Regular journalists have to cover the news, and the chattering classes have to gnaw on the bone of the moment, which said bone being Rod Blagojevich who sent so many commentators running for their pronunciation guides.
Moralists on the right are shocked, shocked at all the influence peddling going on in Springfield, but that's just Chicago politics. Moralists blah blah blah about the corrupt Democrats in Chicago, even though the last corrupt Illinois governor to go down was a Republican. Just for fun, let's go back and look at the foreign policy credentials of all the ambassadors to Luxembourg and Bermuda going back to WWII, and we believe you understand our point.
It seems that politicians of all stripes have fallen prey to the lure, and we are certain some of the Beagleship out there, if they'd seen it on the bill of fare, would have paid to sit next to Dick Durbin and feel just like Jimmy Stewart listening solemnly to the sage advice of Claude Rains (who by the way was not even American).
When Democratic Gov. David Walters sold a mess of jobs, and got pinched, a local pol observed, "Everybody has a list. His mistake was writing it down."
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