"He asks me for the Fifth CD thing..." 
Blagojeviching may have swept in another suspect today when Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel misspoke at a reporter's questions. A Chicago Sun-Times gumshoe caught up
with Emanuel in order to ask about the Blago tape. Is Rahm Emanuel the "Obama adviser" mentioned by Blago on the tape? -- when Blago was characterizing a conversation he had already had with an "Obama adviser" about naming Obama crony Valerie Jarret to the seat? Blago is recorded saying on the phone, "He (unnamed Obama adviser) asks me for the Fifth CD thing. I want it to be in his head..." Mr. Emanuel is most recently the congressman from the 5th CD of Illinois in the heart of Cook County. The reporter's questions were logical. Mr. Emanuel was not cooperative. The non-cooperation took place in the lobby of Mayor Daley's City Hall, where Mr. Emanuel aimed to attend a concert given by his children and their school. The quotes in the exchange, recorded by a digital MP3 machine, are guaranteed to call attention to Mr. Emanuel as unprepared and in need of a time out. "You're wasting your time. I'm not going to say a word to you. I'm going to do this with my children. Don't do that. I'm a father. I have two kids. I'm not going to do it." At this point we are told that Mr. Emanuel "pushed the reporter's digital recorder away." Yes. A scene from an opera. The suspect caught in the headlights. Does a President-Elect's chief of staff refuse to answer questions? Yes. Does he plead fatherhood as the excuse? Yes. But does this chief of staff escape a mob of reporters at his next availability all repeating the same question, Are you the Obama advisor? And what does it mean "the Fifth CD thing?" And how do you explain that Mr. Obama says that none of his staff spoke to Blago about "any deals related to this seat?" Did you speak to Blago? About Valerie Jarret? And so forth. The opera builds to a duet and then an aria. Rahm wobbles in his place. This only gets better as Blago refuses to go away. The detail emerged today that CNN reported on air on Monday night December 8, the night before the Blago arrest, that Valerie Jarret had withdrawn her name from consideration. Peculiar timing. Did the Obama team get a heads-up of the arrest and
tape and so move to get Ms. Jarret out of the line of fire? It didn't work. Because now the Blago remark about "the Fifth CD thing" and Valerie Jarret combined with the bizarre panicky moment by Mr. Emanuel at City Hall in this news cycle must lead to a complete reexamination of every conversation in the Obama transition team about the Senate seat. The President-Elect can only plead innocence, ignorance, frustration, confusion, exasperation. While still in Chicago, Mr. Obama cannot get away from Chicago's unusual conduct of government; and now Chicago is going with him to Washington in the form of all those grand juries and FBI questions and transcripts to come. And what does anyone guess Blago and Emanuel were talking about, if they were talking, when mentioning the Fifth CD and the Senate seat? Trade? Barter? Help? Names? Fatherhood? The imagination overheats. Deep breath.
Tony "...not one breath of fresh air..."
Meanwhile Blagojeviching makes it unlikely to impossible that Tony Rezko will ever again enjoy the simple joys of fatherhood such as Mr. Emanuel now finds incompatible with public service and candor. Tony has remained since June in solitary confinement at the Federal
Loop jail of the Metropolitan Correction Center as he awaits sentencing for his multiple corruption convictions. The delay is because Tony has been talking in detail to the Feds about his life of crime as a fixer for Blago and others. A small piece of the indictment of Blago points to a bribery scheme with Mercy Hospital in 2003 that involved Tony Rezko and the general genius of pay-for-play. Speculation by wags is that eventually much more of Tony's years of fixing bribes and pay-offs for Blago will be part of the prosecution. Patrick "Untouchable" Fitzgerald moved to arrest Blago on Tuesday because of what he called a "crime spree," however the indictment shows that Fitzgerald has already assembled years of crimes by Blago and pals. Now we are told that Tony is unhappy in his solitary cell, and we are told this by one of his two teenage sons, Adam. "Our main concern is he has not had one breath if fresh air since June," says Adam, "and he's not seen one ray of sunlight." At first I thought this was sad, and then I remembered that sons like Adam do not invent complaints about their father's fate. They pass on what the father wants passed on. Tony is using his sons (below from last June as Tony breathed his last fresh air in sunshine and then surrendered to jail) to whine for him. Why and why now? Since Tony will never breathe free again, and sunshine in a Chicago snowy winter is relative, and he faces a decade or more in jail and that was just the first trial, this can all only mean that Tony is looking out for Tony just now. Something has spooked him. Blagojeviching? Is there more on the recordings about Tony? Does Tony now have to say much more than before because it is no longer enough to give up the governor, he his busted already. What else does Tony have to trade? Another big politician? The imagination overheats. Deep breath. (Late news: The court has delayed indefinitely Tony Rezko's sentencing that was scheduled for January 6, 2009.)
It's operatic alright. But how many people go to the Opera these days? Its quite an experience, but you've got to be there - the plush seats; the soaring voices; the crystal chandeliers. It doesn't play well on the small screen, however. And with the price of tickets these days... we'll pass on this one.
That's likely how it plays in Peoria. The 24-hour news network ratings prove it. Sure, there are those who still expect something will come of it - like Obama being forced to run the country from Leavenworth. But that's a pipe dream. We've all been down that road before ...and nothing much happened.
This is a dog fight involving top Democrats. The national media is stunned. They're rethinking the efficacy of all the resource they spent on snooping under every ice flow up in Alaska while the real action went down in Chicago. Now they've got egg on their faces, facing scorn, ridicule, even lay-offs.
The American people already know they've stepped in it big time. Now all that's left is to figure out how to make it through the next four years. The first thing, I suppose, is to cancel our newspaper subscriptions.
Now this story is getting interesting.
"The Fifth CD thing" appears to be a Pay-Back concept reference by BLAGO in an attempt to remind Emanuel of what he did for him when he dropped out of the race for the 2002 seat in the United States House of Representatives from Illinois’ Fifth Congressional District, and allowed Emanuel to have the seat. The Fifth CD is a way of Blago telling Emanuel "indirectly" that he owns him from that event. "The Fifth CD" is virtually a Blago political corruption admission of guilt of handing that House seat to Emanual back in 2002 and now he expects a kick-back payment with regard to Obama paying him 10 - 15 million to grant Obama's Senate seat to Valerie Jarrett [Senate Candidate 1]. "When [he asks me for the Fifth CD thing], I want "IT" to be in his head," said Blago.
So what is "IT"? "IT", appears to be a 10 - 15 million dollar donation by Obama to Blago's fake 501(c)(4),which Blago wants to set-up and personal run and receive a $200 - $300,000 annual salary from.
This had to do with creating a "Blago Retirement Plan/ Golden Parachute", which allowed Blago to retire or be impeached and still survive to grow old and later sell all the books he would write on how he abused the system...
"and that when “he asks me for the Fifth CD thing""?
Why would Emanuel ask about the Fifth CD thing? Emanuel undoubtedly has some kind of deal in the works regarding Fifth Congressional District seat and since Blago and him are constantly making Pay/Play deals regarding it like back in 2002, Blago desires to let Emanuel that he will Play along with what ever Emanuel is up to as long as he Pays, as in 10 - 15 million...