Rod Blagojevich update

Michelle Malkin's site gives us a list of the crimes of which Rod Blagojevich was accused.  Apart from the crime of which he was convicted--lying to investigators (who were of course perfectly free to lie to him), the jury was deadlocked, and with good reason.

The reason: convicting a person of extortion and bribery is helped if you have an agreement to take a bribe or extort something from someone.  For some reason, however, someone in the prosecutor's office decided to talk to the Chicago Tribune before Blago could close the deal.  It's possible that someone in Patrick Fitzgerald's office simply started talking after too many cans of Old Style, but I'm guessing that someone in Chicago--Blagojevich, Daley, or possibly someone even more interesting--got a mole into Fitzgerald's office and torpedoed the investigation before it could reach the big players in Chicago politics.

How to clean it up?  Simple; stop paying for the excesses of Chicago politicians in Springfield and Washington, DC, and the scumbags there will realize that there is better money to be had elsewhere.