Andrew Jackson Impeachment

The 6 Most Absurd Things That Happened During Blagojevich's Term As Governor

With an irrational confidence and a cocksucker smile, Rod Blagojevich was somehow elected Illinois Governor in 2002. He ran on a platform of ending corruption and halting politics as usual. That his predecessor was impeached and his opponent unfortunately shared the same last name certainly helped his case, but for whatever reason, his likeable arrogance won over voters and propelled him to victory. During his six years in office, Blagojevich fought constantly and very publically with members of his own cabinet, members of his own party and even the President of the United States. Everything he seemed to do was contentious. Everywhere he went, he encountered resistance. It's very likely his tenure as Illinois' headman may well go down as one of the most disgraceful terms in the history of politics, but most people don't even know half of it. That some of the items on this list could have escaped public scrutiny speaks to the moral turpitude of his entire administration.

I'll be honest. I kind of like Rod Blagojevich, at least in a dumb shit in way over his head kind of way. Then again, he was never my governor. Throughout his abridged term, he behaved like the president of a fraternity, drunk on power and clueless as to what he could get away with. Here are the 6 most ridiculous, insane things that occurred during Rod Blagojevich's time as governor…


Not Speaking To His Own Lieutenant Governor Running any state, let alone one as large as Illinois, typically requires a team effort and a culture of unity. Rod Blagojevich did not speak to his own Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn for a year and a half between August of 2007 and December of 2008. Not since Andrew Jackson fought with his Vice President John C Calhoun over nullification has an inner-administration feud approached the level of hatred Quinn and Blago shared. Jackson reportedly told friends near the end of his life that one of his regrets was not hanging Calhoun. I guarantee these two Illinois idiots will feel the same way on their death beds. How the hell can you run an administration never corresponding with the second in command? Obviously, you can---just not very well.


Feuding With Michael Madigan For more than twenty years, Michael Madigan has been the man that's, for all intensive purposes, run Illinois.

US History: The Impeachment of Andrew Jackson

To me, it sounds like even though the government had many reasons for wanting to impeach Andrew Jackson, he seemed to have a reason for everything that he did. Even though he did some things that were considered unconstitutional, it seemed like, in his arguments against the accusations, he was only doing it for the welfare of the country. Two of the major reasons that Jackson was being considered for impeachment were his opposition to Bank of America, and his misstreatment of the Native Americans. I can understand how the cruelty to the Native Americans could be a reason to impeach him, but the Bank of America issue is very controversial. Jackson was a fan of state rights, so of course he would think a national bank was a bad idea. Although I think that Jackson might have done some horrible things during his presidency, the fact is that plenty of presidents did some controversial things and were cruel to some other culture (Can anybody say George Bush?) and they haven’t been impeached yet.

Well, there are always two sides to a story, and it is pretty easy to attack someone, when their not around to correct themselves...I mean, these situations came out, and now people can talk on and on about it. But Bush, like bhand said, did similar situations, but I bet if a group tried to speak out against it, the group would be silenced. But if Bush were dead, (or when he eventually dies) I bet there is going to be a lot more negative things said about him.

Well first Sarah, negative things are already said about Bush. And second I don't think he would try and silence anyone. He's been taking crap for six years, he isn't going to start "silencing" groups now. No one impeached Bush, because we voted for him in 2004, its too late now to do anything to him, and he din't really give us any reasons to impeach him until recently. As far as Jackson goes, i don't know. He obviously did not do some good things, but he was the peoples president. he did what he did for the welfare of the states. Maybe he should have, maybe we were right keeping him. we will never no for sure.

I agree with most of what Ben and Bri said about how he didn't do only good things. This doesn't mean that he was a bad president. His policy against the indians was terrible, but you can't judge him on that, it wasn't the only thing that he did. Comparing him to Bush is not fair, Bush's whole presidency has been about "defending" us against terrorism. Also he gained office in the exact opposite way that Bush did. With Jackson, he was cheated from winning, Bush on the other hand, lost the election and used his brother and family friends to rig Florida and win. The Bank of America thing I don't think warrented any impeachment as the Bank was not even wholly established in the Constitution. To play the devils advocate however, all Clinton did was have extramarital relations and that caused him to be impeached, so Jackson probabaly could have been impeached for his treatment of Native Americans or the Bank of America or even both.

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