Eugene Robison On Our Gov. Blogo

Trying to leverage a political appointment into a political advantage is not unprecedented. Doing so while talking like a character from "The Sopranos" is an aesthetic offense, but I'm not sure it's a criminal one.

Had Blagojevich consummated a deal for personal gain in exchange for the appointment, Fitzgerald may have had an open-and-shut case. But the governor didn't consummate anything. He just talked and talked and talked, mostly about how nobody wanted to play ball with him. I question whether the tapes are enough to put him in jail.