Fitzgerald will go.
Anyone predict otherwise?
Also, it's amusing to read the posters here who are genies, and who transform the Democatic Party corruption exposed with the Illinois Governor's recorded injudicious statements as examples of Republican corruption. These folks just can't seem to accept that politicians of either party do not walk on water, but have gigs that meet their personal needs.
Whatever "their platform," they are deriving personal benefits, and the party planks are for most of them just instruments to get the votes of true believers.
People in the political arena are usually by nature more likely to be self-serving, and since so many are narcissists, their interests predominate.
Many of them have family and friends on their payrolls, or otherwise profiting through their exercise of power through their position.
Why even hangers-on on the periphery, such as Jesse Jackson have insured that they and theirs benefit.
The sharks are circling one of their number who suffered a grievous blow. With Fitzgerald out, I betcha the Guv gets a deal that doesn't discommode him nearly as much as that demanded by Fitz. The clamor will die down. And the Guv will not name names.
There seems to be a great deal of sham, pretense, and deceit in politics. Isn't that noble Rev. Wright, who vanished from the scene, and removed himself as a focal point of controversy, back in the pulpit at Trinity after his ostentatious retirement. I wonder what his motivations were, the retirement and the return? I'm certain that considerations regarding Obama's candidacy had little to do with his conduct. After all ...
