Gossip mongers take the lead

The political blogs and pundits have been asleep today (probably hanging back to keep everything responsible), so this Illinois corruption reporting and analysis has fallen to gossip columnists - and it may be their finest hour. (See here, here, here and here to start.)

Tip for the political blogs and pundits: all you have to do is read an affadavit to develop your material.

Go Gawker. Thank you, Smoking Gun.