In the end, it was really a simple solution for the political blood of Illinois. Get rid of a pest, sweep out the old, get a transfusion and in comes the new. Rod Blagojevich is gone; Pat "The Mighty" Quinn is in. The Hound wonders if things will change or Illinois will continue with this "wink and a nod" way of doing business in the Land of Lincoln.
The Hound also wonders how those who voted predictably Thursday to convict the ex-governor on the impeachment articles will square why they campaigned with him in 2002 and 2006. Many were the Lake County Democrats who embraced Rod Blagojevich. The Hound remembers two of them who cast votes Thursday to unanimously remove him. Well, that's why politics makes strange bedfellows.
The Hound still thinks there's a Lifetime channel movie in the trials of Rod Blagojevich. This country is all about second acts, so how 'bout a book, "Six Crises"? Oops, already been written by someone who resigned before getting impeached.
Next stop for the former governor, a date in a federal courtroom in the Dirksen Building in Chicago's Loop, perhaps an appearance on "Oprah" and a notation in the Political Boneyard. He is not riding off into the sunset, quietly or quickly.
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