The Unholy Alliance Between Corrupt Business and Corrupt Politics
At the Progressive Party Convention held in Chicago in 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt said the following: "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."
Almost a hundred years later, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is arrested in Chicago for counting on that same unholy alliance between corrupt politics and corrupt business to further his own private agenda. So much for progress. Who will provide the necessary statesmanship to dissolve this unholy alliance? U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald for one is doing a good job and thank you President-elect Obama for calling for Blagojevich to resign. We desperately need the sort of statesmanship Teddy Roosevelt envisioned a century ago. For more on this read the 78-page criminal by the U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald's office detailing the allegations against the Illinois governor:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/12/blajovich_indictment_the_best.html
Almost a hundred years later, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is arrested in Chicago for counting on that same unholy alliance between corrupt politics and corrupt business to further his own private agenda. So much for progress. Who will provide the necessary statesmanship to dissolve this unholy alliance? U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald for one is doing a good job and thank you President-elect Obama for calling for Blagojevich to resign. We desperately need the sort of statesmanship Teddy Roosevelt envisioned a century ago. For more on this read the 78-page criminal by the U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald's office detailing the allegations against the Illinois governor:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2008/12/blajovich_indictment_the_best.html
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