You gotta laugh, or you just might have to cry. Right wing bloggers tried their damnedest to push the Resko/Obama house deal to the forefront, but the MSM just wasn’t havin’ any of it. That last month before the election word got out that Rezko was singin’ like the proverbial canary and that the Illinois Governor was going to be “touched” by the scandal. We all wondered if any of the wind-carried excrement would stick to the Democratic nominee, but he did a great imitation of the Teflon-don and won on 11/4. Now this happens! Wild . . .

Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested by FBI agents on federal corruption charges Tuesday morning.

Blagojevich and Harris were arrested simultaneously at their homes at about 6:15 a.m., according to Frank Bochte of the FBI. Both were transported to FBI headquarters in Chicago.

In one charge related to the appointment of a senator to replace Barack Obama, prosecutors allege that Blagojevich sought appointment for himself as secretary of Health and Human Services in the new Obama administration, or a lucrative job with a union, in exchange for appointing a union-preferred candidate.

Another charge alleges Blagojevich and Harris conspired to demand the firing of Chicago Tribune editorial board members responsible for editorials critical of him in exchange for state help with the sale of Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs baseball stadium owned by Tribune Co.

Check out the remarks of U.S Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald:

“The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering,” U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement.

“They allege that Blagojevich put a ‘for sale’ sign on the naming of a United States senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of a salesman meeting his annual sales target; and corruptly used his office in an effort to trample editorial voices of criticism.”

In a press conference held today, Obama said that he had no contact with Blagojevich about filling his soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat — none! ABC’s Jake Tapper reminds us that in November Obama campaign senior adviser David Axelrod said something very different:

While insisting that the President-elect had not expressed a favorite to replace him, and his inclination was to avoid being a “kingmaker,” Axelrod said, “I know he’s talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them.”

Crazy! More when I can get back to the computer . . .

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Hugh Hewitt links to the Chicago Tribune on the Gov’s only options: “To sing loud and long.”

The only real decision Gov. Dead Meat has to make is when he’ll start blubbering into a federal tape recorder and how much he’ll say. The guys behind the guys aren’t amused. To them, this Blagojevich isn’t funny anymore.

Someone who knows where all the bodies are buried probably wonders if he’s soon gonna be one! Michelle Malkin has lots more, and the link to The Smoking Gun’s excerpt of the criminal complaint.

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