I am thinking that in the end it will be Papa and Baby Mandigan that pay for their preemuptive stikes against Blago before he was found guilty by any court.
No it is much more than that. By Fitzy holding off on filing before the election it did not taint or stain bHo in any way. Even as weak as McCain was it might have been just enough to make it a much closer election.
Maybe kicked out many of the 5% he won by, likely to have gotten a bunch of electoral states back in play.
Fitzy is supposed to lose this and not going after any big wheels. He will probably find a way to bring some Republican lower level hack in on some unrelated perjury charge, and the Republican will spend jail time (which even Clinton did not for perjury).
Timed nearly perfectly, this was screwed up just enough it never had a real chance to snag some higher level dem. Fitzy is not bringing down any big Dem of importance and certainly NOT bHo.