Like the AP below, the BBC is also giving a nice warm unwelcome to this latest distraction:

The latest scandal has become an unwelcome distraction for the man whose US Senate seat the governor is said to have tried to sell to the highest bidder.

It’s also an unwelcome distraction from the general media suck-ups:

Abraham Lincoln went on to transform America and earn his place on Mount Rushmore. Could Barack Obama do the same?

Who knows? But Illinois should definitely carve out a Mount Chargemore of former governors.