened the Great Depression, not helped it.

   Here's why Republicans are in fear of a Democratic Party success.

However, from the standpoint of Republicans, the more ominous lesson of the New Deal policies is that it left the Democrats firmly in power for more than 20 years. The Republicans did not regain the White House until 1952, twenty years after President Roosevelt was first elected.
Imagine how terrifying the prospect of 20 years of Democratic presidencies must be to the current generation of Republican leaders. This would mean that they would not retake the White House until 2028, just twenty years before the Social Security trust fund is first projected to face a short fall.

For this reason, Republicans can be expected to adopt a strategy aimed at delaying and diluting the stimulus. We can expect their leaders to find every conceivable argument to slow down the spending that the economy desperately needs right now to prevent further job loss. While some of their concerns may be legitimate – we should all support efforts to restrain wasteful pork barrel spending and rein in corruption – these concerns should not be the basis for obstructing stimulus. The public should be careful to distinguish legitimate concerns from simple delaying tactics.
In short, we should realize that the main concern of some of those opposed to stimulus may not be that it will fail, but rather that it will succeed. Most of us don’t have the same set of concerns.

   Not having Republicans in power for 2 or 3 decades would be a bad thing? I think not.

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