Just breaks yer heart doan it?
His pleadings to me sound like a confession of guilt. Trying to say that if other Senators were looked at they too would be taken from office. I think not. He was playing dirty pool and got busted. that’s all there is to say. He doesn’t know the political game as well as he thought he did.
“I’m here to appeal to you, to your sense of fairness, your sense of responsibility, and to the truth,” Blagojevich said in a closing address that lasted less than an hour.
It was the first time he had appeared at the impeachment trial, which began Monday.
“I’m asking you to acquit me and give me a chance to show my innocence,” he said. “And if you’re not comfortable with an acquittal, then extend this process, and get more evidence, if you can get it, to show that I did something wrong or give me a chance to bring my evidence in.”
Blagojevich, a two-term Democratic governor, was arrested on federal corruption charges in December.
Federal authorities allege he was trying to sell or trade the Senate seat that became vacant after Barack Obama was elected president. After the governor’s arrest, the state House voted overwhelmingly to impeach him.
The governor firmly denied wrongdoing Thursday, as he has all week on television talk shows.
“If I felt I did something wrong, I would have resigned in December,” he said. “If I felt I violated a law, I would meet my responsibility, I would have resigned in December.
“I wouldn’t put my family through this, I wouldn’t put you through this, and most importantly, I wouldn’t put the people of Illinois through this.
“But I didn’t resign then, and I’m not resigning now, because I have done nothing wrong.” Video Watch Blagojevich make his case »
The governor, who did not use notes during his remarks, said the allegations against him were unproved.
“There hasn’t been a single piece of information that proves any wrongdoing,” he said. “You haven’t proved a crime and you can’t, because it hasn’t happened.
