Governor Whineypants

While Governor Blagojevich was announcing the first in his series of "Rewrite to do Right" bills on Wednesday, he lashed out at House Speaker Mike Madigan and Mayor Daley for not helping him push his agenda. "They are all talking out of the same music book, I mean they are all talking out of the same song sheet that was written by Mike Madigan," Blagojevich said. He continued:

"You know, we did a little homework and we found out some of the things that he said when Governor Thompson was governor and Governor Edgar was governor, the same things he says now he was saying back then. These are just tactics. They are tactics, they are politics, it’s the games they play and that's why it’s so frustrating and so disappointing that you would screw with the lives of people because you have your own political agenda."

Blagojevich also called on Daley to take sides in the battle between Blago and Madigan. "I don't think it's satisfactory for him to simply say 'I don’t want to get between Madigan and the governor.' He should get involved and have those Chicago Democrats, many of whom are city workers who voted to kill the jobs bill, get down there and vote to create this jobs bill, stimulate our economy and help Chicago." So impassioned about working with Chicago Democrats to pass a jobs bill for the state was Blagojevich, that he quoted South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "He said that when you are neutral in a situation of injustice then you have sided with the oppressor."