How Were We Denied a Rod Blagojevich U.N. Ambassadorship?

It really would've classed up the place.

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Damn, sometimes politics is no fun at all.

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday declined to take up the appeal by former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich of his corruption conviction. A federal appeals court last year upheld most of his conviction counts. He's serving a 14-year sentence in federal prison.

I confess to a sneaking fondness for Blago, and for a profound desire to hear the audiotapes of him, putting the president's old Senate seat up for bid, in the chambers of the Supreme Court.

The day after Obama's victory, Blagojevich is heard on the FBI wiretaps saying, "I mean, I've got this thing and it's f****** golden. And I'm just not giving it up for f****** nothing." Blagojevich supposedly wanted to mine that gold by having the White House give him a top job within the administration in return for naming Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett to the Senate seat. "U.N. ambassador. I'd take that," he said.

U.N. Ambassador? How in the hell did he come up with that one?

In the Museum Of Big Clanging Brass Ones, Rod Blagojevich deserves his own private gallery. Still belongs in the slammer, though.

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