Now the cholera is Amerikkka’s fault.

Snarly:

If confirmed as attorney general, Eric Holder may have to consider removing himself from overseeing the Chicago corruption probe that ensnared Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, legal experts say.
In this Dec. 1, 2008, file photo, Attorney General-designate Eric Holder speaks during a news conference with President-elect Barack Obama, right, in Chicago. Holder may have to consider removing himself… (Associated Press)

Holder was a co-chairman of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, joining in 2007 when the long-running investigation focused on a businessman who had been among the biggest fundraisers for Obama and Blagojevich.

The legal ethics issue that Holder may have to deal with, called recusal, could arise if Holder had conversations about the Chicago investigation with Obama or his staff.

If one were a cynic, one might say, with regards to the timing, that Fitzy’s dumping of the info now, in the fashion he has (I’m looking at you, Victoria Toensing) makes it politically . . . inexpedient for Team O! to boot him.

I predict that Rahm’s “afterthought” submission of IL Attorney General Madigan’s name for the vacant seat will prove to be the crux of the matter. How might Blago have (coincidentally) benefitted by having her get that position, and why has she tried to cut the legislature out of impeachment proceedings by asking the judiciary to remove him? If she had been on the initial list, it wouldn’t appear to be such a conundrum.

Stolen from Insty:

MICHAEL BARONE: Rod Blagojevich, the Stupidest Governor in the Country, Puts Obama in a Bad Light. “I’ve long since come to the conclusion that Rod Blagojevich is clearly the stupidest governor in all of our 50 states, and he may be the stupidest governor I’ve had occasion to write about in the four decades when I’ve been co-author of The Almanac of American Politics.” How did he become Governor? Family connections: “Blagojevich is the son-in-law of 33rd Ward Democratic Committeeman Dick Mell. Ward committeemen are hugely important in Chicago politics: Dan Rostenkowski and his father had been the 32nd ward committeemen from 1935 to 1995; the ward committeemen from the 11th ward since some time in the 1940s have been Richard J. Daley, Richard M. Daley and John Daley; the 13th ward committeeman Bill Lipinski, retiring suddenly from Congress in 2004, was able to get the Democratic nomination for his son Dan Lipinski from a group of ward committeemen despite the fact that Dan Lipinski was a political science professor at the University of Tennessee and hadn’t lived in Chicago for years.”