Blagojevich Blogging

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At TPMmuckraker, Zach Roth is poring through the documents released this morning by the feds. Blagojevich is comically corrupt, by the feds’ account. Here’s a guy who has been under federal investigation for three years but who still thinks he can appoint himself to Obama’s Senate seat and remake himself for a run for President in 2016:

“I’ve got this thing and it’s [expletive] golden, and, uh, uh, I’m just not giving it up for [expletive] nothing. I’m not gonna do it. And, and I can always use it. I can parachute me there.”

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