Entertaining spectacle in Windy City

 
By Rich Lowry
Published: January 6, 2009

The disgraced Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich refuses to obey his script. Democrats wanted to shame him into inaction until the state Legislature impeached him and this blot on the new era of Democratic politics could be erased.

But why would the intrepid Blago do that, especially when Democrats left in his hands the very power to appoint a U.S. senator that was at the root of his most spectacularly corrupt schemes? At...


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