Blagojevich and the childrens hospital

Yes, the newsy part of the story is Blago's calling Obama a motherfucker, and his wife -- like some grotesque greek chorus -- overheard telling her husband to "fuck the Tribune, and certainly the governor's sheer stupidity to say, out loud, that a Senate seat's a fucking valuable thing.

But that's just a craven pol and his equally craven wife.

The sumbitch was apparently pulling far nastier shit then listing a Senate seat on eBay, and if the allegations are true, deserves the epic fail he's now going through, in excrutiating slo-mo. From the indictment:

On October 8, Blagojevich told a person described only as "Individual A" that he was willing to make $8 million available for Children's Memorial Hospital, but "I want to get [Hospital Executive 1] for 50."

Individual A felt that Blagojevich was talking about a $50,000 campaign contribution from the hospital's chief executive officer and that the $8 million referred to a recent commitment by Blagojevich to secure state funds via "some type of pediatric care reimbursement." "Intercepted phone conversations between Rod Blagojevich and others indicate that Rod Blagojevich is contemplating rescinding his commitment of state funds to benefit Children's Memorial Hospital because Hospital Executive 1 has not made a recent campaign contribution," the affidavit says.

Those who are saying today that Obama should have demanded his resignation, um, I guess 12 hours earlier than he did, don't seem aware that normal people could not believe Blagojevitch showed up for work today and assumed he'd resign to spend more time with the family and, ya know, work on his defense.

Nevertheless, the Mighty Wurlitzer is cranking up.

UPDATED: Fixed the quote.