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• Title: Bailout Blago: The Governor was Too Honest for Washington (Scandal) (Rod Blagojevich)
• Author : The American Conservative
• Release Date : January 12, 2009
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 52 KB

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THE STONING of Rod Blagojevich recalls Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," a sinister short story about the inhabitants of an otherwise placid village where, periodically, someone's name is chosen out of a hat for a public stoning. Like much of Jackson's idiosyncratic fiction, a dark river of fear runs beneath the formal narrative--in this case fear of randomness, of sudden death at the hands of fate. It was, perhaps, Blagojevich's fate to go down in history as a symbol of political corruption, Chicago's Boss Tweed and the most infamous of mobster-politicians. Yet one can't help but think it could have happened to anyone--to any member of the political class, that is. This scandal is noteworthy because of the honesty and purity of its protagonist, the Illinois governor who has become a leper in the political universe because he didn't deign to dress up his avarice and power-lust in the language of "public service" and altruism. With his fishwife of a first lady swearing in the background, the governor laid it all on the table, demanding cash for political favors, trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder, and seeking to have members of the Chicago Tribune's editorial board fired as the price for state aid to the beleaguered Tribune Company. He was, in short, doing what all politicians do: dispensing favors to his supporters and punishing his enemies by withholding the same. "Why," asked H.L. Mencken, "should democracy rise against bribery? It is itself a form of wholesale bribery."

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