You’ve got to hand it to Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He sure knows how to keep everyone off balance, whether it’s proposing to drag the state deeper into the financial pit with unexpected and unaffordable new programs, purchasing Wrigley Field when there’s no need, or, now, signing on to raze the lecture hall where five Northern Illinois University students were fatally shot and replace it with a new classroom and memorial building, at a mere cost of $40 million.
Who knows what foolishness he’ll surprise us with next. Maybe he’ll dissolve the legislature, much as English monarchs of yore did when displeased with parliament.
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Bill Dwyer says:
I'll say one thing about Rod Blagojevich- he's that rare person able to pander to the full range of human instincts, from our best to our worst.
You almost forget that, when all is said and done, it's still pandering.
What an utter waste of a perfectly good building and the $40 million to replace it.
Any honest Democrat has to be nearly as embarrassed with Blagojevich as we insist Republicans should be with Bush.