A good defense lawyer is expected to say his client didn't do anything wrong.
But this "business as usual" reaction by Blago (back in the office tomorrow) puts more pressure on the state legislature to vote for a special election -- soon. I've read that Blago has until January 6th to appoint a successor to Obama's senate seat.

The IL legislature needs to impeach Blab-On-ovich first thing Wednesday morning, and allow Lt. Gov Quinn to make the appointment. A special election will take too long. The Democrats really need to hit the ground running in January. And whoever is appointed to the seat will have to run for the office in less than two years, anyway.

I cannot comment on the depth or derth of Rhode Island, Louisiana or Alaska's (and don't forget New Jersey's legacy system) corrupted political DNA's, but I can comment on Illinois'. Unlike what usually fosters an environment of a corruption is one-party rule, (not governance but rule), big money, using or taking other people's money and absolute disregard to the rule of law or the accountability of law---Illinois is summed up in what you learned today about Blago, his attitude and his actions.

In ILL, both parties are corrupt and it is always about money, big money and contracts~influence where not unlike places like Russia or South America you must pay to play.

I once had a business in ILL, I was held up by building inspectors who looked at me like a bell boy in a hotel and lobbyists. My extended cousin who was a lobbyist flat out told me if I want to even seriously bid on some minor data management contracts I had to grease the wheels in my locale whom I knew. One was a totally unethical slum lord in one town and former mayor of a small town.

But the best story of ILL comes two-fold. I was being approached to possibly run for mayor as a young man and when I went and talked to an old family friend who was one of the bigger real estate magnets in the town. He said he liked me a lot and owed my grandfather much back in the Depression which he wouldn't elaborate but said I was far too clean and good of a person to get mixed up in ILL politics. I wasn't able to play and would get chewed up.

Part of what people don't understand or report is the wild card that ILL's 'Outfit of Wise Guys' quietly play in everything.

I guess Alaska doesn't have the level of sophistication of ILL's outfit. RI and Louisana might but don't forget New Jersey either.

Blag oy o vich can appoint anyone he wishes to be senator for Illinois, but the US Senate has to agree to the appointment, and I don't believe they will do that. Illinois will just be minus one senator until Blago resigns or is impeached and convicted.

Just be happy....no, be deliriously happy that this arrest didn't occur in early October.

I think there's a reasonable chance that Blagojevich may not fight it in court and will simply plea out.

Why? Ordinarily, I'd never suggest that a pompous, arrogant, thoroughly corrupt guy like him would never ever, EVER plea out. But he's not in an ordinary situation.

If you read the transcripts, it's clear that Blago's wife put herself well and truly into any frame being drawn up by the prosecutors.

Here's the key, they have two Small Children.

If this goes to court, The Blagojevichs will be looking at the very real possibility of both husband and wife in jail for a decade! All the while, their small children would be raised by who-the-hell-knows.

If my guess about her culpability is right, I think the Governor will do the deal to keep the mother of his small children out of jail. I think Fitzgerald could find it in his heart to allow Mrs. Blagojevich to serve little to no jail time.

If he doesn't, if Blagojevich lets both of them go down or even go to trial, he's not only scum, he's sociopathic scum. Maybe he is...

Wow, everyone's throwing the rope over the tree branch and preparing the noose even before he's entered his plea, much less had a trial. The act that the investigation had been going for so long and theonly they've come up with is relating to recent events speaks volumes, I think. All of the statements of Blog that I've read easily have an innocuous, i.e., not illegal, meaning. Gov. Patterson in NY has to appoint Hillary's successor, and I have to assume he expects and is having conversation about future political support from whomever he appoints. Is he subject to indictment, also?