That's The Ticket ... Kah-razy

clipped from ace.mu.nu As suspected, the AG's curious creation of a judicial power to remove an elected governor is a bit self-serving: [Illinois AG] Lisa Madigan's father is Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. He's another big time ward boss in the Chicago Machine. Kass says, "They don't want a Blogojevich impeachment hearing which would basically allow Blagojevich to talk about all of the deals they've done." The Chicago Tribune spins this as Madigan just wanting "ownership" of the issue, not wanting the legislature to "steal her thunder" by doing the task they are constitutionally charged with doing and she is not. I think Kass is right that there's a bit more to it than thunder and ownership. Meanwhile, Jesse Jackson, Jr. joins in the media-Democratic narrative that Blago is just kah-razy, and so, I guess we're to infer, cannot possibly be representative of Chicago machine politics.