Forgotten hairball Rod Blagojevich thought he could finally cash in big with Barack Obama’s Senate seat, but that didn’t work out too well. Then Rod went on every talk show and cable-news program to jabber hysterical bullshit, and that really didn’t lead to riches, either. Now, at ...

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is so busy, with his interior responsibilities, that after his own press conference, he pretended to pretend to be a reporter for a full 45 minutes of Robert Gibbs’ press briefing. [The Caucus] The ongoing O’Reilly/Alba feud in still ongoing. Its exciting d...

Rahm Emanuel wanted Obama’s Senate seat for himself — it is a fucking object of inestimable worth — and asked Blaggy to save it for him. Still, he didn’t offer Blaggy any famous nine-fingered handjobs in return. [TPMMuckraker] Howard Wolfson is taking his porn and his Bon Ive...

The Obama camp’s internal investigation report about its contact with Blaggy’s office regarding the “fuckin’ valuable” Senate seat “thing” has been released. Written by Obama’s fancy lawyer, Greg Craig, the report comes in at a brisk 4.5 pages. No one ...

We already knew that National Review Online editor and former secretary Kathryn Jean Lopez was proud of America when the Blagojevich scandal broke because (a) it was simple enough for her to understand and (b) it didn’t involve queers. In her column today, however, she offers even more trencha...

Well, we had to do this post at some point (not really!). Thank you to The Smoking Gun for providing this juicy excerpt from the FBI’s affadavit re: the various stupid crimes of Illinois Governor Rod “Blaggy” Blagojevich in his attempt to sell a United States Senate seat for a cush...

One of the first few things we thought of after hearing about Blaggy’s arrest was, “What will Kathryn Jean Lopez have to say about this?” She loves it! She loves it because it’s so easy to understand and fits into her Manichean worldview (well, she makes everything fit into h...

It seems DADDY over there in the Senate wants to give “the people” the right to fill Obama’s Senate seat, which would be a vulgar trashing of the Constitution, taking the choice away from the potty-mouth arrested governor who is on tape trying to sell it, for money, and what not. U...

Ha, we all had a general idea about the atmospherics of “Chicago politics” — various scenarios involving sludge and trades and wires and smoke and $$$ come to mind, all smelling like dry air and farts — but when it invades Real America’s national news, all we want to do...