Of all people, Dan Rostenkowski re-emerges to argue that Blagojevich “shouldn’t tar a whole city.” The first sentence:

During my career as a public official, I always tried to steer away from the minority of my colleagues who viewed public service as a potential commercial enterprise.

I know — you can stop laughing.

UPDATE — a reader suggests I’m being too harsh on Rostenkowski:

Its an easy laugh line on Rostenkowski but in actuality he is right. He steered away from most “honest graft” in Chicago. Further, he is the man, other than Reagan, most responsible for the flattening of the tax code that allowed the economic boom of the 80’s. When he was convicted he took his punishment like a man and never bitched, moaned or did the “tears circuit.” Go ahead and attack Rostenkowski but he did big things with the power given to him which is more than you can say about Blago, Ryan etc…