12.16.2008

The Illinois Whipping Boy

Great Read: Check out Frank Rich's perspective. I'd have to agree. Blago will get what he deserves - but a whole lot of others won't.

(p.s. - did you know Blago calls his Paul Mitchell comb the "football" and it's with his handlers at all times? Also, he hired R. Kelly's defense lawyer). Ok, back to the NYT:
Our next president, like his predecessor, is promising “a new era of responsibility and accountability.” We must hope he means it. Meanwhile, we have the governor he leaves behind in Illinois to serve as our national whipping boy, the one betrayer of the public trust who could actually end up paying for his behavior. The surveillance tapes of Blagojevich are so fabulous it seems a tragedy we don’t have similar audio records of the bigger fish who have wrecked the country. But in these hard times we’ll take what we can get.

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