"To hell with secrecy and to hell with you."

I know I haven't touched this governor thing, but something has been bothering me, so I'll try to make this quick.

Mr. Blagojevich - Guilty? As sin - probably. However, we as a people would be fooling ourselves something fierce if we were to believe removing him from office would do anything to end corruption here in Illinois.

What do I mean? - The rule of our government is much like a multi-headed snake, a lernaean hydra, if you will. Getting rid of the governor would only serve to remove one head and leave the body, as well as the remaining heads (A spineless judiciary and an absurdly ineffectual, consistently bickering, and power-mad legislature), in one piece and as corrupt as ever.

Clinton Redux? - The comedian Lewis Black has a line about the impeachment of Bill Clinton on his The White Album that states, "If you wanna' get somebody who's an asshole, you don't hire a bigger asshole. 'Cause then, the bigger asshole makes the asshole look like it's just a rectum." Now, I don't know much about the impeachment prosecutor personally, but I do know that his name is...

David Ellis - Who, in what I have to be sure was a God-induced matter of coincidence, happens to be counsel for Michael Madigan, the speaker of the Illinois house, the biggest vocal opponent of Blagojevich, and father of Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General, vocal opponent of Blagojevich, and possible future candidate for Governor of Illinois. He also happens to be a celebrated novelist whose latest novel is now out in paperback. He even has a MySpace.

What does this say? - Nothing with any more proof than they have on Blagojevich, but it sure does look like they're trying to fuck the system while all of us watch and applaud.

My point? - It's a big top circus under the dome, where the center ring is a kangaroo court, led by the corrupt, prosecutes the corrupt for corruption, and all of it happens while the media cums on itself.

In the end, it seems like Illinoisans are always going to have choose their politicians by their corruption. But, which is worse? The politician corrupted by the those the like of Big Pharma, allowing them to gouge the public for their pills, or the politician who uses corruption to fight for the people against those the like of Big Pharma and tries to better the standard of living for everybody in his state.

It's a choice, luckily, nobody will ever have to make, because we live in the United States and only one of those two kinds of people can afford to talk to us.