Blagojevich: Obama Should Fire Rahm Emanuel (VIDEO)

Blagojevich: Obama Should Fire Rahm Emanuel (VIDEO)

In his hour-long closing statement before the Illinois State Senate today, Governor Rod Blagojevich continued to traipse across the plane of outlandish comparisons. Departing from comparisons between himself and renowned civil rights leaders, he chose this time to group in with Washington bigwigs.

In his rambling statement, Blago culled the names of various politicians whom he considers equally guilty of the state Senate's allegations, including Rahm Emanuel, John McCain, Ted Kennedy, Dick Durbin, Harry Reid and Bob Menendez. Of course, as Politico's Ben Smith notes, Blago is acting as though he is "being impeached for fighting for citizens' right to cheap prescription drugs" -- not for trying to sell the vacant Illinois senate seat now occupied by Roland Burris and shaking down state contractors for campaign contributions.

According to this "Blagojevich scenario", wherein he is being impeached for prescription drug legislation rather than a pay-to-play scheme, "President Obama [should] fire Rahm Emanuel" and McCain and Kennedy should be "indicted as co-conspirators." Elsewhere in his statement, Blagojevich went on to invoke "fundamental rights" and "natural laws" as the principles upon which his defense is founded.

Throughout this legal and political saga, the Illinois governor has maintained that he is "not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing." But he also seems to be intransigently oblivious as to why he is even being impeached, constantly returning to irrelevant arguments about his first-term efforts to bring better health care and general well-being to the people of his state while blaming the legislature for all of his policy failures.

Politico has video footage of the remarks:

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