Who’s Worse: Madoff or Blagojevich? December 15, 2008 1:05 PM One is an elected official accused of trying to sell a vacant senate seat…violating the trust of the voters who put him in office, making a mockery of elected power. The other stands accused of carrying out one of the biggest financial frauds in history…potential bilking investors big and small, including charities, of 50 billion dollars…making a mockery of the

The White House has prepared more than a dozen contingency plans to help guide President-elect Barack Obama if an international crisis erupts in the opening days of his administration, part of an elaborate operation devised to smooth the first transition of power since Sept. 11, 2001. The memorandums envision a variety of volatile possibilities, like a North Korean nuclear explosion, a cyberattack on American computer systems, a terrorist strike on