Rod (bleeped) You Over

Naïve is anyone who believes that what Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been saying and doing in the Land of Lincoln is shocking because of its rarity. He wants a bleeping deal, appointment or cash for a bleeping senate seat and his wife jumps on the phone demanding that bleeping reporters be fired is probably the norm and not the exception in American politics. Even Barack Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod, believes it’s okay. In 2005 he chided prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald for using criminal code to take politics out of government by saying that politicians routinely exchange favors and jobs for deals. That’s how things get done. And, our system of leadership settled into this method too many decades ago to count so don’t get any wild ideas that change is about to come—because most of us care more about bringing the new jobs to our state than we do about the bleeping things a politician must do to get them here. And that says a bleeping lot about us doesn’t?

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