Of Course, If You Guys Wanted to Start a Collection, I Wouldn't Say No

For those of you not watching the news now that the election is over (and who could blame you), you might be missing one of the most delightful scandals in recent times. It seems that the Governor of Illinois tried to sell the now vacant Senate seat previously belonging to Barack Obama. He had the decency not to do it on eBay or anything, but he tried nonetheless.

You may be asking why this scandal is different from the myriad abuses that we face each day from those in power. My response would be that, at least from the outward appearances, this one differs in the brashness of the accused. He's caught on wiretaps saying things like "you don't just give it away for nothing". He's been accused of holding up legislation until he got campaign donations, trying to get journalists who criticized him fired through state business deals and threatening to pull state funds from a children's hospital unless part of the funds came back as campaign contributions. There's no word yet if they guy tried to use his position to take candy from babies, but I wouldn't count it out.

So, faced with arrest, and multiple accusations, how does the good Governor Blagojevich respond? Does he publicly apologize for all of it, or (more likely), deny the hell out of it? Well, not exactly.

He posted bail and went back to work.

His spokesman commented on that. "The day-to-day operation doesn't change nor is it affected. There are still critical state issues that he wants to address - things like dealing with the current financial crisis, looking at ways to keep people in their homes and finding ways to create jobs - and will continue to do so as governor." Included in these critical state issues is presumably the aforementioned Senate seat assignment.

Of course everyone want his out now. Cries have gone up for his resignation, and there is a movement to hold some variety of special election to select the new Senator, but no word from Blagojevich (which is really hard to type, by the way). Nope, he's all business as usual. So here's to you, Guvnor. Way to stick to the work, disregarding all of this corruption brouhaha that's going on around you. And pay no heed to the naysayers who mocked you for attending court in a lowly pair of sweatpants.

After all, I'm not sure where you'll find dress pants that could contain the hundred pound, solid brass cojones you're clearly sporting.