I hate to come out with anything that's really like blog posts, but I can't contain myself -- the news has not contained anything for a very long time that makes me as happy as the Blagojevich affair.  He makes me shout with joy; any minute now he's going to start driving around Chicago in a white Bronco.  This is a guy who, already under investigation -- and aware of that -- said to several people on several occasions in the plainest and commonest possible language that he intended to use his office to sell another office.  He clearly expressed the nature of the crime, his intent to commit it, and what he should get out of it -- and even complained about the difficulty of getting some of the potential partners to participate.  At no point was there the slightest effort to put a legitimizing spin on the plan.  It's not even an update of old-style corruption -- it is the thing itself, back from the ashes, in its barest, most primitive form.  And best of all, confronted with irrefutable evidence and the demands of his entire state government, he refuses to resign -- at least as of COB yesterday.  "Fuck you, I am a criminal in office and you can kiss my venal AAAASSS!"  Yeah, dude!  Do NOT let the Man push you around!  This guy is a crook's crook; he's got balls of uranium.  George Bush should take his seminar.

If only more politicians were like him.  I just pray that he doesn't turn out to have a crack addiction or brain tumor or something that could diagnose away his magnificent intent.  Rod Blagojevich is an American asshole hero.

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