thenewrepublic:

Another governor behind bars.

Rod R. Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois, was sentenced on Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison for 18 felony corruption convictions, including trying to sell or trade the Senate seat that President Obama left behind when he moved to the White House.

 “I have nobody to blame but myself for my stupidity and actions, words, things that I did, that I thought I could do,” he said.

Mr. Blagojevich, a Democrat who won two terms as governor before being impeached and removed from office, will become Illinois’s fourth governor in recent memory to go to prison. 

Courtesy of the New York Times.

My first-ever vote as an American was a shrugging “He’s still better than the GOP option” vote to re-elect this man, knowing full well he was and is a louse.  Democracy in action.

Also he’s got an incredible ability to accurately quote great writers/thinkers on command.  Heard him come up with lines from Jefferson, Kipling, and others, off the cuff, as the whole indictment thing went down.

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