'Won't Work'

Rich: GOP attempts to link Obama, Blagojevich 'won't work'

Although Republicans have been doing their best to implicate President-elect Barack Obama in the scandal involving Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's attempt to sell Obama's former Senate seat to the highest bidder, New York Times columnist Frank Rich believes Obama has nothing to worry about.In an appearance Wednesday on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, Rich began by suggesting that the extravagantly obscene transcripts of Blagojevich's conversations are "going to be the gift that keeps on giving, I think, for quite a while ... but the attempts to link Obama to it are almost as laughable as the transcripts themselves.""Republicans, for obvious reasons, they want to tie Blagojevich to Obama like an anchor," Maddow noted."Right, but it won't work," Rich replied confidently. He suggested that the Republicans are "just trying to change the subject" now that 79% of Americans tell pollsters they won't miss George Bush's when he's gone and even Joe the Plumber is saying he was appalled and embarrassed by John McCain.