Trouble in Springfield
There is drama in Springfield, Illinois. Kind of...or, at least there would be trouble in Springfield, Illinois, if Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich (D) (blah-goy-a-vich) actually lived in the governor's mansion in Illinois. Nonetheless, Blagojevich has continued the venerable tradition of Illinois governors of getting arrested for some sort of abuse of power. Makes me so proud to be from such a state that makes the governor's office such a moral highroad. Our previous governor, George Ryan (R), was convicted of racketeering and fraud in 2006. But in Illinois it does not matter if you are Republican, like Ryan, or Democrat, like Blagojevich, because EVERYONE is very very corrupt. Blagojevich has now been arrested for trying to sell Obama's vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder! This brings with it the highly technical sounding charge of "corruption." This "corruption" charge, evidently, is just the icing on the cake of an ongoing five-year ...