more on rod

Joe Queenan notes that the quest for favors in return for selecting somebody to the Senate wasn't Rod Blagojevich's worst crime - shaking down companies and banks is worse.

And Frank Rich reminds that Governor Rod is far from the biggest fish Patrick Fitzgerald has bagged. But unlike Scooter Libby, Blagojevich is unlikely to get anybody to commute his sentence, should it come to that...