King Governor Rod Blagojevich is trying to get two political heavyweights, Glen Poshard and former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert to convince the General Assembly that he can be trusted. Crain's Chicago Business is apparently buying into this bamboozle, too with their headline "Blagojevich moves to break budget logjam." But then they go on to say that King Rod himself never bothered to actually sign the memo that outlines the capital spending plan.

The Illinois Republican Party is hard at work in Decatur discussing how best to combat the rising tide of influence, and power, and corruption of the Chicago Democrats, not just on the state scene where the Machine of Corruption already holds total domination, but also how to stop them from taking hold of the White House.

As the two remaining Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, continue duking it out with ever-dirtier tactics and language, you have to wonder what the McCain posse is up to as far as selecting a suitable running mate to serve as his vice president.

At least Obama and Clinton have found their records, or more appropriately, NON records, on energy policy to be fodder for sniping.

Amazingly, but it appears Under Secretary Bud Albright might actually have made the right call on FutureGen, even if it was for the wrong reasons.

Are you sick to death of the status quo in your state's and nation's political stranglehold? Do you feel powerless to effect a change? Are you ready to shed that mantle of "there's nothing I can do?" attitude, and take action to seize back control from the career politicians and lawyers who have created a society of legalistic relativity?

You have to wonder if Illinois Republican Leader Frank Watson of Greenville is truly naive enough to believe even the written assurances of King Rod Blagojevich.