Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Former Sen. Peter Fitzgerald on Obama's "bi-partisanship"

As I briefly noted earlier today, I got to listen in on the McCain-Palin campaign teleconference with former US Senator Peter Fitzgerald. The suburban Chicago Republican is the only person to have served in the Illinois State Senate with Barack Obama and the US Senate with John McCain.

McCain must have been very pleased to see Fitzgerald arrive in Washington. He replaced the lazy, ineffective, and amoral Carol Moseley-Braun. In 1994, McCain tried to do away with the free parking priviliges enjoyed by members of Congress at what's now known as Reagan National Airport. McCain viewed this perk as an example of how members of Congress were out of touch with the people they represent. Moseley-Braun would not have anything with it, and protested, "When is this Congress-bashing going to stop?" McCain lost the vote, but he had the last laugh a few months later when the Republicans won both houses of Congress, and the free parking priviliges were voted out when the GOP majority Congress took control of the Capitol.

Fitzgerald's comments cement what people outside of the body known as The Obama Nation are aware of...Obama talks a good game in the name of bipartisanship, but once in office, he's follows the Democratic Party line. As far as corruption, and man is there plenty of that in Illinois, he's blind to it--especially the Democratic kind.

Below is what Fitzgerald said this morning. It's long, but every word is worth reading.

And in my last two years in the Illinois State Senate, I did serve with Barack Obama and got to know him reasonably well. In fact, I chaired the State Senate State Government Operations Committee and Senator Obama was the ranking Democrat on that committee and I worked pretty closely with him for two years. I was, at that time, in my last two years in the State Senate and I was campaigning for the U.S. Senate. But, I got to know him pretty well and, of course, had to work with him very closely as he was my ranking colleague on my committee. In the U.S. Senate of course, I served with Sen. John McCain for six years, and I served on his Commerce Committee for four years and got to know him extremely well and was his ally on many, many reform issues both before the Commerce Committee and before the Senate in general. And I feel that I have a very good idea of the policies of both of these men and know their politics fairly well. I have followed Senato r Obama's career in the U.S. Senate with interest because he is my successor. I did not run for reelection in 2004. Barack won the Democratic nomination and of course went on to get elected. And since he was my successor, I did follow him very closely. I had a lunch with him right before he went into the Senate dining room and I followed his every move pretty carefully.

I just wanted to make a few points here. I think Senator Obama, if you look at his career, he has always run as a reformer and as a kind of post-partisan figure. His campaign slogan this year is 'hope and change' in the presidential race and certainly that slogan itself encourages the perception that he would shake up business as usual in Washington, that he would rock the boat, that he would be a reformer and that he would also bring people together, that he would not be a partisan figure, he would not be an ideologue, but that he would work across party lines. And I think that when he ran to succeed me in the U.S. Senate, he ran pretty much on the same lines. Reform was a theme of his 2004 Senate race and certainly he encouraged the perception with his speech before the Democratic convention in 2004 that we need to bring people together, that we can't have red states and blue states, and we need to get Republicans and Democrats to work together.

It's my judgment after having worked with him and having worked with Senator McCain and having followed them very carefully, that for Senator Obama reform and nonpartisanship is something to campaign on, but it's not something he naturally does when he gets in office. And if I think back to my days in Springfield with him, Senator Obama, I don't ever really recall working across party lines. He was a very partisan and ideological Democrat who represented a district that really was probably 90% Democrat, and certainly I saw him as reflective of his district in that he was just one of those state senators from Chicago who viewed the Democratic party as being right 100% of the time and the Republican party wrong 100% of the time. He's not one to work across party lines.

I think if you look at his reforms that he speaks about frequently on the campaign trail: he talks about having sponsored an ethics bill in Springfield. Well, that bill did not originate from him. It actually originated from a working group led by former U.S. Senator Paul Simon and former Federal Judge Abner Mikva. They put together that bill, and they went to the Democratic leader of the State Senate, Emil Jones, and asked Emil Jones to give that bill to Barack Obama to carry it in the State Senate and Barack Obama did carry that bill and it did pass, but it really passed with little or no opposition.

His campaign reform in Washington was similar and it really happened in almost identical ways. It was Senator McCain who chaired the Abramoff investigations that led to the reforms that happened shortly after Senator Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate. Everybody in the Senate was for it. The bill passed on voice vote by unanimous consent and nobody opposed the Abramoff reforms. Those reforms originated with Senator McCain. Obama ended up getting his name on it because the Democratic leader Harry Reid appointed Barack on his behalf to handle the bill. And so again, I don't think that shows any true effort at reform. Really, these were just bills that he could call reform that really didn't take any courage to propose, to introduce, or to debate. No one was offended by those bills.

So looking across the whole spectrum of Senator Obama's career in Springfield, I don't recall him as being a reformer. Rather, I never recall him speaking out on governmental corruption in Springfield, in Chicago where corruption is all around him.

Of course, everyone knows that Senator McCain's record of reform that's lengthy. It goes back years. He has the scars to prove it. He's fought and introduced reforms that have generated that position that have made the special interests angry, that have made his colleagues angry going back to before I served with him.

So, Senator McCain is actually someone who really actually governs in the way that he campaigns and, of course, he's campaigned as a maverick and as a reformer, but he is in reality a maverick and a reformer and someone whose courage I admire as much as anybody with courage as I know in this country.

Pretty damning stuff. A little more on Fitzgerald. When President Bush asked him to recommend a US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Fitzgerald broke precedent and went outside of Chicago and named Patrick Fitzgerald (no relation), a New Yorker with a reputation as a ruthless prosecutor. This angered the bi-partisan corrupt establishment in Illinois that Chicago Tribune columnist dubbed "The Combine," and it guaranteed that the senator, if he chose to run for reelection, would not receive his party's support.

Peter Fitzgerald chose not to run again. Patrick Fitzgerald has led the fight against corruption that has put former Governor George Ryan (a Republican), Tony Rezko, and dozens of other public officials behind bars.

We need more Peter Fitzgeralds in the Senate.

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Peter Fitzgerald should be appointed senator to complete president elect Obama's term. When this term is completed we can then have an election to choose the next senator from Illinois.

Anonymous said...

I agree... Peter Fitzgerald would be a great appointment to replace Obama. Illinois needs true reformers

Anonymous said...

Peter Fitzgerald is a rabid right-wing ideologue.

Anonymous said...

Either Peter Fitzgerald or Glenn Poshard would do a good job and be a breath of fresh air for IL.

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