Call me cynical, but I only live 75 miles from that cesspool in Cook Co. If Blago’s out, it because the dems want him out. Look, they’ve even got people feeling sorry for the Chicago Tribune for being supposedly shaken down by a democrat govenor. And what about the poor, poor Children’s Memorial Hospital? If they don’t throw Blago out for trying to sell the chosen one’s senate seat, then they HAVE to do it for the children. Sounds so liberal to me. And the media just seems to be having too much fun with this over a democrat getting caught. What also sounded weird to me is, that earlier this month Durbin wanted Bush to commute Geo. Ryan’s prison sentence. Why? IL is so corrupt.
The dems will throw Blago out and come out smelling like roses, and the media, which has lost a lot of credibility, will try to salvage some of it back.
Blago has been around Chi-town politics (i.e., Dem politics) for a long time. He's also someone, if the transcripts are any indication, who's got no principles or moral fiber. That makes him a very dangerous man right now for any Dem who's ever known him. He may go into "trapped rat" mode and start thinking about who he can take down with him, even if he needs to make stuff up. It might be worth it to him to lie, if it meant he could hurt an enemy, even if the enemy was a member of his own party.
I mention this only to suggest that Dems wouldn't have wanted to hasten this day, despite Blago's deep unpopularity in the state. Their own man, a longtime political ally of Blago, is about to enter the WH. It would have been just too risky to purposefully let this blow up.
Fitzgerald was in control and acting independently, IMHO. But he may have cut the thing off prematurely when he saw that The One, or his associates, was about to be drawn into the net.