One of the Gormogons’ many collaborators on the ground (we’re everywhere) reports in on Rocket Rod Blagojevic’s spectacular flameout, worth of the great corrupt Chicago pols of the past:

As you can imagine, it’s a zippity-do-day here for me.

Not sure what news you’re getting, but CNN basically skimmed the story.

Here’s what happened.

I found out about this Sunday night: my mother-in-law’s best friend came over for dinner. She’s a legal secretary, and said that one of their attorneys managed to get something Blago said on tape. It was “big,” whatever it was, and that the Governor would be arrested within 72 hours. It was so serious, in fact, that the attorney resigned because his pro-Blago employers would crush him like a bug. The law firm, indeed, just hired Dick “Divine” DeVine for a massive but undisclosed sum in hopes that Blago, once arrested, would hire this DeVine and this firm.

Boy, was she right about it being big.

There are basically three things. You already know he was shopping the Senate position to the highest bidder, or else he would just take it himself to avoid impeachment and springboard a rebranded Blago for the Presidency in 2016.

Of issue was the Children’s Memorial Hospital shakedown, too: thank goodness the CEO of CMH reported it and never paid the bribe.

But the trigger was actually the Chicago Tribune extortion case. When the Trib declared bankruptcy yesterday, there was an expectation of massive layoffs… and if the editorial board that Blago threatened was part of the layoffs, there would be no way to protect them as victims because, hey, they were just laid off. Not because the Trib was threatened. If they wanted to get Blago for extortion, they had to move before anyone was let go at the Trib.

Gosh, this is great. World’s-most-honest-politician-ever Jim Edgar, former Gov of Illinois, was shocked. He said he knew Rod was bad, but no idea it was this horrific.

Best analogy I heard on WGN radio: “He basically stuck out his jaw [when he said on Monday ‘Go ahead and tape me, you got nothing on me’], and FitzGerald laid him cold with one punch.”

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.