December 11, 2008 12:01 AM
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I'll never understand the arrogance of people like soon-to-be ex-Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. He knew he was under scrutiny, yet he persisted in trying to sell Obama's vacated Senate seat (and pretty much everything else he had access to), not to mention attempting to extort the Chicago Tribune into firing reporters and editors who wrote bad (true) things about him. Something weird happens to people in positions of power. The corrupt ones evidently come to believe that they are indestructible and untouchable. I just don't get it. One could pass it off as a Chicago thing, except that lots of other places seem to have gotten a piece of the action lately.
And please, have the sanity to refrain from partisan postings claiming that somehow this proves your deepest suspicions about Democrats, as several of the comments about the news story have suggested. I think recent history has proven that they are no more susceptible to corruption than Republicans. Corrupt governor Ryan, who was replaced by Blagojevich, was a Republican. William Jefferson in Louisiana is a Democrat, Alaska's Ted Stevens a Republican. Larry Craig, Bob Ney, Duke Cunningham, Republicans. It appears that greed has no party.
