Two days ago, I thought something was just about to hit when Rod Blagojevich came out for the strikers in front of Bank of America's Chicago branch in ordering Illinois to quit doing business with them. It struck me as this sort of constituency builder of a man with no constituency - an approval rating in the single or lowest double digits.
What strikes me about the scandal, and the auctioning off of Barack Obama's old Senate seat , is seems less slimy than the process had been. There was this somewhat bizarre process going on where the various Senate aspirants suddenly had to curry the favor of a politically discredited politician who they would otherwise not be touching with a ten foot pole and treating as a leper, mainstream news speculators running through scenarios of how various candidates might make agreements on how they could suck up energy from potential primary candidates if he should be stubborn enough to run again and other "scratch each other back" manuevers. The specter of cold cash and blatant quid pro quos at least erases a political fiction and is in some manner a little less cynical.
