Better Than a Stocking on Christmas Morning

I'm skimming the 76-page criminal complaint against The Rod.  It's chock full o' nuggets for the connoiseur of really fantabulous corruption scandals.  It's like Rosty never really left us.  What is it about Chicago?

Right off the top: Blago's connection to Rezko (p. 9).  How is it we're only just now hearing about this?  Rezko, up to his armpits in the "Jobs for Campaign Contributions" racket.  And, if you don't have enough jobs at the ready, make up a do-nothing state agency to handle the overflow (p. 12).

Like Jennifer Rubin says, read it all.  Sitting down.

There's Nothing Like It

Nothing, NOTHING, perks me up like the sound of clicking handcuffs in the morning.

I'm going to sit back with my elevenes repast (organic mandarin vanilla chai and a few Almondinas) and listen to all of Blago's bleeping. PaddyFitz: "These were his words, not our characterization, except for the bleeping."

Apparently the bleeping is mostly effing.

One of the signs of corruption is that Blago was shopping around for a $150K directorship for his wife, and according to PaddyFitz, this is corruption. That reminds me of this. Money quote (really!):

Michelle Obama is on leave from her job while her husband campaigns for president, but after Barack was elected to congress, she received a big raise.

USA Today reports that officials at the University of Chicago Hospitals told the Chicago Tribune that Michelle is "worth her weight in gold."

"She's terrific," added Michael Riordan, who was president of the hospital in March 2005, when Michelle Obama was promoted to vice president for external affairs and had her annual salary increased from $121,910 to $316,962.

So, 20% is her cut.