Hey, you can always count on this blog to be timely! The Blagojevich scandal happened only, what, a week ago? Nothing but the most breaking news here!
Harrumph. Anyway, I don't have much to say about Blagojevich himself. The man is clearly as corrupt as hell. Absurdly corrupt. Ludicrously corrupt. Comically corrupt. How shady can you get? The man was trying to sell a Senate seat for cold, hard cash. He didn't want politcal influence, or a cabinet position, or anything like that. He just wanted money.
The bigger picture: this is bad, bad for Obama, and not just from a PR-standpoint. He wanted to make his transition as controversy-free as possible. He wanted to hit the ground running, so to speak, to try to cram as much as he could into the first few weeks of his administration.
To do that, he needed to sell his new policies round-the-clock. The key was to build up support for big, controversial issues like his trillion-dollar stimulus package. But now, all that's shattered thanks to Blago. The political spotlight is on the scandal, and not on Obama's policies.
It's just an unwelcome distraction for Obama. It's not fatal, but it's going to make it that much more difficult to pass the trickier parts of his agenda.
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