Ah, Chicago politics

This is change we can believe in. [Link]

The report is stunning enough: “Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested today by FBI agents on federal corruption charges.” But the criminal complaint itself, containing the detailed accusations about a myriad of calls, press leaks and conferences with advisors to “sell” the open U.S. Senate seat, is simply eye-popping. Then there was the attempted blackmail of the Chicago Tribune. (That one involved conditioning financial assistance on the firing of editorial employees who had criticized the Governor.) Read it all. Sitting down.

I am shocked. Simply shocked.