So rampant crime by all is, by itself, the reason to excuse it?
Not at all - but taking comments out of context to try to prove the case, rather than showing the full extent of political corruption on all sides and the true intent of the speaker should be. Fitzgerald lost all credibility when he continued to pursue Scooter Libby on the same kind of charges that Blago was convicted of (lying to the feds). Fitzgerald knew that Libby did not reveal Valerie Plame’s CIA identity, but was determined to hang someone out to dry.
In the machinations to fill Obama’s Senate seat, Blago did nothing different from what Obama did with Joe Sestak and Andrew Romanoff, yet that is given a pass.