Blagojevich Weighs Legal Options: Observers say Illinois gov. may be contemplating a deal with prosecutors after his meeting with renowned criminal lawyer.
Meanwhile, Frank Rich, a columnist for the New York Times, surveys the scandal and announces that, despite the Governor's party affiliation and Obama's ties to Illinois politics, the scandal is really...yep..."Bush's Fault"(TM):
If you want to trace the bipartisan roots of the morally bankrupt culture that has now found its culmination in our financial apocalypse, a good place to start is late 2001 and 2002, just as the White House contemplated inflating Saddam’s W.M.D. That’s when we learned about another scandal with cooked books, Enron. This was a supreme embarrassment for Bush, whose political career had been bankrolled by the Enron titan Kenneth Lay, or, as Bush nicknamed him back in Texas, “Kenny Boy.”
I think he's on to something. After all, it isn't as if Chicago politics have been corrupt for the past half-century or anything.
