Blagojevich

Obviously I’m way behind the curve on this, but the Ron Blagojevich story is really stunning. There’s probably nothing novel I can say at this point, so I’ll just add that on a personal note, John Wyma was Chuck Schumer’s chief of staff back when I was a lowly Schumerland intern, and so I’m heartened to see him doing the right thing here.

For a while at progressive politics’ post-9/11 low ebb, Blagojevich’s Illinois was a lonely holdout with a Democratic governor and state legislator, so corruption aside it was an important staging ground for some good initiatives on health care and preschool and so forth. Fortunately, progressives now have better political leaders to work with.