There is life in the Illinois Republican Party after all. The Hound thought the folks from the Grand Old Party were on life support, but with all the Democratic feuding and conviction of Tony Rezko, Gov. Rod "The Mod" Blagojevich's chief fund-raiser, and real estate buddy of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, things maybe looking up for the down and out GOPsters.
Party big-wig Andy McKenna even had the temerity to call on Blagojevich to return all the money raised by Rezko for the governor's re-election campaign, including $1.4 million raised from 2001-2004. Like that's going to happen.
But the point has been made that Blago campaigned for his first term on bringing trust back to Springfield and state government after four years of Republican George Ryan in the Governor's Mansion. So much for that promise. Blago hasn't even lived in the mansion, preferring the city lights of Chicago to Springpatch.
Now comes House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, circulating a memo to legislative candidates spelling out how they can discuss whether Blago should be impeached --- with talking points that compare corruption under the governor to a
tumor that must be removed. Yikes! It's getting nasty in the Democratic trenches.
The Associated Press came upon the 14-page rundown of Blagojevich's alleged "misdeeds and malfeasance" which is sure to deepen the feud between the two Democrats. That, too, would create another opening for Republicans to make political hay.
Just a few months ago the Republican Party looked like a bunch of dysfunctional pols. Bet it's good to see the other side undergoing the same treatment. There may be hope after all.
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