Rahm Emanuel Under the Bus

According to the NYT, Rahm Emanuel has been caught red-handed as the point person in Obama's Senate Seat for Sale Scandal.

President-elect Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, communicated with the office of Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois about potential candidates for Mr. Obama’s Senate seat and provided a list of names, according to two Obama associates briefed on the matter...

The Chicago Tribune reported that communications between Mr. Emanuel and the governor, both Democrats, had been captured on court-approved wiretaps, but Obama associates gave conflicting accounts of the interactions.

At the very least, Emanuel is guilty of knowing what was going on and covering it up with his public silence. Privately, he was warning his colleagues that Blago was a corruption tar baby:

Ms. Schakowsky told The New York Times last week that she called Mr. Emanuel last month when she was exploring whether she might fill Mr. Obama’s seat. She and Mr. Emanuel had served in the House together.

Ms. Schakowsky said Mr. Emanuel had declined to tell her if Mr. Obama had a favorite to fill the seat. She said he seemed wary about Mr. Blagojevich.

According to Blago, he approached what is now believed to be Emanuel and the conversation took place about a 10 to 15 million scam non-profit set up to benefit the governor in exchange for Obama's selection:

According to the criminal complaint, Mr. Blagojevich talked about approaching an unnamed “president-elect adviser” to ask for help raising “10, 15 million” for the governor to start a nonprofit organization.

The complaint quoted Mr. Blagojevich as saying that when the president-elect adviser asked him about the special election for the House seat, Mr. Blagojevich wanted “it to be in his head.”

Emanuel now has a headache because it's clear that once Blago put "it" "in his head", he didn't call the FBI. Obama and his cronies cover up and hide corruption and could possibly be involved in it themselves.