Replying to a message of Jeff Binkley to All:

 JB> Am I the only one noticing how quite the Obama caste has gotten since
 JB> the governor scandal broke?

Is anyone surprised at the antics of the Illinois governor?  I think all
the outrage over
the situation is funny - congresscrooks and senators have been buying their seats for
decades and nobody seems to care.  There's no moral or ethical difference between
buying the seat from the governor and buying the seat from the voters; it's probably
cheaper to buy the governor, though - but that requires using one's own money rather
than the taxpayers' money.

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