Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas writes in The Hill on the election of Republican Joseph Cao in the LA-02:

In LA-02, Republican Joseph Cao became the nation’s first Vietnamese-American to serve in Congress by defeating incumbent Democrat William Jefferson in the nation’s 28th most Democratic district. Seems pretty impressive, until you factor in that Jefferson was an indicted crook caught with $90,000 in bribe money stashed in his freezer. Even then, it took a low-turnout runoff election to oust him. Cao is a dead man walking — he either engages in that time-honored Louisiana tradition of switching parties, or he suffers the same fate as Michael Patrick Flanagan, the Republican who toppled indicted Chicago Rep. Dan Rostenkowski in 1994. Once the crook was out of office, Chicago voters got rid of their useful idiot two years later.

Yes, Flanagan lost — to Democrat Milorad “Rod” R. Blagojevich. How’s that working out for Illinois now?

(Of note, Rahm Emanuel took over when Blago became governor)