who cares more, is what i want to know.

I dunno, seems like just another day in the Land of Lincoln to me even though they’re talking about impeaching our governor and physically restraining his Senatorial appointment if said appointee tries to walk onto the Senate floor next week.

When I grew up, the motto around here was “vote early, vote often” — a phrase attributed to, among others, the late Al Capone. It’s well-known in these parts that many democratic machines have allowed dead people to vote for their picks. Hell, dead goldfish even get a say. Corruption is the state’s middle name!

Everybody in politics around here throws their weight around when they can. Most notably, a few years back our mayor decided to bulldoze our third busiest airport. He did it in the middle of the night while everyone was sleeping, stranding 16 aircrafts. Why? Because he wanted it gone — for safety reasons after 9/11.

The real reason (in my opinion)? He couldn’t stand our former governor and wanted to waste his ability to fly from Chicago to Springfield. The harder it would be for him to come to Chicago, the easier it would be for our mayor to do as he pleased.

Speaking of our former governor — and why I’m not at all taken by what’s happening in our state now — he’s in prison on 18 counts of corruption. He’s so in prison that even the current President of the United States of America is unwilling thus far to grant him a presidential pardon.

But that’s not even the half of it! When Lyin’ Ryan (as they like to call our former Governor) went to jail, one of our city’s papers got to interview another former governor of ours who also served time!

So see how it’s possible that I’m not all that charged about our current governor’s leadership or lack thereof? Happens around here all the time. All the time. What I find hard to believe is how Barack Obama ever got out of this state unscathed, because the corruption is every, everywhere.

Definitely makes the news a little more palatable — less fire and shooting coverage, more “celebrity gossip.”

Speaking of news, I understand that the eyes of the nation are on us. My guess is that outside of the circle of people directly involved with the case, the next demographic of people emotionally charged about Blago may not even live here in Illinois. We’re used to it; comes with the territory. Sadly.